Saved over $40 at Target Today and You can too!

Welcome to The Bargain Woman. I hope you find way more than you bargained for!

Get 3 Olay Bath Bars @$5.50 each receive $5 gift card
Use $1/1 coupon from PG Sunday paper

Pay $16 receive $5 back that works out to roughly 0.40 cents per bar of soap. NOT BAD!

Also be sure to take advantage of the Always/Tampax deals at Target. Buy any 2 select products and receive a $5 gift card back.

Combine this deal with these
$2/1 coupon found in Sundays paper for the Always Infinity
$1/1 Tampax Pearl coupon
 for an added savings of $3


Total Target Bill = $30 before tax
after coupons = $25 plus tax
after gift card = $15

Total savings = $15

Always be sure to ring all your gift card reward purchases first on a separate order.  Then use those gift cards to pay for the rest of your items.

Total shopping at Target today was $136.89 BEFORE discounts and coupons

After discounts and coupons= $94.43

A savings of over $40 and nearly 30%  not too shabby!

Freebie at Target

Me again!!! It's Hip 2 Save just posted a possible freebie at Target. Check out her site! I don't have time to relist them right now...but be sure to read through the comments for more great ideas.

Contest: The Best Bargain is a FREE ONE!!

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Welcome to The Bargain Woman. I hope you find way more than you bargained for!


I'm sorry I've been so busy this week that I haven't had time to post. I recently assumed the responsibility of being the onsite prayer room coordinator for my church's prayer room. This is a brand new undertaking and I am responsible for writing all the content and policies and procedures for the prayer room and collection of prayer requests. It is so funny because it seems like I went from having very little extra curricular activity to having everything hit all at once. So much so I have contemplated halting this blog altogether. However, my husband has asked that I give it at least 30 days so I am going to honor him and do so.


The actual coupon searching and learning how to do the gaming is taking so much computer time right now that I don't have much time left over to write, but I know that once I get past the learning curve that won't be a problem.


This post is to announce the contest I promised. I have thought about a few different ideas and settled that the easiest thing to do would be gift cards. So here is what I am proposing:

1st Prize: Will receive a $25 gift card from Amazon.com


2nd Prize: Will receive a $15 gift card from Kroger

3rd Prize will receive an envelope stuffed full of valuble coupons

Entrance Rules:
Each contestant will receive one entrance for each of the following. After one week the person with the most entrances will win.

1. Write a post sharing your experience with grocery gaming, bargain shopping, etc.
2. Be sure to mention my new blog in your post and link back to this post.
3. Recomend The Bargain Woman to at least 5 other bloggers.
4. You will receive one entrance for each recommended blogger who also link up.
5. Subscribe to my feed or Follow my blog
6. Put my new button on your blog. (You will have to copy as a photo at this time and add my link as I haven't had time to get the html posted yet)
7. Don't forget to leave me a comment letting me know that you posted.

Thanks, good luck, and Happy Homemaking!

Contest starts today and will end in Friday October 2nd. I will announce the winners sometime that weekend and send out the prizes the following week. Good luck and thanks for haning in there with me.

Great Websites

Welcome to The Bargain Woman. I hope you find way more than you bargained for!

Here is just a sampling of some of the great sites I have found out there so far!

Shop At Home

It's Hip 2 Save

Money Saving Mom

Home Solutions News

The Krazy Coupon Lady

Common Sense with Money

Stretching A Buck

I'll add to this as I find more sites to help you in your bargain shopping and your happy homemaking.

Walgreens

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Welcome to The Bargain Woman. I hope you find way more than you bargained for!

Okay, I'm posting like crazy today...trying to get a week's worth in one day. I'm not doing you much good by posting this weeks bargains at the end of the week, am I? Sorry. I have noticed, however, that some of the other ladies just post one or two items as they find them. That makes sense. I'll try to do that more.

