Free Nail Designs from JamBerry!

Savemore.com (a deal site a lot like Groupon or Living Social) is offering a $10 account credit when you sign up. Their deal for today is Jamberry nail designs for $7.50. You can get them for absolutely FREE! I just bought mine and can't wait to try them! I wanted to try the Sally Hansen's but $8-$10 is just too much for me to spend. Free is so much better! Hurry, the deal is only good until midnight tonight! Click here to take advantage of the offer while it lasts!

On a side note, SaveMore.com is TrustE certified and offers a satisfaction guarantee!

Fusion ProGlide Smooth Comfort Kit: for $1.58, Free Icy Hot, and More!

Walgreens is having a sale on all their Fusion ProGlide razors. The manual, power, and power smooth comfort set are all selling for $9.89 this week. The Smooth Comfort Kit is obviously the best value, as it comes with the power razor, one cartridge, battery, travel-size shave gel, travel-sized facial scrub, and travel-sized facial lotion. In itself, this is a great gift for a man in your life, Father's Day is right around the corner!

The deal gets even sweeter though. When you purchase it, a $5 Register Reward will print out, good on your next purchase. That's like getting it for only $4.89. And if you were lucky enough to clip and save the $4/1 ProGlide coupon from May's Procter and Gamble insert, you will get it for only $1.58 after tax and RR! What a steal!

Also, Walgreens has other great deals this week that I took advantage of. Their Icy Hot Naturals .5 oz is on sale for $.99 and $.99 Register Rewards will print, making it free! Puffs tissues and Walgreen's brand storage bags are both on sale for $.99 as well. I used the $5 RR from the razor to get two boxes of tissues, and quart, gallon, and sandwich storage bags. I also bought two of the Icy Hot's and got 2 candy bars and a pack of gum with the RR's from those.

Free Candy Bars!

Head out to CVS this week to take advantage of a fabulous sale. Mars Candy Bars are on sale 2 for $1, and you get $1 Extra Value Buck after you purchase them, making both of them free! You can use that $1 immediately to get something else in the store. I grabbed 2 more of the on sale candy bars. (Just a side note, the ECB will only print once, so you can't keep buying the candy for free, it's only a one time thing)

Fiber Choice Sample

 Grab a free sample of Fiber Choice tablets from Sam's Club here.

No membership number is required!

Hot Coupon Deal!

Hey all, I hope your Memorial Day was relaxing. I spent my day with family and loved ones, shopping, eating, and enjoying the HOT day. Memorial Day officially marks the beginning of pool season, and  I cannot wait to head to the State Park near my house for a swim.

This post is to alert you of a HOT deal coming soon from Bounty! It is called $5 Fridays. Each Friday in June, they will be giving away a $5 coupon to the first 5,000 people to request them. This is a HIGH VALUE coupon that could mean great Bounty paper towels cheaper than generic! All you have to do is "like their facebook page and click on $5 Friday on the sidebar. There is even a reminder sign up, where they will email you the details.

I don't know what the stipulations of the coupon are or what time on Friday the deal opens, but as soon as I know, you'll know!

Free Samples of the Week

Garner Fructis Anti-Dandruff

Playtex Sport

Zone Perfect Bar (like their FB page and click on the Free Bar tab)

Lactaid Fast Act

Tasters Choice Sample Pack (like their FB page)

Aveeno Hair Care

Breath Right Strip

Shout Color Catcher (like their FB page and click on the offers tab)

Emergen-C

Eucerin Lotion (like their FB page and take the pledge)

Gucci Guilty Perfume or Cologne

Purex Detergent

Osteo Bi Flex 1-week Sample

Marsh Triple Coupon Special!

Attention Indiana (and some Ohio) couponers! Marsh Supermarkets is tripling all manufacturer coupons up to $3, up until tomorrow! Triple coupon deals don't come around often, so take advantage of it! I got up this morning and took a trip to the store and got some fabulous deals!

Here are the best deals I got:

Wheat Thins Stix: 2 for $4. I had 3 $1/1 coupons that tripled to $3/1, making a dollar on each! I got these coupons at Wal Mart, at the sample station, but I think they might have also been in the mail at some point.

Era Laundry Detergent: $2.99. I had a $1/1 coupon, so it was free!

Kraft Dressing: $1.66. Had $1/2, so I paid $.32 for both of them!

Zest 3 pack bar soap: $2.59. Had $1/2. Free.

Glade Room Spray: $3.09. $1/1 from Country Living Magazine. $.09!

My best tip is to just go in with all your coupons and spend some time going down each of the aisles. I found great deals, just by doing this!

Before my store card and coupons, the cost of the transaction was almost $59. After coupons, the final cost was $.53! My total purchases included Era detergent, 2 jars of Ragu, 3 cans of Pringles, Wishbone dressing, 2 bottles of Kraft dressing, 2 tubes of Crest, Kikkoman teryaki, Glade Room Spray, French's honey mustard, a Hidden Valley salad kit, 3 boxes of Wheat Thin Stix, 3 pack Zest bar soap, and Vaseline lotion. All for less than a dollar!

I also stopped by Wal Mart to get more Nexcare band aids, Wilkonson disposable razors, and Aquafresh trial size toothpaste, all for just tax. My total spending today was $.96. Less than my large coke from McDonald's!

For a list of Marsh specials and freebies here, here, and here.

The days purchases.

My Saturday Project

Since I just started couponing about a month ago, I was still using an accordion-type binder to keep my coupons and it was getting messy and stressful, so I made it today's goal to get a new, more organized system. While I was at Wal Mart today, I grabbed a package of baseball collection page organizers. They have 9 slots per page that work great for coupons. For $5 you get 35 pages, which was more than I needed, as it turned out, but will be great as my collection grows. I always have spare binders lying around, being a college student, so all that was left was the sorting. It was time consuming, to say the least, but doing so while watching Dirty Dancing made the time go by faster (RIP Patrick Swayze, you hunk). I now have a lovely, organized coupon binder, which makes me feel a little bit more professional. My only complaint is that for some reason, the middle 3 sections of the organizer pages were not slit, so I could not put coupons in them. But se la vie. Pictures, if anyone cares, follow:

 

 

I made a super cute cover for it. Makes me happy!

Such a better system now. Thank goodness.

Small purchase, Big Success

I took an impromptu trip to Wal Mart today and of course, couldn't help but coupon just a little. I FINALLY got to take advantage of the great Rimmel nail polish deal, as Wal Mart had the right product and price matches. I grabbed a sheer purple and a deep green for just $.19 a piece before tax.

I also found a great deal while looking through the cosmetic and beauty clearance bins. I found 2 1.7 oz. Old Spice body washes (travel size) that were on sale for just $.50. I had a coupon for $1/2 ANY, so they were free! I also used $.75/1 ANY Degree deodorant coupon to pick up a travel sized deodorant for just $.23. That is a big thing to watch out for on coupons. When they say ANY try to see if they have travel sized, as you can usually get them for free or just pocket change, as I demonstrated in this trip. Last week at Target I used an Aquafresh Extreme Clean coupon for $1/1 ANY and grabbed a trial size for free! Grab this coupon here. It is the next to last on this list (NOT the trial size!)

The final cost of these few items, the 2 body washes, the deodorant, and both the nail polishes, was $1.06. The pre-coupon price was almost $7! Not bad for almost no planning!

I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Memorial Day!

Sweet Summer Deal: No Coupon Required

Summer time is a time for friends, fun, and sun. And also a tall, cold glass of iced tea. I don't drink the stuff myself, but many in my family do, so when we were at Wal-Mart today, I grabbed a box of Luzianne iced tea bags. I have never noted the price before, but a 24 count box costs $1.97! It takes 2 bags to make a gallon so that means 12 gallons will cost you around $2, or $.17 per gallon! That's cheaper than a large McDonald's Sweet Tea!

If you prefer yours sweet, just add granulated sugar which we all have in our cabinets and boom, a refreshing drink perfect for summer. This is the everyday low price at Wal-Mart, so no sales or coupons are required. Just good, cheap living!

Free Fusion Proglide Razor

Text Prueba to 59999. The response will be in Spanish, so to the first text respond with your age. Next respond with your name and address. The final text from them will tell you that it will arrive in 6-8 weeks. This is a Gillette sponsored promotion and was advertised in the Spanish-language Harper's Bazaar.

Free Puppy Training Pad

Hurrry, this is a limited time offer!

Hot! Free Summer Prep Kit

Head over the page to the Right at Home page sponsored by Procter and Gamble to sign up for this offer. Hurry, only the first 3,000 respondents will receive it!

Walgreen's Trip: Hit and Miss

I spent an hour or two preparing for a trip to Walgreen's tonight. I clipped, printed, and searched, looking up all the deals I wanted to take advantage of. Here was my list:

2 Rimmel Nail Colors $.19 (deal listed earlier yesterday)
2 Listerine Whitening + Restore $.20
                    Starting Price Approx. $6
                    Use 2 $1/1 printable coupons
                    Use $3/1 in-ad coupon (will ring up as $6 off)
                    I paid $4.40 out of pocket and received $4 Register Rewards
1 Bayer Advanced Aspirin FREE
                    Starting price $4.50
                    Use $1/1 coupon
                    Use $1.50/1 in-ad coupon
                    Use $1/1 May coupon booklet (ask cashier if you can't find them)
10 Tuf Paper Towels $.50 with in-ad coupon
2 Nestle candy bars $.49 with in-ad coupon

I broke them into two orders to take advantage of the RR I would be getting for the Listerine.

Order 1

2 Listerine

Total: $4.40 Receive $4 RR

Order 2

2 Nail Polishes

1 Bayer

2 Candy Bar

10 Paper towel

-$4 RR

-$1 RR from last week

Total: Approx. $2

Well, things didn't work out as well as I wanted... My small Walgreen's didn't have the right Rimmel nail polish, and nothing else that was the right price to match the deal. So that was out. They had everything else, however. So I went to the register. The first transaction went off without a hitch with a total of $4.40. The RR printed off right and all was good.

