A NW Grocery Deals Website

This blog is written by someone based in Portland, helping others do their coupon shopping/great deals lookouts more easily. She knows what's on sale at the different stores in our own area and how to get the best deals. Here is the link:


http://www.savewithlouise.com/

Free Paint and Free movie

Free Quart of Paint:
https://www.glidden.com/promotions/free-paint-giveaway.do

Free Movie:
Get a free Disney Blu-Ray DVD on your birthday if you sign up for Disney Movie Rewards (http://disney.go.com/disneymovierewards/) before your special day comes. Karren got an email asking her which movie (Enchanted, Meet the Robinsons, High School Musical 2, National Treasure, or The Game Plan) she wanted. It costs $2.99 shipping and handling, but other than that, it completely free!

Cameron Wilde

Jones Farm Garage Sale

Just a reminder...the annual Jones Farm neighborhood garage sale is this weekend. Friday and Saturday all day. Extra bonus: big dumpsters you can use to throw away...whatever.

Fruit Pectin Deal

At Fred Meyer, until June 23rd you can buy 4 boxes of fruit pectin (I bought surejell on sale for $2 each) and get a 5 lb. bag of sugar ($3 value) free. Then when you check out you get a $3 off your next shopping order. So basically I bought 4 boxes of sure jell and 5 lb. of sugar for $5! I heard one box of pectin is 2.69 at Winco right now so this is an awesome deal!!

Free Movie Tickets

Regal Free Family Film Festival

Just a reminder that through August Regal Movie Theatres is showing free movies for families every Tues. and Wed. at 10am all around the country. Check this website and see what/where it's playing near you.:)

http://www.regmovies.com/nowshowing/familyfilmfestivalschedule.aspx

Free Photo Editing Class

Mark your calendar for June 22. That's the day registration opens for the FREE instructor-led class of 2009 - Photo Editing: Frame-ups & Special Effects! In celebration of our SECOND BIRTHDAY, JessicaSprague.com will host an incredible photo editing class you don't want to miss! You’ll even receive a stunning FREE KIT by our friends at Houseof3.com!

Curious how to use the digital goodies you’ve collected? Or how about creating scuffy, worn edges or rounded corners on your photos? Dying to know to add swirly borders to your pictures like you see in magazines and advertisements? Jessica will show you how easy it is to add beautiful accents to enhance your digital photos, as well as how to add special photography effects using Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

This FREE two-week class begins on July 6, 2009!

The cool part about this is that you will have access to all the lesson information to learn at your own pace. Whenever it is convenient for you! I'm totally signing up. This is going to be FUN!

Movie Deal

So I found this information on the Cheaper by the Dozen blog. It sounds like a great deal. I'll check it out and let you know.

Becca's Best Movie Deal: Disney/Pixar $13.99 Get a Free Movie Voucher

This Weeks Becca's Best Movie Deal:

Head on over to Target to pick up select Disney/Pixar Movies for $13.99 and Get one FREE voucher (up to a $7.50 value) to Disney/Pixar’s new theatrical movie, UP, at participating theaters with purchase of any of the Disney/Pixar DVDs.

To Get your movie ticket you use the in-pack code on line. Follow the instrucions on the sticker for details. Make sure that the movie you pick has the Free Movie Ticket Sticker in order to get the UP Voucher.

Included on the Ad: Finding Nemo, Cars, Ratiquoille, WallE, The Incredibles.

Don't forget you can get a $5.00 Disney/Rayovac movie rebate for buying any Disney Movie plus 2 packages of Rayovac batteries. **Use $1.00 AA two battery pack packages found in the Dollar Bin Section at the front of Target to fulfill the rebate requirements. This Rebate good thru 6/30.

Buy Disney/Pixar Movie $13.99
Buy 2 Rayovac $1.00 batteries **
Total $15.99
Submit for Disney/Rayovac Rebate $5.00
Pay $10.99 for Movie and Batteries and $7.50 Disney Movie UP Voucher.

Regular Price Value of this Deal $19.99 movie, $2.00 batteries, $7.50 Movie
$29.49.

Meet Becca Our Movie Deal Writer

Don't forget to head on over to Disney Movie Rewards and enter your points to earn Disney gear or save for more Free Movie Tickets.

Digital Scrapbooking Deal

https://store.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/index.php/catalog/category/view/id/3

My cousin's business Digital Scrapbooking - is having a great sale on her digiscrap CDs! 4 of her collection CDs, normally priced at $25 are $5! Check out the website. If you are interested, let me know - I might be able to save you on shipping too (like free).

Jen

State Parks Day - FREE - no day-use-fees today!

Here's a good reason to celebrate State Parks Day today throughout Oregon, during the state's 150th birthday: Day-use fees will be waived.

Also, state parks and recreation sites are offering free fishing for fisherman of all ages to try their luck without a license today.

Check out these links for more information:

Park-by-park events: www.oregonstateparks.org
Free fishing: www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/events/free_fishing/index.asp

Have fun exploring!

Edge Shave Gel

Does anyone's husband use shaving gel? I have a couple coupons for Edge shave gen for $.75 off and with the sale for $1.50 at Albertsons right now (until Tuesday) if you use a double coupon (I have a few of these too) you get the gel for FREE. Let me know if I can help someone.

$1 Makeup!

Nordstrom is changing the logo on their makeup, so they're selling almost
everything for $1!!!

The make-up line e.l.f.(eyes-lips-face) has been bought out by Nordstrom
and will be re-packaged with the Nordstrom name on it.

They are getting rid of the entire make up in ELF packaging and are
selling everything for $1. You do have to pay shipping. They have
everything - powder, mascara, lipstick, a mineral line (100% natural),
brushes & cases, nail polish, lotions, you name it - it's there. The
website is :

http://www.eyeslipsface.com/shop.asp

When you check out there is a space for a coupon code. Use CAROLINA and
save an additional $7.50 if your order is over $15.00.

BeesWax Lip Balm Giveaway

Every day for 25 days, starting at 9am, the Beeswax website is giving away free lip balm (kind of like the chocolate deal). They have limited offers, so you have to sign up and see if you made it quickly enough. It's good chapstick, if you ask me.
Here's the site.

Chocolate Giveaway!

Go to www.realchocolate.com next Friday, May 22nd, at 9:00AM ET and every Friday through September for a chance to get a Free* Real Chocolate coupon for your favorite Mars product. You can sign up for an email reminder if you go to the website ahead of time.

Entertainment Books

There is a 12 hour sale, so I hope people who want it, read it soon. The Entertainment books are $12 and free shipping. They have coupons for good deals on restaurants, local amusements, travel, etc. You type in the zip code and they send the book for your area. Go to www.entertainment.com/discount

A contest for the musically inclined

This is Cameron hijacking Karren's blogger account. You will enjoy this contest if you like hot dogs, baseball, and singing!
"Take Me Out To The Ball Game" Video Contest

Cameron

Free Dinner at KFC

I know it's not the greatest food, but it's free. Log onto oprah.com/kfc to download a coupon for free dinner at KFC. It includes 2 peices of their grilled chicken, 2 sides and a biscuit. You can download the coupon 4 times so do it while you can. Offer expires tommorow night or whenever supplies run out.

Book Sale at Library

There is a huge book sale at the Brookwood Pkwy (Main) Library this week. There are kids books, classics, romance, history, biography, etc. for purchase. They put out new books each day so you can check any day and find something there. I saw a lot of good ones when I went on Friday. The prices range from $.25 up to $5. Gotta love cheap books.

Free Mother's Day Crafts at Michaels

Click here to view the free Mother's Day crafts avaiable at Michaels this week. A different hands-on project each day for your little ones (or you). I think it would be fun for to make something for grandma, too.

Baskin-Robbins .31 cent scoop night

Ice cream is .31 cents a scoop tonight at Baskin-Robbins. From 5-10 pm. Mmmmm....

