B1G1 50% AE Jeans + 20% Off + Free Shipping!

September 3, 2010

American Eagle Labor Day Sale

My American Eagle Jeans are by far my favorites.  Online only,  American Eagle is having a FAB deal on jeans right now!  B1G1 50% off, plus use the code 57345217 to get an additional 20% off your entire purchase.  PLUS get free shipping through Sunday, 9/6.

AND if you purchase them through ebates,  you’ll get 3% back!
AND if you’re new to ebates and sign up, you’ll also get a $5 ebates bonus!

Do you know how to use ebates? Cathy explains all about ebates in this Learn about Ebates tutorial!

In case you’re wondering (I always am), you can return items purchased online to any American Eagle store.

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High Country Produce Deals!

September 3, 2010

GO BSU!!!

Stock up for the BIG GAME!

We will have a fresh batch of our Guacamole!

This week’s Sale Items:

All Salsa’s .50 cents off.
Local Sweet Corn 3 for .89
Homemade tortilla’s 4.99
Avocados 5 for 3.50
Local Watermelon .39 lb
Super sweet Local Juan Canary Melons .97lb
Local Hagerman Cantaloupe .49lb
California Valencia Oranges 4 for 1.00 (while they last)
Local Pears .79 lb
local Gala and Ginger Crisp Apples .79 lb
5# Bag of red Potatoes 1.99 bg.
5# Bag of Grape Fruit 2.49 bg.

 
NEW ARRIVALS

Local Pears
Local Juan Canary Melons
Local Gala Apples
Nacho Bean Dip 16 oz.
Local Bacon


COMING SOON GREAT CANNING PEACHES!!

LOCAL O HENRY PEACHES
LOCAL ELBERTA PEACHES

OREGON BERRIES

Raspberries
Blue Berries
Black Berries
Huckle berries
   

Everyday Low prices on all of our Local Items

Local Watermelon seedless, seeded and Yellow seedless
Local Tomatoes
Local Green Beans
Local Zucchini
Local yellow crookneck squash
Local Yellow Zucchini Local Pickling Cucumbers Local Fresh dill
Local Patty pan squash
Local Peaches
Local Nectarines
Local HerbsLocal CheeseLocal Milk
Local SalsaLocal Eggs
Local Butter
Local tomatoesLocal Cucumbers
Local Pico de gallo
Local Bread 

 
Don’t Forget your.. Ice and Fire Wood for camping.

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Free Tide Stain Release or Cheap Tide Detergent at Safeway!

September 3, 2010

There are some new P&G eSaver eCoupons for the month.  Check out how you can score some free Tide Stain Release and some cheap Tide Detergent:

Tide Laundry Detergent (50 oz. Liquid or 70 oz. Powder) and Tide Stain Release (18 ct. or 36 oz.), $5.99
Use in-ad coupon (limit 2)Minimum $10 Purchase required

Buy 1 Tide Laundry Detergent, $5.99
Buy 1 Tide Stain Release, $5.99 = $11.98 (qualifies for the minimum $10 purchase)
Use In-Ad coupon
Use the $3/1 Tide Stain Release coupon from the 8/29 P&G insert
Use the $1.50/1 Tide Laundry Detergent coupon from the 8/22 SS insert
Use loaded $3/1 Tide Stain Release P&GeSaver eCoupon
Use loaded $1/1 Tide Laundry Detergent P&GeSaver eCoupon
Final Cost  $3.48 for both!     (Thanks Hooked on Bargains!)

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Coupon Preview for Sunday Sept 5th

September 3, 2010

There will be no inserts in Sundays paper!

Check out the Sunday Coupon Preview if you don’t believe me!

You may want to consider putting a vacation stop on your paper!

Have a happy Labor Day and get caught up on your coupon organization!

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FABULESSLY FRUGAL FRIDAY: Strategies to Reduce Home Energy Usage

September 3, 2010

There is a wealth of information out there on ways to reduce your power bill. The top ten most reoccurring tips I have found are:

1. Set your home’s thermostat at the coolest level you can without making your rooms uncomfortable. For most homes, the heating bill drops by about 2 percent for every 1 degree the thermostat is lowered.

2. Lower your home’s thermostat at bedtime or while you’re away during the day. (See Tip #7.) Setting the thermostat to 58 degrees while you’re asleep (you may need an extra blanket!) can cut your natural-gas bill by up to 7 percent.

3. Seal up leaky drafts around doors and windows with weather-stripping, caulking, and door sweeps. (And don’t forget to keep the damper closed on a fireplace or wood-burning stove when it’s not in use.) Also seal up any leaks or gaps in furnace ducts that extend through unheated basements or crawl spaces.