So here's what I did at Walgreens this week. I will say that I got a little burned because I needed diapers and would usually NEVER buy them at Walgreens, but I thought if I did two transactions that I could use my register rewards and some coupons from the first transaction and come out better than driving all the way to Target or Toys R Us. (The Walgreens is only about 5 miles from my house). Well, low and behold, I didn't do my Walgreens homework and was sadly disappointed to find out that the RR don't work like cash. You can only use 1 RR per item (and the cashier rang up my $1 first instead of my $2 RR Ugh!!) I didn't have the heart to make her rering it because she already had some trouble with a void on my first transaction.

Soooo needless to say, I overpaid for my diapers, but here are some good deals that I did rack up while there.

Campbells Crm of Ckn Soup .89 cents ea. w/WG in-store coupon
combined with $1/2 coupon found here
Paid .39 cents ea. (Also found out you can't use RR on items valued less than face value...Argh again!)

Mayfield Nutrish Milk sale $3.49 combined with Sunday paper $1.00 off Mayfield Nutrish=$2.49/gal

Electrasol Finish Dish Detergent and Jet Dry gave $2 RR combined with coupon found here,
Paid $3.99 for Jet Dry minus .75cents/1 found here
Paid $3.99 for Electrasol Automatic DW Detergent minus $1/1found here
Got $1 RR for each item
Like Paying $2.24 for Jet Dry and $1.99 for Detergent

Aquafresh ISO Active TP $3.49
$1/1 coupons found here or here
$1.50 RR
Like paying $1.00

Aussie Hair Conditioner $2.99
$1/1 found in Sunday's circular
Got $2 RR
Like getting it FREE

It's Hip To Save says that some WG's are clearancing their Domino's Sugar at .80 cents/5 lb. bag so I have to run out later today and may stop by to see if I can use up my RR on some of it.

That's it so far this week. A little birdie, several bloggers, and some FB folks are telling me that Kmart is set to do another double coupon run next week. I'll let you know what I find out.

Happy Homemaking!

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Bargains at Kroger this week

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Welcome to The Bargain Woman. I hope you find way more than you bargained for!

This weeks deals don't seem to be quite as impressive as those found at Target and Kmart last week, but I did need to head out for a few missing items on this week's recipes so I went ahead and took advantage of the following deals.

9/13-9/19 Kroger Deals

Thrilled to see Coke Zero at .99 cents (unadvertised) so I stocked up (no limit on purchase) and bought 10 as they haven't been below $1.59 in several weeks at most stores.

Angel Soft Tissue 4ct/0.99 cents w/Angel Soft Manuf. coupon 0.50 cents doubled=FREE. Coupon was in Sunday paper or you can go here


Colgate Total Enamel $4/2 with $1/1 coupon found here=$1 per tube

 Old El Paso Stack and Stand Taco Shells FREE with purchase of any 2 OEP Taco Seasoning packetsOEP Taco Seasoning packets $1.09 pp stacked with $0.60/2 any OEP product found here Got Taco shells and 2 packets seaonings for $1.58 (or $0.79 ea)

KFT BBQ sauce $1.00


Dreamfield Spaghetti Pasta $1.99 with SS $1.00/1 or click here $0.99 cents


Kroger is running a $5 instant cash back when purchasing 10 select Kraft or Nestle products and I'm sure with a little digging I could have racked up more, but as I said this was just to get a few items I needed for my Orange Chicken recipe for tonight and my Chicken Parm. slow cooker recipe for later in the week. Check out Stretching A Buck for more valuble Kroger deals.

Total Value of Items before Bargains: $90.35

Total Spent after Bargains: $63.23

Savings of 30%

*Please note that the above items don't represent the entire shopping list (I bought some meat, cheese, and other items not on sale)

Happy Homemaking and Bargaining :)

Drum Roll Please

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The results are in and I am extremely pleased! Drum roll please....

Total Value of Groceries:

$402.06

Actual Basement Bargain Price after coupons and disounts:

$215.45

A savings of 45%

This was so fun; although a bit time consuming. The results, however, are quite pleasing. I have seen several of my friends posting on Facebook about their success with coupons and grocery gaming, so I decided to give it a whirl. All I can say is I can't believe how much money I saved and I CAN'T BELIEVE I haven't done this before.