Using Coupons to Serve

I don't know who (if any) of you use coupons from the Sunday papers, but I got a tip for how we can serve the community with this last Sunday's paper. Inside the Smart Source insert, there is a coupon for free kitty food. Since the economic crisis has started, the animal shelters have seen a significant increase in animals, and I'm sure they'd appreciate a little help with their food. The lastest paper has a lot of other good coupons if you wanted to get one to help anyway. You can buy them at Albertsons tonight, but they'll be taken tomorrow. I know Fred Meyer keeps theirs until the next one comes, but I don't know about Winco. Just a thought.

Glenn Walters Nursery

I just saw a sign up for Glenn Walters Nursery public clearance sale on May 1-2. They are a wholesale huge nursery but they have public sales occasionally. We bought several plants a couple years ago for great deals. I know they have other things but for sure they have trees, rose bushes, azaleas, hydrangeas, and rhododendrons. The address is 7375 NW Roy Road, Cornelius (it's Cornelius but it's right off Zion Church Road off of Glencoe Rd.).

Jackson School Annual Garage Sale

Jackson School Neighborhood is having their annual garage sale this Saturday, April 25th. They haven't been putting the signs out until the day before the last few years so I wanted to get the notice out.

And just a shameless plug...the Evergreen young women are selling hot dogs and baked goods to raise money for girls camp.
Visit us at two locations: One on Jamie drive or a second stand on the corner of Glen Ellen.

Happy Bargain Hunting!

Huge Library Booksale

When I was at the library, I noticed these colorful bookmarks saying "coupon" on them where you check out the books. After reading it, I discovered that they are having a huge book sale from Friday, May 1 to Sunday May 10. It is at the Hillsboro Main Library (the new library) . I went to one a few months ago and they had a huge selection of books. If you like books, this is a great sale because they have them really cheap.

FREE Princess DVD

At Fisher Price, you can get a free Princess DVD shipped to your door:

http://www.fisher-price.com/pages/v6/default/preciousplaces/landing.asp

Albertson's Great Meat Deal

So if you don't get the weekly Albertson's ads, there's a good deal going on. Here's the price for their meat on sale:

• -Cook's Shank Portion Ham $.88 a lb
  
• -Boneless skinless chicken breast $1.88 a lb
• -Fresh beef round rump roast $1.88 a lb
• -Boneless pork top loin roast $1.99 a lb

These are great prices but here is how to make it an even better deal. This week at Albertsons when you spend $25 on participating products ( over 650 to choose from) you will instantly get $10 off meat or seafood. So to get the best price make sure you buy your items in groups of $25 and get $10 in free meat. You can split them up or buy them in groups of $25, $50, $75…

Pork Roasts

Winco had picnic pork roasts on sale yesterday. The 1/2 roasts are 88 cents a pound and the whole ones are 78 cents a pound. I like to stock up when they're under a buck a pound.

Target Hint

I found this information on "A Thrifty Mom" about when Target puts their items on clearance. I hope the info helps.

Once you know how and when Target marks things down, you can easily find stuff for 75% off. GOOD STUFF! You can find Target’s clearance items by the little red sticker. They have a system for marking down their clearance. In general the markdowns go 30%, 50%, & then 75% off. There are exceptions to this rule, sometimes items start at 15% off. Plus, holiday items follow a different markdown schedule, they will get marked down to 90% off. SWEET!

Most of the clearance items are found at the end of the aisles, usually the end of the aisle facing a wall. Every time I head to target I check out the clearance. I always look for items that I can buy for later, birthday gifts, clothing, shampoo, etc.

Here is Target’s weekly markdown schedule:

Mon. – Electronics, Kids Clothing and Stationary (Cards, Gift Wrap, etc.)

Tues. – Domestics, Women’s Clothing, Pets and Market (food items)

Wed. — Men’s Clothing, Toys, Health and Beauty, Lawn & Garden items

Thur. – House Wares, Lingerie, Shoes, Sporting Goods, Movies, Music, Books, Decor & Luggage

Fri. – Auto, Cosmetics, Hardware, & Jewelry

Generally, they mark things down to the next level every 2 weeks. So, if you see something in sporting goods that you are interested in that was just marked down 50%, if you come back on Thursday 2 weeks from that day you should find it at 75% off. Sometimes you will come back and they will all be gone. Bummer! If it is something I really need, I will buy it at 50% off. If it is something I am buying for the future, I wait to see if I can get it at 75% off.

