BiLo Gift card deal

BiLo is running a great gift card deal right now.
If you purchase $200 worth of gift cards you get a $10 BiLo gift card.
For every $500 you spend in gift cards you get a $25 BiLo Gift card.
So if you send $500 you will actually get $35 gift card, though I might test this, it seems like you should get TWO $10 GC since you are spending $200 twice.

I plan on testing this theory by going to BiLo and buying $500 worth of Gift cards to pay off my $1000 Kohls bill that is due in the up coming weeks. Plus I get 1.5% back for using my Paypal Debit card too.

As luck would have it, I also have several rebates for when I buy gift cards, so I can really rack up on this deal!

BiLo also has a Kellogg's dealing going where if you buy 10 Kellogg's, Keebler, Eggo or Sunshine items you get a voucher to mail in for a $10 gift card (good anywhere). They have kids cereal on sale for $1.66 a box and you can also use the $1 off blinkies I know I have come across, plus there are also some printables out there too for some Kellogg's cereals.

I love playing the gift card game!

Walmart Price Matching plus good Internet Printables

I was never a fan of Walmart and still don't care for them that much. They like to claim they have the lowest prices in town but they do not. Case in point-Swiffer Sweeper they are $20.97 there and at the OVER PRICED HARRIS TEETER they are REGULAR price $19.99 and this month they have a special going on where you get a free bottle of solution with it. But this isn't about the sale, it is about regular prices. Typically they will adjust some items to the SALES of the other stores but in general not everything is cheaper.

How did I end up there you ask? I needed toilet paper. Toilet paper is just so difficult for me to mentally deal with sale wise. First the stores do the price per unit in different ways. Like Some do it by square feet, others by 100 ct...what the heck is 100 count? Squares? Packages? Rolls? Then there is the roll issue, they come in 3 different roll sizes, single, double, triple and then they have the 1 ply, 2 ply and 3 ply. I have read a lot of people do it by roll but today when I was looking depending upon the ply the length of the roll is different. And I know how I pull the roll, the ply or thickness doesn't matter I am a creature of habit and just pull not thinking I need less if it is Cottonelle or more if it is Scott. Free is always the best deal, but I rarely find free. I just decided to stop stressing over it (I am a bit OCD about the whole coupons/budget/sales thing) and buy when I think it is a good deal. So I buy mostly Scott Xtra Soft, Angel Soft and White Cloud. I usually get $1/1 coupons for these brands-plus we are not brand loyal, I mean you just flush it anyway. And a helpful hint even if you are brand loyal, your kids don't have to be, keep the cheaper stuff in the guest and kids potty. I know there are lots of loyal Charmin users out there...I like to call that the toilet clogger.

So that is how I ended up going to Walmart. But once I got there I did find a few things that are REALLY good deals. This is actually my 4th or 5th trip to Walmart over the past 2 weeks. I am lucky and they are only 2 miles from my house (along with Aldi, Harris Teeter, Food Lion, Rite Aid, Lowes HI plus more). I have to drive past all these when I drive my kids to school.

Today's purchases-

1 24 pack White Cloud ($2/1 IP found here ) price $9.87
1 4pk White Cloud Green earth (free wyb 24pk found here) price $2.78
1 Pineapple -price matched to Aldi for $.99 (I have NEVER seen them that cheap!)
2 Celery -price match to Aldi for $.69
2 Reddi Whip ($.50/1 Q) $1.88 (the double coupon store was $2.50)
1lb Carrots $.88
3 Jello ($1.25/3) $.50 each
1 Tomato Juice $1.12 (I need this for turkey soup)
2 Over the Moon Milk ($1/1 IPs found here ) $2 for Half gallon!

I paid $18.69 total...I don't think that is too bad.

The Over the Moon milk. They claim it is just like whole milk but theirs is fat free (skim). My husband will not drink Skim, but this he will drink (I also told him this is what I am buying so get over it). I don't think it is like whole milk BUT it is more like 1% which is what we normally drink. And $1 for a half gallon is a great price. Usually I find gallons of milk for $1.99 on sale every once in a while. This stuff is ultra pasteurized so it is good for more than a month. The chocolate milk my husband and son love, it is pretty thick and that too is fat free. The great thing about the coupon is it is a PDF which means you can print as many as you want. AND If you read the fine print on the coupon it actually says nothing like void if scanned or copies, unlike most other Internet printable. And I have priced this milk out, it was $2.99 at my regular target, it was $3.29 at Super Target and my friend said at CVS it was $2.99. I think Walgreen's carries it too. I also see circular coupons for this milk too and this past summer in NY I found a coupon machine for them too.

