Good Deals To Watch For This Week

School Supply Wars are stepping up this week and Ingles even put themselves in the game.

Staples has a great deal going where you can get a FREE backpack if you are a member of Staples Rewards. Buy any backpack and get the purchase price back in your quarterly rewards check. You can do this deal in store, online or by phone. Make the deal even better by grabbing the following free w/rebate;

(These rebates are only available in store)
Zebra Cadoozie Mechanical Pencils $2.99-$2.99 easy rebate (limit 1)
Zebra Sarasa Retractable Gel Pens $4.99-$4.99 easy rebate (limit 1)
Pentel Handy Lines Highlighters $4.99-$4.99 easy rebate (limit 1)
Staples Photo Supreme 8 1/2" x 11" 50/pk $12.98-$11.98 rebate (limit 2)
Staples Slim Line Pencil Sharpener $15.99-$5.99 instant savings - $10 easy rebate (limit 1)

Don't forget to print off this $10 off a $50 purchase from Office Depot. Staples takes competitors coupons.

Ingles doing Triple coupons this week. couponmommie has a list of coupon matchups.

Kroger is doing another week of the Mega Sale. Most items are the same but check out southernsavers for coupon matchups on anything new.

Walgreens & CVS have more good school supply deals this week. http://www.hip2save.com/, http://www.couponmommie.com/ and http://www.southernsavers.com/ all have good lists to look at.

Don't forget that the CVS freebies last Sunday through Tuesday this week. This stuff will go VERY fast. For all my friends who don't shop on Sunday, ask for a raincheck if everything is gone and you can still get the ECB's after Tuesday.

If you are wondering if it is worth your time to go to different stores to get your school supplies, check out my Walmart price list from 7/13. Compare prices and make sure it is worth your while to go to more than one store.

Last Minute Target & Walmart Deals

If the planets align and you see this before you do your shopping on Saturday afternoon here's the deal.

Target strawberries are on sale for $1.50/lb. The Target coupon for $1 off expires today. .50/lb is better than you will find even to pick them yourself. They are no longer available on the Target website. Head on over to hotcouponworld or afullcup. This was a good enough deal that we took two trips and will make another batch of freezer jam!

Also, if you bought any of the Kellogg's cereal at Kroger this week in the specially marked boxes that said they had $5 worth of coupons inside you can use those coupons at Target today to make various Kellogg's cereal .88.

If you saw the post way back about the Alexia Potato Snacks and you have the 2 $1 coupons that came in the mail then take these to Target too. The snacks are on sale 2/$5. Use the 2 $1 Alexia coupons that they sent you and print the .75/2 Target Alexia Snack coupons on hotcouponworld or afullcup. This makes it $2.25 for 2 or $1.12 ea. Bring your receipt home and send in the rebate form that came with your coupons for a free bag. That makes it 3 for $2.25 or .75ea.

Don't forget the Pictureka coupons you printed a few weeks ago (no longer available). The card game is back in stock--I saw it today. Priced at $6.99. Use the $5 coupon to make it $1.99 or go to Walmart where they have the card game for $5.24.

At Walmart CK#1 and I got the Breyers yougurt for free. The $1/2 coupon is still available on coupons.com --use zip 33907. The yougurt is .50ea. The Breyers yougurt with the candy in the cup on top is .56ea.

Don't forget your $1 Bic pen coupons to get those for free too.

Don't forget to check out my post on the Walmart school supplies I did on Monday that lists the price for some of the most commonly needed school supplies.

Walmart School Supplies

Here is a price list of a lot of the items that most will need for school supplies. This isn't all of the items available. The items are stocked in the seasonal area at the front of the store and in bins back by the office supplies. Take a look and see if it is worth your time to run to multiple places over the next few weeks to get your school supplies.

