20% off H+M kids

I have never seen a coupon for H+M, so I am going to assume they are rare, but correct me if I am wrong. I am excited to see this!

Here is a coupon for 20% off your entire kids purchase at H+M! Good until 3/27/2011. They have some of the cutest clothes around!

Free Happy Baby food

Head over to the Happy Family Facebook page, click on the “Gen Happy” tab (lower left hand side), then scroll down and take the Generation Happy Pledge by clicking the “Join Us” link. Just for doing so, you’ll score a coupon valid for a FREE Happy Baby Product. *Note: This coupon will be sent via email. The coupon doesn’t come automatically and could take up to a week to receive after taking the pledge.

fall into the Gap, not the trap

Gap is one of those places I LOVE, but will absolutely not step foot in without a coupon because it is $$$. So I am pretty excited about this nice coupon they just put out.

Sign up to receive text messages from the Gap and they will text you a code for $25 off a $50 purchase. Just go HERE.

20% off Michael's

Save 20% on you entire purchase at Michael's until Dec. 24th with this coupon. You can also use a 40% off one item coupon in the same transaction. Great for last-minute xmas gifts. They have lots of Mel and Doug toys too. I know the coupon doesn't work on storybooks, and I'm sure there are other restrictions, so make sure you read the fine print.

Head's Up: Meijer Deal 12/15 and 12/16

Meijer is havnig a 2 day sale 12/15 - 12/16. I got an ad in my mail today (it was stuck in the middle of the junk ads with pizza coupons and stuff) that had a coupon for 10% off a general merchandise transaction of $19.97+. These ads may also be available in the store, but I don't know for sure.

What I am thinking is that you can maximize this 10% off by stacking it with coupons and sales. Here are some ideas:

U-Build Battleship game is on sale for $12 - use the $5/1 printable from Hasbro - pay $5.80 after 10% off.

It's possible Meijer could carry the travel size Hungry Hippos game and you could use the $5/1 printable for that to get it for free or very cheap. I am also going to check the price on the full size version to see if it would be decent with coupons.

If you are in the market for games, I suggest checking prices for all the games listed on the Hasbro coupons and you might score a decent deal.

There is a $3/1 printable for the 500 count Bendaroos on Coupons.com. Last time I checked this was priced at $19.99, so it would be $15 after Q and 10% discount. Maybe we will get lucky and this will be on sale for cheaper.

There are several DVD printables on Coupons.com as well. Check the prices on those and see if matching Qs will bring you a good deal.
If you want the Shrek Forever DVD, there is a printable for that, as well as a rebate here.

There is also a $5 rebate available for Beauty and the Beast DVD.
And if you buy that you can get a free charm bracelet here.

Or a $5 rebate for Toy Story 3.

There's a $5/1 Tinkerbell Great Fairy Rescue coupon here.

I don't know what the Meijer prices are for these DVDs, but if you want any of them, take a look and see if it is a worthwhile deal when you combine the 10% coupon, MFQs, and rebates.

I'm sorry I can't go check the prices for these things and report back, but I won't be able to make it to Meijer until late on Thursday, and by then the sale will be almost over, so pointless to report back here.

TRU deal for me.

Today I bought this Graco pack n' play. I've had my eyes out for deals on these and found something similar on Craigslist for $40. However, this one sells in stores for $69.99. I had a 20% off one baby item coupon, plus $11 left on a gift card that I got for free for making a baby registry. So I paid about $46 oop for this. $6 more than CL, but it's not used, I don't have to drive to someone's house to get it, and it is in the pattern I actually want. Plus this month TRU has 10% back for rewards card members, so I will get $4.60 back as a coupon later too. Seems like a pretty good deal to me!

Old Navy clearance clothing haul!

I hit up Old Navy yesterday. They had an unadvertised sale for extra 50% off clearance prices, PLUS I had a 30% off coupon that I printed (expired yesterday). I cleaned the place out!!

I spent $108. I tallied up how much everything would have cost if I'd paid full price and it was $517!!!

I got basically a whole wardrobe for baby #2, a bunch of clothes for Penny, a few shirts for myself, and some nice sweaters and undies for DH.

