April's Savings

This is a really good site to find deals! Right now this is where I get most of my information from. She posts at least twice a day and does at least 10-15 posts at a time. She's helped me save a lot of money. She can help you too!

April's Savings

I'll always have her website on the side if you ever need it.

Old Navy Trip

I went shopping Friday at Old Navy with my $50 off $100 coupon and my two and a half year old and my 13 month old! I thought I was brave, but as I was going into the dressing room, there was a lady coming out with a preschooler and twin babies! Suddenly I don't feel too bad about having to bring my two to the store.

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The key to my shopping trip was that even though I had this amazing coupon, I still shopped like I normally do. Well close to it. Usually I would try to buy off the clearance rack, but since I was looking for warmer clothes, there wasn't much of that on clearance. But I still didn't go buy the $25 sweater that I might have liked better, instead I stuck with the $15 sweaters. I was looking for pj's for my son, but they were $16.50! And at half off that would make them $8.25. I should be able to find pj's at around that price at Walmart or Target.

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Spent: $64.74 Saved: $53

45% Savings

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I went over the $100 a little bit and the extra $3 in savings I think was from buying two of something and I got a discount on them.

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I think they kind of expect people to go a little overboard when they get these coupons. But I tried to stay close to the $100. The shirt for JRC was an extra over the $100. Not too bad though!

October Produce

Buy produce in season to save money on fruits and vegetables.

Produce in Season:
Almonds ~ Peak
Apples ~ Peak
Artichokes ~ Peak
Arugula ~ New
Basil ~ Waning
Beans, Fresh Shelling ~ Waning
Beans, Green ~ Waning
Beet Greens ~ New
Beets ~ New
Broccoli ~ New
Brussel Sprouts ~ New
Cabbages ~ New
Cardoon ~ Peak
Celeriac/Celery Root
Chard ~ New
Chestnuts ~ Peak
Cranberries ~ New
Daikon ~ New
Eggplant ~ Waning
Escarole ~ New
Fuerte Avocados ~ New
Fuyu (Firm) Persimmons
Garlic ~ Waning
Haas Avocado ~ Waning
Hachiya (soft) Persimmon
Kale
Kohlrabi
Kumquat ~ New
Lemons ~ New
Lettuce ~ New
Orange, Valencia ~ Waning
Parsley ~ New
Parsnip
Pears, Bosc ~ New
Pears, Comice ~ New
Peppers, Hot ~ Waning
Peppers, Sweet ~ Waning
Pistachios ~ Peak
Pomegranate ~ Peak
Potatoes
Potatoes, Sweet ~ New
Pumpkin ~ Peak
Quince ~ Peak
Radish ~ New
Raspberries ~ Waning
Rutabaga ~ New
Spinach ~ New
Squash, Winter ~ Peak
Tomato ~ Waning
Turnips ~ New
Walnut ~ New
Yams ~ New
Zutano Avocado ~ New

Sales and Deals to look out for in October

Sales/Deals:
Halloween promos
Candy
Cookies
Baking season begins
Baking chocolate chips
Fruitcake/candied fruit
nuts

Fall promos
Apples
Pumpkins (fresh)

Pet products, food

Car care products

Clearance Items:
"last year" flavors of holiday foods-time to clear the shelves fro new products and packaging....

Occasions:
Columbus Day
National Children's Day
World Food Day/UN and UNICEF
Halloween

Other Promotions this month:
Adopt a Shelter-Dog Month
Fire Prevention Week
German-American Day
Pledge Across America/Reading/School Celebration
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
National Apple Month
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
National Chili Month
National Cookie Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Dessert Month
National Pizza Month
National Pretzel Month
National Seafood Month

Free Calendar

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Thanks to my wonderful sister!

A few freebies

Thanks April!

