Sorry but I really have a charge on this. Like I said, in the before days, I thought nothing of paying $10 a pack for diapers. Then I realized I had been paying $10, twice a week for something I THREW AWAY and would pay $10, twice a week for the next 102 weeks. Yikes, it really adds up fast! I have made it my mission to reduce that as much as humanly possible. For starters, I started combining the coupons I got in the paper with sales and found that I could get a jumbo pack for about $5-6. Then I started paying attention to drugstore ads, rebates and ecoupons. I hadn't been to a drugstore in years, since I discovered Target and thought it would be too time consuming. But if I look at saving $20 for 20 minutes of my time it starts to make a lot of sense. Originally our plan to "save money" on diapers was to buy at Sam's Club. Once I was enlightened I realized that the price per diaper was much, much higher there. Still better in a pinch than the grocery store, in order to really save I had to venture into the drugstores. For example, earlier this year Rite Aid did a P & G promotion. I think it was a $35 Visa card rebate for every $100 spent on P&G products. So I bought a big box of Pampers for $19.99 and something else P G to get to $25 (Pantene or wipes?) and used the $5/$25 readily available on the Internet, and used the manufacturer coupons I requested from the websites (more on that later), bringing my total to $13 a box. Did this several times. Then I got a $35 rebate and various incentives and "single check rebates" from Rite Aid. I also used those receipts for P&G's promotion for a coupon book (x2) which netted me several free rolls of paper towels, free Olay cleaners (which I sent in for another rebate) and various other discounts. In the end, very little out of pocket 300 diapers, 8 bottles of Olay, may free paper towels. Albertsons' recently did a promotion for P & G where you got $10 back for every $25 spent. So again, I used my coupons, sent in for rebates and got a very good deal. Last month I bought Pampers packs at Safeway for $2.99 a pack. Signed up online for P & G ecoupons (ecoupons are our friends!), used store sale coupon for $7.99, had $2 ecoupon and $3 manufacturer coupon. You can get Huggies at Walgreens during a promotion for about $3.99 a pack and Rite Aid does a promotion where you get a free pack for every certain number you buy ( I think it's 5 or 6). Coupons. com had had a $3 off printable lately (send me your name and email if you want to turn printing grocery coupons into a money maker) so as long as you are not running low you can usually buy these a few packs at a time and still qualify for the free pack. Pampers and Huggies both have rewards programs. I saved up my Pampers rewards for a free Diego potty seat (retails value about $10) and have won many times on Huggies when I play late at night when the site is less busy. They both offer rewards like gift cards for Starbucks, Kohl's, Visa or free products. I won on Huggies twice in about 5 minutes when I was playing late at night. I used those 2 free product coupons at Rite Aid to get closer to my free pack, meaning I only spent about $12 for 6 packs. Hopefully I will be able to upload pictures soon but this week Rite Aid was having a 50% off sale on Mega packs. These are not as big as box but larger than Jumbo's. So I signed up for the rewards card, printed 4 John Frieda hair care coupons (I had already used the ones that came in the paper) & printed a $5 off $25. The hair products were 4/$20 with a $10 "reward". So I used the $10 in manufacturer coupons, bought some fillers (got some free Splenda and Stayfree) to get to $25. My out of pocket was about $6. Then I used the $10 reward to buy a mega pack of Huggies ($8.99 and $3 off) and a pack of Pampers training pants (6.99 and $2 off) for a total of $1.01. So basically $7 for two large packs of diapers, Splenda, 4 packs of Stayfree and four hair products. Much less than I used to spend and I will save the receipts in case any rebates come up.
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