Also, twice a year Target resets each department, so they will clearance a ton of stuff from that department, to make way for the new seasons merchandise. For instance, the toy department gets reset in January (to make room for Spring/Summer toys), and in July/Aug. (to put out the holiday season toys). So, on one certain day you will be able to find 2 aisles worth of toys at 75% off. I stock up! My favorites are the Lego’s & Playmobilsets, you can’t go wrong with those, especially at 75% off. I look like a crazy lady throwing things in my cart.

Two more pieces of advice:
1. If there is something you are interested in, SCAN IT! You will find that sometime the sticker does not reflect the price, the price may actually be lower. I love when that happens!

2. SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS!!!!!!! Target has a strict return policy, and if you want to return something you will need your receipt. They do have receipt look up, so if you give them the debit/credit card you paid with they can look it up for you.

Another Restaurant.com Sale

So I just read on the " A Thrify Mom" blog that the Restaurant.com site is having another sale until April 13. If you want to get a $25 gift certificate, you pay $10 for it. You do have to spend $35 at the restaurant for it to work, but paying $20 for a $35 meal isn't bad, right? Just go here and use the coupon code SEASON and it might even let you decrease the cost to $4. Happy eating!

31 cents Scoop Night at Baskin Robbins

Join us for 31 Cent Scoop Night at Baskin-Robbins®and help us honor America’s firefighters with a $100,000donation to the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC)National Junior Firefighter Program.
Participating stores will reduce prices of small ice creamscoops to 31 cents*. At some locations, you may also havean opportunity to make a donation to local fire charities.

29 April 2009 - 5 to 10 PM

Formula

So I have some Kirkland Signature baby formula that I can't use anymore. Miriam's bum gets horrible rashes from it. Does anybody know of anyone who could use it?

FREE Admission Today!!! Portland Children's Museum

I just found this in today's Oregonion. Enjoy!

Description: The Day of the Young Child At the Portland Children's Museum, we want to focus attention on the importance of the early years for children's learning and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs.

Come join is for Puppets with Penny and help us make some community-oriented, collaborative public art! We are thrilled to announce that for the Day of the Young Child admission is FREE for everyone ALL DAY & NIGHT! 9am-8pm

*NOTE:There must be a 1:5 adult to child ratio at this event.

Date: Friday, April 3, 2009
Time: 9:00am-8:00pm

Check out their website for more information. www.portlandcm.org

More Grocery Deals

In addition to the Post cereal mega-sale, I thought a few more sale tips might be nice (and if anyone knows of any other, I'd love to hear).

For Walgreens, the sale ends Saturday night, but there are some pretty good deals. Life cereal is on sale, 2 for $5 and you get a rapid rewards slip (these print off with your receipt) that is good for $2 on your next purchase (it is like a $2 gift card, doesn't need to be on cereal). Quaker granola bars are also 2 for $5 with a $2 RR (rapid rewards slip). Listerine is 2 for $11 with a $5.50 RR, Chapstick Naturals is $1.99 with a $1.99 RR (like getting it FREE). Softsoap body wash is buy one, get a slip for a free one on your next purchase.

For Albertsons, the sales are good until next Tuesday. Grapes are $.99/lb., Dole fruit cans are 10/$10. There's a Kellog sale where you buy 3 boxes ($1.99 on selected ones) and get a gallon of milk free (buy 5 and get 2 gallons, buy 7 get 3 gallons). Also, General Mills cereal is buy one get one free and there's a coupon here that helps reduce the price (by up to $1). I have some coupons from our free mailer for Shoppers Value sugar -4lb for 1.39 each ($.35/lb), and for free eggs when you buy the other things (if you'd like to know those offers, let me know).

If this helps anyone, that'd be exciting.

Looking For 4T pants for boys....

I have a friend who is looking for some gently used size 4T pants for her son (can 4 year old boys "gently" use their pants?? (o: Actually she just prefers no holes in the knees!) Is anyone looking to pass some on or know someone else who does?

Thanks!

