Frances Frugal Fairhope Tip: Inside the Box/Bag
Are you a little confused with how all this works? It can be overwhelming at first but you can get this. It is just a different way to think and use coupons. Today’s shopping trip at Target is a simple way to explain how to use coupons in combination with gift card offers to get the best deal possible. We printed the Target coupons and found the others from the outside of a box of cookies and inside a bag of cat food. Remember you can use one manufacture coupon per item. We combined the B2G1 coupon with two more $1 coupons for a total of three coupons for the three items we purchased.
Here is what we bought today at Target:
2 Purina Kitten Chow $3.60
Purina Cat Chow $2.60
-Used 2 $1 Target’s Printable Grocery Coupons (manufacture coupons with Target logo)
-B2G1 coupon found inside of bag previously purchased
Out of Pocket: $1.73 each if we had stopped there…
Now let’s back this up and try and put this all together so we can understand how we got the best possible deal just using manufacture coupons. If we had found Target store coupons for the Purina or Keebler products we could have used those as well (one per item).
On February 18th we purchase the following products:
5 Keebler Fudge Shoppe Cookies $1.52
-Used 2 $1/2 coupon found inside a box of cookies
Out of Pocket: $5.60
Received $5 Target Gift Card from purchase of 5 Keebler products. We used that $5 Target Gift Card to purchase cat food today:
2 Purina Kitten Chow $3.60
Purina Cat Chow $2.60
-Used 2 $1 Target’s Printable Grocery Coupons (manufacture coupons)
-B2G1 coupon found inside of bag previously purchased
-$5 Target Gift Card from previous purchase
Out of pocket $.20
So to summarize, we paid $5.80 for 3 bags of cat food and 5 bags of cookies that is $.83 each!
Always take a good look at a box or bag of products before you throw them in the trash, you never know what you will find.
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