We have always found the best deals at Target, "Buy 2 boxes get a $20 or $15 gift card" and I'd always be lucky to snag some $3/1 boxes of diapers. Luckily we haven't found a brand/style that we absolutely hate. I'm still not sure why we waited until Corbin was around 4-5 months to try out overnight diapers, they are the best dang things ever!
So here's today's haul from Target! Let me explain how we did this.
In their ad today they had a coupon "$25 gift card when you purchase $100 worth of diapers, wipes, formula, ect" I had 2 Huggies $3/1 coupons, my in laws so kindly gave us theirs and I had a $1.50 any size pampers from a previous box we had purchased.
We get to Target and we get to take our time, (again, thanks to my in-laws for hanging out with Corbin while we couponed!) We notice the HUGE packs of Up & Up (Target brand) diapers are "Buy 2 get a $15 gift card" PLUS the qualified for the whole "Spend $100 get $25 gift card"! We were excited! SO, we snatched those 2 boxes up, grabbed a box of huggies and were on our way. We decided to do one entire transaction, and then go back in with all of the gift cards, use another "Buy $100, get $25" and get 4 more boxes.
So at the register we received the $15 gift card when she scanned the 2 UP & UP brands, on the razors I had coupons for "$5 off of 2" & "$2 off of 1", but Target had a deal "$5 gift card when you buy 2" so I just did that deal twice, to receive 2-$5 gift cards. The Glade I had a coupon for $1.50 off twin pack (not the BEST deal in the world, but I needed more refills!) And lastly on the go-go squeezers (Corbin loves these, we keep them on his shelf because when he gets home from "school" it's an easy grab snack for him!) They were "Buy 2 twelve packs, get s a 4 pack free" and I had a coupon for $1 off 4 pack or larger.
Now, going to break it down for you...the first transaction:
Huggies $24.99
Up & Up $37.99
Up & Up $37.99
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$100.97
-$3.00 (coupon)
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$97,97 (We received $25 & $15 gift cards to use in a diff transaction)
Glade Plug In Refill $4.89
-$1.50
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$3.39
Go Go Squeeze:
12pk :$6.99
12pk: $6.99
4pk: $2.00
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$15.98
-$1.00 (coupon)
-$2.00 (buy 2 get 1 4 pk free)
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$12.98
Razors:( I got the 3 pack disposable ones, the cheapest item with the most bang for my buck!)
$6.99
$6.99
$6.99
$6.99
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$27.96
-$5.00 (buy 2 get $5 off coupon)
-$2.00 (buy 1 get $2 off coupon)
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$20.96 (And we received 2-$5 gift cards to use on a later purchase)
Fewf! SO, if you do the math we received $50 in gift cards to use on a future purchase!!
Total purchase price: $136.60 (we have the Target Debit Card Red Card which saves you 5%, so it took off around $5!) Ok, so maybe that's not an 'amazing' deal, but it's all things we NEEDED, and it saved us a lot of money. PLUS now had $50 gift cards!
I had a gift card from Christmas for $25, and knowing once we checked out I'd receive $25 on a gift card, I added mine to the mix, making it $75 in gift cards going in to tackle this!
We loaded the car, and headed back in. We didn't HAVE to do it this way, but to keep from confusion at the check out we did it this way.
We purchased:
Pampers :$24.99
Huggies: $34.49
Huggies: $24.99
Huggies: $24.99
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$109.46
-$3.00
-$3.00
-$3.00
-$1.50
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$98.96
-$5.00 (Razor Gift card from earlier)
-$5.00 (Razor gift card from earlier)
-$15.00 (from Up & Up diapers)
-$25.00 (From previous $100 diapers purchase)
-$25.00 (Gift Card we already had)
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$23.96!!! I was so impressed, the cashier wasn't, so either she has no clue how much diapers cost and how quickly one tiny tot blows through them or she just really wasn't that impressed, haha.
So after red card and taxes we paid out of pocket $28.76! AND we received $25 to use next time, so if you want to look at it that way...we paid $3.76 for $109 worth of diapers!
I'm definitely not an extreme couponer, but when there are good deals to be had I like to get the best price possible. So when one asks "HOW!?" Watch the sales, clip your coupons, and learn the stores. Targets debit card has saved us a TON, I prefer to use cold hard cash, BUT if it'll save me 5% on everything, totally worth it. Also their "Cartwheel" App always has deals going on.
Sorry if this was super oober boring :-)
Maybe next time I'll actually post some insight to some "goals" we've set for our New Year 2015!
Until next time...
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