Welcome to another edition of Super Savings Saturday.
This week was full of many freebies and deals, both from shopping my regular route plus a few new stores I’d never been to before. (Visiting somewhere new always gives me the needed motivation and energy to continue couponing, which can honestly be a chore at times.)
My favorite deals were free laundry detergent, free soap, and $0.88 chicken.
Walmart:
Purex detergent, regular price $3.99 with a $3.99 Try me Free rebate. Total: Free!
CeraVe face soap, regular price $4.97. I used a $6.00 manufacturer’s coupon. Total: Free!
Hidden Valley Ranch dip, details here. Total: Free after rebate!
Shaws:
2 Marzetti salad dressings, on sale $2.50. I used 2 $0.75 manufacturer’s coupons (doubled). Total: $1.00 each!
1 package chicken legs and 1 package chicken thighs, BOGO plus $3.00 mark down coupons on each. Total: $0.88! (What an incredible find! I didn’t know if both deals would go thru but it worked perfectly. I’m not crazy about dark meat, but I was super excited to score 4lbs of meat for less than $1.00!)
Children’s Orchard:
This is an upscale resale store for children and babies where you can buy and sell any items that are in good condition. Not only does it have clothes, there were also plenty of toys, furniture, and other kid-friendly items available. By joining the M.O.M.S Club, I received a $5.00 cache card, good on anything in the store.
I bought a 3-piece Carter’s infant set. Since it was only $4.99, I paid nothing!
BJ’s Wholesale Club:
After receiving a free 60-day membership offer in the mail, I was willing to give the wholesale club another chance. It’s been a loooooong time since I’ve set foot one of these and it was better than I remembered with much more variety. I walked the entire store to get a good lay of the land and compare prices. I liked the food/drinks and some of the clothes and books. I’m not, however, crazy about the cost. Because I shop deals and loss leaders, none of the food was cheaper than what I currently have access to, and there’s a $40 membership charge added on before anything is purchased. After running the numbers, I don’t think it’s worth it for me, but I did have fun shopping.
I purchased a beautiful scarf that was half price, $5.99, and I’ve already worn it twice this week.
What did you buy this week? Feel free to comment and link up!
What great finds! I’m not a fan of dark meat either but I keep on getting chicken drumsticks for a great price so I roast them and then use them meat in stews, tacos, stir-frys, etc. It’s actually quite tasty and usually the seasonings and other ingredients will make me forget it’s dark meat. Chicken thighs are delicious in the crockpot!
I’m with you on the warehouse clubs. Once in a while I get tempted to see if I can do the 60-day trial membership at BJs (I did redeem that offer several years ago, I’m not sure if there’s a certain gap of time ones has to wait in order to do it again?) but then I tell myself that it’ll just push me to spend money I don’t need to spend since I get great deals at the other stores with coupons (or without coupons at Aldi!).
Since you shop at Walmart, Coupons.com has a Harvestland chicken coupon to print today ($1.00/1). I have found that chicken marked down at Walmart before.
I did get several freebies this week but I post about them in my (almost) daily “My Daily Freebies” series. My favorite freebie this week was the 8 boxes of Lucky Charms that I got for free from Publix. They had a BOGO sale and I used (4) of the BOGO coupons from the boxes of Lucky Charms I had bought at Walgreens for a pittance last week. I have 3 more of the coupons but they don’t expire until June 2016 so I’m pacing myself, lol. Sadly, none of the boxes that were on sale this week had the same coupon printed on the back. Rats! That would have been seriously awesome.
Have a great frugal week!
Oh, I love to hear about your deals! What a great shopper you are, wow. The free BJ’s membership should be fine if you haven’t used one in years, but yes, it’s a huge money drain. I like your crockpot tip, have to try that. Thanks for sharing.