Rite-Aid Scenario for Very Cheap Baby Care Products

Here is a great scenario for the Johnson's Baby Products on sale until Saturday at Rite-Aid.
There is a Buy $50/Get $25 Single Check Rebate for select Johnson & Johnson products, including Johnson Baby Products.

Sale Price is 2 for $7.
Johnson & Johnson Baby Care Powder 22 oz.
Oil 20 oz.Bath or Lotion 15 oz.
Foaming Wash 9 oz.
Lotion 8 oz.

Scenario #1
Buy 8 Johnson's Baby Care items
8x$3.50=$28
Use the $5 off $25 purchase coupon HERE.
And use 8 $1/1 Johnson's coupons from the Sunday inserts.(5/17)
Or use the printable coupons linked below.
$28-$13=$15OOP

Do this scenario twice.
Total OOP $30.
Submit for the Single Check Rebate #97.
Receive a $25 refund.
$5 for 16 bottles of Baby Wash/Lotion/Powder.

If you haven't bought the Werther's Chocolate OR the Duck Tape that are Freebies this week after rebate,do the above Scenario ONLY once and then do this one for a lower OOP....

Scenario #2
Buy 7 Johnson's Baby Care Items.
7x$3.50=$24.50
Then buy either the Werther's or Duck Tape($2.99 or $1.49)
Total either $27.49 or $25.99.
Use the $5 off $25 purchase coupon HERE.
And use 7 $1/1 Johnson's coupons from the Sunday inserts.(5/17)
Or use the printable coupons linked below.
$27.49-$12=$15.49OOP or $25.99-$12=$13.99OOP

Total OOP $30.49 or $28.99.
Submit for the Single Check Rebate #97($25) and either Rebate #146($2.99)or #69($1.49)
Receive either a $27.99 or $26.49 refund.
Either Rebate(chocolate or tape) used with the Johnson's Rebate you end up with $2.50OOP for 15 bottles of Baby Wash/Lotion/Powder & a bag of Chocolate or a roll of Duck Tape.

This is a fan-so-tastic price for all these Baby Products! Basically it's .17¢ each for the baby care stuff and free chocolate or tape.
And you don't need to have a baby to get this stuff.
Think charity donation.
Think gift baskets(going to a baby shower anytime soon?)
Think sell it at your Yard Sale.

I LOVE to use Baby Wash in place of soap! And who doesn't like a little baby powder in the sticky heat of the summer?

Thanks to Luv to Save for the 1st Scenario Idea & the printable coupon links!

• $1 off JOHNSON'S^® Baby Oil - Baby Skin Care
• $1 off JOHNSON'S^® HEAD-TO-TOE^® Foaming Wash
• $1 off JOHNSON'S^® HEAD-TO-TOE^® Baby Wash
• $1 off JOHNSON'S^® Moisture Care Wash or Baby Cream
• $2/2 Johnson & Johnson printable
  
• $3/3 Johnson & Johnson coupon
• Johnson's Baby Oil, $1 off
• Johnson's Baby Lotion, $1

Sluggy

Cheap Cereal & Batteries until Saturday at Rite-Aid for VocalPoint Moms

If you have signed up to receive coupons & samples from VocalPoint, you may have gotten one of these mailers in the mail recently.

And when you open it up and hear that cute little Cereal Gnome Crackle, you'll find these.....



5 Coupons for $1 off a box of the new improved Rice Krispies AND a Coupon for a FREE BOX of RICE KRISPIES!

Among all the Grocery Stores having cereal sales this week, Rite-Aid has selected types of Kellogg's Cereals for $1.99 a box. A real decent price for cereal.
One of the select cereals on sale is.....what else?.....Rice Krispies.

Rite-Aid also is running a Single Check Rebate deal this month-buy $15 worth of select Kellogg's, Keebler, Sunshine, Austin, Famous Amos & Murray Sugar Free Products & you get a $5 coupon on your next of purchase of Kellogg's products.

Go up to Rite-Aid with your 6 Rice Krispies coupons, 5 Duracell battery coupons(from the Sunday paper) & print out the $5 off a $25 purchase HERE before you leave home.

Buy 6 boxes of $1.99 Rice Krispies for $11.94.

Then go find the DURACELL Batteries that are on sale for $3 a pack and buy 5 of them for $15.00.

Rite-Aid is also running an offer in the Single Check Rebate on Duracell-buy $15 worth of batteries and get a $5 rebate.

Your amount due at the register for 6 boxes of cereal and 5 packs of batteries will be $26.94.
Hand the cashier the $5 off Rite-Aid coupon first, then the manufacturers coupons.
$26.94-RA Q$5=$21.94.
$21.94-Cereal Qs$6.99=$14.95
$14.95-Duracell Qs$5.00=$9.95*(Your regions Duracell Qs may be less than $1/1 value)

Your total OOP will be $9.95+tax.

