tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31948065714163578792024-02-19T00:45:25.829-08:00BusyCouponMamaWelcome to my blog of coupon stories, personal finance thoughts, and a few family experiences. I am a busy mama of two, with a business and a home to manage. Be aware my prices and coupons are from the southeastern United States.BusyCouponMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12974920515710583714noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3194806571416357879.post-23513249362909066472014-07-26T14:19:00.000-07:002014-07-26T14:19:40.263-07:00SEARS 26" Seiki TV for $12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!http://www.sears.com/seiki-26inch-class-720p-60hz-led-hdtv-se26hq04/p-05771577000P?prdNo=6&blockNo=6&blockType=G6<br />
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26 Seiki TV 600Hz, nothing too special<br />
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one should be a $25 back in points on a $100 purchase or at least<br />
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-$13 back from cashback programs $12 TVBusyCouponMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12974920515710583714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3194806571416357879.post-31274549658541036362014-07-17T13:58:00.001-07:002014-07-17T13:58:50.796-07:00Inexpensive Camera for Your Summer Vacation<span style="background-color: #dce1e5; color: #323d4f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Fuji 8600 16MP digital camera $199.99 + $42 SYW points + free shipping @ Kmart.com</b></span><br />
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Do you know how to use the Shop Your Way Rewards program? Do you need coupon codes? Respond here.....BusyCouponMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12974920515710583714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3194806571416357879.post-8198577395460926172014-07-17T12:26:00.001-07:002014-07-17T12:26:38.826-07:00Rite Aid August Sneak PeekAugust at RA looks to be shaping up nicely!<br />
Eye Extravaganza is back<br />
A L'oreal Monthly Deal will DD with Eye Extravaganza with the current $2/1 L'Oreal Butterfly coupon becoming very useful (and don't forget the VV!!!)<br />
Free Crest Mouthwash with the currently available $2/2 and $1/1 IPs on coupons.com (link on this blog coming up soon!)BusyCouponMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12974920515710583714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3194806571416357879.post-6850407440753237182011-11-18T18:05:00.001-08:002011-11-18T18:16:37.897-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">A coupon story.....</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once upon a time, "couponing" was very easy. Every week the drugstores gave away products free or with profit using your internet printed or manufacturer coupons from the Sunday newspaper. Now, we are lucky to have one or two things free a week, and usually it's some strange supplement or something really useful like Preparation-H, seriously (no, not really) instead of shampoo, toothpaste, razors, and all the other HBA goodies I am use to getting for free or PROFIT. Well, this week, the stars aligned and a local Walmart finally had the disposable Schick razors that are $1.97 each, and I still had my internet printed coupon for $6/2. Nowadays, Walmart allows overage to cover other items in your basket, so I went to town with my four $6/2 coupons and my eight razors. I also had $4/1 Banana Boat coupons to use, and I need to get a start on next year's sunscreen supply as this summers sunscreen sales were poor OR I didn't have the coupons required for that specific deal. With these two problems, I used up all of my sunscreen supply this summer, and I needed some cheap sunscreen to start out next spring's beach trips. These two particular products were $7.88 and $6.64 before coupons, so that ate into some of my overage from the Schick coupons. I also purchased this lovely little outfit (marked $11.88, but rang up $9) for my Salvation Army Angel Tree recipient, and I had a total out of pocket of $9.58 after all coupons. I will take 2 sunscreens, an outfit, and 8 packs of razors for that price......</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's not only Pinterest, but this wonderful Oil Rubbed Bronze spray paint that is allowing me to easily convert several pictures frames from gold or nickel to a more updated oil rubbed bronze, which matches my current hardware, and is much cheaper than buying new frames! Have you looked at the cost of frames recently? Holy cow.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's another day and I have removed another Pinterest project from the bucket list and added it to the checklist! Check and Check. This idea originated (for me) on Pinterest via this website </span><a href="http://alittlemoore.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/mod-podge-family-monogram/">http://alittlemoore.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/mod-podge-family-monogram/</a>. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now that I have completed the project, I thought I could add a few more words of advice from what I learned.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1) Unless you are in a hurry, more than likely you can get your pictures for free. I was able to use two Walgreens deals within the space of a month to get a total of 65 pictures for free. Since the pictures were printed in black and white I wasn't worried about color quality as Walgreens is rated one of the poorest for color quality (although previous freebie color pictures have been fine,IMO). The paper tearing and crinkling in the two different blogs I saw with instructions for this craft worried me, so the free pictures were the way to go for me. I used pictures on the front of the M and the outside edges.