Two FREE Redbox Rentals wyb 2 Dozen Eggs

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Last year, Target had eggs for $0.51 per dozen. This year, as with gas prices, egg prices haven't been less than $1 a dozen. The best deal I've seen is at Walgreens:

Buy 2 dozen eggs at $1.29 each
Get 2 FREE Redbox codes at checkout

Some of our area Walgreens now have a Redbox koisk. Use promocode DVDATWAG for one FREE DVD rental!

Also, purchase Stacy's Pita, Lay's Chips, or Tostitos for $2.50 and get another Redbox code at checkout. If you are getting these for this weekend's Easter dinner, might as well get some free DVD rentals too.

If you haven't used these, promocodes BREAKROOM and DVDONME are still good. You can use them once per credit card used.

FREE Movie Ticket wyb DVDs

CVS sells DVDs (by the registers and photo center at my store). I found a few that had a peelie for $10 Movie e-Cash for the new movie, "Despicable Me". As long as you don't live in California or New York, that should pay for your movie, at least a matinee! Don't forget to use you ECBs to pay towards the DVD purchase ($11.99). This week, CVS has lots of money makers and even milk is going to generate $1 ECB. So, you might get the DVD free with all your overage!

Back-to-School Deals

Don't you just love all these deals. Not only for your family, but perfect teacher's gifts... maybe even for your Sunday School teacher! Thanks Money Saving Mom for heads up.

Target
Rose Art markers or colored pencils, $0.50
2pack Glue Sticks, $0.20

Office Depot
$10 off $20 PRINT (pdf) Thanks Hip2Save!

Buy 1 Mr. Sketch Markers 12-pack at $7.99 (ITEM # 203-034)
Get $7.99 mail-in-savings Visa Prepaid card (Limit 1)
=FREE after Visa card

Buy 1 Swingline® LightTouch Reduced Effort Stapler at $15.99 (ITEM # 579-785)
Get $2 instant savings and $13.99 MIR(Limit 1)
=FREE after instant savings and MIR

Buy 1 Office Depot® Brand Multipurpose Paper Ream at $6.29 (ITEM # 112-860)
Get $5.29 mail-in-savings Visa Prepaid card (Limit 2)
=$1 after Visa card

Buy 1 Office Depot® Brand Color-Coded Heavyweight Sheet Protectors 25-pack at $7.59 (ITEM # 233-240)
Get $6.59 mail-in-savings Visa card (Limit 3)
=$1 after Visa card

Buy 1 Wilson Jones® 1″ Round-Ring Impact Binders at $3.99 (ITEM # 322-520)
Get $2.99 Instant Savings (Limit 3)
=$1 after Instant Savings

Buy 1 Pentel® Quicker Clicker™ Mechanical Pencils 2-pack at $7.49 (ITEM # 320-231), Get $6.49 mail-in-savings Visa card (Limit 3)
=$1 after Visa card

This is what I plan on getting:
2 Paper Ream, $6.29
1 Sheet Protectors, $7.59
3 Binders, $3.99 each
Filler item $1.83 or more
Subtotal= $25

Use $10 off $25 PRINT
Pay $15 out of pocket
Get $17.07 in Rebates
=FREE + $2.07 overage!

Staples
Penny Items and Dollar Deals... I wish we had Staples. Their store was almost ready to open but they backed out last minute. Now, the building stands as a reminder of what could have been. So if you have one in your area or you're on vacation and near one, take advantage of the savings for us Pensacolians!

70% Off Restaurant.com = $3 for $25 GC!

Did you snag any GCs for Valentines? If not, or you want extras, get them at Restaurant.com right now for 70% off. So, for a $25 gift certificate, you'll only pay $3. Enter code ENJOY at checkout to have the discount applied.

For our area: Angus, Cobalt and Coach-N-Four have certificates available again. If you love these places, hurry and get them soon. They ran out quickly last week!

Restaurant.com $25 GC for only $2!

I love Restaurant.com. It's the key to our budget-friendly date night! Right now they have 80% off on the $25 gift certificates. Plus you'll get a $15 credit on flowers from FTD. It's time to stock-up! Just enter the code:HEART during checkout.

Remember: you can only use one per restaurant per month. So if you are planning to give them to friends, let them know that ahead of time (especially if you are going to the same restaurant). Or just give them GCs for a different restaurant!

There is usually a minimum higher than the value of the GC (like $25 GC for $50 minimum purchase). And always tip on the value of the meal before the CG. You can also see the menus posted at Restaurants.com!

