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CVS Week Of 9/4 | Happy Labor Day Weekend! Rolling Extra Bucks

Happy Labor Day Weekend Friends! Hope you are enjoying the weekend with family and friends! I made an attempt to get to the store and get a blog post up today instead of the usual midweek post. Hope this helps you plan your shopping trip this week! There are some good sales going on at CVS and I'll most likely make another trip this week so look for another CVS post this week. So I spent $13.42 OOP (Out Of Pocket) for $74 worth of products (with NO sales price, NO coupons)

CTarget | Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Cleaner, Cascade Trial Packs and Rimmel Eyshadow

My Total OOP was $6.65 for $22.68 worth of products.

CVS Week Of 8/28 | $10 Gas Card

Although you may not be able to copy my idea exactly I wanted to share my scenario so you could see an example to help you put together your own deals and maxamize using those $4/$20, $5/$30, $10/$50 and whatever else combo coupons cvs sends out.

VONS | Cheap Gain Dish Liquid FULL SIZE 24oz and Double Coupon!

This week at Vons Gain Dish Liquid is on sale for $1.99, reg price $2.99 It gets better when you buy 3 you get $3.00 off making them $0.99 each

Target | Schick Intuition Razors, Cascade 4pk Action Pacs and Rolling Gift Cards

Right now at Target there are plenty of $5.00 Gift Card deals when you buy 2 of certain qualified items. Tonight I stopped in to get some razors and dishwasher soap. I had coupons for all 6 items...

Friday, August 12, 2011

Does Ralphs Grocery Store Double Coupons? Yes They DO!

I think many people watch TLC's Extreme Couponing Show and expect to walk out the store with $1,000 worth of products without paying a dime. Although I get in on great deals at the drugstores like CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens on a weekly basis I have never gone grocery shopping and be able to do what they do on tv. I'm sure it's possible but I haven't had the need to buy 100 bottles of mustard or 500 boxes of pasta. I also don't believe anyone should be buying in such mass quantities unless they are really sharing and donating the surplus but that should also be done by pre-ordering your items at your store instead of clearing shelves and leaving nothing for others. That's just not fair. (end rant, lol).

Often I get asked which markets double coupons. From my shopping experiences Ralphs and Vons double coupons up to $1.00, but some only double the first 3 coupons. Double coupons doesn't mean your coupon is doubled in value. It means the store you are shopping at will double it up to a $1.00, so if your coupon is for $0.45 you will get an additional $0.55 off to equal $1.00. Again if you have a $0.75 coupon it will be doubled buy the store with an additional $0.25 to equal a $1.00. So basically whatever cents off coupon you may have the store will add a "bonus coupon" to equal a $1.00. It's always best to ask your store what their coupon policy is. I'm sharing my receipt to help those who are visual learners understand the math better with double coupons.

I may gladly add every Ralphs and Vons I have shopped at have always doubled all my coupons without any problems.  I thought I would share my trip to Ralphs today. The Ralphs in Woodland Hills (20060 Ventura Blvd at Winnetka) had a face lift and today was their Ralphs fresh fare Grand Opening so for the next 5 days they have a few specials going on.

This is what I picked up today. I wasn't intending on getting any meat but since it was 50% off all the rib roasts I picked one up.


4 Coca-Cola Soft Drink Select Varieties 12 pk $1.99 sale price $5.99 reg price
Limit 4 with Card

10 Bananas 4lbs for $1.00
with Card

1 Beef Chuck Rib Roast $5.10 sale price $10.21 reg price
with Card

2 Ore-Ida Frozen Potatoes Select Varieties 2/$5.00 sale price $4.79 reg price
with Card
MQ 1 - $1.00/2 Ore-Ida Sweet Potato Fries

2 Oreo Cookies Select Varieties $0.99 sale price $3.99 reg price
Limit 2 with Card
MQ 1 - $0.75/2 Nabisco Cookies or Cracker SS 8/7

1 Silk Soy Milk Pure Almond $2.79 sale price $4.99 reg price
with Card
MQ 1 - $1.00/1 Silk Soy Milk

4 Colgate Toothpaste $0.88 sale price $2.99 reg price
with Card
MQ 4 - $0.50/1 Any Colgate Toothpaste

After using my Ralphs rewards card, coupons and tax my total came to $24.33 for $74.98 worth of groceries. That means today I saved $50.65!




You can see on my receipt items I bought and the price before and after rewards card has been applied. After all my items listed are my coupons I used. The $1.00 coupons are not doubled but the cents off coupons are. I used 4 of the same coupons for the Colgate toothpaste and they were all doubled to $1.00 because Ralphs gave me a "bonus coupon" of $0.50. The best part about that is the toothpaste is on sale for $0.88 so after Ralphs doubled my coupon to $1.00 I got $0.12 overage for each toothpaste I bought. That means Ralphs paid me $0.12 a tube of toothpaste to take home. The last two coupons on the list was for the Oreo cookies, I had a $0.75 coupon and Ralphs gave me a "bonus coupon" of $0.25 to make it $1.00.

I hope this helps somebody in any way of what double coupon means and how it is applied at Ralphs.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

CVS Week Of 8/7 | Rolling Last Weeks Extra Bucks For $10 Gas Card This Week


I ended up doing a little more shopping last week and ended that week with $12.99 Extra Bucks to use this week. I've done a gas card deal before but thought I would share this one since most of the coupons I used were printed off the internet. You will need access to 2 computers

This whole transaction cost me $2.87 OOP (Out Of Pocket) and I got a $10.00 Gas Card and $1 EB from using my green bag tag.

So I begin with $12.99 EB from last weeks shopping and had a $5 off when you spend $30 coupon that was sent to my email.

4 Gardetto's Original Snack Mix $1.50 sale price $3.89 reg price
MQ 4 - $0.60/1 – Gardetto’s Snack Mix - eatbetteramerica.com
Total  $6.00 Pay $3.60

4 General Mills Cocoa Puffs Cereal $2.22 sale price $4.99 reg price
MQ 4 - $0.75/1 General Mills Cocoa Puffs Cereal - coupons.com
Total  $8.88 Pay $5.88

2 General Mills Rice Chex Cereal $2.22 sale price $4.79 reg price
MQ 2 - $0.75/1 General Mills Rice Chex Cereal - coupons.com
Total  $4.44 Pay $2.94

2 General Mills Corn Chex Cereal $2.22 sale price $4.79 reg price
MQ 2 - $0.75/1 General Mills Rice Chex Cereal - coupons.com
Total  $4.44 Pay $2.94

2 Kellogg's Nutri Grain Bars $2.50 sale price $4.29 reg price
MQ 1 - $1.00/2 Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Cereal Bars from RP 8/7
Total $5.00  Pay $4.00

1 Chex Mix Snack $1.50 sale price $3.89 reg price
Total $1.50


Before I got to the store I thought the cereal I was going to pick up was on sale for $2.50 but when I got there I saw there were even lower at $2.22. Since I was planning to use a $5 off $30 CVS coupon I had to add something to hit the $30 mark so I added a bag of Chex Mix. There is a coupon for $1.00/2 in today's Sunday paper but since I wasn't planning on picking any up I didn't have the coupon with me. Still I got an awesome deal on some cereal and snacks and got some gas too.

Before coupons my total comes to: $30.26
I used my $5 off $30 CVS email coupon, $9.40 in MQs and $12.99 EB from last weeks shopping my GRAND TOTAL OOP comes to $2.87 for $67.15 (reg price) worth of products and I got $10 Gas Card and $1 EB for my green bag tag.
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