Kroger Design a bag, get one free

I was in Kroger when I heard the annoucement over the PA system for this promo. Kroger did this promotion last year and it is a very easy way to get a free reusable shopping bag.

Just go to Kroger website and design your bag. Enter your Kroger card number and they will add a Kroger bag coupon to your card. All you have to do is pick up one of their $1 reusable shopping bags on your next visit and it will be FREE.

Get to creating those bags tonight! Feel free to post links of your bag creations in my comments section. I would love to see what my readers come up with.

Also, you can vote on your favorite bag and have a chance at winning up to $1,000 if your bag is voted the best.

Prizes are as follows:

Prizes
The top 10 designs will be featured on the site, and every Shopper's Card holder who enters the contest will get a free reusable shopping bag.*
5 Runners Up will receive a $100 Kroger Co. gift card.
4 Finalists will receive a $250 Kroger Co. gift card.
1 Grand-Prize Winner will receive a $1,000 Kroger Co. gift card and may see his/her bag in stores.

Kroger run today

I hit one Kroger store at lunch and got the following:
3 Vitamin 10 water $1 each - $1 q (4-4SS) = free
2 Frenchs mustard $1.25 each - .50 q (3-29SS) = .25 each and earns $1 oynso cat wyb 2
3 J&J Buddies bars $1.09 each - $3/3 cat = .18
1 Kroger comfort toddler wipes $1 - $1 peelie = free
2 Glade sense and spray $5 each - $4 q (3-29SS) = $1 each and each earns $2 oynso cat
9 Stride gum 3/$2 - $2 q(3-22SS) = free
Tax = .19
Total $2.96 but got back $5 in catalinas
*I hear the clean linen variety of the Sense and spray do not seem to be working for the catalina and make sure if you pick up the vitamin water, you purchase the ones with 10 as the coupon is specific to this variety!

After work I hit up another Kroger and got the following:

9 Stride gum 3/$2 - $2 q (3-22 SS) = free

Barilla whole grain rotini on closeout $1.04 - .50 q(3-29 SS) = .04

3 McCormick Grill mates seasonings $1 - $1 q(3-15 RP) = free

1 Kroger toddler wipes $1 - $1 peelie = free

1 Frank's hot sauce .99 - .35 q(3-1SS) = free

3 Vitamin 10 water $1 each - $1 q (4-5SS) = free

Total: $0.04

Great deal on printer paper at Staples

I was a little disappointed that I was going to be out of town this weekend with no Randalls or Kroger within driving range, but thanks to Jenny at SouthernSavers, I still was able to get a good deal. What is even better, this deal is at Staples, which I typically do not have access to.

If you are looking for paper to print all those coupons, then you need to head to Staples and look for these packages. They are currently on sale for $6.99 BUT Staples is offering a $5.99 rebate on each ream you buy NO LIMIT! If you have a local competitor coupon(Office Max, Office Depot), you can use that to bring down your cost even more and even get paid to purchase the paper. I had a home mailer for $10/50 from Office Depot so I purchased 8 packages
8 * $ 6.99 = 55.92
-10/50 = 45.92
tax of 3.79 = $49.71

After my receipt printed, the rebate form and a rebate receipt printed. I can even submit the rebate online, so no need to waste a stamp.
I will be getting $47.92 back on the rebate, making my cost only $ 1.79 for all 8 reams.
I did also use a Staples Reward card which earns $4.59 (10%) back on this purchase. I am not sure if I will have the min. of $10 rewards earned by the end of the quarter to get this though. However, those of you with Staples more readily available can also take in empty ink cartridges to be recycled and they will add $3 on your Staples rewards for each cartridge. Just two cartridges and 8 reams of paper should earn you the $10 Reward, payable at the end of the quarter(June).
Thanks again to Jenny for this GREAT deal!

CVS money maker deal

Thank you goes to shan2321 at HCW for this deal!
For the month of April, CVS has a $4 ecb promo on the Natural Dentist mouth rinse(limit 3 per card) These are everyday priced at $6.99 at CVS and you can get a $2 coupon by going to the manufacturer's website (these come up as pdf coupons, so you can print as many as you want)
Purchase two @ $6.99 - $2 coupons each and your oop will be = $ 9.98.
You will get $8 back in ECB(extra care bucks) so that brings cost down to $1.98.
Then if you follow this link, you can print a rebate form for $10 back when you buy two of these mouth rinse products! With the rebate, this turns into a profit of ~ $8!
*Heads up, I purchased these in one transaction and the second coupon beeped (even though it doesn't have an exclusion printed on it) My cashier pushed it through, but it might be easier to ring these up separate. Rebate form clearly states multiple receipts can be used

Mobistories

My friend Erin was given an opportunity to try some online books for free at Mobistories. Since my kids fit the age categories a little better, she gave me the chance to try these stories out on my 4 and 2 year old.

I got to download 4 story books so I chose 2 books from the 1-6 age category and 2 from the 4-8 category. The girls LOVED them. We read them stories every night before bedtime so this was a special treat. The picture above shows Sara watching the storybook titled "When Can I Roar?" With Mobistories you have the opportunity to open up the book full screen and it shows as the pages turn. I think this is a really neat concept and shows the advancement of the digital age. This certainly brought back memories of my childhood and reading books on record/tape. I think Mobistories has taken from this concept and definitely improved upon it!

I definitely recommend this book for your younger children and "Good Mousekeeping" for the 4-8 kiddos. The latter is a very cute book that made Zoey laugh and she continues to ask to read it from time to time.

Winners Chosen- Yoplait Giveaway

Sorry I didn't pick winners yesterday so here they are thanks to random.org
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:19 10 5
Timestamp: 2009-04-02 11:12:34 UTC

The winners based on comment numbers: freebiesarecool, beth(tatertot), and Diane.

Thank you everyone for your comments. For those of you that did not win, please follow this link to print a coupon for Yoplait Kids and read all about it.