July 13 meeting

Tonight we had a pretty good meeting with some good deal conversation.

Publix...check out Hot Coupon World for the best coupon match ups. Don't forget to print two coupons for the products

CVS....8x6 photobook are $7.99 with $7.99ecb back...which makes them FREE!!!! The ad says limit one, but according to Green Tree CVS it is limit 5 as the large in store sign states. Woohoo. Some ideas for photobooks: gift for grandparents, easy yearly scrapbook for you child(ren), make a chore chart with pictures, document your furniture and valuables for insurance purposes, scrapbook of your wedding or favorite family vacations. Seriously....these are nice little keepsakes. I bought my first one for a penny...the other 4 I make tomorrow will be free:-)

Thru Tuesday there are a ton of school supplies that are free after extra care bucks. After Tuesday, they are regular price with no ecb.

Gillette Fusion razor $7.99 with 4 ecb...there is a $4Q from June P&G if you still have it.

Staples
A pack of 500 sheets of copy paper is $.01 after easy rebate (limit 2)
There are a ton of other items that are one dollar after the rebate (including photopaper).

To use the $5/20Q that was in the Staples ad this week here is an idea....buy 2 Staples photo papers ($9.99 each) and one pack of Staples 500ct copy paper (3.99). Your total will be $23 and change. Use the $5 Q and pay $18 and change out of pocket. Fill out the easy saver rebate and get $21 and change back in rebate money. It's a $3.00 money maker:-)

CVS photobook changes....unknown at this time

Yesterday when I looked at our CVS ad, I was disappointed to see limit 1 on the photobook offer. This would have been a fun way to roll ecb because it was suppose to be limit 5. I have read rumors on sites like iheartcvs and hotcoupon world that really it is limit 5 everywhere, but this is not yet confirmed in out area. I hope to have an answer tonight at our meeting. I will go in today and make one photobook and see what my receipt says after I purchase it. I've spent some time putting together 5 sets of pictures for these pictures, so I'm really hoping this deal will work.

If anyone else tries it out before me....leave a comment and let us know how it goes.

If not...I hope to see you tonight. I have a hard time making it at 7:30...but I will be there by 8 to lead coupon discussions. Have a super day!

Meeting Notes & Field Trip & some WONDERFUL deals

We had a small, but fun meeting last night. There were lots of good deals to talk about this week and preview of next week. Here's a quick rundown...but as always, check out our favorite blogs, fiddledeedeemom, It's hip2save and Hot coupon world for an extensive list of deals and links to coupons (all links are found on our right side bar)

Publix (This week...sales ends Wednesday)
****There is a new coupon book with over $75 in savings. Click Here for a list of coupons. Pick of several when you see them. Once they're gone...they are hard to find****

FREE kid's yogurt
Dannon Daninon and Danimals are BOGO this week, regular price $2/1. There is a $1/1 Q in the new Publix book. Use two coupons and get both for FREE!!!!

Hebrew National Hot dogs, printable Q (look at Fiddledeedee). Buy 6 and be eligible for a $10 Publix Gift card (Teri...details please).

Morning Star Farm Entrees...printable mft & Target Q makes these FREE. (Fiddledeedee)

Yoplait Yo-Plus or Fiber One yogurt. Bogo with two $1/1 printable Qs makes these $.25/1!!!

Digornio Flatbread pizza on sale for $5.00. use a $1.25/1 printable AND a $2 off Food Lion printable

Edwards Pie or Cheesecake slices BOGO. use 2 $.75/1 Q and pay $1.35/2

CVS
Soyjoy bars $4/4 with 4 ecbs (makes them FREE). limit 5 deals (up to 20 bars....you must buy in increments of 4 to get the 4 ecb) There are $1/5 printables and maybe even a BOGO if you got a paper from up north. Makes these a great moneymaker and easy way to roll almost expired ecb

Sobe Lifewater is BOGO...there is a BOGO printable Q, which makes both FREE. This is a good way to help get your total up to use a $5/25 or similar Q you may have.

