Hi Julia – I am new to couponing, and have been following your blog every day. I have learned so much in the past few weeks and have also made a few mistakes along the way. I just wanted to share with you & your readers my awesome shopping trip to Target today!! If you would like to post this to your blog, feel free. I didn’t know how to do that. Here’s what I bought:
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16 boxes of Kellogg’s cereal at $2.66 each (they had TONS on the shelves, I did not clean them out and I plan to donate lots of it)* Used 10 $1/1 Fruit Loops blinkies that I had gotten at Safeway recently* Two $1/1 Corn Flakes coupons printed online today* Two $1/2 any Kellogg’s cereal blinkie type coupons* 16 Target coupons $1/1 off Kelloggs cereal (they accepted all 16).4 boxes of Kellogg’s Fiber Bars, on sale for $2.33 each, with $5 gift card promo* Used four .75 cent coupons — (Received $5 gift card!!).3 Healthy Choice frozen entrees (on sale $1.75 each) + 1 can of Healthy Choice Soup* Used two $2/1 HC coupons from their website + the free soup coupon from the 10/18 SS..3 Glade Tins + 3 Refills* Used three $1.50 Glade Tins coupons + three Free Refill coupons (Received $5 gift card!!)
My total bill was $10.17 plus I received $10 back in Target gift cards — so all in all, I got all this for 17 cents!!
Thanks so much for all the work you do in putting this web page together. I know it helps alot of people!
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Nancy F
Clayton CA
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That is soooo incredibly awesome!!! Way to go nancy!
Isn’t it?!
What a great deal! What Target store was it? I bought four boxes of cereal, they took all my manufacturer coupons, but would only let me use three Target coupons- the coupon beeped screen said “coupon cannot be used for free item” and since I got the fourth box free. That’s great all of yours went through!
I went to the Walnut Creek Target. Seems like every time I go there, the Target store coupons don’t scan well. So the clerk forced them through. It did get a little confusing, but he pressed K1 at times to override, and other times he used one of my other $1 coupons and scanned it over and over (in lieu of the Target coupon), counting the number of times to make sure it was correct. I did check my receipt carefully later, and it came out correct.
Where do you find the blinkies? Going to check Safeway…. are they by the cereal?
They were mostly the $1/1 Fruit Loops/Apple Jacks blinkies that were available in the cereal aisle for the past few weeks. Kmart had them too. Not sure if they are still there. I had stocked up on them waiting for a great sale to come along. I’m always on the lookout for blinkies (learned from this website) especially in the cereal aisle.
No cereal blinkies at Willow Pass Safeway
Going to check Kmart this afternoon.
Has anyone found the $1/1 Froot Loops blinkies in the Concord area?
Pardon me for asking, but what is a blinkie? Also, you can use manufacture and target coupons simultaneously? Sometimes I look at the back of target coupons and it says only one coupon per item or something like that?
I agree what is a blinkie ? We dont have Safeways here but we do have Kmarts. Thanks.
Blinkies are coupons provided by the aptly named coupon-dispensing machine which grabs your attention in an aisle by way of a flashing (blinking) red light (led lamp) usually near the product itself.
Blinkies have become generic (much like Kleenex means tissues in a box) and can also refer to any coupon freely available in an aisle, even if there is no blinking display (example: a generic “take-one” display).
Reference: Smartsource Machine Coupons