Deals of the Week for September 30, 2008

Also, as an aside, CVS is running the same deal this week. The razor is $9.99 with a $5.00 Extra Care Buck. Use that $4.00 off coupon and pick it up for just 99 cents!

Here’s a pretty good deal on haircare items… Walgreens has a Register Rewards deal where you can buy various brands of shampoos and haircolor. All are on sale for $5.99. Buy 2 and get $5 in Register Rewards, or buy 3 and get $8 in Register Rewards.

Coupons currently out for these:
Pantene: $2.00 off one (8/31 PG exp. 9/30)
Herbal Essences: $2.00 off one (9/7 RP)
Nice & Easy: $2.00 off one (8/31 PG exp. 9/30)
Natural Instincts: $2.00 off one (9/7 RP) or $1.00 off one (9/28 PG)

So, the math works like this, no matter how you mix and match:

3 products @ $5.99 = $17.97
Minus 3 $2.00 off coupons = $11.97
Minus $8 Register Reward = $3.97

That’s less than one item’s current sale price… for 3! You usually don’t see haircolor this cheap.

Now, whenever these deals come up, people will email and ask whether they’re better off buying 2 items for the $5 RR or 3 for the $8 RR. It depends what coupons you have and what you need. If you buy 3, you’ll be paying $1.32 each. If you buy 2, you’ll be paying $1.49 each… so it’s up to you to determine whether you need 3 of these items to gain that 17-cent advantage..!

A bonus: If you buy 2 or more Natural Instincts, you will also receive a Catalina that you can mail in to receive a free subscription to Marie Claire magazine or a free cosmetics bag! Free bonuses are always fun!

Over to Jewel this week, how about some free or cheap Pert shampoo? Pert is on sale 2 for $5.00, or $2.50 each. There’s a $2.00 off coupon in the 8/3 SS insert, so it will be just 50 cents. NOTE: This coupon expires 9/30 (which means you can use it right up until the end of the day on 9/30) so shop quickly if you’d like this deal.

Usually in our coupon classes, we teach that a name-brand product is almost always going to be cheaper than a store-brand product. But sometimes there are great coupons out for store-brand products too that make them worth checking out! Jewel’s rolling out a new line of gourmet foods called Culinary Circle. They have all kinds of good stuff. So print two $1.00 off coupons here and check out some deals…

Water crackers (those fancy little round crackers you eat at parties) are on sale for $1.72 a box. With $1 off, those are some cheap crackers!

Or, go the route I did… Culinary Circle rising crust and ultra-thin crust frozen pizzas are on sale buy one get one free, $7.89. Use 2 coupons (a great couponers’ trick — since you’re buying and paying tax on 2, you can use 2 coupons on a B1G1F sale — even on the free item!) and pay just $5.89 for two gourmet frozen pizzas. That’s less than $3.00 a pizza – a fantastic price for rising crust! They come in traditional flavors, as well as some similar to California Pizza Kitchen’s gourmet types, like Margherita and barbecue chicken.

The great Glade moneymaker sale continues for one more week (read last week’s deals for the scoop on how to get the store to pay you to take home Glade Plug-Ins!)

This week, Glade Wisp candles will be your moneymaking friend. The 9/7 SS insert has a $5.00 off Glade Wisp coupon. Glade’s site has a Buy One, Get One Free coupon. Buy two of these candles, which are on sale for $6.99 each. With your two coupons, the first candle will cost you $1.99, and the second will be free… and the best part? Two $3.00 off Catalina coupons will print at checkout… and the store will have paid you $4.01 to take those Wisp candles home! You may want to print 2 of the B1G1F coupon, as some stores even have $5.00 off peelie coupons ON the Wisp candles. If you find one of those, and you have 2 B1G1F coupons, you can do this deal twice in the same transaction!

(A neat aside – the Glade Wisp are flameless candles. They run on a battery, making them not only safer than a regular candle, but a handy thing to have around in case of a power outage too.) Both the Glade Wisp and the Glade Plug-Ins deals run through Oct. 5th.

Now, put your thinking caps on! Here’s a crazy sale at Jewel this week… Jewel is offering an instant $3 savings when you buy $10 of any of the items listed in Sunday’s ad.

You can work this deal any way you like, buying just the items you need or want… and save BIG! Some of these are overage items that will bring your total savings down even more if you buy them (and by now you know you ALWAYS buy overage items, whether you need them or not, because they SAVE you money..!)

There are 4 groups of items in this deal – items priced at $10/10, $5/10, $4/10, and $3/10. There are many more products in the ad than I’ve listed here, but I’ve listed the things that there are currently coupons out for to bring your savings down even more. Remember, to get the after-savings prices, you MUST buy $10 worth of items at a time. But you can buy 10, 20, or 30, or 40 in the same transaction, and you’ll automatically save $3 for every $10 you spend, no matter how you mix and match. (Last night, I saved $27 automatically during this deal!)

Ready? Here we go…

10/$10 – $3 instant savings for buying 10 = 10/$7 or $.70 each

• Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom or Cream of Chicken Soups: 9/7 SS – 40 cents off 3 = $1.70 for 3 cans, or 57 cents a can. 9/14 SS has 30 cents off 3, and 9/21 SS has 40 cents off 2.
• Zatarains Rice: 9/7 R – 75 cents off 2 = $0.65 for 2 boxes, or 32.5 cents a box
• Daisy Sour Cream: 8/24 SS – 50 cents off one = $0.20 for 1 tub
• Homelife napkins: Many Jewel stores have had blue coupon dispensers in the paper aisles with $1.00 off coupons for Homelife paper products. If you can find these coupons (shown at right) the napkins will not only be free, but will have 30 cents overage too!
• Nursery Water: 55 cents off 2 (printable = $0.85 for 2 gallons, or 42.5 cents each when you buy 2
• Zone Perfect bars: $1 off (9/7 SS) – free after coupon, and 30 cents overage when bought in $10 increments
• Atkins Advantage Bars: $1 off (8/17 SS) – free after coupon, and 30 cents overage when bought in $10 increments
• Softsoap liquid soap pumps: $0.35 off (9/28 SS) = $0.35 each. Note: ONLY Juicy Melon and Lavender Chamomile scents work with this deal!

5/$10 – $3 instant savings = 5/$7 or $1.40 each