Not everything I get is free! Thanksgiving Turkey and more

Poor planning on my part. I needed a lady item because stupid me thought I would change brands thinking I can get them for free. Well, I guess that is an area I can't compromise. Today I found myself out and needing my lady item so I decided to just hit up Walmart and make them price match.

I had actually gone to Harris Teeter yesterday to get a few things that were on sale and the coupons were in the paper. I saw they had the Butterball Lil Turkey for $1.29lb and I was going to get it, except the smallest one was over 10lbs and they had ONE. So I didnt bother thinking I would go back today or tomorrow. But when I went to Walmart today I found they had something else that makes my deal even sweeter. Yesterday my son had found some $1/2 Stove top stuffing Wine tags and grabbed me a few....Walmart had them for $.78 each and that coupled with my buy 4 get 1 free AND my $2 off a Butterball turkey IP (the ad was even in the sunday paper telling you to go on the internet to get it!) when you buy 5 stove top and/or Heinz gravy it made it a decent deal. I had to pay $1.29lb for this turkey (Walmarts price was $1.48lb but they price matched), I got $2 off so it ended up costing about $9.43 for this 8.83lb bird. There is only going to be 6 people at my house for this Thanksgiving and aparently if the turkey is smaller than 10lbs they want more per pound-I paid $1.06 per pound after coupon not bad I supposed. Maybe I can find a turkey rebate-the only one I have found so far is one for a WHOLE turkey dinner and I am not buying all my stuff at once it is not worth it.

6 Johnsons buddies $.97 used $1/1 any Johnson item Q
5 Stove top $.78 each used $1/2 WT and one Buy 4 Get 1 Free tearpad coupon (found at Food Lion)
3 Philly cream cheese $1.18 used $1.25/3 Q (found in grocery store on kraft display)
3 Jello Gelatin $.50 used $1.25/3 Q (same as above)
8.83lb turkey at $1.29lb used $2 off wyb 5 Stovetop
1 Ob $6.47 $1/1 coupon
1 White Cloud Green Earth $1/1 found here
1 Tyson Chicken Nuggets made them price match Target price $4.99 used $1/1 coupon

I paid $26.27 which seems high but I did buy some high ticket items I suppose. I have also discovered I have 3 boys that all they want to eat is Meat/Chicken, bread and crackers.

Last weeks Harris Teeter Triples

Posting has gotten very hard lately. So much stuff to take pictures of, plus I feel as though no one really looks at it. But here I go-

This was the last day of triples, I did 4 transactions that day. What a pain. But I didn't get the popcorn, muellers, and jimmy dean delights until that day when the mail came. I went first thing in the morning, knowing the truck was coming to supply my store for the last time before it ended so I rushed up then to get my 4 cans of Bakers Joy plus some other stuff. Then went out after the mail came with my son and we did the rest of the transactions.

This transaction was Sunday and I used mostly the new coupons that had just arrived in the paper.

After all was said and done a weeks worth of shopping during triples I spent about $55 out of pocket and got over $600 worth of groceries. I got a lot of what I needed. I hadn't realized how low I was until the week prior when I moved a lot of my stuff around. Then I was sorry because I needed the room back!

I stocked up on (items in bold were free) Brown sugar, pasta, beef broth, yeast, muffin mix, juice, canned milk, coffee creamer, oil, rice, pop corn, instant potatoes, sour cream, crackers cat treats, jimmy dean delights plus some other stuff.

This is actually a Target run I did. I have been shopping here quite a bit the past few weeks since they upgraded our Target with a bigger grocery section and bigger frozen foods, we still don't have the fresh food like a Super target does. The Glade deal is what got me in the door, I getting a $5 gc for every 5 that you buy and I have coupons that make the refills free and $1.50 off the holders. The kisses were a good deal and the pigs have eaten almost all of them.

This was a Target trip from a few weeks ago. The Mr Clean was only $.20 a package.