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Hey, so remember the Target deal on Gillette Venus razors I mentioned yesterday? No? Here it is again:

• This gift card deal (buy two , get a $5.00 gift card) also works on the Gillette Venus razors. So you could buy two of those at $6.99 each plus two Olay body wash, and use two of the $2.00/1 from the 2/7 PG PLUS two of the buy Venus get free Olay Body Wash from the 2/7 PG. Pay $9.98, get $5.00 back for a net cost of $4.98 for two razors + two body wash. If you have the mobile coupon (limit one per transaction), pay $7.98, get $5.00 back, for a net cost of $2.98 for the four products.

So there’s now an unadvertised Olay body wash deal to pair up with it:

• Buy three Total Effects body wash ($5.49 each) or the bonus packs of Olay Quench or Ribbons ($5.49 each), get a $5.00 gift card.

So you could either:

• Buy three Gillette Venus razors and three body wash. Use three “buy Venus, get free body wash” coupons from the 2/7 PG. Use three $2.00 off Venus from the 2/7 PG. Pay $14.97 OOP and get $10.00 back in gift cards ($5.00 for Venus and $5.00 for Olay). Net $4.97 for three razors and three body wash. If you have the mobile coupon from Target, you’ll get another $2.00 off (it only comes off once per transaction) for an even better deal.

or you could:

• Buy four Gillette Venus razors and four body wash. Use four “buy Venus, get free body wash” coupons from the 2/7 PG. Use four $2.00 off Venus from the 2/7 PG. Pay $19.96 OOP and get $15.00 back in gift cards ($10.00 for Venus and $5.00 for Olay) — that’s net $4.96 for four razors and four body wash.

If you want to doublecheck to make sure this is a go, run one of the products under the price scanner at your Target. If it’s on a gift card deal, it’ll let you know!

(Thanks, My Frugal Adventures.)

Tags: gillette, olay, target, venus

Go figure — I didn’t know they made toothpaste. Grab your free sample of Burt’s Bees natural toothpaste here.

(Thanks, Saving with Shellie.)

Tags: burt's bees, freebies, toothpaste

Welcome back to the four companies a day experiment, where I’m writing four companies a day, complimenting their products, and seeing what happens. (Often: coupons in the mail!) The plan here is to post regular updates about the companies I contact and the responses I receive. You can see all of the companies I’ve contacted and get updates in the “fouraday” category here.

Who am I writing today?

• Wild Harvest Organic — Used all my coupons and am sad.
• Mountain High yoghurt — no growth hormones and all. Plus this stuff isn’t bad.
• Charmin (P&G) — cause that’s all I’m allowed to buy.
• Jewel — what the heck, why not, I haven’t gotten one of their mailers in a long long time.

Updates

Today in the mail I received:

• A coupon from SC Johnson for FREE Ziploc bags up to $3.00 + a little SC Johnson coupon booklet.
• Two coupons for FREE Michelina’s products.

Tags: contacting companies, four a day

Thanks again, everyone! You can always share the deals you find with other Mashup Mom readers by emailing me, commenting on the blog, posting to the forum, or posting on the Facebook Wall.

Food 4 Less

• Sheryl notes: “The Kraft catalina is also working at Food 4 Less and Dominicks. It’s truly a money maker at Food 4 Less if you use the $1.50 off 1 in the Jewel ad from this week since they are on sale for $1.25. Sadly it is only the Italian and the Ranch that are generating a catalina since I bought 5, but 2 were French, and I only got a $2 cat.”