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2) When picking pictures, close ups aren't your friend. One or two close ups will be fine, but any more than that and you will struggle with cropping.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3) Joanne's Craft Store has these cardboard letters dirt cheap. Their online store has been out of stock for most letters for quite some time, but my dear sister purchased this "M" for me at her store.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4) Buy your Modge Podge (Liquid and spray) with a 40% coupon at Michael's or Hobby Lobby, it's cheaper than Walmart. I bought one, then dear hubby bought one. I bought the Matte finish liquid and finishing spray, along with the .29e sponge brushes in the art section.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5) I had black matte spray paint handy to paint the inner "lines" of the M, I chose not to place pictures there, I think I would have lost my Jesus if I had tried to place pictures on the inside lines (Don't ask me what to do if your Monogram is a Q or a B). I also used the black spray paint on the back and top of the M, and I wish I had used it on the bottom of the M where I instead placed pictures, I think it would have looked better without pictures on the bottom. The edges of the pictures were very white and I ended up taking a black sharpie to make the picture edges black, as the bottom of the letter was very uneven and it was difficult to make the edges of the photo lay as flush here as they did on the outsides of the letter.</span><br />
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Pinterest. I love it. I have left Facebook and devoted myself utterly to the inspiration of Pinterest. The 4 pictures above are just a few of the projects that I have completed due only to pins I found on Pinterest. I have come back to this blog that I started in 2009 and never continued, solely for the purpose of posting projects I have completed on Pinterest (I might be giving myself an online high five, but so be it). I had a pumpkin decorating party that was so much fun nobody ate anything, we just drank a lot and painted a bunch of creative and AWESOME pumpkins. The bat pumpkin my son is holding up is motivated by a pin, but a variation I created using basic black spray paint, white paint for the face, purple puff paint for the wing decorations and a cereal box for the wings themselves. If you use the cereal box cardboard, please note you can't put it outside in the humidity of the southern climates, it will curl and your creation will look, well, not like a bat. This little bat has sat proudly in the foyer of my son's daycare this past October.<br />
My favorite Pinterest project, though, is this display that I created for my son's 80 plus Lego figures. I saw a cool display idea on Pinterest, but it did not include any kind of directions, and I am pretty sure some really bored adult Lego fan glued 4x4 white lego blocks to a white wall at equal intervals-yeah, so not doing that to my walls! So here is my easy-peasy <i>mostly</i> wall-friendly solution:<br />
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Purchase one piece of PVC white lattice lath 1/4" x 2" x 8' and cut into 24" sections.<br />
Purchase white 4 x 4 basic lego blocks from lego dot com.<br />
Purchase a package of 20' Velcro with sticky back, be sure your package contains both the hook and loop portions.<br />
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Measure and mark with pencil the intervals you would like to place the lego men. I have one section of 24" lattice with a lego man every 1", this was too close, so the rest are at least 2" apart to allow room for weapons in lego hands, etc.<br />
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Carefully super glue each 4 x 4 lego piece at the corresponding mark on the lattice, a very, very small drop of glue will do, trust me! After all the pieces are in place, go back and erase the pencil marks.<br />
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Measure where you would like to place the lattice sections on the wall. Stick the velcro hook or loop at the placements you have selected. I opted to place the hook portion on the wall, as I have a feeling my ten year old son will take down a whole section of lego men to play with, and I don't want velcro hook pieces grabbing at whatever surface he might lay them on.......Place the other velcro "mate" on the back of the lattice and mount on the wall, and you are "good to go". <i>Disclaimer: I have not directly tested what the velcro will do to my wall when I want to peel it off, but my reasons for using it were: to allow my son to play with the pieces as he wanted, I didn't want to use any of the other more destructive construction adhesives, and I did not want to deal with nail holes in the wall or the lattice pieces......</i>BusyCouponMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12974920515710583714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3194806571416357879.post-58517766072011779852009-09-06T15:04:00.000-07:002009-09-06T15:13:17.022-07:00Coupon Lingo<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>WYB</strong>: when you buy</div>
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<strong>BOGO</strong>: buy one get one free or 50% off</div>
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<strong>Catalina</strong>: a coupon that prints from a catalina machine next to a register</div>
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<strong>RR</strong>: Register reward, good off your next order at Walgreens, don't use these on the same item for which</div>
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you received the RR, you won't get another RR.</div>
