This is an absurd thing, but a few weeks ago, I made a new friend. At CVS.  She had a baby and some coupons and so clearly, we had a lot in common!  So I gave her my email address and it turns out we DO have a lot in common.  It also turns out that scheduling things with small children is more difficult than one might expect, but we finally got a chance to go shopping together on Friday.  We mainly hit up Kohl’s, but we also stopped in at Target, where I had a lot of fun.

100_0205I paid $8.58 for all of this stuff ($2.60 of which was tax.)  The best part, though? I’ll submit my receipt, and the UPCs from all ten boxes of Pop-Tarts for the Kellogg’s Fuel for School rebate (link goes directly to .pdf rebate form), and get back $10 for a $1.42 profit. 

The Elmo bubble thing was on clearance for $3.62 and I thought it was pretty cute so I bought it for her.  Paid for by Kellogg’s, thank you very much!

The Sharpie highlighters, Nexcare bandages, sample-sized laundry detergents and first-aid kits were all free after coupon. My favorite deal, though, was the Bounty/Charmin thing.  See those tubes just above the highlighters? Those are dorky little travel-sized toilet papers.  They’re $1, which is really just another name for highway robbery, but I guess maybe they’ll be nice to have in the car.  I had a $.25 coupon for ANY Charmin.  Then, I had a $.25 coupon for ANY Bounty, and those paper towels are $.99.  But the best part was that I had a stack of $1.50 Target coupons, good when you buy one Bounty and one Charmin.  So, I bought $1 Charmin + $.99 Bounty = $1.99 cost for each set of Bounty + Charmin.  Then, I used coupons for $1.50 + $.25 + $.25 = $2 savings… making them both free.  Yay for free paper towels! (and dorky travel TP.)

(Sidenote, as I was making fun of the Charmin to my family later, I said, "who would BUY those??" And someone casually pointed out, "Well, YOU did."  So, uh, yeah, I guess that answers my question alright.)