Extreme Couponing, Houston Frugal Living Blog
Ok you guys get ready! Freshetta is giving away “tens of thousands” free slice coupons today at NOON EST. That is 11am here in Houston! You can for HERE for more info and to get your coupons.
This is their website and NOT FB. I am wondering if they are ready for the traffic and are going to be able to keep the page up? We will see!
If you have been waiting for a good deal on backpacks, Target’s daily deal is really good! They have kids backpacks for only $9.99 ( they were $29.99) with free shipping today until they sell out! Thanks Collin!
Target daily deals are usually gone before the evening, so decide fast!
I really love it when GAP puts out the friends and family coupons. Especially now that people are starting to do back to school shopping.
GAP is offering 30% off and 35% off when you use your card until August 7th. You can shop online at GAP.com and use coupon code 30OFF.
OR if you are a member at Plum District (if not you should join for free!) you can download and print a coupon for 30% off to use instore! Just go HERE and sign in or sign up, then you can download and print your coupon for instore.
Thank you Cynthia for the email!
If you are in a Walgreens this week make sure to check out the marked down clearance in the food section!
They have the Starbucks ( I am not sure which product this is?! Iced Coffee?) that was $7.99 down to $1.99! Plus, there are coupons! $1.50/1 Starbucks VIA Iced Coffee, exp. 9/4/11 (SS 07/17/11). Total: Just $.49!
Thanks Paige for the picture!
Well, what do we have here? CVS is offering loadable e-coupons, are you guys excited or what?! If you got an email from them lately and actually read it, they have been offering a new way to save, by adding the $4 off $20 or $5 off $25 coupons directly to your CVS card. I loaded mine, but have not tried it out yet. I should have today but my total was never high enough and I forgot about it
If you are NOT getting emails or coupons form CVS you need to go HERE and either create an account OR update an old one. This will get you coupons and emails from CVS. Then you will get an offer to add these coupons to your CVS card by just clicking on them. They do have expirations dates so make sure you know what and when.
Has anyone used theirs yet?
Our commitment to cut down on the amount that we eat out this summer has not gone as well as we planned. In fact, I am starting to think that I might be able to write a book on “How to ruin your food budget, in 1 easy step… Eat Out More!”
We ate at Freebirds tonight.
I have eaten there before, and we have eaten as a family at Chipolte often, but for my husband a burrito full of veggies and beans is not exactly what he was hoping for dinner. Not wanting fast food and not wanting to spend $75 (that is what it costs for a family of 9 at a “sit down” restaurant) we were limited.
Magically we ended up in front of Freebirds. “What the heck, I can’t get any hungrier” my husband says.
We walk in and immediately have the kids stake out a table for us, while we order. They have a chalk board that lists all the specials. There were so many I could not tell which one was good for a Wednesday night.
“What is the special for Wednesday?” Paul asked guilty faced. We have broken our “no eating out” pledge and are doing it WITHOUT a coupon. Oh the horror!
“They are all the specials” Little miss cute teenager says.
“So you can stack all the specials together?” Paul asks?
I nudge him and explain they are not store & manufacturer coupons. There is no stacking with Wednesday night specials.
Little miss cute teenager is a savvy shopper herself, and corrects me by pulling out the Freebird “special policy” and showing me where indeed they DO all stack! Oh happy day!
We quickly order 6 kids meals, 3 Freebird burritos, super size one of them, 7 waters and 1 soda, before she changes her mind!
I walk up to the counter to pay, and our total was……
wait for it……..
$19!!!
Sweet! Kids eat free from 4 to 7:30, no limit ( hello, that was made for us, I am sure they will change the rules, they were not planning on anyone walking in with that many kids :)) Freebird burritos were 2 for $10 and $5 each after that, soda was $.99 on Wednesday’s and Pauls super size was on special for $2.50. They all stacked!
“We should eat here every night.” Paul says, “No dishes to do, nothing! I think it even costs less then if we made it at home.”
“No way, who are you talking to? A bunch of beans, cheese and tortillas, I have this at $8 bucks tops!” I challenge.
“Prove it! If you do it, I do the dishes” Paul says.
“Your on!!” I say.
And that, my friends, is how I got tricked into making dinner this week!
** We went to the Freebirds by The Woodlands mall. They have the BEST deals! Call ahead to your store to see if they are offering the same deals before you go!
This weeks Randalls deals look great! I had a bunch of trouble getting the coupons in the matchups for some of the items, please check out the coupon database for more coupons. Hopefully we can get that fixed tonight and I will add them in.
Randalls is running a buy $75 get a $10 reward back. It will be in the form of a catalina to use on another trip through August 15th.
They are also having a 5 for $10 cereal sale, make sure to take a look HERE to see what Kelloggs coupons you can use on those!
Today at CVS when I scanned my card I got a $2 off CVS Gold Emblem brand popcorn, plus there were a few other snacks listed. This gold emblem bag of popcorn was $1.49, so I was able to do the following deals:
Transaction #1
Buy Milk $2.99
Total: $2.99
Got Back: $1 ECB
Transaction #2
Buy Milk $2.99
CVS Popcorn $1.49
Use $1 ECB from previous
Use $2 CVS coupon
Total: $1.48
I thought this was a great deal as $4.50 for 2 gallons of milk and a bag of popcorn is awesome! Always make sure to scan your CVS card when you get into the store!
The Clymb is my VERY favorite daily deal site EVER! They have the best outdoors items at deeply discounted prices! Today they have Kelty backpacks for kids marked at $13.95 and up. If you go through this link HERE you will get an automatic $10 credit and the back packs will only be $3.95. If you have ordered before I don’t think you will get the credit. Shipping is a flat $7.95. They have so many good items and things added daily that I make sure to check them out every day!
**Update use INTLSHIP and it will give you $25 off!
For all you MyHabit fans out there, they have released a new Coupon Code: MYHABITX This will get you $10 off any $25 purchase or more and is good all of August!
I know some of you are frustrated with MyHabit as it is hard to get in there and get anything before it sells out, I am with you! But some of you have been able to score some really sweet deals! They also offer FREE shipping all the time!
Deals go LIVE at Noon EST, so 11 here in TX, be ready to start looking!
*** It looks like it is only taking off $10…. dang!
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Anything that can be destroyed WILL be destroyed!
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