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ShopKo had a small surprise ad in today’s newspaper for a 3-day sale that starts tomorrow, September 9th and lasts until Saturday, September 11.
First, before you head out to ShopKo, you will want to join their My Extra Savings rewards and savings card program. It is FREE to join and by doing so, you will receive exclusive savings and offers from ShopKo both via email and regular mail. We receive coupon in the mail for dollar amounts off or percentages off on a regular basis. In addition, many of the ad prices will include and extra discount for My Extra Savingscard holders! You can sign-up online or in-store! You can print your card after registration! You will want to do this as we just received another $10 off $50 or more purchase coupon in the mail!
Shopko officially does not take internet printable coupons. This is not a policy in writing, but rather from speaking to corporate over the phone. They hope to implement a system that will allow printables by January, 2011.
Finally, there is a Ten$for10 Club when you use your My Extra Savings card with each prescription purchase and purchase ten prescriptions, then you will get a coupon fo r$10 off your next Shopko store purchase of $20 or more
Deals with coupon match-ups:
Era 100-oz Laundry Detergent – $5.99
Use $1.00/1 8/22 Smart Source Insert $4.99 each after coupon
Viva 8-Giant Roll Paper Towel – $11.99
No non-printable coupons available $11.99 each
Luvs Big Pack Diapers – $15.99
No non-printable coupons available. Join Luvs Network for future mailer coupons like $2.50/1. $15.99 each
Other in-store deals:
Shopko is having a huge home sale for these 3 days (9/9 – 9/11) where you can find many household items for 40, 50 or 60% off. You will find everything for the home on sale this week.
Also, many apparel items are also 50% off for the entire family.
Finally, the baby department is having a 50% off sale for baby furniture, gifts, blankets, bed/crib sets, and apparel. Also, if you are a Shopko My Extra Savings member, then look for a Shopko Baby mailer with a coupon for an additional 10% off all baby apparel and a coupon for 20% off Shopko brand diapers, wipes and formula when you buy three.
If you are not a part My Extra Savings, you will want to join. It is FREE and you get extra coupons like the baby ones above.
Target released some new coupons and so you will want to browse the selection of coupons to print before they are gone. We posted real quick while we were in Yellowstone (sitting in the visitor’s center which was the only place we could find with FREE wi-fi ) about the new Target coupons that came out this last weekend. By the time we got home on Tuesday morning, many of the ones we saw and wanted to print were already gone! So if you ever see some Target printables that you like, don’t wait to print them (unless you were somewhere without a printer like us!).
Then head to Target and purchase the tub of wipes ranging from about $2.50 – $2.99 each depending on the type of wipes (they may be lower depending on your region)= $5.00 – $6.00
A new week of deals at Mejier has also started. Again Stockpiling Moms has a list of the matchups this week.
Here are a few deals:
Aunt Millies Family Style Bread, HotDog Buns, or Hamburger Buns $.99
Aunt Millie’s Hamburger Or Hot Dog Buns, Any – 06-13-10 RP, $.55/1, Expires 9/30/10
Aunt Millie’s Loaf Bread, Any – 06-13-10 RP, $.55/1, Expires 9/30/10 Final Price: FREE
Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn 3/$4.00
Campbells Kitchen $1.00/2
Pop Secret, any (2) products – 08-29-10 RP, $.50/2, Expires 10/10/10 Final Price: 2/$1.66
IP from Campbell’s $1.00/1
Campbell’s Select Harvest can or bowl variety, any – 08-15-10 SS, $1.00/2, Expires 9/26/10
Campbell’s Select Harvest Cans or Bowls, any (2) – 08-15-10 SS, $.50/2, Expires 9/26/10
Campbell’s Select Harvest can or bowl variety, any – 08-15-10 SS, $1.00/3, Expires 9/26/10 Final Price: FREE to 2/$.98
OR
(MeijerMealBox $1.00/4) Final Price after MeijerMealBox 4/$.96
For more grocery store match-ups, you will find that there are a few other grocery store sales also started. Grocery Smarts is a free website that shows the sales and grocery deals in other areas. If you are looking for a passport to the Grocery Smarts website for the different states, here they are for the states that Grocery Smarts is in: Just go to the Grocery Smarts website and enter the passport from the state you want to shop in!
Utah: g84rcm
Nevada: g89cjm
E. Washington: g99kkt
So. California: g92ro1
Idaho: g83ro1
Arizona: g85ro1
Watch in the future as we expand the Grocery Store Match-ups section!