The 2nd transaction had a little speed bump though. The cashier and manager would not take the May Bayer coupon. They insisted that the coupon was not speaking of the Advanced Aspirin even though the coupon just said Bayer Aspirin. I didn't want to argue, since it was closing time, so I just had them void the aspirin and go on with the order. Everything else worked and I paid $1.80 total for the 2nd order.

I paid a total of $6.20 and got 2 bottles of Listerine Whitening + Restore, 10 rolls of paper towel, and 2 candy bars. It doesn't feel like a huge success to me, since I like to keep things under $5 usually, but when you think about it, I still got the Listerine for almost free and paper towels cheap. So it was a hit and miss.

Restaurant.com $25 gift certificate for $2!

HOT DEAL!

Restaurant.com is a discount site for restaurant gift certificates. On a normal day, a $25 gift certificate goes for $10, which is an amazing deal of 60% off! But today and up through 5/31, you can get 80% off the already low discount, and get a $25 certificate for only $2! That's 92% off! Come one, you probably have $2 in change in your couch! I just bought 4 to a restaurant near my apartment at college, $100 worth of gift certificates for only $8!

They have restaurants across the country, so choose your state, area, and then restaurant. You can get up to 4 from a single restaurant, but the discount will apply to however many restaurants you choose. Stock up for birthdays, Christmas, bat mitzvah, whatever. This is a HOT deal that only lasts until Monday so go! Go now!

Use the promo code FLAG at checkout!

Restaurant.com is accredited by the Better Business Bureau. You print your certificates out right after you purchase so now waiting for them to be mailed. I am just astounded by the value. Hop over there now!

Rimmel Nailpolish for $.19

Walgreens has Rimmel nailpolish on sale for $2.19 this week! Head over to the Rimmel Crown Your Friends app right here, participate, and print out a $2 coupon! What colors are you craving for summer?

Free Stride Gum and Sample of Ocean Spray Sparking

Print it Here!

It has to be redeemed at Speedway Gas Stations.

Free is the best price!

Also, grab a free sample of Ocean Spray Sparkling Juice here : Like them on Facebook first! Just put your address in as your friend's address and bada bing. Hurry, only 10,000 are available! Sorry folks, they're all gone!

Walmart Shopping Trip: Success

It is a hot one today in central Indiana, and since we have yet to put our window air conditioner in, I have nearly every fan in the house pointed my way. Of course, retail therapy also helps cure a heat wave, and a FREE trip is even better.

I headed to Wal-Mart today with my list and coupons, and I knew exactly what I wanted. That's the key, a concise list and organized coupons. It is so stressful to dig through your purse, binder, ect. in the store. So have it on hand and ready to go! On my list were band-aides, cleaner, batteries, and razors. A couple days ago I printed a $2/1 Rayovac coupon (no longer available, unfortunately). I also printed $1/2 Spic n Span Cleaner (under household), $1/1 Nexcare Band Aides (NO PRINT LIMIT!!), and $1/1 Wilkonson's Disposable Razors (on last page of personal care).

Walmart prices on these items:
Nexcare Band-Aides: $1=FREE (I used 5 coupons, but plan on printing more to stock up and also donate to Red Cross for Joplin, MO)
Wilkonson's Disposable Twin Blade 4-pack: $.97=FREE with $.03 overage! (Only bought one pack, coupons.com didn't allow 2 prints for some reason)
Rayovac Heavy Duty 2-4 Pack (depending on type, AA and AAA are 4-pack, 9 volt are 2-pack): $.97=FREE with $1.03 overage on each pack! (I bought 2, that was the coupon print limit)
Spin n Span Antibacterial Spray: $.97 each=$.94 for both

The overages on the batteries took care of the Spin n Span and left me with a total of -$.47, so I bought a pack of  gum to bring it out of the red, and paid $.56 for all this stuff! What a great success this was!

Did you get any good deals this week? Find any great coupons you want to share?

Free Samples

Free Sample: Avery Sticky Notes

Free Sample: Full-Size Worx Energy

Free Sample: Carefree Liners

Free Sample: RevitaLense Contact Solution

Free Sample: Weeks Suppy of Fish Oil Vitamins

Free Sample: Star Ranch Steak Rub

Free Sample: Prilosec OTC

Free Sample: Playtex Body Wipes

Free Sample: Rachel Ray Nutrish Dog Food

How I Got Started

I just finished my first year of college. I lived in a dorm for this year, but next year I will live in my very first apartment. I am very excited, but also nervous. I don't have many expendable funds, rent and utilities have pretty much wiped out my budget, so I came up with a plan. I will coupon, save money, stock pile, and find as much free stuff as possible to have a fun, frivolous life on a dime. Bear with me, I am just learning as well, but I will share my best deals and hopefully it will help you as well. Also, let me know your best tips and tricks. Did you coupon through college or start as a wife and mother? Let's share our best saving tips and together create a better life for all.