Doing the HAPPY FREE STUFF Dance!

I've been feeling a little under the weather the last couple days (hoping it's just allergies and not a cold coming on) and I went home from work a couple hours early.  With a few hours of nap time, I was ready to go out couponing (which was very needed as we had no food because of our 30 day spending fast which was a pretty good success). In need of milk, bread, and other essentials, why not get free stuff too?

All the stuff you see here was FREE!  (ok, I lied.  I paid .10 before taxes...)


Breakdown:

Albertsons:
Beechnut Baby Cereal $1.89-used $1 off printable manufacturer coupon, used store doubler coupon.  This should be a money maker too as there is a Try Me Free Rebate attached!  (FYI-No announcements, just stocking up...lots of babyshowers in the near future, or a great donation item ;)
Old Orchard Juice x2 $1.49 each-used Free coupon (up to $1.39 value), store sale-BOGO Free.  I got the free coupon as a reward from OldOrchard.com-they have a fan club where you can play games, submit questions and recipes and earn points.  It's slow, but I've decided when we have kids and they want to play games, they'll play games that win points, lol!

Rite Aid:
Sucrets x8-on sale for 2/$3, plus 1 +up reward when you buy 2 (limit of 4 +up rewards per card)  Used 8 $1 off printed manufacturer coupons.
Airwick spray-on sale for .95.  Used $1 off Rite Aid Video Value (AdPerk) coupon

Safeway:
Ken's Salad Dressing x10-on sale for .99 each (no coupon required).  I had 10 Smart Source inserts for the 3/11 newspaper for $1 off each!  My hubby loves sauces and these will make for great donation items as I don't think we can use them all by the expiration. 

Fred Meyer
Marachan Ramen Noodles x9-on price reduction for .50 each.  Used 9 .50 off coupons from the 3/11 Smart Source inserts.

Snapware x2-1.99 each regular price. We got $2 off manufacturer coupons in this Sunday's paper.

These are just the free deals we got, we purchased other things of course like milk, bread, lunch meat, etc that weren't free, but we used coupons and got deals.  Also, we were planning on other free items like Mike & Ikes, Hot Tamales, and Oreo cookies at Rite Aid but other shoppers cleared the shelves first :(  Ultimately, they weren't good for us anyway and I'm not an early morning person so I wouldn't have rushed to the store before work to snag these deals.