Some of my favorite deals were maternity pants for $2.50, flip-flops for .17, and Jon's sweaters for $4.37. But really everything I got was insanely cheap. Check out the pictures of my haul!!

Victoria's Secret 4/8

I didn't take a picture of my purchases this time, for obvious reasons, but I got:

1 pair of underwear ($8.50 value) with my Free Panty coupon = FREE
5 pairs from the 5 for $25 table - used my Secret Rewards Card which turned out to be worth $10 = $15
1 Biofit bra $45 - used $10 off any bra coupon (this is also on the free panty coupon) = $35

Spent approx. $50
Saved approx. $$28.50

Not bad for one of the most expensive places on Earth, right?

Free Organic Jelly

Toys R' Us (and Babies R' Us) has a ton of clearance right now. I am going to be posting my massive pile of deals from this week soon, but I wanted to mention one deal that I haven't seen on the blogosphere yet.

At my TRU store, Cascadian Farms organic jelly is on clearance for .98 (this is usually priced at $2.49). There are $1/1 coupons on coupons.com which make this free!

Saturday was a good day for mail

In my mailbox on Saturday!

A coupon from Duke Energy for a free 6 pk. of CFLs at Wal-mart (sucks that I will have to step foot in Wal-mart to use this though!)

and

A coupon for a Free Yoplait Greek Yogurt from Pssst! Plus a bunch of .35/1 Qs that will double at Kroger and probably make for some very cheap yogurt.

Also, in the background you see an issue of Babytalk, for which I have a free subscription.

It happened again!

Today I went to see Rick Steves talk at the downtown library. Before I went, I stopped by Borders to pick up one of his books to get autographed (not knowing that they would be selling them at the library, oh well). I paid full price for the book, which I pretty much never do for books. Then I came home and myfrugaladventures had posted a 40% coupon for Borders that was good for today only! Burned again...

Payless sale + coupon

Penny and I stopped by Payless today because she needed some sandals and I was hoping to find some cheapies. Her silver gladiators we got there last year were a big hit. Turns out they are having an Easter sale, so pretty much all sandals and other cute things are on sale. We found a pair we liked (although Penny I think would have rather had the Dora ones even though she has never watched the show! but they had lights on them, so...) for $9.99 down from $14.99. On top of that I used my AAA discount of 10% (if you belong to AAA, I urge you to pay attention to all the neat little discounts you can get all over the place), so in the end I paid $9.43. I was pretty pleased with this deal.

BUT THEN...

We went to Kroger for groceries, and lo and behold, we ring out, and out prints a Catalina coupon for 20% off at Payless. How annoying is that!! I could have saved another dollar!! (How do you know you are a crazy coupon queen? when the fact that you got "cheated" out of $1 plagues you for the rest of the night).

Organic Product Qs and Kid's DHA Supplements

Now through April 30, if you buy any Annie's Homegrown or Natural product, you can get a free download of an "Inspired Picnic Guide" HERE. Why should you care? Well, because there are coupons in there for brands like Annie's, Stonyfield Farms, etc. Organic product coupons are hard to come by, so I try to nab them whenever I can! And my guess is that these Qs will have a pretty long expiration date.

Also, Dr. Sears GO FISH Brainy Kidz Children's Omega 3 soft chews (60 ct.) are 70% off right now due to an inventory miscount. So go HERE and use coupon code CH70 to get them for $6.98 (down from $22.95) and get an amazing deal on a great product.

Free Detergent at BRU

Reader Andrea has informed me that you can get FREE Arm and Hammer Essentials Detergent at Babies R Us (or Toys R Us) right now. It is on clearance for $2.98 and they had a $3/1 Q in their ad this week. Now that's a nice freebie! And it is eco-friendly deterget too ;D

I can't verify that it will be on clearance at all stores, but it is certainly worth a look-see. Andrea found the deal at the Western Hills, Cincinnati store, for the record.

Groupon - cheap yoga

I suggest you join Groupon because they have some really great deals daily. Today's deal is 5 classes of your choice at It's Yoga for $25. This is a 50% savings. I wouldn't normally be able to afford to do these classes, so I took advantage of this offer for sure. I know a couple days ago they had a deal for a massage at a place called Affinity. So yeah, these are the kinds of things everyone loves to get a deal on, am I right?