*If you are a blogger and are interested in teaming up with us for grocery match-ups – please email us at thriftyus @ thethriftycouple . com. Thanks!
First – Walgreens finally has an official coupon policy! Finally! See the Walgreens official coupon policy and print for you to keep with you when you shop.
There is a new September coupon book. Common Sense With Money has a list of all of the coupons this month!
There are a few deals this week. Here are some of our favorites:
.33 John Frieda Root Awakening Shampoo or Conditioner
Buy 3 John Frieda Root Awakening Shampoo or Conditioner sale for $5 each = $15
Then use three $3.00/1 8/22 Smart Source – $9.00 = $6.00
Then receive a $5 Register Reward (Walgreens cash) so when considering this discount = final is $1.00 for 3 or .33 each!
Don’t forget to request your sample too – these are great for travelling. This is a month long register reward and it will probably not be marked on the shelf. This deal should still work as it as already been done many times this month and confirmed by several.
$2.99 Garnier Herbashine
Buy 1 Garnier Herbashine Hair Color for $5.99 with in-ad coupon
*Please remember that the Walgreens deals may vary by region, as well as the coupon inserts from the Sunday paper. You will want to verify the deals with your local ad, plus your local coupons. Unfortunately, Utah seems to miss some of the deals more often than others!
It is another week for Rite Aid deals AND it is another WOW week!! There are a ton of deals.
First, a few things to do before shopping at Rite Aid:
Sign up for My Rite Aid and the NEW Wellness+program! Earn points and receive additional discounts and coupons from Rite Aid by signing up for this FREE program, plus you will immediately receive a coupon for $5/$25 purchase! And yes, you will have another store card to carry or just use your phone number instead.
Rite Aid video values has extra product coupons, PLUS if you spend about 20 minutes watching videos, you can earn a $5/$20 purchase coupon to print. This is only 1 time per month.
Don’t forget about the +UP Rewards!! They are rewards for money off your next transaction that print at the bottom of your receipt = essentially Rite Aid cash. You earn these +Up rewards by purchasing certain products throughout the store.
This is just so cool! I LOVE these! And if you know us, you know we love the photo deals. It is something that is important to us and our kids love having all kinds of memories all around.
Well this photo deal is a fun and unique way to display favorite memories or as a very special gift to someone special. Christmas is coming up, in addition to Grandparent’s Day on September 12th.
Right now you can get the photo plates for 50% off with coupon code: plates-14 and FREE Shipping (you will need to pay sales tax)!
So log-in or register and create your photo plate or plates and then use the coupon code: plates-14 at checkout to see your total drop by 50% and $0.00 for shipping! YAY! This is good now through September 6th for a Labor Day weekend sale.
*Please note that it will show you a 30% off promo code – don’t use this one as you want to use : plates-14 for the 50% off instead! You will enter the promo code on the first page of checkout!
Here’s the plate we made and a picture of our cart:
Several weeks ago we read somewhere (in two places in fact!) on Amazon that the 30% subscribe and save was ending on 8/31. It is usually a 15% subscribe and save option and the extra 15% (30%) was for a limited time, in which we thought that it was 8/31. But for whatever reason, we are not complaining a bit and are excited to see it still going!
So if you are in need of diapers, now is the time still If you can round up more coupon codes from current magazines. Then you will score even better deals and get diapers for pennies!
Please note – check the Amazon 20% off codes from the magazines for expiration dates. The August magazine issues coupons did expire on the 31st of August. In addition, the Amazon coupons may have reset. Today when we checked, there was only a $1.00 off coupon for Pampers. So check your account to see what coupons are avalilable for you now that it is the start of a new month!
Enjoy the amazing Amazon diaper deal while we can. In the meantime, we are going to see if we can figure out when this is ending as it would sure be nice to know exactly how long we have to maximize on this deal! If you find out – let us know!
Safeway is also running a coupon promotion right now. Their event is a double coupon event – all coupons will be doubled up to $1.00! This means if you have a .25 = .50, .40 = .80, .50 = $1.00, .75 = $1.00 etc. This has been verified for Colorado stores, but you will want to verify it with your local Safeway.
Our friend Jennie from Bargain Blessings has put together the Safeway deals with coupon matchups and so you will definitely want to head over to her site and check out the deals. She even gives everything a grade (A-F) which is helpful reference for you.
Here are some of the deals you will find, you will need to head to Bargain Blessings for the details: