FREE 4 Pack of Energizer Recharge Batteries

Energizer Batteries Facebok Page is giving away a FREE 4-pack of AA Energizer Recharge Batteries - a $13 value to the first 30,000 'Likers'. HURRY this will be gone before you know it. GO HERE and 'Sign Up Now' which will take you to sign up and will ask you to 'like' Energizer Batteries before they confirm your entry. You'll receive a coupon for your FREE Batteries in 3-4 weeks :)

FREE Pledge of Allegiance Poster

Another great FREEBIE for my homeschooling Moms, Teachers or anyone else that is interested. Gateways is giving away one FREE Pledge of Allegiance Poster per family while supplies last through 9/30/10. GO HERE and scroll down the page till you see the poster and click to redeem your FREE poster. Another great addition to the Johnson School Room :)

FREE Pocket Size Declaration of Independence and Constitution

To all my homeschooling Moms, Teachers and anyone else interested. Ask Heritage is giving away FREE Pocket Size Declarations of Independence and Constitutions. What a great learning tool for your kiddo. GO HERE and fill out the order form and receive your FREE Pocket Size Declaration of Independence and Constitution in 3-4 wks. Sapphire's is on the way :)

FREE BIC Highlighters @ Staples

This week Staples has BIC Bright Liner 5 pack of highlighters on sale for $0.50/limit 2. This is a steal - the regular price of these highlighters are approx $3.00-$3.50 per pack. But wait I've got an even better deal for you :) If you GO HERE and print off the $1/2 BIC Stationary Coupon (Note: you should be able to print these twice..unless you've printed them once before..I had a ton of these coupons because I got some last month and they reset the coupon for this month and I print from both of our computers to double up on the savings). With the coupon you can get 2 packs of these highlighters for FREE plus tax. I had 4 BIC coupons left and decided this would be a great way to finish off these coupons. Sapphire and I both made a purchase on Sunday and again today while we were out running errands. We scored (8) 5pks of highlighters for a total cost of $0.20 tax :)

Pasta Sweepstakes

Enter HERE for a chance to win FREE groceries for a year!!

The New World Pasta Family of brands proudly presents: It Pays To Eat Pasta Sweepstakes!!
Enter for a chance to win FREE groceries for a year!
Over $50,000 in groceries will be given away!
- Grand Prize (1) - FREE Groceries for a year ($5,200 sent in the form of a check)
- First Prize (450) - Mini Grocery Shopping Spree ($100 sent in the form of a check)
Sweepstakes begins 8/17/10, ends 10/30/10. Open to legal residents of the 50 US & DC, 18 and over.

Share the link you are given after registering on FB, Twitter, Blog, etc and receive an extra entry (up to 30) for each person to register off of your link :)

I sure could use some extra grocery money and I bet you could too - it's worth a try :)

Catching Up...

I've been so busy this past week with school orientations, school registrations, doctors appointments, you name it we've pretty much had to do it this past week. With that said, there has been very little time to sit down and blog. But, ahh as I sit here in a hotel room at 3:38am awake not because of my children but instead because of our neighbors in room 211 who are extremely loud I thought I my as well take a moment to blog. I've got nothing better to do, except for maybe sleep but that's not happening. This past week I've found a few deals around town and I apologize because by the time you get around to reading this these deals will most likely be expired :(

Payless Shoes: Otis and Reagan were in need of some new tennis shoes for school. Payless has a Buy One Get One 1/2 off Sale going on through 9/6/10 and I received a flyer in the mail from Payless for 20% off my total purchase that could be combined with the B1G1 1/2 off Sale. Monday we made a trip to Payless with $20 in hand - my mission was $20/2 pairs of shoes. Well I knocked this one out of the park. Reagan found a pair of Dora Tennis Shoes regular price $17.99 marked down to $11.99 and Otis found a pair of Nickelodeon Slime Tennis Shoes regular price $22.99 marked down to $7.00. Otis' shoes were then marked down to $3.50 with the B1G1 1/2 off sale and on top of that 20% was taken off our total purchase. With tax I paid $13.01 for TWO pairs of NEW shoes :) Based on the regular prices of these shoes I saved 70%!!
Reagan's Dora Shoes
Otis' Nickelodeon Slime Shoes

