Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Don't have coupons? But want to get on this week's sales? Here's step-by-step instructions!

I'll teach you to buy 73 items for $4.17 this week!

Are you just starting to “coupon” and don’t have very many coupons? Here’s step-by-step instructions how you can go out & buy 16 Banquet meals, 12 Banquet fruit pies, 32 Chefboyardee, 2 Banquet chicken nuggets (big bags!), 2 Banquet Brown ‘N Serve sausage, 3 Kraft BBQ sauce, 1 2-liter Coca-Cola and 5 Hunts ketchup for $4.17 without having any coupons to start with!

Too good to be true? I’m going to do this exact scenario I put together on Thursday & I’ll post my results to show you the proof. To make this scenario work, you must do it this week while the sales are happening.

Step 1.) Go to Target

Target is having a great frozen food sale right now. When you buy any 7 frozen items, you get back a $5 gift card. *Note, this is a regional sale so make sure yours is participating first.

There are specially marked Banquet meals say on the front bottom right corner – Save $4 on Great brands! These are the ones you want.

Buy 7 specially marked Banquet meals @ $.84 each x 7 = $5.88 - $5GC = $.88 or $.13 each.

Step 2.) Cut out the $.40/2 Banquet Fruit pies Qs & go back to target. (Honestly, I’d just do this in the parking lot. You don’t really need the boxes anyway – just take the meal from the box & cut out the coupons)

Step 3.) Go back to Target

Buy 12 Banquet fruit pies & 9 more banquet meals. You can do 1 transaction if you don’t mind a higher OOP (out of pocket) & just use the $5 gift card from step 1 to pay & pay the rest yourself, but get back 3 more $5 gift cards. Or split it up in 3 identical transactions like this to minimize cost:

Each transaction:
4 Fruit pies @ $.64 each
3 Banquet meals @ $.84 each
Subtotal = $5.08 – 2 $.40/2 Q = $4.28
Pay with previous gift card from step 1
Receive back $5. You just made $.72!

So in the end, you paid $12.84 & received back $15 in gift cards. So you have a profit of $2.16.
     
Note: You have to split up the transactions this way because to earn each $5 gift card, your total of the 7 items must be at least $5. Or you can pay all at once & get the gift cards back. Your OOP would be $7.84 (assuming you use the first $5 GC) and you’d have $15 in gift cards to spend later. Same result, just a higher initial investment. Worried about the time, or line at the register, or how you'll look if you do 4 transactions? Don't! If you're organized, it will go very quickly. Paying with the gift cards are fast! And usually people are amazed with my savings & don't mind the wait. Just tell the cashier that you have to split it up.

Of course you can keep doing this, but I’m betting most people don’t have the freezer space for this. However, we are donating the Banquet pies because we don’t eat them & are getting paid to buy them!

Step 4.) Cut out the $.50/2 Chef Boyardee coupons from 16 Banquet boxes & cut out 2 of the $.50/1 Banquet boneless chicken coupons.

Step 5.) Go to Kroger or Dillons or any other of the Kroger affiliate stores. They are having the Daytona mega sale. For this promotion, when you buy any 10 participating items, you get $3 off instantly & you also get a $3 coupon back to use on your next purchase (you can only use 1 of these per transaction though).

Buy 32 cans Chef Boyardee (coupon excludes the minis), 2 bags Banquet chicken nuggets, 2 Banquet Brown ‘n Serve sausage,  3 Kraft BBQ sauce and 1 Coca-Cola 2 Liter. Again you can pay in 1 transaction, or break it up in 4 to maximize the use of the $3 coupons that will print. If you are breaking your transactions up, here’s what I recommend.

Transaction 1:
8 Chef Boyardee @ $.99 each = $7.92
2 Kraft BBQ sauce @ $.99 each = $1.98
Subtotal before coupons = $9.90
- $3 mega instant savings
- $4 for 5 $.50/2 coupons – doubled
Total = $2.90
Receive back $3 OYNO (on your next order) coupon ($.10 profit)

Transaction 2:
8 Chef Boyardee @ $.99 each = $7.92
1 Banquet chicken nuggets @ $3.99
1 Banquet Brown ‘N Serve sausage @ $.99
Subtotal before coupons= $12.90
-    $3 mega instant savings
-    $4 for 4 $.50/2 coupons – doubled
-    $1 for $.50/1 coupon – doubled
-    $3 OYNO coupon from previous transaction
Total = $1.90
Receive back $3 OYNO coupon

Transaction 3: Same as #2

Transaction 4:
8 Chef Boyardee @ $.99 each = $7.92
1 Kraft BBQ sauce @ $.99
1 2-L Coca-Cola @ $1.29
Subtotal before coupons = $10.20
-    $3 mega instant savings
-    $4 for 4 $.50/2 coupons – doubled
-    $3 OYNO from previous transaction
Total = $.20
Receive back $3 OYNO coupon

Your total OOP expense is $6.90 + you have a $3 OYNO coupon for you to use anytime in the next 2 weeks, for a final cost of $3.90. My Kroger stores(Dillon's here) all have self checkouts, so it's easy to do multiple transactions.

Step 6: Cut out 5 of the $.35/1 Hunt’s Ketchup coupons & go to Hyvee on Thursday 2/24

Buy 5 Hunt’s Ketchup @ $.66 each = $3.30
-    $1.75 for 5 $.35/1 coupons = $1.75
Total = $1.55

Step 7: Cut out the rest of your coupons & wait for the next great sale! Relax & bask in the glory of how much money you can save with coupons.

Here’s the remaining coupons to use from inside the banquet boxes that don’t expire until 5/2012:
10 $.40/2 Banquet fruit pies
16 $.25/1 Banquet homestyle bakes
14 $.50/1 Banquet boneless chicken bag
11 $.35/1 Hunt’s Ketchup
16 $1/2 Chunch ‘n Munch (12oz+)
16 $1/2 Act II popcorn (3pk+)

Here’s the final tally:
16 Banquet meals
12 Banquet fruit pies
32 Chefboyardee
2 Banquet chicken nuggets (big bags!)
2 Banquet Brown ‘N Serve sausage
3 Kraft BBQ sauce
1 2-liter Coca-Cola
5 Hunts ketchup

Cost for all 73 items = $4.17!!!

If you don’t have a Hyvee, you just can’t get the ketchup, but you can still get everything else!

1 comment:

  1. This is a great post! I can't wait to try it.
    Thanks so much

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