Here are local restaurants that honor these certificates:
Lester's (near the Wharf)
Nix at the Beach (Orange Beach)
Tacky-Jacks (Orange Beach)
Coach-n-Four Steakhouse (Pine Forest)
North Shore Grill & Deli
600 South at New World Inn (Downtown)
Madison's (East Hill)
Cobalt The Restaurant (across Carribe)

Mall Shopping for Clearance Finds!

Middle of January must be the time for major clearance for retailers. All the stores are having great sales! Even the mall is a good place to shop right now. Prudent Patron has assembled a cast of mall coupons. Thanks! I'm going to have to start saving up for January shopping next year.

I'm thinking of grabbing some clearance items at Bath & Body to get the FREE travel size items. I've heard from Hip2Save Comments that there are lots of 75-90% off!

Old Navy has lots of deals too. I was able to print a $10 off $50 and a 10% off purchase coupons by using 2 email addresses. If these were the super high value coupons like $50 off $100 then I wouldn't because those are really hard to get. Anyway, go to Old Navy Weekly and get the $10 Q by moving the blue shirt under the green one. Get the 10% off Q by placing the green headband to the girl with black hair on the right.

FREE Long Distance Call

Well, free call for 5 minutes anyway. It really works. Just don't accept any offers or enter contests. I can't attest to the validity of those.

Call 1-888-FREE-411.
Listen to a 10 second commercial. (Do not press *)
The main menu options will be listed. Say "FREE CALL".
Another infomercial then it will say, "Welcome to free call"
Dial 1-(area code)-number and you'll have 5 minutes to chat.
After that, I'm not sure what happens.

Apparently we aren't chatty enough on the phone. Our ATT cell phone always had hundreds of rollover minutes. So we ended our 3-years with the cellphone plan. At first we used the 12-cent long distance plan for the landline. Wow! It doesn't take much to to rack up $30 for calls. To keep disciplined we decided to look for calling cards. Well, I think the cellphone company ran them out of business. It's like looking for a working payphone, you can't find calling cards anymore. Luckily, we found an old one that still had 45 minutes on it!

Plus, Woman's Day had a short blurb about 1-888-FREE-411 in their Feb 2010 issue. We've used it to call family members. We simply say, "Hi Mom, can you call me back please?" since they have unlimited long distance or night minutes. It's working out great! My purse is lighter. My phone doesn't go off at church or in a meeting. The biggest perk: we talk to each other more in the car and on dates instead of answering the phone. That's just as great as the $840/year we'll save!

Love to hear more frugal tips? Visit Frugal Fridays here.

FREE Movie Ticket from GM Cereals!

We used up the last WIC check at Wal-Mart. No BOGO cereal because I completely forgot the check was expiring Nov 7 and had to just go to the nearest store that takes WIC. So we left WIC without fanfare. It was a great 6 years! Now we have to pay for cereal, cheese, milk. I'll really miss it. But, God is so good. I was down about picking out the last 3 FREE cereal boxes when I happened upon these Lucky Charms cereal. These were the same sizes as the others but with a special logo.
This is the first time I bought Lucky Charms, much to the excitement of my kids. Specially marked boxes of General Mills Cereal say FREE Movie Ticket. These boxes were $2.86 each at Wal-Mart. I had a $1 Q. For $4.86 we got a Movie Ticket and two cereals! The promo works! You have to buy 2 because you'll need to enter 2 codes to access the movie ticket. All codes are good through June 2010 but if you print it out, it must be used within 60 days.

Go here for more info. Above are the participating cereals. Just make sure the box has FREE Movie Ticket logo on it!

Winnie-the-Pooh Party Today

Winnie-the-Pooh has a sequel after 80 years since the first book was published. It's called Return to Hundred Acre Wood. Visit Barnes and Noble (1200 Airport Blvd.)

Monday October 05, 2009 5-7 PM

There will be story time, a pin-the-tail on Eeyore game, coloring, a contest to guess how many candies are in the honey pot, and more. Winnie-the-Pooh will be there for pictures. This event is hosted by ECARE. BN will also have a book fair with part of the proceeds to benefit ECARE which provides FREE hardcover books to kids 0-5 through the Dolly Parton Imagination Library among other things. Learn more about it from this PNJ article.

Winnie's picture is from classicpooh.net

FREE Chick-fil-A Sandwich on Labor Day!

Stop by any Chick-fil-A on Monday Sept. 7 and get a FREE Chick-fil-A Original Sandwich. You have to wear a sports team logo (little league, semi-pro, pro, high school, any one will do). Stop by anytime between 10:30 am to close.

