Jeff forced me to!

K. Jeff - the brat who works for me - asked me to start this blog. So here goes. Let's see if we can't advertise the slick deals in Honolulu.

Right now at Safeway they've got their "Living Well, Feeling Great" promo going on. The deal: buy $30 worth of indicated merchandise, get a coupon at the register for $10 off your next purchase of $10 or more. Imagine - $30 of stuff that's already on sale PLUS $10 back at the register! Killer! But there's more. Bear in mind that that $30 is BEFORE you use coupons. So you'll be able to ring that total down some. I'll probably go over the weekend and will blog again to let you know what best deals I see.

Last week, for example, I got the following deal:
* Marzetti's salad dressing. Regular price: $5.39 ea. Sale: Buy one, get one free. Coupons I had: $1.00 each. Since both rang through the register, even though the second is "free", you can still use a coupon on it. The end result? $10.78 worth of salad dressing for $3.39. PLUS it qualified for the $10 off coupon.

Other past deals:
*Intuition razors: Target had them on sale almost half off for $7.69 ea. Buy 2, and get a $5 gift card at the register. I had 2 - $4 off coupons. SO I paid $7.38 AND got $5 back - like paying $2.38 for $30 worth of razors!
* Kellogs cereal and eggs - Foodland had Kellogs cereal for 3/$12. Okay deal. But wait. In their circular they had a store coupon for buy 3, get three free. That's 6/$12. Better deal! But wait. I had coupons I printed from on-line for $1 off 2 boxes of Frosted Flakes. That's only $9 for 6 boxes of cereal. But wait! In the store they had coupons for buy 2 boxes of Kellogs, get up to $2 worth of eggs free. And that week they had eggs for $1.88 for 1.5 dozen. Remember, you can stack store and manufacturers' coupons. End deal? $9 for 6 boxes of cereal and 4.5 dozen eggs (yeah, right, who can eat so many eggs, you ask? But it was the week before Easter....)
* Garnier Fructis shampoo and conditioner for $2.99ea. at Walgreens. Good deal. But wait. In-store coupon for $2 off. Better deal. But wait. I had $1 off coupons from the Sunday paper. SCORE! FREE SHAMPOO.

Deals this week:
* At Safeway, buy 2 Classico pasta sauces for $5 and get 2 Safeway brand pastas for FREE. Two meals for your family for $5. Awesome!
* Still at Safeway - artichokes, $1.99 ea. These are usually $4.99. One is a whole meal for me. Good deal. Available Sat and Sun only.
* At Target - Herbal Essences shampoo/conditioner for $2.99. Sunday before last had a $2 coupon for the same. $.99 for a $6 bottle of shampoo
* Back at Safeway - they have awesome deli sandwiches. Get one this week with free chips and a 20 oz. soda. If you have the sales circular (ask at customer service if you don't get Midweek), there's a coupon to get the sandwich for $4.49. Let's do some math. $5.99 for the sandwich, $.99 for the chips, $1.49 for the soda.....you just got $8.47 worth of food for almost half the price. Not bad!
* At Foodland - Suave shampoo for $1 ea. A few weeks ago, there was a coupon for $1 off 2 in the Sunday paper, and $0.50 for a bottle of shampoo ain't not bad.

Will go shopping and post new deals soon. In the interim, pick up the Sunday paper and don't let go!