Thermacare neck to arm heat wrap. $2.49 with $2.49 ecb (makes it free) Limit 2. There are $1/1 printable and newspaper Qs out there. Nice little money maker

Always Infiniti pads (Large box) Regular price $10.49....unadvertised sale at $4.99!!! Use the $4.00/1 Q that was in the paper I believe 2 weeks ago and get them for $.99!!!! There are no ecb, but it's a GREAT DEAL if you need pads!!!!

Walgreens....OK, the truth comes out, I wasn't listenting. Teri...can you help please?

I posted my pictures and deals from CVS and Publix (small runs, but great deals) on my blog. Click here to see (preview...I paid $.59 oop for 4 packs of Always and a large bottle of Tide....yeah, it was THAT good;-)

OK...share your deals please:-)

Monday Meeting

Hello ladies,
If you went to the meeting last night, I'm pretty sure you noticed that Teri wasn't there...and you may have noticed I wasn't either. We are both so very sorry. Teri knew she couldn't go because her husband has been studying ever so diligently for a very difficult and important test for work (pray for him...it's next Monday I believe). I was suppose to cover for Teri and give you ladies the run down of all the sales and deals for this week, however I needed to choose between going to the meeting, and being a good wife to my dear husband when he desperately needed me. Of course, he totally won out:-) I'm so thankful for a loving, faithful and supportive husband. When he comes home from work and says, "Can we put the kids down early tonight, I really need to talk about my day." That's my cue to drop everything and be there for him. I'm so thankful I was able to. Stacie stopped by my house and picked up my handy cheat sheet. Although I haven't spoken with her yet this morning...I'm thankful she was able to help out and I'm sure she did a great job. THANK YOU STACIE!

Next week...both Teri and I will be back (and you ALL know how inspiring Teri is:-)

OK...so, since we missed, I wanted to post up a few deals and links for you.

Publix...this week (taken from Hot Coupon World Forum, here)
BOGO
*Ragu Pasta (the big plastic containers) $1/2 printable (it's a Spanish printable, but it'll still work, haha) price will be $2.35/2
*Pompian Olive Oil (smaller jar) $1/1 printable (print 2) price will be $3.99/2
*Wishbone dressing $.75/1 printable (print 2) $1.19/2
*General Mills Chex Mix $1/2 Target Printable & stack with 2 $.50/1 man.printable $.55/2 (one my hubby's favorite lunch snacks...great deal!)

Sales
*There is a -$3/$10 Deli/Bakery FLIP (Food Lion Internet Printable) Our Publix stores DO take food lion. So if you are going to spend $10 or more on Deli or bakery items, print this Q.

*There are a couple of organic items printables, including Horizon milk, and Stonyfield yogurt
*Organic strawberries are 2/$5 (you don't have to buy 2 though to get the sale price, you can just get one if you want)

CVS
There aren't any free after extra care buck deals this week, but there are some good deals with little out of pocket (I'm thinking Aveano lotion). I would suggest going here to see the best deals

Target
There are some good deals at Target this week with gift cards offered. I'm most interested in the Breyer's Icecream (does anyone have any Qs to share for this if you aren't going to use them?) We are having a sleep over soon with the college ministry, so I thought this would be a fun midnight snack. I'll end up spending $2.50 for 5 containers of icecream. Check out the Target deals here.

Staples...Cheap-o paper. So...those of you new to couponing are probably beginning to wonder about the cost of paper for all these Internet coupons your are printing. Here is a sweet deal to stock up. You can get paper for almost free (you'll have to dish out a little out of pocket, but there are some great rebates in return.)

6/1/09 Meeting Notes

Last night we had a nice meeting at Chic-Fil-A, however we did miss our fearless and exciting leader Teri:-( I think she'll be there next week to pump you up! However, we were still able to hit some hot coupons deals for this week at our favorite stores like Publix, CVS, and Target. I'm not going to run a list of the deals ...but here are some of the highlights from the meeting.

