Showing posts with label clearance sales. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

My Shopping Finds This Past Week

While I didn't go grocery shopping per se while on vacation I did find a few things to buy.

First was Rite-Aid............



I did the P&G Deal and got $10 in extra Plenti points in Delaware on the way to Virginia last Sunday which meant NO SALES TAX! rah.
Imagine there is a second bottle of Tide in that photo.  I gave it to Eldest son so it never made it home to PA. lolz  Spent $18.63 in Plenti points, earned $20.00 in new Plenti points.
Nice.

We stopped in Delaware at a Roses to find fruitcake and it was 50% off so I bought 7(1 for my Eldest son is missing in this photo).  Also no sales tax on that purchase.

I'm glad I bought it since it's still $4.99 a bar up here at Weis(PMITA)Markets.  They STILL haven't put it on sale and the reg. price at Rose's was only $3.99.

A liquor store Hubs stopped at while still in Delaware took $45.97 of our vacation $.
And then to add insult to injury I left my half full new bottle of Bailey's at my son's apartment. sigh.

I discovered I forgot my bath scrubby on a stick thing somewhere around Maryland so we hit a Big Lots along the way for a new one to the tune of $3.18.(sales tax-boo!)

Once we got to Virginia I did the P&G Deal again on the other card.


Imagine there is a second package of razors and 2 more Pantene since I gave those to Eldest son also and they didn't make it home to PA.

$23.24 spent in Plenti points and $20.00 earned in new points.
I had to spend $3.99 extra in this transaction on a 5th bottle of Pantene(though I didn't need it to hit the spend $30 mark for the $10 in Bonus points for buying "Starting Points" items)to be able to use my second Pantene coupon.
That's ok though as any amount over $30 spent will go towards the second $30 spent to get another $10 in Bonus Plenti points that week.

We spent $4 in Dollar Tree too while in Virginia on clearance Christmas items so they were all .50¢. A little wrapping paper, 1 bag of bows and some tins for packing my bourbon fudge in for gift giving next December 25th.  I also bought a soda to drink and Hubs bought a bag of cough drops=$2.12.

There were 2 more stops in Virginia for liquor which totaled $87.66.  Most of this was Hubs stuff.  I only bought that bottle of Bailey's and 2 packs of beer.  That's all the holiday liquor spending I did on myself this year.

2 different stops at Walmart for some groceries to bring home meant another $19.01 spent(I'll take that $19.01 out of my Jan. grocery budget.).
Also bought at Walmart was a lavender sweater on clearance for $11.00.

The only other shopping/spending was on Tolls, Gasoline, a Hotel Room and Restaurants/Meals.
That all came to $460.83.  The Hotel was paid last month and the Tolls were paid out of cash.
We went down the Eastern Shore to my brother's house as it is easier(less traffic than going through DC area).  But by the tolls I paid you'd think I was back in Chicagoland. UGH!
$27.20 in 3 states....only Maryland didn't levy any tolls.
Luckily we paid ZERO tolls on the route we took home.

The gas($42.91)and $192.44 of the meal spending were put on the credit card along with the Walmart shopping($30.67) and $133.63 of the liquor spending.
So $399.65 was put on the credit card and will be paid off when the bill cuts later in January.

After we got home I went up to Rite-Aid here for this stuff on Saturday to finish getting to $30 spent for that second $10 in Bonus Plenti points for that week.......


Listerine was $4.99 each(using $1/1 IPQs) and gave $3 in Plenti points wyb2, Light bulbs were $3.99(using $1/1 Load2CardQ) and gave $3 in Plenti points for each one purchased and the Bayer after 20% Wellness discount was $4.55 each(using $3 in stacked IPQs and In-Ad Qs).
All these items were qualifying "Starting Points" items toward the $10 Bonus Plenti points Deal(as was the extra Pantene bought in VA).

I used $17.97 in Plenti points and earned $16.00 in new Plenti points.  I misread the Listerine Deal details, thinking I would get $3 in points for each bottle bought.  If that was true this transaction would have been a "moneymaker", earning me $19 in new point instead of $16.