Jewel

• Freezer coupon matchup! Nicole mentions on Facebook that Baldwin ice cream is on sale BOGO — and Laurie confirmed that the shelf tag says this runs through the 13th. So use your BOGO from your nice new freezer and get two for free.
• Freezer coupon matchup! Tara also found the Baldwin deal, and also found that McCain’s potatoes are BOGO — use your freezer coupon for two free.
• Tammi found a deal on Star Olive oil: “Anyways, there is a good Olive Oil deal at Jewel right now if you so happened to do that survey for $20 in Star product coupons last September. I still had some of the $4 coupons so my deal looked like this: Bought 2 Star Olive Oils that are Buy One Get One free right now ($8.69 each).  Used 2 $4 coupons and paid only 69 cents for 2.  Then there is a tearpad right next to the oil area for a free coupon booklet by mail when you buy one Star Olive Oil item 17ou. or larger!”
• Jodi found a good clearance deal on Baby Basics diapers: “The large packs of Baby Basic diapers (size 3 with a 104 count) were on clearance at Streamwood Jewel for $9.99.  Paired that up with the $4 coupon for a super steal on diapers!!!!  Anyone that must buy diapers be on the lookout for this at other Jewels!  Streamwood only had one pack (my daughter’s size too!!! :0) and I couldn’t pass them up!” Again, print your coupon here (banner at top) — clearance deals can vary between Jewels, but worth a look!

Kum & Go

• David emails: “Kum & Go stations (at least in central/southern iowa) offer the Des Moines Register for free w/fuel fill-up. Whenever we take a trip from Ames to Kansas City, we fill up at the border and again in Ames to get 2 free Sunday papers!”

Tags: baldwin, food 4 less, jewel, kraft, kum & go, reader deals, star olive oil

Update 2 Someone on Couponers Wanted tried it and it didn’t roll for her in IL. So either they fixed it, or it’s randomly rolling in some places and not others — I wouldn’t necessarily try. Sorry!

So I have read reports a couple of places this morning that the Register Rewards on Huggies this week at Walgreens are rolling — that is, that you can take the $3.00 RR you get on one pack, use it to pay for another pack, and get the $3.00 RR again. This is not generally (read: never, unless they mess up) the case at Walgreens. I have not tried this myself, but thought I’d report it here in case any of you want to be brave and take one for the team. Update: From comments on It’s Hip to Save, it’s rolling in some locations but not others? so ymmv

Gum

Oh, while you’re there — Orbit gum is apparently on sale $1.50 for the 3-pack. Use the $1.00/1 printable on Coupons.com to get it for $.50.

Tags: huggies, walgreens

So you’re going back to vote again today for the Andrew Cooke Magnet School, right?

While you’re there, Lauren has a suggestion for voting in another category (you can vote once in each category, so these don’t conflict):

You can also vote for LIFT, for $250K, http://www.refresheverything.com/LIFT (you can vote in each category 1/day). They are doing awesome things in Chicago, as they pair Loyola student volunteers with low income individuals to meet their varying needs.  Some of their services include: resume writing, applying for public benefits, and linking people to the various social services they need (job training, mental health, etc.) Find out more at: liftcommunities.org

**disclosure: I am a former volunteer, I spent 4 years working at LIFT and will sing their praises high and low

Tags: andrew cooke, lift, pepsi, vote

Marie over at From Suburbia wants to let you all know that she’s giving away five $1.25/1 coupons for the new Chocolate Cheerios. Only 10 entries right now, so go!

Tags: chocolate cheerios, giveaways

$13.58 OOP

Today I thought I’d practice what I preach and go back to Walgreens to stock up further on overnight Pull-Ups. 3T-4T overnight Pull-Ups have 21/pack (I prefer going a little bigger cause they leak less, but they only had one pack left) and 2T-3T have 24 in a pack. So one pack lasts 3 weeks. I picked up 4 packs yesterday, so picked up another 4 today — that’ll last 24 weeks, or a bit less than 6 months. I haven’t seen a price like this on Pull-Ups for about 6 months, so figured I’d stock up on that many. (And, anticipating needing the overnight ones for a while, sigh…)

Walgreens — 8 transactions, 2 stores, $13.02 OOP.

Store one, two identical transactions: One Dove Men+Care Body Wash, $6.99 (used $1.25/1 1/31 RP), 1 Valentine’s pencil, $.20 with in-ad coupon. Paid with $3.00 RR (from Huggies) and $2.45 cash, got back $6.00 RR.

Store two, six transactions. Transactions one and two, repeat of store one, except with slightly lower tax — $2.42 OOP on each. Transactions 3-6: One pack Huggies Nighttime Pull-Ups, $8.99, used $2.00/1 from 1/17 SS and $1.00/1 Children’s Activity Book (won’t scan on Pull-Ups; they just adjusted the price down to $7.99), one Valentine’s pencil, $.20 with in-ad coupon. Paid with $6.00 RR (from Dove) and $.82 in cash.