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<strong>CRT</strong>: Cash register tape coupon that prints at the bottom of your receipt, usually CVS</div>
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<strong>EB/ECB</strong>: extra bucks (used to be extra care bucks) CVS coupons good off your next purchase</div>
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these are attached to whichever card generated that receipt.</div>
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<strong>SS</strong>: Smart Source insert from the Sunday paper. A date followed by SS, RP, PG indicates which <br />
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<strong>RP</strong>: Red Plum insert from the Sunday paper and for some areas on Wednesday in the mail. See above.</div>
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<strong>P&amp;G</strong>: Proctor &amp; Gamble insert from the Sunday paper, available usually only once a month.</div>
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<strong>FAR</strong>: Free After Rebate</div>
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<strong>FARR</strong>: Free After Register Rewards (Walgreens)</div>
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<strong>FAEB</strong>: Free After Extra Bucks (CVS)</div>
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<strong>MIR</strong>: Mail in Rebate</div>
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<strong>MC</strong>: Manufacturer's Coupon</div>
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<strong>Q</strong>: Coupon</div>
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<strong>WAGs</strong>: Walgreens</div>
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<strong>RA</strong>: Riteaid</div>
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<strong>OOP</strong>: Out of pocket</div>
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<strong>Rinse and Repeat</strong>: doing the same transaction or set of transactions over and over.</div>
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<strong>MM</strong>: Moneymaker, see above, this can apply to the whole transaction.</div>
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<strong>SCR</strong>: Single Check Rebate program at RA</div>
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<strong>TMF</strong>: Try Me Free</div>BusyCouponMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12974920515710583714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3194806571416357879.post-61108347764600794432009-09-06T07:23:00.000-07:002009-09-06T07:34:20.853-07:00Coupon ResourcesThe most common sources of coupons are the inserts that come in your Sunday paper. What most people don't realize is how buying multiple papers each Sunday will allow you to have multiple coupons to stock up on needed items at rock bottom prices. I know before Sunday rolls around what coupons should be in my Sunday paper and this helps me plan how many I will purchase. How do I know what coupons will be available? I check the following websites: <br />
<a href="http://www.taylortownpreview.com/">http://www.taylortownpreview.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thecouponclippers.com/">http://www.thecouponclippers.com/</a> (click on tracker)<br />
<a href="http://www.swaggrabber.com/">http://www.swaggrabber.com/</a> (check into her forums)<br />
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Even then, I live in a fairly coupon poor area, so I purchase my papers at my local Walgreens or Rite Aid, where I can check the coupons out before I purchase the papers. I also use thecouponclippers to supplement whatever "good" coupons I do/did not get in my papers. I have been doing this coupon thing so long that I generally know what coupons we never get (Huggies diapers, but we always get pullups) that I know what coupons to buy as soon as she puts them up on Friday night. Sometimes, this is cheaper than purchasing more than 2-3 papers, sometimes it is worth it to use my register rewards at Walgreens to purchase as many as 5 papers, it just depends upon the week. <br />
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You can also get coupons from the internet. Coupons.com and smartsource.com are excellent resources of printable internet coupons. These two sites generally reset at the beginning of the month and the best coupons go very quickly. Each coupon can be printed twice from the same computer/ISP address. There are also thousands of other coupons available on the internet, these can be found through the hotcouponworld.com coupon database by selecting "printable" as the source of the coupon. Another tracker is the website couponloop.com, but I find many of their links expired.<br />
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Many companies will mail you coupons, too. Huggies, similac, enfamil, and the grocery store Kroger are good examples of this. Simply go to their websites, sign up, and here come your coupons. Walmart has a free sample program that will send you their available samples that you select and generally there is a coupon with that item. Vocalpoint is a product testing/review company that sends you coupons to try products for free and then also sends you coupons for a specified dollar off amount for the same product. This is a great program! Go to <a href="http://www.vocalpoint.com/">http://www.vocalpoint.com/</a> to see if they are accepting more members.<br />