Also, hurry to chickenwave.com and sign-up to get another FREE Chick-fil-A Original Sandwich if you are one of the 250,000 to join as a fan. (I think they'll mail or email a coupon.) Your picture will be added to others doing the wave.

Thanks, For the Mamas!

Smokey Bones $10 off $20 Coupon

Use this coupon to save $10 off $20 at Smokey Bones. This is a great coupon. Thanks Together We Save

Do Something Members Get Free Ice Cream!

Baskin and Robbins is giving away a FREE soft-serve ice cream to Do Something Members July 13-17. You must first sign-up by July 12 here. They will email you the FREE ice cream coupon on July 13. Redeem it for a Soft Serve 6oz between July 13-17. And, once you register, you'll have the option to tell a friend here. As a thank you for spreading the word, Do Something will email you a B1G1 FREE 31 Below coupon! I couldn't get it to work for me, but I found a pdf link at the bottom of the page for the coupon. Click this link if you can't make the email referral work either.

Thanks to Swappin Spoons for the info. To learn about other great Freebies, visit The Thrifty Mama's Friday Freebie Round-Up!

Buy One Get One FREE Baseball Ticket!

Do you or your family love baseball? Here is a sweet deal for Tuesdays! Thanks to Kraft Singles, get a free ticket when you buy one every Tuesday until September 1, 2009. All you have to bring is the Kraft Singles wrapper at the box office. Keep the cheese at home!

To learn more info, visit the Minor Baseball League website. They have a listing of all the baseball teams. Call ahead to verify that your team is participating in the Kraft Singles Tuesday Night Tickets. These cities are NOT participating: Allentown, Dayton, Indianapolis, Lake Elsinore, Pasco, Portland OR, Spokane, Tacoma, and Vancouver.

For the panhandle region our closest team is the Mobile Bay Bears, (251) 479-2327. I just called this number and they are participating!

All You Grocery Challenge

All You is by far my favorite magazine. It's more like an investment. Every issue is full of coupons, sometimes up to $100 of savings! So, it always, at least, pays for itself. Now they have added another fun challenge that has really caught my eye:
the All You Grocery Challenge

The challenge is to spend $25 per family member per week.(So, $100/week for a family of 4) Sign-up by July 12 here. Just make this budget work for 4 weeks (Jul 13-August 9) and you could win a year's worth of Knorr Sides, a $1000 gift card, and a chance to appear in All You! According to Erin at Coupon Cravings, 4000 people have already signed-up so far. They have also set-up a blog for news and comments at All You Grocery Challenge.

I am so excited about this! I know we can definitely spend less than $25 a person. And check out the guidelines and tips from the Thrifty Mama. It's ok to use your stockpile and barter! This will be really fun. If nothing else, we'll be spending less and saving more. Are you up for the challenge? Let me know in the comment section so we can do this together! Watch out for upcoming posts where I'll share our progress.

FREE Bloomin Onion for AAA Members

I saw this in the AAA Going Places magazine (pg. 30):

"AAA Members Get a FREE* Bloomin' Onion"

Just show your AAA card to the server! No coupons to clip. So you could get a FREE Bloomin' Onion every single time you visit AAA from now until the end of the year!

Here is the fine print: *Valid with any purchase and for FL locations only. Not valid with any other offer. One offer oer guest, per visit. Valid until 12-31-09

Check out other restaurants participating in Show Your Card and Save here.

(This is not my picture. I googled and found it here.)

$25 Gift Certificates for $2 at Restaurant.com

Restaurant.com is once again offering 80% off their gift certificates through June 25. The code is DISH. Be sure to click apply when you type it in. Otherwise it will not deduct the discount. I printed 4 for Rafters at the Wharf in Orange Beach. They don't have a minimum purchase, just buy 2 entrees at least. A friend gave us a $25 GC there last year for Christmas. It's like a nice neighborhood bar and restaurant. And Rave Theater is right behind it. So you can park the car and eat then walk to the movies!

Thanks Hip 2 Save for the tip! I missed this before because I waited too long to get them. Not this time. Please note, that these gift certificates (GC) do not work like the regular restaurant gift cards you may get for Christmas. Read these tips and the fine print first:

1. Your minimum purchase may be higher than your GC price.
(Rafter's doesn't, that's why I picked it.)
2. You can only use one per month per restaurant.
3. These are valid for 1 year.
4. It may or may not include alcoholic purchases. So ask first.
5. There is no cashback.

FREE Redbox Rental

Fill out this simple survey about your Redbox experience and get a FREE rental code. It is good only for 6-22 and 6-23. Thanks to The Thrifty Mama for this tip. I just did it and got a code. They didn't ask me for any personal info at all. Now that's a survey I like!

