Baskin Robbins .31 cent scoop night-TONIGHT!!

On Wednesday, April 29th, 2009, Baskin-Robbins stores across the country will hold 31 Cent Scoop Night from 5-10 pm to honor America's firefighters. Baskin-Robbins will reduce prices of small ice cream scoops to 31 cents.

There are also coupons in the last few papers for BOGO sundae and others if you want more than a scoop of ice cream.

http://www.baskinrobbins.com/firefighters/

Free Golds Classes!

Today (4/29) only there are free exercise classes at Golds Gym!

You probably want to call ahead for details. The new one in 1890 Ranch is at (512) 259-4653.

Thanks Natalie!

Free Living Scriptures Materials

Thanks Katie!

Just enter your information you'll receive:

Journey to the Promise Land Animated Book of Mormon DVD
The Trek West "Docudrama" DVD
A 48-Page Family Home Evening Activity Book
8 Animated Book of Mormon character magnets.

all free and no shipping cost!!!

https://www.livingscriptures.com/gbh/offer.asp

Cheap sunscreen

Today I was at Walgreens (on Discovery and 183) and saw they had some Walgreens spray sunscreen on clearance for $1.99, regularly almost $8. (The clearance "section" at that Walgreens is on the endcap in the back of the store by the makeup. It's across from the socks).

I love that stuff for Garrett (so much easier than lotion), but it goes fast and is expensive. Then I realized that all of their spray sunscreen is B1G1 this week, including the clearance sprays! So you can get 2 bottles for $1 each!

There were probably about 8 bottles left when I went. I'm not sure why some of the bottles were clearanced and others were not.

Diaper Comparisons

Coupons.com currently has printable $5 off and $3 off Huggies coupons. There is supposed to be a good deal on Huggies at Walgreens next week, so print out those coupons now in case they reach their print limit. Let me know if you can't find it.

Also, Natalie noted the prices of diapers at Costco for comparison reasons:

I did the math for diapers at Costco.
A Huggies box is 39.99
Size 2. 258 count = .155 each
Size 3. 224 count = .178 each
Size 4. 200 count = .199 each

The Costco brand (Kirkland?) is actually more expensive.

That's good information to have as you look at various deals.

Bargain Meal of the Week

I'm pretty excited about this one! I think I have referenced the $5 dinner blog before. She has a feature I just discovered called Bargain Meal of the Week. There is a list of stores and blogs that feature a cheap meal from a specific store based on sales that week!

She has:

HEB

The Maynard Moment
Clever Homemaking

Safeway (should be the same as Randalls)

Beans and Rice
One Thrifty Mamma
Working Moms Can Blog Too

Super Target/Walmart

Moms by Heart

Grocery Help

A few of you are trying out The Grocery Game and have asked me for input. I personally have not tried The Grocery Game, mainly because with a bit more effort, you can find almost anything online without having to pay for it.

It can be a little overwhelming at first, but hang in there and you'll get the hang of it. Or, just try out The Grocery Game. I'm sure you'll more than break even if you do.

For national ads (CVS, Walgreens, Target, Walmart), I like to follow coupon blogs. Some of my favorites are Money Saving Mom and Mommy Snacks.

For Randalls ads, I like Coupon Mom. You want to check out "Grocery Deals By State."

HEB is not very coupon friendly. A lot of their sale items are on sale with the yellow coupons found in the store. These coupons are almost always manufacturer coupons. You can't use 2 manufacturer coupons on 1 item, so this means you can use any of your newspaper coupons (and the whole point is to combine sales with coupons to get really great deals). Also, HEB is very regionalized, so some people in Houston might have a certain deal, but we won't have it here. But HEB has good prices in general, so I do most of my shopping there and then just get the best deals at the other stores.

A good website with all deal information you could possibly want for any store out there is Hot Coupon World. It's a discussion forum, but there is a discussion for pretty much every store and online deals as well. HEB and Randalls are both on there under the grocery section.

So hopefully that will help teach you all to fish a little bit, especially right now while I'm in the newborn stage.