1. I gave out a 1/2 page laminated sheet of the official, corporate coupon policy for Publix and Target. At the bottom it also has a few coupon guidelines for CVS. This sheet will hopefully come in handy as I'm sure you'll encounter a misinformed cashier (and even manager) every once in a while. The sheet has been 3-holed punch, so it should fit nicely into your binder. If you weren't there...never fear...we have more. Get it next week if you can:-)

2. Donations of overstock items. Some of you are acquiring quite a stockpile and may be feeling a need to let a few things go. The middle and high school student choir of First Baptist Church is going on a mission trip to Immokalee in two weeks. They would love to have any items you would like to donate.
a) If you have a ministry or organization that you know has a need, please feel free to share it. We will occasionally recommend a organization or ministry to donate over stockpiled items to.

3. Beth is having a clothing swap party on Saturday from 10-12:30ish at her house. Bring some clothes you don't want anymore, but you think someone else might. Come and "shop for free" and get some new, used clothes that other women have brought. There will be maternity clothes there (but only if you get there before me...hahaha!) Contact myself or Teri if you want her address.

4.Check out one of our new favorite blogs www.hip2save.blogspot.com This lady is awesome. She posts several times per day with crazy deals for almost any store imaginable.

5. CVS this week is not to exciting, however there were a few deals some were interested in (Hawaiian Tropic can be a moneymaker, Nivea for men facial products, and softsoap ensemble) If you want more of a run down on the deals we talked about last night. go to Hip2save and click on CVS on the right side bar. That was where we got the info.

6. Once again I forgot to talk about Organic sales at Publix this week. So sorry...I was to excited about the bad for you(I'm sure) Kraft Mac N Cheese and Hershey's candy bars to be thinking to organically. Hopefully when Teri takes control again next week, she won't forget:-)

7. I'm glad some of you like this blog and have found it useful. Please leave comments if you have questions or something to add. Note that I have a quick link to Publix deals (top of right column) so you don't have to find the post. I'll put a link up for other stores if there is something unbelievable that week.

8. If your on facebook, make sure you are part of The Clipper Chicks groups. I want to join facebook JUST so I can see what you all are doing...but alas...I won't.

9. Man, I wish I could come up with one more thing so I could make a list of 10.

10. Thanks for coming to our meetings. I hope they are helpful and that you are seeing a change in your grocery shopping habits.

Clipper Chicks Meeting Monday

Just a reminder that we meet Monday at 7:30pm at Chick-Fil-A. Bring your coupons, clip, organize and get ready for a list of sales and deals this week. Bring coupons to share, if you have any, and great deals to tell others about. Formal "coupon discussion" begins at 8:30. We'll see you then!

CVS Field Trip 5/25

A few of you made it to our CVS field trip, and those who came I'm pretty sure would say it was well worth it. There were some fantastic free after extra care buck deals and coupons to go with them.

However....we did have a hard time finding Clearasil. We found one, which Sky (who is a totally newbie at CVS) was able to claim. Yay Sky! Here is a run down of Sky's transactions for those of you who want to know. *Note...I do not have her receipt so I will not have this down to the penny, but it'll be close enough.

Transaction#1
Clearasil $3.99
-2 Q
=$1.99 oop
Receive $3.99 ECB

Transaction #2
2 boxes of bandaids $5.98
-2 $1/1 Q
=$3.98 (paid with adjusted $3.99ECB from first)
Receive 4 ECB

Transaction #3
Deodorant $3.99
=paid with $4ECB from second
Received $3.99 ECB

Transaction #4
Deodorant #3.99
=paid with $3.99 ECB from third
Received $3.99 ECB

Transaction #5
Playtex Tampons $3.99
Colgate Total $2.99
-$1 Playtex peelie
-$1 Colgate Q
=$4.98
-$3.99 ECB from fourth
= $.99 oop
Received 5 ECB

Transaction #6
Revlon nail polish $3.99
-$1 Revlon Q
=$2.99 paid with $3 ECB from fifth
Received 3 ECB

So...all in all Sky paid $3.00 (and 16 cents I believe with tax) for all of that, and walked out with 5 ECB. I think that is a very respectable first trip.

