sweet weekend deals

Over the weekend, I went to a friend's house for a couple of days of scrapbooking. The second day I decided not to scrap, so I brought all of my unclipped coupons over and decided to go through them all and get everything organized.
Before I went over the first day, though, I'd gone to Wal-Mart. I'm trying to cut out soda, but I get migraines if I don't drink it, so I remembered seeing some Vivarin caffiene pills on a clearanced end cap. I stopped over to pick some up and I saw a whole bunch of other clearanced out stuff. There was a sudacare Vapor Plug for 1.50, the refills for 1.00, Triaminic tongue strips for cough, cough with cold, and just cold, all for 1.00. So I figured I'd pick up a few things since cold and flu season will be on us any minute. I ended up getting about 100.00 or more in drugs for only $14.00. I thought I'd done so great with my deal shopping. But, when I got home, I was looking through the paper I'd bought and there was a coupon for Airborn, 2.00 off. It was only 1.50 on that end cap!!! So I figured, if there's a coupon for this in the paper, I must be able to find printables for Sudacare and Vivarin. I ended up finding 2.00 off Sudacare products, which were only 1.00, and 1.00/1 Vivarin, which were 2.00. I bought two Shower Soothers (those tablets you put in the shower that vaporize and clear up your head cold and chest congestion), two Airborn, and two Vivarin, and it ended up costing me nothing! I bought a pair of leggings and another weekend paper to balance out the difference. This deal couldn't have come at a better time either because one of my boys got sick on Sunday night with a cough and that Vapor Plug does WONDERS!!! Not to mention, the Triaminic cough strips he's been taking!

So, I took my free purchases over to my friends house, and clipped my coupons, and went through the whole paper finding good deals. A friend said that Rite-Aid had the Glade Wisp Flameless Candle on sale for 5.99. It's usually about 9.97 at Walmart, so I thought wow, if I had a coupon for that, it might be worth picking up a few. Well, I bought 4 papers over the weekend and they all had a $5.00 off Glade Wisp coupon!!! So I've gotten 4 so far, for 1.29 each, including tax. I have 5 more coupons that a friend gave me (I traded for the free Marcal papertowel coupons that were also in the paper) because she can't use air fresheners anyway (some kind of allergy, I'm assuming). So, I made out pretty well on those. I have until Saturday night to pick up the rest, and I'm thinking it won't be too hard to do since I go to the store at least once a day, and Walmart will price match it as long as I have the Rite-Aid paper, which I have in my wallet at all times. =)

Oh, one more thing. I planned a shopping trip for Sunday. I'm going to Shaws and Target to see what they have for deals. I've gathered all of my coupons that double and am waiting for the new sale paper to be available so I can see what I can get super cheap or perhaps free! I love the Target deals, especially since I'm starting to build a collection of coupons so there's a chance now that I can find one to use on most products that they might have a really good buy 4/get a $5.00 giftcard, like the poptart deal.

So, I'll post my finds on that when I get back on Sunday, and until then, I'll be looking for more ridiculous clearanced items for free, or sweet coupon deals to post about.