Black Friday?

I've crossed over into some sort of official couponer realm...I've been dumpster diving, I've called an order in a week ahead of a sale, I've bragged about multiple trips and savings, Jer teased me at the Children's Museum and said that Hailey was being just like me lining up her purchases from the play grocery store and taking pictures of her finds, and this morning on the day we already loose an hour of sleep, I was at Rite Aid when it opened at 7 (really felt like 6) just to score this deal! Was it Black Friday? No. Was I the only person in the store? Nope...there were plenty other lovely couponing companions. One very kind gal pointed out the Body Heat packages that were on sale for a dollar with a .50 off coupon attached to the box! The cashiers were cheerful and it was so much less anxiety inducing than going in the middle of the afternoon. I got all of the things in this picture for a grand total of $2.19! If you want to see the nitty gritty of it all scroll on down, if you don't care just know that I'm 'one of those' now, not that I'll show up on any extreme couponing show or anything, I'm just pretty serious about my coupons. Next thing you know you'll see me hitting the yard sales this summer!

I did two transactions the first was:

(2) Pine-Sol 28oz $4

(2) Clorox toilet bowl cleaner 24 oz $4

(1) Tilex Mold & Mildew $2

(3) Dixie Plate Products $5.91

(1) ThermaCare $6.99

(4) Little Fevers $15.96

(1) Clean & Clear Face Wash $5.99

Subtotal: $44.85 Now for the fun part

- (2) $1/1 Pine-Sol

- (2) .75/1 Clorox

- $1/1 Tilex

- $5/3 Dixie Plates Rite Aid Video Value Coupon

- $3/1 Thermacare

stacked with $1/1 Thermacare Rite Aid in add coupon

- (4) $1/1 Little Remedies

- $2/1 Clean & Clear

stacked with $2/1 Clean & Clear Rite Aid in add coupon

- $20 in UP rewards

So I paid $3.35 out of pocket and got $18 in UP rewards back!

Transaction #2

(2)Nivea Chapstick Lipcare $2

(2)Halls Cough Drops $2

(1) Gain Dish Soap $.88

(2) Neosporin $7.98

(2) Band-aid $3.98

(6)Bodi Heat 4pack $6

Subtotal $22.84

- $3 off $15 coupon from a previous receipt

- $2/2 Nivea

- (2) .50/1 Halls

stacked with (2) .50/1 Halls Rite Aid Video Values

- 1/1 Gain

- (2) 1.50/2 Neosporin AND Band-aid product

stacked with .50/1 Neosporin or Band-aid Rite Aid Video Value

and $1.50/2 Neosporin AND Band-aid Rite Aid Video Value

- (6) .50/1 Bodi Heat pealies on the box!

- $6 in UP rewards

This one ended up being .84 out of pocket and I got $3 more UP rewards!

And I'm getting $2 back in a rebate!

Sorry if that was really boring or really confusing, I got really excited about laying it all out! The thing that inspired the early morning trip was really that the cold medicine for the kids was on sale and I had to spend the $20UP rewards before they expired next week. Last time there was an item that ended up being free with coupons and rewards they were already sold out when we stopped by on our way to church and since we were out of medicine I knew I would be getting some anyway, free would just be the best price. Same goes for the Band-aids, we were out and those things are like strips of magic for our sweet little clumsy accident prone children. The rest was just bonus. I sure do love couponing!