The other ladies transactions were the same, except they couldn't do the first one because there was no Clearasil. They paid less oop but missed out on a great money maker.

Speaking of missing out. We were so caught up in the moment (and time...it was late) that we forgot to ask for a rain check on the Clearasil. UGH....it about made me sick and I had a hard time falling asleep, partly because of that. Stacie and Alison....I'm sorry:-(

MOST of these items were only on Sale for Sunday and Monday. Please do not go back and try this, it won't work. I don't have my flyer in front of me, but I am pretty sure the only thing left that will be free after extra bucks and coupons is the Colgate Total.

***News Flash*** There is potential $6 money maker IF you can find the right product. Neutragena has a deal this week, purchase two sun care products, get $10ECB. There are small little 1 oz tubes of sunscreen that are found in a fishbowl type container, according to Hot Coupon World...almost anywhere in the store. These little tubes are $1.99...but when you buy two, the 10ECB is printing!!!! We have found one store with evidence they once had the tubes at Bonita Beach Rd and Livingston (they were gone though last night). Every other store we've hit we have not been able to find them. Keep your eyes peeled...and if you find some, PLEASE share the news. It's only limit one, so this deal will only work once for you. We'll let you know if we find them somewhere.

Don't forget to check out the Publix post and comments with updates. I posted an easy link at the top right of the page.

Clipper Chicks will resume their regularly scheduled meeting time and location next Monday. Until then....let us know what kind of great deals you find:-)

Meeting Notes - Monday May 18

This meeting was filled with information about Publix, CVS and Target. Here's a recap

Publix this week
Ritz Crackers BOGO
Use two $1/1 Man Qs and the right thing to do is use just 1 $1/1 Target Q (The Target Q specifically says one per transaction...your Publix will probably take 2 Target Qs because of their superb customer service, but we want to encourage you to use your coupons in an ethical manner...more to come on that)

CVS this week
In one word *stinks* There are no significant ECB offers. If you use Herbal Essences, it may be worth it for you to purchase 2 ($2.99/1) use your $2/2 Q from the paper. Total oop is $4.00 and you'll get 2 ecb back. So, you'll spend$2 on the deal.

Publix next week
The sneak peak we had from Hot Coupon World wasn't great and seemed to be rumors it was unreliable. We'll post up more details for Publix in the coming days.

CVS next week
Some Great FAECB (Free after extra care buck) deals. We'll do a field trip to CVS next Monday Night.

Other important Notes
***No coupons will be in the paper on Sunday***
*No Clipper Chicks meeting next Monday (Memorial Day*
***BUT...we will do a CVS field trip later in the evening (we're thinking after 9) Details will be announced soon.

*We also discussed some area charities we can donate our stockpile to if/when it gets to big or when you buy items you don't really need. Cindy is getting info about the student choir, Lightforce of First Baptist, trip to Immokalee in June. Amy has connections to the TAP program both in Naples and Immokalee. These girls would love to have our extra toiletries. If you know of an organization or if you church has a special outreach event, let us know and we'll talk about sending some donations their way.

*We've had some issues with a certain Publix and Target in town all of a sudden NOT stacking Man. and store Qs. I will be contacting corporate to get the official coupon policy to MY e-mail box. At the next meeting (in two weeks) I'll have print out for everyone to put in their binders.

*Finally, we had a discussion about copying coupons, using PDF coupons and knowing what is a valid coupon and what is shady. We will begin posting some discussion on ethics in couponing over the coming weeks.

Next offical Clipper Chicks meeting is Monday June 1 from 7:30-9:30 in the back corner at Chick-Fil-A.