4. Have your furnace inspected and tuned up every two to three years (before the heating season starts), and clean or replace the air filters on your furnace every two months during the heating season. Your furnace will run more efficiently and use less energy.

5. Set your water heater’s thermostat to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Lowering it from a higher setting will save you money and reduce the risk of being scalded.

6. Take shorter showers, wash clothes in cold water, and don’t over-dry your clothing.

7. Install a programmable thermostat for home heating. It can save lots of energy while you’re sleeping or away from home – and will re-warm your house shortly before you wake up or return home from work.

8. Replace traditional, incandescent lighting with Energy Star® compact fluorescent bulbs and fixtures (especially in the lights you use most).

9. Make sure you have adequate insulation in your home’s attic and walls, and around heating ducts that pass through unheated spaces.

10. Purchase an Energy Star® rated high-efficiency furnace, water heater, washer/dryer, and dishwasher when it’s time to replace worn-out models.
(Thanks Edison Electric Institute!)

I also found this awesome table from Mr. Electricity that I loved. I’m a very visual person, so seeing the savings calculated is awesome!

Easy Strategies
Strategy Up front cost Savings per year
(1) Use space heaters to heat only the rooms you’re in, (rather than a central system that heats the whole house), and turning off the heat when you’re not home. $80 $1023
(2) Use ceiling fans instead of the air conditioner $100
if you don’t already have ceiling fans
$438
(3) Turn off lights you’re not using $0 $274
(4) Use a clothesline or a laundry rack instead of a dryer $20 $196
(5) Sleep your computer when you’re not using it $0 $178
(6) Wash laundry in cold water instead of hot or warm none $152
(7) Turn off a single 100-watt light bulb, from running constantly $0 $131
(8) Replace ten 60-watt light bulbs with compact fluorescents $32 $123
Total $232
once
$2515
every year
Aggressive Strategies
(9) Replace top-loading washer with front-loading washer $500 $112
(10) Replace 1990 fridge with newer model $300 $68
Total $800
once
$180
every year
Assumptions:
Sample electrical rate of 15¢/kWh.
(1) One 5000-watt central system, always on, running 40mins/hr. for four months, vs. two 1500-watt heaters running 8 hours a day for four months.
(2) A 2.5-ton, 3500-watt AC 24 hours a day (15 mins/hr) for five months, vs. two 48″ ceiling fans on high (75 watts each), 12 hours/day.
(3) Five 100-watt light bulbs on for 10 hours a day when they don’t need to be.
(4) 50¢/load, 7.5 loads a week.
(5) Computer on for 24 hrs/day @ 160 watts, vs. sleeping 21 hrs/day @ 5 watts
(6) Electric water heater; 7.5 loads/week.
(8) CFL’s are 15 watts, lights run 5.5 hours a day.
(9) 1/3 hot washes, 2/3 warm washes, water heated electrically, electric dryer, 7.5 loads/week. Includes water costs.
(10) Replacing a 900 kWh/year top-freezer model with a 450 kWh/year top-freezer model
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Fab Five Coupons: Nabisco, Gold’n Plump, Special K

September 3, 2010

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$1.50/1 Nabisco 12 Pack Snacks - Play the Instant Win game from Nabisco to get your coupon!

$1.50/1 Gold’n Plump Chicken

$1/1 Special K Granola Cereal (new link!)- This is SO yummy!  This week at Target it’s B4 at $2.99, G1 Free!

$1/1 Keebler Fudge Shoppe Coconut Dreams Cookies

$.75/1 Betty Crocker Gluten Free Dessert Mix

Find more FREE printable coupons here!

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{UPDATED} FREE Box of Smucker’s Uncrustables

September 3, 2010

Looks like they changed this offer. According to their website the new dates that this promo will run are from September 13th-October 13th. The details of the offer look like they remained the same:

Receive a coupon for a FREE box of Smucker’s Uncrustables sandwiches when you share an organizational tip or solution for the on-the-go Mom or Dad at the Uncrustables website.

If you want to get in on this FREE offer, mark your calendars for noon Monday, September 13th and bookmark the Uncrustables website. Starting at 12pm EST, 500 coupons will be released to those who submit a tip. An additional 400 coupons will be released for tip givers everyday thereafter for 30 days with varying release times each day.

This offer is limited to one coupon per person/email address/household for the entire offer term. The coupon will be mailed within 8 weeks.

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Introducing the September Featured F.A.B.

September 3, 2010

We have started a new feature over here at FabulesslyFrugal.com!