Take your receipt home and submit it for the Single Check Rebates for $5 on the $15 Duracell purchase.

After the rebate comes in your OOP drops to $4.95 for 20 batteries and 6 boxes of cereal.

If you buy 2 more boxes of cereal for $1.99 this week at Rite-Aid(and use a $1/2 Q from the Sunday paper)you'll spend another $2.98 & you can submit for the $5 OYNO Q on the cereal.
Do that and your totals will look like this....

Total OOP $7.93+tax(higher if your battery Qs are less than $1/1) AND a $5 Q for more cereal
Total items 20 batteries & 8 boxes of cereal + $5 worth of more cereal

So what do you do with 8 boxes of Rice Krispies?
It shouldn't be too hard to eat all that, especially when you can make MARSHMALLOW Treats out of some of it! It would be a very frugal dessert type treat.
Why pay $4 or so for 1 puny box of premade Rice Krispie Treats that are full of preservatives and chemicals? They aren't that hard to make, especially if you have a child assistant who enjoys getting messy!lol

And if you got the VocalPoint Rice Krispies mailer for goodness sakes, take the blasted coupons OUT OF THE HOLDER immediately! That way you don't have to keep opening it every time you want to use a coupon and have to listen that that voice chip thingy 5 billion times.
It gets ANNOYING REAL FAST!
Do ya hear that VocalPoint??lol

Sluggy

How to Get All This for $1.92 + Tax! Plus FREEBIES at Rite-Aid until Saturday

How would you like to get....
2 Hellman's Mayo
2 Ragu Pasta Sauce
2 Skippy Peanut Butter
2 Lipton Tea Boxes
1 Venus Razor
1 Werther's Caramel Chocolates

And ONLY PAY $1.92 +tax?

Here's what you do....
Go Here and print out the Rite-Aid $5 off of a $25 Purchase Coupon.
Then get these Coupons in the coupon inserts from last Sunday's newspaper; Hellman's Mayo, Ragu, Lipton Tea, Skippy Peanut Butter, Venus Razor(the reg. single razor NOT the coupon for the disposable ones). If you also have a coupon stash, see if there is a Werther's chocolate coupon in there(this will make your cost even lower! if you find one).

Now get some money(about $16 should do it)and head to Rite-Aid.

Buy a Venus Razor(on sale this week for $7), a Werther's Chocolate bag(on sale this week for $2.99), 2 Hellman's Mayo(on sale this week for $1.99), 2 Ragu(ditto for $1.99), 2 Lipton tea boxes(ditto $1.99) & 2 Skippy Peanut Butters(ditto $1.99).
Your total will ring up $25.91= tax.
Hand over the Rite-Aid $5/$15 Coupon FIRST.
Then Hand over the other 5(6 if you have a Werther's Q too)Coupons.

After Coupons, your total will now be $14.91+tax(or less if you have the Werther's Q).
Pay and take your items and receipt.
Don't Lose that Receipt!!!

Log on to the Rite-Aid site and go to the Single Check Rebate page. If you have never done a Single Check Rebate before, register(it's free and easy to do).
Then Log in and enter the receipt info. onto the site from the receipt you just got from the cashier at Rite-Aid.

Just wait until the month is over and log back into the Rite-Aid Single Check Rebate page and request that your Rebate Check for August be sent to you.
Now just wait a few weeks for the mailman to bring you a check for $12.99.
That is how much the rebates are that you qualified for in your shopping trip.
$5 for buying the 8 Unilever food items.
$5 for the Venus Razor
$2.99 for the Werther's Chocolates

Those 10 items after your rebates come in cost you $1.92+tax.

Rite-Aid is giving A Metric TON of Rebates this week in their store that are FULL PRICE REBATES, so all those are FREEBIES! Besides this little Venus/Unilever/Werther's Scenario, go print another $5 off $25 Rite-Aid Coupon and buy $25 of FREEBIES after the Rebates items too!
I've already bought and applied for Rebates on $22.26 in FREEBIES this week(I also bought $3 in Sunday papers to get to $25). Using coupons and the Rite-Aid coupon I only paid OOP $15.58(plus I'll get a double dip by getting a Mail-In-Rebate from Zantac directly).

So what are you waiting for? Rite-Aid can't make it any easier to get stuff for free or for really cheap.....unless they drive to your house and back a U-Haul up to your door and unload it for you. ;-)

Sluggy

Just a NOTE from Your Friendly Neighborhood Blogger

I just wanted to tell ya'll that I have added to my right side bar layout. Besides keeping a running total on the $60K Saving$ Challenge I am doing this year, I have added another running total for what I have Spent and Saved in the Grocery Budget for 2009. I think visitors to the blog might have seen the Savings Challenge and thought it was me keeping track of my Savings on Food/HBA Shopping for the year.
Nope.

