The Joy of Football Cpn List From Safeway Stores

I think I saw a sign for The Joy of Football coupon book in every aisle of the North Pole, AK Safeway last night but the only place to actually find the book was at a display at the front of the store (only 3) and a few at customer service.  The store was dead last night and the display was empty when I left.  It looks like it can only hold about 15 at a time so that could be why they are always out.  I don't know why they made the holder so small knowing these things are packed with over $70 of savings!  
  
Manufacture Coupons
$1/4 Rotel Diced Tomatoes 10oz or Rosarita Refried Beans 8oz, Ex 2/28
$.75/1 12 pack 7UP, Sunkist, Canada Dry, or A&W, Ex 2/28
$.75/1  Pillsbury Crescent Dinner Rolls, Ex 3/31
$2/4 Pepsi Product 12 pack, Ex 2/19

Fred Meyer and Safeway Catalina List

It has been a couple weeks since I have done any serious grocery shopping.  I think my husband is starting to get a little annoyed that all the food in our house needs to be prepared.  He is more a microwave cook.  So this week I need to plan a serious grocery trip.  I'm going to hit Safeway and Freds and I'm going to hit them hard.  I'm thinking the damage will be about 3 grocery carts full between the two.  The cupboards look that empty.  And it is even worse since (bragging) my husband and father-in-law built me a new pantry.  It is amazing, huge, and in need of food.  I went to my favorite blog sites to get a good catalina list but found they were all sparse or expired.  So today I spent way to much time putting together a list and can only justify the time spent if I share it with you.  :)


Safeway

Buy Carnation Breakfast Essentials 10 & 8-count boxes of powder OR ready-drink 4-packs
between 1/8 and 1/31
Buy 2, Receive $1.00 OYNO
Buy 3, Receive $1.50 OYNO
Buy 4 or more, Receive $2.00 OYNO

Cellfire Promotion Tomorrow 1/27

On Thursday at 9AM alaska standard time Cellfire is going to be giving away coupons worth $.50, $1, $2, and $5.  Log in to your cellfire account and look for this coupon to add electronically to your Fred Meyer card.  Good Luck!

MORE Wendy's Free Fries Coupons Through Facebook *UPDATED TWICE

I really like Wendy's new fries.  I've already used two coupons from their last promotion I posted about.  The value size is very tiny but I guess that just means you don't have to worry about them getting cold.  Fairbanks has updated to the Sea Salt Fries but North Pole as of Tuesday still tastes like the old ones.

I'm a little confused about this new promotion, FRY-FOR-ALL .  It is simple enough to get the coupon for a value sized fry but your level (small, medium, large) doesn't change the size on the fry coupon.  I think that is a little misleading.  But the 5 people who cashed in on your small fry catergory can replay towards the 15 coupons in the medium category to try for the instant win prizes.  That last sentence will make a lot more sense if you look HERE at the promotion page.  You can also win prizes but I'll just be excited to get a medium fry.  I'll post an update if I find out more.  But these have reset so even if you printed from the last promotion this past weekend you can print 2 more.  Even though you can only print two per facebook account, I was able to print 4 on one computer by using my husband's page.

*Update...  After the first 5 fries are taken from your post, the promotion makes it so you have to open the next package of coupons.  So now you have a new link to post on your wall because the old link will say you are out of coupons to share.  This is the most complicated promotion I have ever seen. 

Hallmark's New $5 off $5 purchase

Save $5 on you total purchase at Hallmark Gold Crown Stores between 12/3/10-12/5/10.  Go HERE for the coupon.  I was able to print two but it states one per customer.  I wonder if my three year old counts as a customer?

Free Natural Cut Fries with Sea Salt at Wendys

Get your free coupon HERE for a free Value Sized Natural-Cut Fry with Sea Salt at Wendys.

Bloggers... 50 Free Holiday Cards from Shutterfly

I just signed up for this so I can't confirm if it is working myself but the friend that posted this information said it worked for her.  Thanks Jamie!
 
"Shutterfly has compiled fresh and fabulous holiday cards we’re proud to showcase and we’re eager to hear which holiday designs are your favorite. If you would like to contribute a blog write up and receive 50 free holiday cards."

Wii Games At Freds + Free Turkey Out

I haven't looked at too many blogs to see if this deal has posted but I thought I should let you know just in case.  Freds if have a great deal right now on Wii games.  I wonder if they are panicking because of the new motion sensors coming out for other games.  We have had Wii for a bit now.  But I think we only average adding about 2.5 games a year.  And the last one we got was at Christmas last year.  So here is the amazing deal...