Every day we get many emails of deals and coupons from our readers, and some times we just don’t have time to post them all!  Not to mention the fact that we have some pretty dang awesome readers who are doing so great finding deals!  We decided that it would be a great idea to LET THEM SHINE right here on FabulesslyFrugal.com!

Starting NOW, each month we will feature one F.A.B. – “Finder of Awesome Bargains”.  Get it?  F.A.B.!  Yes, catchy, we know.  But it’s better than some of the other stuff we were coming up with! ;)

I am pleased to announce our very first “featured F.A.B.”  is reader BECKY!  Becky is always emailing us with great things! She’s a fairly new couponer and is “ON FIRE”!!  Through the month of September she will be posting as “Becky, the featured F.A.B.” – she’ll be sharing her shopping trips and scenarios with everyone!   I know you’ll be inspired when you see what she does!

To start things off properly, I asked Becky to write up a little bio so you could see how much she is just like the rest of us!  Take it away Becky!

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My name is Becky…

and I have been couponing since we gave birth to our first baby, sweet little Abi, who likes to cry in the checkout lines to get me a better deal (the Cashiers have pity on me I think) in March.  My Sister-in-Law turned me on to the FabuLESSly Frugal website, because she knew my goal was to be able to be a stay at home mom, and in order to do that we had to get our $200 a month grocery bill down by at least half.  She started telling me how she had 30 boxes of cereal in her pantry that she paid 25-50 cents each for.  Little did I know how much fun this would be!

My favorite thing to do is to play the “Coupon Fairy” with the coupons I know I’m not going to use, where I head into a store, and simply lay the coupons on the products they are for!  I feel like I’m writing checks to people.

I used to be a Walmart Junkie where I would go in, list in hand, and come out with 2-3 grocery bags full of food for $100!!!  It was insane- and I thought I was getting a GOOD deal!!  Now, Jeremiah’s (my husband) favorite line, when I pay even 25 cents for something is, “You spent to much!”.  He’s joking of course, but it’s awesome that we have an entire pantry (and I’m talking 10 foot long by 8 foot high) full of food! We also have enough Shampoo/Conditioner/Bodywash/Toothbrushes/Toothpaste (etc, you get the idea) to last us at least a year!  And it was all FREE!!! (Okay, I did spend 25 cents a bottle on my body wash, but I’m picky).

My two favorite couponing stories both happened at Albertson’s.  The first one was where I got 10 Boxes of Cherrios for FREE, because I had doublers and 55 cent off coupons… I had 10 boxes, 10 doublers, and 10 coupons, and the lovely Cashier didn’t make me break up my transactions… 10 boxes, 60 Cents in tax, 1 transaction!!!

My 2nd one was at FabuLESSly Frugals favorite Albertson’s (5&O), where the manager saw me pushing my 2 carts through the store (one held Abi and her gear, one held my groceries and coupon binder) and actually came up behind me in line, closed the line (so we weren’t in a hurry) and entertained my baby as we were doing the 6 transactions!  That’s customer service!! We now spend about $50 a month on groceries, and I can buy things that were luxuries before (even when our budget was $200!) without ANY guilt!

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Now, you ready for the deals she scored?

I got 6 bottles of Tide, 1 jumbo pack Pampers 4 cans Libby olives, and 1 all natural Butt Paste for FREE!!!


Rite Aid Deal Scenario:

I did this at 2 different stores (because a Fab FruGAL never clears shelves)  This was only my 2nd time shopping at Rite Aid ever, so I am super excited!

Store 1:
3 bottles Tide $17.97
1 Jumbo Pack Pampers $8.99
Total: $26.96

Coupons:
$5/25 (Video Values)
3 $1.50/1 Tide Liquid, any  from SS 8/22
1 $3.00/1 Pampers coupon (a rare one I found, but you could use any coupon)
Savings: $12.50

Received Up Rewards:
$1 up for each Tide
$2 up for Pampers
Total Up rewards: $5.00

Total OPP: $14.96

Store 2:
3 bottles Tide $17.97
4 Cans Libby Olives $5
Butt Paste $3.99
Total: 26.96

Coupons:
$5/25 (Video Values)
3 $1.50/1 Tide Liquid, any  from SS 8/22
2 $1/2 Libby olives (from liking Libby Olives on Facebook)
$3/1 Butt Paste (video Values)
$1/1 Butt Paste from SS 8/29
Up rewards Spent: $5 (from last transaction)
Savings: $20.50

Total OPP: $6.46

Up Rewards Received
$3 from Tide

Total OPP: $21.42, plus tax

Now, the best part of this: I had switched an RX to Rite Aid at store #1, and using the coupon from their 8/29 ad, I was given a $25 gift card, so I paid not one penny of my own money, and I have $3 left on the card, and $3 in Up rewards!!  YAY!!