If you would like other FREE codes, visit this link from Inside Redbox. The codes work for one movie per credit/debit card used.

FREE Donuts Friday!

Celebrate National Doughnut Day! Visit Krispy Kreme on Friday June 5 and receive a FREE Doughnut, one per customer. You can see the press release here. Thanks Abundant Food Savings for this tip!

Krispy Kreme is located near downtown Pensacola:
980 North Ninth Avenue
Pensacola, FL 32501
Phone: 850-438-4639

Got My Free Pork Plus More!

Our total was $27.63. I would have spent $96.60. That's 71% savings! We saved $40.87 in store sales and $28.10 in coupons.

This is the breakdown of what I bought:

Kingsford Charcoal, not pictured

2 KC Masterpiece BBQ Sauce

Pork Shoulder Blade Roast (only $0.66 w/ coupon!)

Kraft BBQ Sauce

Kraft Salad Dressing

2 Arnold 100% Whole Wheat bread, BOGO

Beef chuck boneless short ribs

6 Birds' Eye Veggies, not pictured

4 Kraft Singles

4 Breakstone's Sour Cream

2 Morton Season All

Taking out the cost of the beef ribs ($12.84) and charcoal ($6.99), we paid $7.80 for 22 items. That's only $0.35 each!

Fire Up the Grill! Deal Scenarios

Here are deal scenarios for using the $6 off Pork coupon .Buy 3lbs at $2/lb, pay $6, FREE with the coupon! Most of our area stores have pork on sale this week. But if you miss out, please print the coupon anyway. I have seen porkchops go on sale for $0.99/lb at Food World from time to time. And this coupon is good through Dec 31. Go to the next post down for the fine print.

The scenarios listed are the best value, or cheapest way to do this deal. At the bottom, the price-match possibilities for Wal-Mart are listed. I'll be buying mine at Publix to try their pork. I also have a $10 off $50 competitor coupon and $5 off $50 Publix coupon. But the best value is price-matching at Walmart, cheapest Total at $7.50.

Remember, 3 things to buy for this deal: charcoal, pork and one of these: Ball Park, Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing, Glad Product, KC Masterpiece Product, Vlasic Pickles or Relish.

Publix: (All Natural Pork. You can price-match this at Wal-Mart, too)
$1.99/lb Pork Spareribs or Assorted Pork Chops, buy 3.1 lbs
$1.79/lb Boston Butt Pork Roast, buy 3.36 lbs
$1 Glad Cling Wrap 100 sq ft
$6.99 Kingsford Original or Mesquite, 17-18 lb bags
TOTAL: $8

Winn-Dixie: (can't price-match this at Wal-Mart because it's BOGO)
BOGO ($1.65/lb) Pork steak or country style ribs,
Buy 2 packs at 3.7lbs each, $6
or buy 4 packs at 2lbs each, $6.60
BOGO ($3 for 2) Ball Park hotdogs, buy 2
Other qualifying products are on sale for $2.50, look below
Buy 1 Match Light, 13.5 lb or Charcoal Briquets, 17-18 lb bags, $6.99
TOTAL: at least $10

Wal-Mart Scenario: (or make your own scenario with the price-matches below)

$6.99 Match Light, 13.5 lb bag (Winn-Dixie)

$1.50 Vlasic Pickles, 16-24 oz (Barnes)

$1.59/lb Boston Butt, buy 3.77 lbs (Food World)

TOTAL: $7.50

Wal-Mart Price-Matches:
$6.99 for Charcoal, with these varieties:
Publix- Reg. or Mesquite, 17-18 lb bags
Barnes- also Hickory 17-18 lb bags
Winn-Dixie- Match Light, 13.5 lb bag

Pork Sales:
Food World- $1.59/lb Boston Butt, 3.77 lbs
Food World- $1.99/lb Boston Butt Pork Steaks or Strips, 3 lbs
Greer's- $1.38/lb Fresh Pork Boston Butt, 4.35 lbs
Publix- $1.99/lb Pork Spareribs or Assorted Pork Chops, buy 3.1 lbs
Publix- $1.79/lb Boston Butt Pork Roast, buy 3.36 lbs

Qualifying Products:
Barnes- $1.50 Vlasic Pickles, 16-24 oz bottle
Publix- $1 Glad Cling Wrap 100 sq ft

Winn-Dixie - each are $2.50:
KC Masterpiece Marinade, 16 oz
Glad Zipper Freezer or Storage, quart or gallon, 30-50 count
Gladware Containers, 3-8 count