Dollar General: I've stepped foot inside one 3 times in my life. There is one located in Lomira which is about 1/2 way between Oshkosh and Milwaukee. This exit is often the 1/2 way meeting place I meet my family when my youngest sister or my nephews come to stay with us. My family is never on time so we've burned time walking around the Dollar General a few times.
Anyways, every Sunday there is an ad in the paper for Dollar General and I never bother looking at it, the closest ones to Oshkosh are either Omro or Appleton. This week the Wisk or ALL detergent on the front page of it for $3 (orig price $5.50) DID catch my eye. Especially when I knew I had $1/1 coupons for ALL. I did some searching online to see if I couldn't find a few more printable coupons for either Wisk or ALL to make it worth my trip for detergent. Who am I kidding I would have made the trip either way - $3 is a steal, you can't even get generic detergent for that price and we were down to just a 1/2 bottle left and we're a family of 7...who does a lot of laundry. Yes, I've thought about making our own but honestly I just don't have the time :( Not only did I find myself 3 printable coupons I also found out that Dollar General had a $5 off $25 purchase 2 day coupon featured on Facebook if you 'liked' them. Before I continue on with my shopping trip I'll share with you that there are many ways to search for coupons/discounts online. My favorite way and personally I think the easiest way is using Coupon Database and you can find access to it HERE @ Money Saving Mom's Blog. With coupons in hand we made a trip to Appleton (Omro is closer but we killed two birds with one stone and shopped at CVS too while we were out there).


(2) 60oz ALL (3) 50oz Wisk @ $3/each = $15
Training Pants (Generic Pull Ups) = $7.75
(2) 6pk of Diet Dr Pepper @ $1.50/each = $3
Total before tax = $25.75

Coupons I used:
$5/$25 Dollar General FB Coupon
(2) $1/1 ALL coupons found HERE
(3) $1/1 Wisk coupons found HERE and/or HERE

Final Cost $15.75 +tax Savings of 58% off the regular prices :)
The breakdown cost for each item after coupons...ALL & Wisk $1.42/each, Training Pants $6.25 and Dr Pepper $1.21/each

CVS: Ahh, I love this store and can't wait till we get one in Oshkosh :) Here's what I got...I think we have 6 of these Gillette Shavers already...but buying a new shaver for $0.99/after coupons and ECB's is WAY cheaper than buying the refills for these things :)

Gillette Fusion Proglide Shaver $9.99 (receive a $5 ECB with purchase)
Used $4/1 coupon from 8/1 P&G Coupon Insert
Final Cost = $0.99 after ECB

(4) Right Guard (2) Dry Idea $4.49/each
On sale for B1G1 FREE and paired this sale with (3) B1G1 FREE Right Guard or Dry Idea coupons found in the 7/25 RedPlum Coupon Insert
Final Cost = 6 for FREE

I paid $5.99 before tax out of pocket and walked out with a $5 ECB to use towards my next purchase at CVS :)

Target: More FREE pens :)

(8) BIC Pens $0.99/each
Used (4) $1/2 coupons from Target's Website (no longer available) and stacked those with (4) $1/2 manufacturer coupons found HERE
Final Cost: 8 pkgs for FREE (the register automatically adjusted the price of these coupons and didn't allow overage)

(2) Shout Wipe & Go Travel Size $0.97/each
Used $2/2 coupon from the 8/8 Smartsource Coupon Insert
Final Cost: 2 FREE (the register automatically adjusted the price of this coupon and didn't allow overage)

Target Total: FREE!!

What kind of deals have you found this week?

FREE World Map

Calling all my homeschooling buddies, teachers and anyone else who's interested. World Vision is giving away 15,000 World Maps for FREE. GO HERE and enter your information and in 4-6 wks you'll receive your map. I just ordered one for Sapphire and can't wait to get it. I'm not sure how large it is but I ordered a Presidential Time Line from a similar site for FREE a few months ago and we just got it the other day and it's HUGE (fits one entire wall in her bedroom LOL!!) These will be great learning/teaching tools for her and the other kiddos.