Old Navy Deal

If you buy something at Old Navy right now they will give you a coupon to use for 20% off gift cards from Dec. 18 to Dec. 24. My genius idea is to go buy something really cheap, like a clearance item, to get the coupon. Then go back and buy a gift certificate with the coupon (you can use it for up to $300 in gcs). So there you are saving 20% right off the bat. Then use the gift card later tobuy merchandise and ALSO use a coupon at that time (they release Qs all the time on their website and sometimes in ads in newspapers). I find 20% and 30% off Qs all the time. So, in theory, if you could find a 30% coupon to use later, you could end up saving 50% (the original 20% + the 30% Q) on future merchandise.

If you are a frequent Old Navy shopper, this is totally worth it! Since gift cards don't expire soon like coupons do, you can hold on to it as long as you need to in order to maximize your deal. Maybe you could even use it to buy school clothes for your kids this coming fall.

Delicious Coupon!

I am working on my grocery list right now and searching for Qs to match things I need and want. I came across a good one that I want to share. I recently tried Seeds of Change's Tikka Masala simmer sauce, and let me tell you, it was fan-frickin-tastic. My grandma and husband agreed too! You just simmer 1 lb. of your favorite protein (I used chicken) in the sauce for 10 minutes and voila, you have an amazing Indian dinner that people will give you many compliments on, thinking you did more than just open a jar.

The jars run $3.99 at Kroger, which I really don't think is bad for something that makes a whole meal and super easy. It is also organic, so that factors in to the price. I found that they have a coupon on their site for $1 off any Seeds of Change item. Snap it up, you won't regret it!

More free baby foods!

Apparently free baby foods is the theme of the week. This is a GREAT coupon here for a FREE product of Happy Baby foods. This is a fantastic company with really wholesome foods. It's organic too, which might be of interest to some of you. I know there is hype now that organic isn't any better for earth, people, farmers, etc. but I like to buy it if it is the same price (or cheaper!) that the regular options. I figure it maybe won't help, but it also can't hurt. Anyways, I can attest that Happy Baby products are great! Also, this coupon is a pdf form, so you can save it to your computer and print as many as you want, but take note that they will all expire Nov.10 and you can only use one per transaction (technically it says one per customer, but that basically means one per day b/c it's not like anyone is keeping track of who is using one).

For those of you whose babies may not have arrived yet (Casey!) you can still use this Q to grab some Happybellies probiotic oatmeal b/c it has a long shelf life and is an excellent first food. Penny didn't think too much of it, but she never likes much of anything but burritos, however I thought it was a great tasting oatmeal and contemplated just eating the whole can myself at times.

My Frugal Partner

Jon (my DH) actually scored a fantastic deal today and I would like to brag on his behalf.
He just got a promotion and he now needs to start dressing nicer for work. He needed some new clothes in order to do this, so we went to Express, where the dress clothes fit him best. He managed to get 4 dress shirts and 2 pairs of dress pants for about $85. The pants and one shirt were on clearance, which had an additional 30% off red-line prices. The other 3 shirts were on a deal where if you buy 3, you get $20 off each. He had a $30 off a $90+ purchase coupon and he opened up an Express card in order to save 15% more.
That's like $320 worth of clothes for $85!! Nice.

Walgreen's Coupon

Wags has released a $5 off purchase of $25+ coupon. Unfortunately your total has to be $25 AFTER coupons and discounts, but maybe you can still get some good deals from this if there is something you need to buy from Wags anyways...

Here's a scenario to make the best of this coupon that I saw over at Cincinnati Cents:

Buy (2) Coppertone NutraShield sunscreen = $21.98

Buy (2) Huggies Pull-Ups = $20

- Use (2) $5/1 Coppertone NutraShield printable coupons here

- Use (2) $3/1 Huggies Pull-Ups printable coupons here

- Use $5/$25 Walgreens coupon here

- Total out of pocket - $20.98 (plus tax)

- Receive $15 in Register Rewards

- Final price - $5.98 after coupons and Register Rewards