I hopped over to Dollar General in town on Saturday as well.  DG is not a store I generally shop at but there was a deal so you KNOW I was going to get there. lolz


If you sign up for DG's digital coupons they had 3 different coupons good on the Cavity Defense Oral-B toothbrushes--$6/4, $4/3 and $3/2.  The price on this particular brush is $1.50 so if they have 9 in stock you will pay just $1.50(+ tax if applicable)for all 9.
My store only had 8 so I bought 7.
7x$1.50=$10.50-$10 in digital Qs=50¢ OOP and I was charged no tax.
Fiddy cents for 7 toothbrushes.

Now who wouldn't do this transaction? lolz
This lot will either be the beginning of another food bank donation or some of these will wind up in future giveaway boxes in 2016.  '-)

Unfortunately these don't qualify toward the Crest SavingStar Rebate currently running though Oral-B manual toothbrushes DO qualify for that deal.  Just not this particular type.  If they had, that would have been a nice bonus--almost free product earning a bonus cash rebate.  8-)

So that's the shopping I did on Vacation.

I've already started the Rite-Aid shopping for this week going up on Sunday when all the Xmas stuff went to 75% off.  Lots of good deals(read FREE or cheap stuff!)this week at Rite-Aid, even on other than Xmas clearance.

Have you been doing any after Christmas deals shopping lately?
What goodies did you get?

Sluggy



Saturday, June 30, 2012

Saturday Rite-Aid....Spending Expiring +Ups

I realized I only had $13 in +Ups expiring today, June 30th.
The other $37 were expiring on Sunday, July 1st.

So I headed up to Rite-Aid today to spend the $13 worth.....

3 x Lipton tea bags on sale $2.99=$8.97
2 x Hormel chili on sale $1.50=$3.00
1 x Tide pods w/20% discount=$4.79
2 x tide stain release treater 50% off clearance=$4.78
8 x Zero candy bars 75% off=$1.92
SubTotal....$23.46

Coupons Used....
1 x $1/2 Hormel chili ManuQ(AllYou)=$1.00
1 x $2/1 Tide liquid(Facebook ManuQ)=$2.00
Coupon Total....$3.00

$23.46-$3.00=$20.46

I used the $13 in +Ups expiring today and $7 in +Ups expiring tomorrow.

$20.46-$20=$.46 OOP, which was put on the gift card.

I received a $3 +Up Reward back for buying at least $10 in Lipton/Hormel items.
Which means I spent down $17 in +Ups and rolled $3 of them.

I now have $30 in +Ups to use up tomorrow and $3 that expire 2 weeks from now.

Total retail value this trip is $43.94.
OOP this trip is $0.00(.46¢ on gift card)

Analysis--
I bought the Tide pods because I had a $2 Q from Facebook that was set to expire today.  I had forgotten about it and the pods were the lowest price Tide product the Q would work on.
The other 2 Tide products were on 50% clearance.  I have a $1/2 Q at home, so tomorrow I'll take it all up with the Q and do a "post sale" and get my $1 for the Q back.  So with that, these 2 items cost $1.89.
We go through a lot of tea bags here, as brewed iced tea is consumed here in large quantities rather than soda.  When #2 Son is home, we also go through chili quickly.  This is why I bought the food items I did....the sale prices were ok, I had at least 1 Q AND by buying $10 worth I got a $3 +Up Reward.  I used +Up Rewards to pay making my "spending" $4 less(the $1 Q + the $3 +Ups I got back).  Does this make sense outside of my own head? lol
The candy bars were dirt cheap and we can always find a use for candy bars......


As of now, my Monthly Rite-Aid Stats for JUNE are....

Out Of Pocket....$1.97 cash
Value of items bought....$141.36

+Ups at beginning of month...$30+
+Ups used....$48+
+Ups received...$51+
+Ups currently...$33+ 

 Sluggy