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Store coupons are a great source of phenomenal savings when combined with manufacturer's coupons. Up until this point I have only discussed manufacturer's coupons, because those are the vast majority of coupons available, but there are some great deals to be had at stores like Target, CVS, Walgreens, Riteaid, Kroger, and Publix (and many more!) with store coupons. Target coupons can be found in coupon generators at hotcouponworld.com, afullcup.com, and organicdeals.com. I recommend these websites more than the Target website, because the Target website will only show you coupons they deem appropriate for your area instead of all coupons available. CVS coupons are printed out at coupon stations within the store or at the end of your receipt (as in my area, we have no beloved coupon generators). These can be combined with manufacturer's coupons. You can also occasionally print store coupons from the cvs website. Walgreens store coupons have been available through emails and coloring books you can purchase at the pharmacy, and more recently, through booklets printed every month. See the front of your store for coupon booklets. Riteaid has store coupons available through their website and their weekly store ads. Kroger sends their coupons out in home mailers, be sure to register an address with your store card.<br />
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Coupons can also be attached to store loyalty cards, such as Kroger and Winn Dixie. I love Kroger so let's discuss Krogers options first. Kroger has the Proctor & Gamble, shortcuts, cell-fire, and unilever programs available to download to their store card. Simply visit their websites through the Kroger website and select the coupons you want to load to your card, print the list of downloaded coupons, and go shopping! You can also combine these store card coupons with manufacturer's coupons, but you cannot combine a cell-fire and shortcut/P&G/Unilever coupon. Generally cell-fire comes off first, then if you purchase another of the same item, then the shortcut or other coupon will come off. Winn Dixie has the Upromise coupons available, and basically, if you have a Upromise account, you can load coupons to your card, and when you purchase the item , that coupon amount is added to your Upromise account. I don't like "incidental" savings programs like Upromise, so I would rather save the money upfront on my groceries and enjoy the savings so I can invest more purposefully. Therefore, I love me some Kroger!BusyCouponMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12974920515710583714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3194806571416357879.post-78240037702263152752009-09-05T18:41:00.000-07:002009-09-05T18:54:49.704-07:00Coupon SaturdayI usually take Fridays to do my "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">couponing</span>", but this was a busy week at work, so coupons had to wait until after the housework was done today. I managed a good trip to Winn Dixie and a great trip to Target. At Target, I bought the following:<br /><br />4 Schick Intuition Plus, on sale 6.99e<br />2 Chef <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Michaels</span> Dog Food 4.26e<br />2 Chef <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Michaels</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">DF</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Pouches</span> .84e<br />4 Chef <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Michaels</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">DF</span> cups .84e<br />1 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Goodlife</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Catfood</span> 6lbs. 6.99<br />1 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Friskies</span> Cat Food 4.04<br />1 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Huggies</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Sz</span>.5 Jumbo pk. 8.99<br /><br />I used the following coupons: 4.00 off Schick Target Coupon (4)<br /> 4.00 off Schick Manufacturer Coupon (4)<br /> 3.00 off Chef <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Michaels</span>, any bag (2)<br /> 1.50 off Chef <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Michaels</span>, any bag (2)<br /> .84 off Chef <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Michaels</span> cans, Target Coupon (2)<br /> .84 off Chef <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Michaels</span> cans, Man. coupon (2)<br /> 3.00 Man. coupon for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Huggies</span> (1)<br /> 1.50 Target Coupon for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Huggies</span><br />By giving the target coupons first, then the manufacturer's coupons, I was able to get overage and bring an original $65 total down to $3.19!!! The bottom of my receipt states "you saved $67.54" which must include the calculations for sales prices on top of all the coupon savings.<br /><br />Winn Dixie:<br />Winn Dixie has been popping out $10 off $50 purchase coupons every week for me. This week was a decent week to use one (I remembered that alcohol doesn't count toward this total), because I had cheese coupons (Kraft cheese is 3/$5), ketchup coupons, Mt. Olive pickles coupons, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Welch's</span> fruit juice coupons, and now that I know <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Goodlife</span> dog and cat food are on sale for 3.99 for the next couple of weeks, I am going to really have fun with the Winn Dixie <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">catalina</span> for $10 off $50.BusyCouponMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12974920515710583714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3194806571416357879.post-30278936051122920672009-09-05T18:18:00.000-07:002009-09-05T18:41:02.214-07:00Welcome MessageWelcome to my blog! I am a South Mississippi native, shopping with coupons, sales, and store rewards to the benefit of my pocketbook. My blog will be alot about coupons and personal finance, some about my own financial journey, and a little about me and my family. Welcome!BusyCouponMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12974920515710583714noreply@blogger.com0