Bic pens 10 ct blue, black or red $1

use $1 Bic Pen coupon here for free pens

(these pens are on sale at Target for .50 and $1 at Staples this week)

Bic 10 ct Mechanical Pencils $1.50

use the $1 Bic Mechanical Pencil coupon here

Dixon 10 ct pencils .50

Dixon 24 ct pencils .84

Expo 2pk Dry Erase Markers black$1.50

Expo 4pk Dry Erase Markers variety color $3.50

(these are on sale at Walgreen's for $1.99 this week with their in ad coupon)

Sharpie Highlighters $1.50

College/Wide Rule Filler Paper 150 sht $1.50

1 subject notebooks 70 sheet .15

1 subject notebooks all recycled 90 sheet $1

5 subject notebooks $3.78

1" Binders $2

2 Pocket Folder w/prongs .15

(these are on sale at CVS this week for .05 limit 10)

Elmers 2pk washable school glue stick .25

Elmers Washable School glue .25

Rose Art Washable School glue .20

24 ct Crayola Crayons .25

24 ct CraZart Crayons .20

10 ct. Crayloa Thin/Broad tip markers $1 (not washable)

11 ct CraZart Washable Thin/Broad tip markers .70

12 ct Crayola Colored Pencils $1

12 ct. CraZart Colored Pencils .75

Fiskar Point/Blunt tip scissors $1.50

Do The Math Point/Blunt tip scissors .74

Make the most of your time. If you figure you are only going to save $3 total by running to 5 different places just hit one store and be done. There will be more sales for the next few weeks. Pace yourself and remember. THESE ARE JUST SCHOOL SUPPLIES:)

CVS, Staples & Walmart

There are a few different places to see the CVS matchups this week including Hip2save and Couponmommie.

My list includes;
CVS Tansparent Tape $1.49ea get 1.49 ECB (Limit 3)
CVS Pencils 20 pk .99 get .99 ECB (Limit 3)
CVS Panty Liners .89ea get .89 ECB (Limit 1)
Dawn $1ea get 1 ECB WYB 2 (use .25 Dawn coupons from 7/5)

Staples
Staples Multipurpose Papter 500-sheet reams are on sale for $4.99 with a $2.99 easy rebate
Makes them $2/ream (limit 2)

This is okay if you need paper now. If not, wait because Staples often has paper for $1/ream after rebate.

Walmart
The school supplies wars have begun. This week Walmart has advertised;
.25 70 page spiral notebooks
.30 40z Washable Elmer's School Glue
.30 Crayola 24 ct Crayons

Let me know if you go to Walmart and see any other school supply deals.

Walmart Deals & Canning Jar Watch

This is our first year living in the South and my first gardening experience in such a warm and humid climate. After 12 years in the NW and trying to coax a garden into growing, I am SHOCKED to see my veggies already overgrowing their raised beds. All of the seed packets had estimated days to harvest and I am 20-30 days short on the lettuce and spinach and already eating it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If the tomatoes, carrots, peppers, 5 kinds of squash, zucchini, pumpkins, beans, and two kinds of peas produce at the same rate I will be doing a lot of canning. I don't shop at Walmart very much but today I went to get prices on canning jars (I have $3 off 2/box coupons from a few weeks ago) and to see if any of the deals I have seen on different blogs were available at ours in West Knox. Here are the results.

1 Watermelon - $4
Peaches - .98/lb
8 Mac & Cheese .50 ea
White Cloud TP - 4 roll(143 sq/ft) - $2
used 2 - Buy Three Get One Free (B3G1F) made them .37ea
used $1 off White Cloud made it .006 sq/ft (that is half the price of Quilted Northern at Sam's) That means if the Quilted Northern at Sam's was the same price per sq/ft it would be $8.10 instead of $17.48. Never based your buying decision on the number of rolls in a pkg of TP. It may sound crazy but every 4 pk, 6 pk, 9 pk, ect. ect. has a different amount on each roll.

There is a $1 4-pk of Cottonelle at the Maryville location but not at Turkey Creek. I have a $1 off coupon and was hoping to get it for free. It will just have to stay filed until my next trip down.

Canning Jars

Ball Brand (Box of 12)

4oz Jelly $7.70

Quilted 1/2 Pint Reg $8.12

1/2 Pint Reg $7.12

Pint Reg $7.70

Pint Wide $$8.76

Qt. Reg $8.82

Qt. Wide $10

Golden Harvest Brand (Box of 12)

Pint Reg $6.82

Qt. Reg $7.88

If you had to buy based on this then the Golden Harvest are a better deal. If you have the $3/2 boxes coupon then Ball Brand is better. I am hoping for a sale just before canning season comes around.