So I added a keeping track of money saved/spent on Food/HBA for the year too, as a lot of frugal mom/couponing/financial accountability blogs I see have them.
Not that this is JUST a couponing/frugal blog but it's a facet of me and my blog so I'm trying on the appropriate bells & whistles.
And speaking of grocery savings for the year, I am FLOORED that by shopping sales & using coupons I've saved my family over SIXTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS so far this year!
Incroyable!
Incredible too.... ;-)

And while I have your attention.....I DO have your attention, yes?!.....I'd love to hear some feedback or comments or suggestions or constructive criticism you might have about my blog. Keep in mind that I am NOT about the 'prettiness' thing here-no fancy designs or colors. Layout and readability is more what I am striving for here. Is is easy to read?

Do I go on too long and ramble too much....or do you like a personal rambling blog?

Are the financial type posts with all the numbers and figures too dry and drive you away or do you just skip over that so you don't fall asleep with your face on the keyboard?

Do you want to see something different? More photos? More cooking/recipes? More coupon stuff?

Or is there something I do here that drives you crazy that you want a lot less of?

Be frank but be kind and tell me!

Do you prefer one big Looooong post where I mash everything in together like the way it rattles around in my head or would you like to see more smaller entries....maybe even lots of entries a day if lots of stuff is going on?

Are there any regular features you'd like to see me host? Charity Challenges? Contests?

How about giveaways? This is an idea I've been toying with in my head lately. If I did those, what would you want to win?
I've got some dogs and kids I'd gladly donate to that cause.....**BEG**<-that's a Big Evil Grin

As always, thanks for the opportunity to share my day & life with ya'll. Now back to your regularly scheduled day....


Sluggy

$60K Savings Challenge JULY Totals...Gaining some Ground!

I have posted my JULY End of Month 60K $AVING$ CHALLENGE Totals.
Check out the side bar to your right for the specific numbers.

I am once again able to say that we finished up JULY in THE BLACK!
The Savings for July was just under $2,700.

The MasterCard bill(which is paid off each month-NO BALANCE EVER!)was just over $2K this month. We had some big unusual purchases like 4 pairs of eyeglasses for assorted family members & the new stove. Those alone accounted for over half of the bill. UGH. Add in hotel bills & gasoline expenses from the Bermuda Triangle trip(Eastern PA to VA to Western PA to home) and that's the bulk of the cc bill. It's a good thing July had 3 paychecks in it. ;-)

We had a bit of rolled coins as usual, but I am still sitting out on eBay for now.

On the recurring utilities front, we saw a $19.43 reduction in the cost of the electric bill from June. The unseasonably cool summer so far here is responsible for this. The water bill increased by $6.64 from June's total. Hubby continued dealing with pool problems in July, where he's had to partially empty and refill the pool so usage was up more than the month before. I hope the August bill will decrease since the hole has been patched finally!

The Food Budget costs for July are in another post, which is located Here. Food/Toiletries spending in July was my lowest monthly total for the year. I was $20 above my goal of $500 for the month so I'll stick with that budget amount for August as well. I dare not say I won't add to the stockpile, because we all know I WILL anyway!lol The garden has just started yielding produce which will help keep me out of the grocery store's fresh veggie section for another month or so.

We are Seven Months into this $AVING$ Challenge, and we have a Savings Total of $14,846.16 for the year.
Shall I mention that I should have $35K at this point since that's 7 months worth of $60K?
Naaaah, let's not go there.lolol

What's ahead for August.....I'll try to keep the stockpiling to a minimum, despite KMart holding ANOTHER Double Coupon Event.....oy! They sabotage me every month it seems!lolol I may have another Garage Sale(if the heat doesn't get too unbearable)or find a Flea Market to set up at(if the cost of the space isn't too high). Or maybe I'll wait until early Sept. to do that. At any rate, I see another Yard sale or something similar in my future. ;-)
I will also be ramping up my eBay Store later this month or early in Sept. It just depends on when I see selling prices picking up for what I have to offer.

In terms of cash outlays in August, it could be another expensive month with the back-to-school costs(shoes for the kids, school fees, etc.)The school supplies like paper and pencils, etc. are pretty much taken care of already, thanks to Staples, WAGS and CVS. But we have an incoming College Freshman so there are travel expenses and major outlays of money involved here(laptop computer, dorm stuff still to be determined, & the killer-College Textbooks!!). I'll be looking for ways to reduce these costs were I can in the few short weeks I have to procure these items.

I'm hoping to NOT loose ground on the Savings Challenge front and would be thrilled to sock away another $1K in August. Cross your fingers we can achieve this goal! 8-))

Check out Money Saving Mom's Blog May Financial Update Post to see how others are saving money and living more frugally Here.

Sluggy