Don't walk, RUN!!!!

I've come out of my cold induced haze from last week just in time for one of the best deals of the year.  If you haven't already done so, don't walk, RUN to your nearest Rite Aid to stock up on cold and flu medicine.  They are having an incredible Freebate sale.  Freebate is a term I've come to love.  It means you buy the product at the store and then the store reimburses the cost of the product later, so it is free except for tax.  The best part about freebates is you can use coupons in the store and you actual make money back on the product.  So for instance Triaminic Cold medicine is $3.99 this week and you can print a coupon for $2 off the product.  So in the store you pay $1.99, but Rite Aid will reimburse you the $3.99, so you've actually made $2 on the product.  And Rite Aid has an awesome rebate program.  It is all online and you just have to put your receipt number in the system and they figure out which rebates you qualify for and then at the end of the month you tell them to mail you a check.

I could not believe it when I started reading their ad yesterday and saw everything that was going to be free.  Then I went online and everyone else was saying the same thing.  I as a little concerned that everything would be gone because it is such a good sale.  When I pulled into Rite Aid this morning after dropping off kids there were tons more cars than usual on a Monday morning and I really thought I was doomed.  But they were prepared.  They had two end caps full of product right as you walked into the store.  So I got everything I wanted.  And a good deal on Halloween candy too.

If you want to print some coupons out before you go just head over to Money Saving Mom blog and she has several links to printable coupons.  I never could find off her link the one for NeilMed Nasalflo Neti Pot (but would I really use that, I'm not sure) or Simply Saline.  Be sure and scroll down and look at the comments because there were more links below that I used also.  If you buy everything there is on freebate you would spend over $140, but get it all back at the end of the month.  I only got what I really thought we would use.  I know we'll use the TheraFlu, Comtex, Litlle Cold, Triminic Night Time, Cold Sore Medicine and a bunch of sore throat losengers.


And the awesome cashier even gave me extra coupons for my Hershey Bliss.  They are on sale for $2.50 and I had a coupon for $1.25 off and she pulled out another $1 off coupon from behind, so I paid .25 a bag for those, score!  I love the 1600 North Rite Aid!

Did I Rob the Store?

I just returned from my local Sears Grand store and I feel like I robbed the store. You all know I'm a bargain hunter and will drive across town to save $10. Well, 2 1/2 weeks ago my friend, Rynele, told me Sears was clearancing last year's School Uniforms brand, TKS, because they are selling Dockers brand School Uniforms this year.  So I went and stocked up on what they had for Jessica and John.  There wasn't much in Ashley's size but she got a couple of shirts.  They wore this brand all last year and they were great.  So I was excited to get them at about $6 an item for pants and $3.49 for shirts.

Jump to today --  She e-mailed me to tell me they were now all ringing up at .49 cents a piece and if I brought in my receipt they would do a price adjustment since it had been less than 30 days.  So I finally made it over there tonight and surprise, they were  now another 40% off, so they were now just .29 cents a piece.  So I got $90 back from my original transaction and cleared the racks of anything they might wear in the next two years.  They even let me keep the hangers!  I spent another whopping $11.  That was for 9 pants, 8 shirts and a pair of swim trunks that were $5.99!

I felt just like this lady on the Ikea Commercial!