If you’re a bit confused about Rite Aid, don’t feel bad – that is normal!  Here is some Rite Aid 101!

Please join me as we give reader Becky a warm welcome as our September “featured F.A.B.!”

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New Nestle Coupons!

September 2, 2010

A new month means lots of new coupons!  Here are some new ones from Nestle:

$1/2 Juicy Juice
$1/2 Wonka or Nestle chocolates (fun size or miniatures)
$1/2 Toll House Morsels (10oz+)
$1/1 Stouffer’s Family, Large Family, Party Size or Skillet entree
$1/1 any Ovaltine
$.75/1 Nestle Toll House Refrigerated Cookie or Brownie Dough
$1/1 Carnation Instant Breakfast Essentials
$1.25/1 Nesquick Powder
$1/2 Nestle Pure Life Water Multipacks (20pk+)
$2/1 any Boost Multipack
$.50/2 Nestle Carnation Evaporated Milk

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Fab Family Fun: Sidewalk Chalkin’ the Body

September 2, 2010

family fun

Here’s an idea to help kids learn about their body. Trace the child’s outline with sidewalk chalk and have them show you where their hands, feet, head, etc. are.This particular subject wouldn’t put his hands out to the side for anything! He had to have them behind his head. Then let the kids draw their own eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.  You can also let them trace you, which was my son’s favorite part!

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FREE Sample Of Pampers Dry Max {GONE}

September 2, 2010

Get a FREE sample of Pampers Dry Max diapers. Although it asks for a Sam’s Club membership number, that field is not a required to get the sample.  The thing I love most about free sample offers is they often send coupons with the sample as well!

Thanks Free Snatcher!

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Labor Day GAP Promo

September 2, 2010

ebates

The GAP is partnering with EBATES to bring you extra savings this weekend!

Do you know how to use ebates?

Ebates gives you cash back on online purchases that you make.
Earlier this week they were only giving 2% back.
10 % is HUGE!
Cathy explains all about ebates in this Learn about Ebates tutorial!

Plus Get free shipping on your Gap purchase of $50 or more, now through September 11.

Enter code GAPSHIP50 at checkout for free shipping.

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Fab Five Coupons: Quaker, Welch’s, General Mills, Hershey, and more…

September 2, 2010

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$1.00/1 Quaker Instant Oatmeal (Facebook)

$1.50/1 Welch’s Healthy Start 100% refrigerated juice

High Value General Mills coupons, EatbetterAmerica.com ($1/1 Yoplait Delights, Fiberone, over $50 worth of coupons)

$1/1 Baby Magic Product

$1/3 Hershey Snack Bags   (pair these with Halloween Sales…)

Find more FREE printable coupons here!

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A Little Target 411

September 2, 2010

Here’s some Target News!

My Target Weekly

Target has a new program called My Target Weekly that allows you to customize your weekly ad. You can select the items you want to see, and leave out the ones you don’t!  You can also get notified when items  you are looking for go on sale.

You can either connect with facebook and allow Target to access your basic info and post to your wall, or you can choose to receive deal alerts by email or on your phone.  Go here to get started!

New Coupons This Week

These are all Target Web Coupons and can be stacked with manufacturer’s coupons :)

$1/1 Arm & Hammer Cat Litter
$1/1 Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Lotion
$2/2 Garnier Nutritioniste Skin Care Item
$1/1 Glad Trash Bags
$1/2 M&Ms Bagged Candy
$0.50/1 Tom’s of Maine Personal Care Item

Computer Glitch Making Coupons Worth Less Than Their Value

In an attempt to remedy the computers beeping when a coupon exceeds a product price, Target made it so the computer automatically adjusts the coupon value down.  This created an even bigger problem, however, on coupons that are good for 2 or more items.

For example, if you bought 3 Johnson and Johnson First Aid To Go Boxes for $.97 ea and used the $3/3 Band-Aid, Neosporin, Purell (8 oz +), Cortaid, or J&J Red Cross Product coupon from 8/1 SS, the computer would automatically adjust your coupon down to just $.97, shorting you $2.03.  Target says they’re working on a fix, but be sure to watch the register closely so you can correct the problem while you’re still in the store!

Thanks Deal Seeking Mom!

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FREE $10 Credit at Snapfish!

September 2, 2010

Sign up for the free photo sharing site, Snapfish and receive a $10 credit on your first order, as well as 30 FREE prints.

My family uses Snapfish all of the time and are constantly taking advantage of some of their great promos to make gifts for family members (ie. grandma!). Plus it is so much easier to share pictures with our family by uploading them to their site.

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