DI Run

So I was talking with Jen Preece yesterday and we thought another good use for this blog would be to share things we'll take to DI soon, just in case others might know of someone who could use them. We hear others telling us they're going/asking if we know of anyone who might like a ..., so we thought "Why not have an open forum where people can just ask everyone at once.

First attempt:
We are going soon, and we're getting rid of some baby girl afghans, arm pillows, a metal toddler bed (we got it from Beth Brown, thinking my sister-in-law would need it, but doesn't) and plastic two-drawer compartment (about 3ft. wide, 2 ft long, and 5 in. deep per drawer). If you know of anyone who could use any of these, let me know by Friday. Thanks.

Post Cereal at Albertsons

Here is a copy of an email forwarded to me. Cheap cereal is nice, right?

My daughters are totally getting into couponing. Every day they email me good deals, which I mostly ignore. Well, today Becky dragged me to Albertsons, and I thought I'd share the deal we got. They have post cereal on sale for $1.57 a box if you buy 2. Well, they don't tell you this, but if you buy 5 you get a $5.00 coupon back from them to use on your next purchase. So Becky got hers first and got the $5 coupon which I used on my 5 boxes. I bought another 5 and used the coupon I got on the first 5 I bought and got another $5.00 off coupon which I gave back to Becky. We bought them all at the same time, just put the bar in between the 2 sets of boxes. So, I got 10 boxes of cereal for $6.70 or $.67 cents per box. They have 15 different kinds to choose from, and some of my favorites. Becky got hers for less than that because she had some post cereal manufactures coupons.

Just thought I'd pass this along.

Dorothy

Restaurant.com

I hope someone will look at this before it expires (TODAY, 3/31) so this post is worth it. While I was going through my shopping list, and looking at the coupon deals, I came across this offer. You sign up for a $10 or $25 gift card for a list of restaurants in the area (even across the states) and only pay between $3-$10. That way, if you go to dinner there, you could pay as little as the $3 plus tip. I think that's a good deal. Go here and sign up. If you don't like the possibility of spam, then create an email that will collect all the spam, and use that one to get the cheap deals. Good luck.

Pass It On Sale

There is a bi-annual "Pass it on" sale for babies/children items that has some pretty great finds. This is the link to the information. It will be April 17-19 at the Hillsboro Fairgrounds. Check it out. It should be better than the last one because there'll be more parking available and better finds.

One Day Deals

Check out these websites for new deals every single day:

http://www.woot.com/ - New deals are posted daily at midnight central time. These items eventually rotate so you can plan ahead for something you really want.

http://www.mywoot.net/past/ - This is a website that is designed to help you track the deals offered by Woot under its website, woot.com.

http://delectiblemommies.blogspot.com/ - Check out new deals and GIVEAWAYS posted daily.

https://www.mamabargains.com/Every single item, AT LEAST 50% OFF it’s retail value and at times up to 80% off its retail value! New featured item(s) each day.

http://www.greenbabybargains.com/ - At 12:00 pm EST, Monday-Friday, they bring you their latest "green" baby bargain, and you have until it's gone to scoop it up, and spread the word! And, then they do it all over again the next day!

http://www.babycheapskate.com/ - Save big bucks on baby & kid stuff with in-store tips & coupons as well as online bargain shopping.

http://www.babysteals.com/ - New deal posted each morning at 9am!

Did I mention I like shopping online?

Helpful Blogs

So I know of a few blogs that are helpful but their focus is mainly on couponing. These are on the sidebar of the blog. I also added one that it is helpful for food storage basics. I am hoping any of you might know other blogs that have helpful ideas whether on how to make things, have good deals, or anything that might help save money. Feel free to add them as comments for this post or create your own post. As soon as they're here, I'll add them to the sidebar.

Good Deals!

We all love to get good deals. Some of us know where the goods are each time they come, while others of us only hear from others or are out of the loop. What if we pooled our knowledge together and could all get the good deals each time. I think that'd be great. All you'd have to do is write a post and share something like "Hey, Kohl's is having a great sale on...right now". Or, "Did you know that soda is on sale at Albertsons for 30 cents a liter?" All hints would be great. You can also share blog sites that are helpful with the different things shared on here. Good luck to us all saving and providing good things at the same time.