Target was running a get $5/every 5 FiberOne products and you can stack manufacturer coupons with Target store coupons. You can get the in store Target coupons here and FiberOne coupons here. After stocking up on the FiberOne muffins, cereal, and granola bars, I used the gift cards to pay for my second transactions. Running two transactions also allowed me to use duplicate in-store coupons. Target will no longer let you stack store coupons in a single transaction. You, can however, use multiple manufacturer coupons for the same product.

There are several excellent websites to help you with collecting deals and bargains. For example below is an example of a deal I found out about at Target from Stretching a Buck.

Bargain #1 example:
Fiber One Cereal - $2.50/ea
Use $0.75/1 here or Use $1/2 here
I stacked this with the $1/1 General Mills Cereal Target coupon here.

Granted, I have enough cereal to feed my family for a while, but hopefully I will find bulk bargains on other products in the coming weeks. I averaged about a 55% savings at Target.


Since Kmart was running their double coupons through Monday, I made two trips which enabled me to take advantage of not only the double coupons, but I also got $5 off each order for spending over $50. You can also do two transactions, but I didn't have all my couponing finished when I made my first trip. The trick is to give them this coupon first before all the others and then your over $50 order turns into a $30 order. I averaged about a 45% savings at Kmart.

At Kroger I also racked up a 55% savings and at Food City I saved about 25%.

After trying this out this week, I've decided to do a couple of things here on the website. There is an actual website called The Grocery Game which is a great place to start. She actually has a plan that you can sign up for and pay a fee. I have decided I am going to try what I have done this week for this month, then I will give Terry's 4 week free trial a run to see if she can save me enough to justify the fee. I'll be sure to report my results.

Secondly, I am planning a give away to launch the site. I will bring more details soon, but I am planning on sharing some of the excess coupons I have as well as a free shipment of $50 worth of dry goods. So check back soon for the details.

Happy Homemaking everyone!

Designing, Shopping, and Catching Up

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Good morning,

Thanks to my friends who have already encouraged me, followed me (not stalked me :) and inspired me to do this site. I just wanted to drop in and give you an update.

First, please bear with me as I try to achieve the perfect look for The Bargain Woman. A great blogging lady and fellow sister, Amy Bayliss, has a lot of great advice on her site. I decided after reading this on her site, that I needed a cleaner and fresher look. Like her, I am creative and really like the graphics and pictures, but I must confess that I find myself often not drawn to those sites so why would I expect anyone to be drawn to them either? Hopefully, I will have the final look up and running soon, but just hang in there as we undergo the development stage.

Secondly, I want to announce that I have actually decided to launch The Bargain Woman with her own domain name so you can find her at http://www.thebargainwoman.com/ rather than the blogspot address. I am very excited about this and really hope it helps to encourage more readers.

Finally, I have been on my first very exciting and busy introduction to grocery gaming and have really racked up some great bargains. I can't wait to tell and show you all about it. Stay tuned later in the week for the final summary. All I can say is I can't believe I have resisted doing this for so long. It was very fun, exciting, and well...quite addicting to be honest. I think my hubby was ready to go back to work today because he just couldn't stand one more minute of exciting conversation about coupons and grocery bargain sites. LOL!

I must confess, however, one of my flaws is to jump into something head over hills and let all other 'responsibilities' fall behind, so this morning I am staring down a short week with an already VERY MESSY house, a few more shopping trips, loads of laundry, meal planning and prepping, and some major quality time catching up to do with my little man (he's had a way more than healthy dose of Noggin this weekend!) including some much needed Tot School time. So to get myself back on track, I'm visiting FlyLady this morning. Check her out here. It's so funny because when I opened my email this morning, she had an article about our propensity to get "sidetracked" and I just had to chuckle.

Well, better get off here and head out to Target for my last few deals of the week. Happy homemaking everyone!