Went to Target for the Aquafresh toothpaste deal: Buy 3 and get a $5 gift card. Use the coupons from 4/27 rp and it’s a moneymaker. In the Chicago area we got 75¢ coupons, but I’ve read other places got a buck.  I’ve also read some areas sell this for $1.99, while all the Targets around me seem to love a $2.24 price point.  So if you got a high value coupon and a cheap toothpaste price, you’re probably paying more for hurricane or tornado insurance…  In this instance I spent $4.47 plus high tax and got back a $5 gift card to use on subsequent purchases.

This is just a cool thing I saw in the $1 stop: mini greenhouses for basil and cilantro. If your kids love the idea of planting and growing things, but aren’t real keen on the care part, this is perfect. Or maybe even goody bag gifts for parties?
Here’s my total (excluding a dozen eggs already put away) haul: 9 pumps of toothpaste, five bags of Market Place 20 oz full-cooked chicken breasts for $1.74 each and three bags of Seattle’s Best as part of the B2G1 sale this week. I used two $2.00/1 printables (and/or this $2.00/1 printable); there’s also a $1.50 coupon in the 3/23 S. They still have the Buy 2 L’Oreal hair colors and get a free L’Oreal Advance Hair shampoo or conditioner promotion going on and there were lots of Preference clearance colors (which work with the deal)…so naturally I had to bring the inserts with the Excellence coupons.  Another trip to Target is in my near future.

The nine tubes would work out to $13.41 after coupons, but before the $15 in gift cards.  Obviously the chicken set me back but it’s mighty tasty and mighty fast – – and we’re now down to four bags.  If you want to run the hair color deals (the best deal is the L’Oreal, but there’s lots of other brands on clearance, so check the coupon database and bring the inserts, justincase)  – my 5/4 rp has $2 off any L’Oreal hair color, so if you don’t have the $3 Target coupon to stack with (I used all mine during last week’s sale), you’ll pay approximately $4.48 x 2 – $4 or $4.96 with the shampoo or conditioner thrown in.  I was able to use the $2 mfr shampoo coupon from 5/11 rp to bring the price down even further, but not the Target coupon; I’m not sure if it’s because Target figures they’ll get their money from the manufacturer but why take the hit with their own coupon...or the cashiers are afraid of me and push them through…

Keep checking those freezer coffins for clearance items – I’ve heard from other readers who found chicken a couple of weeks ago in the 24 oz bags – which has a $1 Cartwheel.  And check, check, check the coffee shelves because there are a lot of clearance bags hidden among the full-price suckers – remember, paying full price will not impress your friends.  Or if it does you need to find new friends or a way to generate fake receipts.