SimpliStick Sample wall stickers
FisherPrice Halloween Greeting cards (as well as other occasions) I've done these with my kids for Christmas. Super cute!
Yankee Candles BOGO exp. 10/4/09

Target Clearance

I just got back from Target and they have a lot of bedding stuff on clearance! This is southeast Nebraska, but I'm sure they are on clearance everywhere. I went to find the $13 comforters they have on sale this week for my kids and I couldn't find them. All their college stuff was marked down and I got three twin comforters for $9.98 each! I also found sheets, pillowcases and cloth napkins (although there was only the one set of napkins). We're gearing up for our first winter here!

If you know of any great Target clearances that are going on right now, leave a comment and let everyone know (and what region you are in)!

I Got the 50!

My faith in Old Navy Weekly is renewed! After a couple of months of trying I finally got a high value coupon! I got the $50 off $100! I tried to get another one to do a giveaway or to donate to Engineer a Debt Free Life's giveaway, but they went too fast. I'm going shopping tomorrow!

This is sooooo stressful!

I kind of knew yesterday was going to be a bad shopping day! I didn't do too bad as far as the savings went, but not as much as I would have liked. I have to go shopping with my two year old and my 13 month old though. To find the best deals I have to drive at least 45 minutes. So I don't want to wait until my husband gets home and be shopping all night. Plus I'm usually exhausted by the end of the day and I don't feel like shopping. And I don't want to take up our Saturdays, so I'm stuck shopping with my kids. They drove me nuts yesterday! I was so tired when I got home and had a huge headache all night! Then I realized I forgot the $13 comforters for my kids at Target! We really need them now that we've moved to Nebraska (from Louisiana!)! I might have to go back. I didn't take any pictures of my stuff. I was too tired and had to deal with three kids!

Target

Spent: $130.10 Saved: $48.36

37% Savings

I think my best deal was the shaving stuff. I bought a fusion razor, three 4pk cartridges, gillete deoderant and fusion shaving gel. If I bought 2 fusion razors or cartridges, I got a $5 gift card. So I bought a razor and three cartridges. I had a $2 coupon for the razor and had a coupon for a free shaving gel with a purchase of cartridges and a coupon for a free gillete deodorant with a purchase of a cartridge. Then the deodorant had a free sample deodorant! I also needed conditioner and had a coupon that was going to expire for for two Pantenes. They weren't on sale, but I did find some that had a smaller bottle attached. So I got a pretty good deal on something I needed anyway. I got 4 skippy PB for $1.04 and two poptarts for $0.88 and 4 chex mixes for $0.49. I also bought 33.68 worth of diapers. I bought them in bulk because I didn't have any coupons and even though the jumbo packs were on sale, it was still cheaper to buy the bulk boxes. I also bought a few other things that I needed and weren't on sale, but needed. Not too bad though.

Baker's

Spent $70.67 Saved: $27.74

39 % Savings

I didn't do too well as I thought I was going to do. But my biggest score was half gallon whole milk for $0.75! It was a manger's special and wasn't advertised in the paper. Wish we had our freezer! I would have stocked up! I also stocked up on Kroger Veggies. They ended up being less than $0.42 a can.

Although I didn't do as well as I would have liked but at least I saved something!

Old Navy Thrusday!

It's that time of the week again. Another day wasting away on the computer, waiting for Old Navy Weekly to update! I'll be in a chatroom at Engineer a Debt Free Life if you want to join me!

For those of you who don't know about Old Navy Weekly, Old Navy updates this site every week with amazing coupons like $75 off $100 and $50 off $100. The coupons are hidden. You'll have to do things like click on the flying bird in the background or take the chapstick out of one modelquin's hand and put it on the other's lips. Best thing to do is practice on the old site, so when it updates you kind of have an idea on what to do.

No one ever know when it's going to update. Typically it's been on Thursdays, but a couple of weeks ago it was on Friday. It's updated at 4pm on Thursday, but it has also updated 4AM on Friday! Just keep hitting that refresh button or F5!

Good Luck!