FREE Schick Razor and Coupons at Great Clips Stores

Last week when I got my hair cut at Great Clips (with a $7.99 coupon they sent me through the mail), I noticed a sign on the mirror that said to ask for a coupon for a Schick trimmer. When I went to pay the cashier, I saw the coupons at the register and picked one up and the cashier handed me a free razor! I was going to post about it here and now see that Hunt 4 Freebies has posted about it: 

Free Schick Razor and coupon at Great Clips

Walmart Trip 6-7-11

Made a trip to Walmart today to buy groceries. My total before coupons was $106.82, and I saved $22.35 using coupons for an out of pocket expense of $79.27 for everything you see pictured above. My total spent on food in June 2011 so far is $89.71.

Here is a list of what I bought:  

2 bags GV rippled chips, 3 pckgs Nestle Quick, 2 pckgs Knorr rice mixes, 1 pckg Kit Kats, 1 pckg Hershey bars, 2 pckgs Ball Park hot dogs, 2 pckgs pepperoni, 2 pckgs Kraft cheese, 1 pckg Sargento cheese, 1 Hillshire Farms kielbasa, 4 paper towels, sourdough bread, Lipton tea bags, Club crackers, Cheeze-It crackers, Lender bagels, Flour tortillas, 4 pckgs. Linguine, 1 – 2 liter Dr. Pepper (coke rewards points), 3 jars pickles, 2 boxes popcorn, Slim Jims, band aids, cottage cheese, Country Crock, 4 cream cheese (Was $1.98, but priced matched from Cooke's 99 cent sale), 1 yogurt, and 2 Degree deodorant.  

Food Lion Trip 6-7-11

Made a trip to Food Lion today and bought 2 jars of Ragu spaghetti sauce, 2 - 24 ounce containers of Heluva Good French onion dip, and 4 packages of Wacky Mac. Total before coupons was $14.29, coupons totaled $3.85, and out of pocket expense was $10.44.

Nivea Body Wash Deal at Target

Target has the Nivea body wash on sale this week for $3.04 plus there are coupons out there to use. There are $2.00 off coupons from the 6-5-11 Red Plum Insert along with a Buy Two Get One Free coupon, and Target.com also has coupons for $1.00 off one bottle, which you can stack with these manufacturer coupons. I bought four bottles, so my total before coupons was $12.16, and my coupons totaled $11.04, so my total out of pocket expense was $1.12. Each bottle of body wash ended up costing me 28 cents, which is a great deal and much cheaper than the on sale shampoo for 69 to 79 cents, which I normally use.

My Coke Rewards

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We do not drink Coke or Pepsi on a regular basis in my house, so I never really paid attention to the My Coke Rewards program until recently. A friend of mine was in possession of several coupons for a free 12 pack of Coca Cola, and so I asked her about them. Turns out she earned these coupons through the My Coke Rewards program. Consumers enter the codes, via their website or by text message, found on specially marked packages of Coca-Cola products and redeem them for prizes. While looking through the rewards on the Coke website, I found several magazines that I would like to have a subscription for, and also coupons for free Coke products. 

My daughter likes to drink Powerade drinks, and since Powerade is a Coke product, they have codes on those as well. We've been buying them recently for as low as 46 cents for a 32 ounce drink and they are worth 3 points on the website, and with 30 points you can redeem your codes for a coupon for a free 32 ounce Powerade. 

My Mom drinks Diet Coke on a regular basis, so I took one of the codes off her 24 pack case and entered it and earned 20 points from that. You can redeem 240 points for a coupon for a free 12 pack of any Coca Cola product. I was surprised at how many products the codes can be found. Items such as Minute Maid lemonade, which I like to drink from time to time. Even some Minute Maid juices like Ruby Red Grapefruit have codes on them. 

Check out this lady's scenario:  How I used my Rewards

Like I said earlier, I didn't pay attention to this program because I don't drink Coke products on a regular basis, but there are some that we do drink. I just didn't realize the items we drink occasionally would be eligible for  things like free drink products. If used properly, this program can definitely be a useful tool in your saving money arsenal. Drinks made from home like Iced Tea and Koolaid are still cheaper than buying drinks like Coke and Pepsi, but every now and then you may find yourself in possession of a Coke Rewards code and why not use it to your advantage? You can also ask friends and family who do not utilize the program for their codes. I think the Coke Rewards Program is definitely a program worth investigating to see if it would be useful for your family or not. 

Belinda
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