-Saving Certifitate that can be used in the electronic section.  It can be found in the two days sales ad released Friday and the Saturday one day sales ad.  $10/$50, $20/$100, and $30/$150.
-10% off Wii Software coupon found in weekly electronic ad and two day ad for Friday and Saturday.
-Coupon hanging next to Wii Games.  Get $25 Fred Meyer gift card when you purchase two wii games $29.99 and up.

The guy helping me couldn't have been nicer but I had taken so much of his time asking him about certain games that I didn't want to keep him any longer by trying out the coupons.   I want to know if I can use the 10% on the $29.99 games and still get the gift card.  Will the register still see them as $29.99 games or now see them as less?  I guess I'll find out tomorrow.  And lately instead of handing out gift cards the people at the registers just ask me if I want it deducted off my bill.  Be careful if you do that because that might change your savings certificate.

Also note that you should give them your $25 coupon before the certificate because that could also change the amount of the games to under $29.99.  So I'll be giving them my coupons in this order $25 gift card, saving certificate, and then the 10% off if they let me.

Ok and not to get you all too confused but don't forget to use your free turkey coupons too.  They came in Wednesdays paper with some other nice coupons.  The woman at customer service was kind enough to let me know that she thinks there will be another free turkey coupon in Sundays paper.  I can't post the other coupons right now without waking my son.  If I remember two of them were for eggs and soup.  And then they had an advertisement for really cheap potatoes.  10 pounds for $1.98.  So the plan for tomorrow is games, groceries and the turkey.     

Hello Again

Well I got back from a much needed trip to PA to see my family.  I feel refreshed.  And life seems very different now for some reason.  My husband has a new job.  He is now on the road to becoming a journeyman in about 5 years.  It is like there is a light at the end of the tunnel of all this penny pinching.  If I just keep on saving what I can, we might actually build a savings account.  And last month we paid off the last of our medical bills.  (And the angels sing!)

Also, I started remodeling againg.  We started 3.5 years ago.  There was this plan to move to Kenai.  But when my son was born 14 weeks premature it just stopped.  And then building supplies became the last thing on the list when it came to spending money.  So we have been living in the hands of disorganization.  And I'll tell you a secret that I'm a little embarrassed to admit.  I'm a sucker for that new Nate show.  The guy that was always on Oprah.  I always thought "Who is going to watch that show?" when I saw it advertised.  ME!  I don't know why but I love it.  It motivates me.

Let me tell you about my home.  I have been told by a construction worker who built the house behind us that the people who built my house asked them how to do certain work because they flat didn't know how to build certain things.  So we found pipes that were just capped, our ventilation fans leaked in water from the snow, drywall was cut short, framing needed to be recut, and the list goes on.  So..... after the huge list of major problems got fixed (including a new leach field for our 5 year old house) we are making it look better on the outside too.  Sorry to those of you that are fans of popcorn ceilings but they had to go.  And with 7 dogs we ended up taking the carpet out.  So right now the thing that is taking up most my time is taking skim coating the walls and taping up the gaps.  And then sanding.  And then doing it all over again... a couple times.  So thank the Lord for the Nate Show and the motivation it gives me.

I am not couponing like I used to be but I am looking for deals and cooking from scratch or semi-scratch.  Today I made 4 lasagnas.  So I plan on posting here and there about some good deals that I've found and haven't seen posted on other sites.  Maybe I'll even post some remodeling pictures too.  I've very excited about this winter.  I think its going to be a good one!   

Where did I go?

"Where have I been?" will probably be a theme until October.  Things have been really crazy and stressful.  I just really like doing the blog and was really difficult for me to just stop checking for deals.  It took me probably three weeks to get my priorities in order.  It hit me one day that Alaska sets my priorities as far as chores/tasks.  Berry picking is not more important than planning my shopping list.  But there is only a short time that I can blueberry pick.  So I'm starting to look more at the time frame I'm dealing with.  It has really cut down on feeling like "I'm running out of time!"  I'm just having trouble picking what is actually important to accomplish.   

Very important family time is going to keep me away until October.  Until I leave for my trip I have a lot of summer stuff to wrap up and prepare for winter.  Summer has always been short and I'm going to have to cut it even shorter this year.  But it is for good reason.  And since this trip is going to be on the longer side I want to spend as much time as possible with the husband.  So until I type again...  I hope you all have a great rest of summer and enjoy the sunshine!