Babe we are almost out of dog food.........

Target: $3.98

My husband wanted to make sure I looked for a great coupon deal for dog food this week cause we are down to the last bag of free Iams (from Walmart) we got a while back, so I did just that!!!!

Target has a coupon up on their site right now for $1.50 off of a bag of dry Chef Michaels dog food. Combine that with the $3 manu coupon out now and score you some free dog food at target this week. You can use both Target coupons from their web page and a manufacturer coupon for the same item at Target, for those that are new to couponing. You can do this because their "coupons" are not a manu coupon but it's their way of doing a sale. They will accept both.
(I bought my manu coupons on ebay for 6.xx for 30 coupons)

http://sites.target.com/site/en/spot/page.jsp?title=newat&FlashExtra=/chefMichaels/panel_1/&ref=newat_rot_ban_chef_michaels#/chefMichaels/panel_1/

Kmart: today is the last day 8/31/09

http://clubbk.com/assets/pdfs/TransformersKmartCoupons.pdf

Check out their toy clearance you might be able to score some great deals this time of the year with this coupon.

Walgreens........ Today ONLY!! 8/31/09

http://www.walgreens.com/topic/instorespecials/friends.jsp?ban=flh1_h_family_friends

Today only Walgreens is doing their friends and family deal. Save 15%.

Free Samples....

It's so nice to check the mail and look in and everything you pull out NOT be a bill......... oh it makes your day so much nicer! Well free samples are the way to go......... did you know companies love sending out free samples in hopes that you will buy their product, most of them even send with them high value coupons. Make sure you also email the companies you love and tell them how much you love their product, most of them will be so greatful your buying from them they will send you great coupons. And we love coupons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



http://walmart.triaddigital.com/In-Stores-Now-Free-Samples-And-Tools.aspx


Here is a great area on the walmart website that has free samples all the time. They change often so keep checking back with them. I'll also post free samples as i find them.

Coupon Deals 8/30/09 Part 2

HEB this week.................

Grand total= $5.18

Chef Michaels: free coupons i got off Ebay a "lot" i got of 15 for 1.50 = free

Fiber One yogart: 2.09 - 1b1g1 coupon off a box of cereal and 1 $1/1 coupons from SS inserts= $3 for 3

Cocoa Puff cereal: 5/$5- 2 $1/2 insert coupons= .50 each

Yo Baby and Cottage cheese: freshness guarantee

Deals for 8/30/09

Albertsons this week......



grand total 1.96



That's 4 great meals right there plus 2 for a family if you pair that Ragu with some noodles. Easy lunch a Hot Pocket with a salad paired with some of that Kraft dressing we got about a month ago for .08 at Walmart and those .30 crutons from Albertsons a while back *if you still have those* a glass of the free Blue Diamond tea and call it lunch.



pictured:

Salad: on sale .99 with Albersons in store coupon mached with $2/2 manu coupon bought on ebay; 10 coupons for $1. even if i only get this one time this week it pays for it's self really. =free



ragu: .99 with in store coupon combined with $1/2= .50 each



Hot Pockets: on sale this week at Albs for 2/$3 used the .50/1 coupon printed from coupons.com about a month ago and with Albertsons double coupons it makes it $1 off = $1 for 2 hot pockets.

Couponing......

One of the biggest ways our family has learned to save money in '08/'09 has been by clipping coupons. I remember watching Oprah several years back and seeing a lady gets tons of things for a food bank for nothing. This lady went on a shopping trip and had $300 worth of groceries, she walked out paying only a COUPLE OF DOLLARS. No way i thought, never could i do that and for sure not around here in the boondocks. OH BUT YOU CAN AND I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW!!!!!!!!!!! Keep checking in daily on my blog and we are going to walk through together how you can coupon and save money, LOTS OF $$$!

Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap. $$ saver!!

So i was watching the Duggars' a couple months back and they had a show on about how they save money. One big thing that stuck out to me was a great way to save money on your laundry bills....................... MAKING YOUR OWN LAUNDRY SOAP! How awesome is that? Not only are you saving a TON of money, and when i say TON i mean a TON, but it's also really fun.

So now for the past several months I've been doing this. I've tried 4 different brands of bar soap seeing which one i like best and what one cleans best. I've tried, Pure and Natural, Ivory, Zote, and Fels Naptha. So far Fels honestly does the best job cleaning our clothes and I'm guessing it's simply because it's made just for that, cleaning stains out of clothing, it does a wonderful job. I use this recipe from the Duggar's web page and double all the ingredients in the same 5 gallon bucket. this way i can use less and not have to make it as often and also this has been the way I've found to get the soap to gel. If it doesn't gel it's not a big deal it still cleans the same but for some reason i really like mine to gel............ idk. You can also add in an essential oil to make it smell nicely but that to me is just an added cost i leave out cause the smell doesn't stay on the clothing anyway, actually the clothing just smells nice and fresh just as it is without essential oils. I've gotten several complements on how nicely my clothes smell using it, but if i want an added smell i just usually add in a small amount of scented fabric softener into the load and the clothes pick up the smell from that. mmmmmmmmm Gain; mango tango!!!!!!! hehe.

Here is the site........... http://www.duggarfamily.com/recipes.html


Also i bought Fels Naptha on line one time and then later in the month found out that our ace hardware sells the stuff. So if you have an ace I'd check with them first in their cleaning product isle, save yourself on shipping.


Feel free to share your ways on saving a buck while doing your laundry!