So… at Walgreens I spent a grand total of $13.02 on 4 packs of Huggies, 4 body wash, and 8 pencils. Started with $12 RR, ended with $12 RR. That’s $3.25 per pack of diapers, plus a bunch of free body wash.

Dominick’s

Went in looking for clearance Super Bowl meat deals. Was sorely disappointed. And what’s with the Dominicks in Elmhurst on Rt. 83? The last couple times I’ve been there, NO coupons will scan at the self-checkout and they have to enter them all manually. This does not save me time. Anyway, no meat, so I went with the PMS Special:

4 boxes Chocolate Cheerios, $6.00. Used four $1.25/1 from Pssst (or print).
1 tub Betty Crocker chocolate frosting, $1.89. Got $2.00 off in e-coupons from Shortcuts and Cellfire. Used $.50/1 from 2/7 GM. That’s $.61 in overage, and why I bought frosting today!
1 pack Fiber One yogurt, $2.00. Used expired $1.00/1 printable and got $1.00 off from Cellfire.

Paid $.56. No, we don’t live on Chocolate Cheerios and frosting, although this is pretty much what I want for lunch:

Tags: dominicks, shopping trips, walgreens

Yup, I’m pretty bad at this — missed yesterday entirely and now it’s almost Monday already!

Welcome back to the four companies a day experiment, where I’m writing four companies a day, complimenting their products, and seeing what happens. (Often: coupons in the mail!) The plan here is to post regular updates about the companies I contact and the responses I receive. You can see all of the companies I’ve contacted and get updates in the “fouraday” category here.

Who am I writing today?

• Quaker Oats — because I rarely see coupons for Oatmeal Squares, and we like them.
• All Laundry detergent — because it smells good.
• Windex — because I need some soon, and because SC Johnson has really been coming through.
• Alexia Foods — because their frozen olive oil rosemary garlic potatoes are awesome, yet expensive.

Updates

Yesterday in the mail I received:

• FREE Alouette crumbles + three $1.00/1 Alouette product coupons.
• A silly recipe card from Soy Vay.

How are you guys doing?

Tags: contacting companies, four a day

Thanks, everyone! You can always share the deals you find with other Mashup Mom readers by emailing me, commenting on the blog, posting to the forum, or posting on the Facebook Wall.

Dominick’s

• Nicole did the Fiber One yogurt deal Kitty found yesterday: “I had a good deal day at Dominicks, and the checker (at self-check) was very helpful b/c the coupons weren’t scanning. I have my deals on my blog, but wanted to share my yoplait deal: used (3) $1 e-coupons  and (1) $.50 newspaper coupon.- paid: -$1.50 (overage)” I looked at mine and only have $1.00 in e-coupons loaded (used some already). But check your Shortcuts and Cellfire to see what you can load and what you have on there, since the Fiber One yogurt is $2.00 right now. You can also use the old $1.00 printables from last month if you still have or the $.50/1 from 1/3 GM.
• Kay found “Dominicks this afternoon – saw lots of packages of the brats marked down to .99 also Italian sausage.” Check their clearance meats tonight and tomorrow morning for markdowns on those Super Bowl deals!

Jewel

• If you’re doing the Kraft dressing deal, jkg found a tearpad in the produce section for $1.00 off produce wyb 2 Kraft dressings. (Didn’t see it in mine today, but the week is still young!)

Ultra

• If you’re looking to do the Ziploc Catalina deal, Felicia says they’re still $1.49 at the Joliet Ultra.

Walgreens

• Abby found some nice coupons at CVS and Walgreens for this week’s deals: “In other news, I found peelies on the CVS drink coolers for save $2 wyb one 20oz diet coke and one planters Nut-rition mix or any Planters product 9oz-20oz.  This might make a decent deal at Walgreens this week with Planters B1G1.  I also found .75 peelies for Garnier Fructis hairspray (Not sure if it’s for all Garnier Fructis or just the hairspray.  They’re advertising ‘The official hairspray of Project Runway’.)  This one was in the shampoo aisle.”

Tags: dominicks, fiber one, jewel, kraft, reader deals, ultra, walgreens, ziploc