Deals

I've been following some of the coupon deals over at Money Saving Mom. This week I got free shampoo, rinse, Advil, toothbrushes, toothpaste and deodorant (for Amy). Actually, I spent $13.68 and got a coupon for $26.98 (like a rebate) to use at my next visit on anything I want. So really I made $13.30. I just followed the links that MSM gave me. The poor cashier. Some of the coupons didn't take at first, so I showed him the small print that said that they should. He was very confused. My older kids were getting embarrassed. Emily was throwing a tantrum. So while it was fun to get free stuff, I'm not sure how much more of this I'll do. It's a lot of work, even if MSM does the front work for you.

At Walgreens I got free makeup and almost free air freshener. They were out of the coupon special one so they offered to give me any other brand for the same deal. Again, the cashier was flustered. When you're stacking coupons it gets confusing. He was shaking his head as he rung up the freshener at $.49 and $.01. All total I spent $1.43 at Walgreens.

But the deal I was happiest about, because it was free, because no coupons were involved, because the lady begged me to take more, because she wasn't flustered but extremely cheerful as she gave them to me, was my free 5 gallon buckets with lids. The bakery at Albertsons gets their frosting in these buckets and they throw them away when their done. I called ahead and asked for one. When I got there they had three all rinsed out with my name on them. The bakers were glad that someone was going to put them to good use. (I'll use them to store my grain for bread baking.)