Good Deals

For those of you with baby's and young children here are some great printable coupons you can use:












Huggies has two awesome printables right now for $5/1 Huggies Gentle Care diapers (and products) and $3/1 Huggies Natural Fit Diapers (and products). Click here to print both - you probably have to scroll over to the 7th or 8th button. If you hit your back button you can print them twice and then it will tell you that your print limit has been reached. You do not have to use these for diapers, you can buy wipes or other products as well. Walgreens this week has an awesome deal going on where when you buy $25 worth of Kimberly Clark products, you get a $10 register reward back to use on your next in store purchase. I love doing transactions like this when it's for products I need anyways (like diapers). On Monday I went there and stocked up and I'm going back today and will use that register reward to get an even better deal. Huggies hardly ever puts out coupons like this, so when they do - take advantage of it. I've heard that Target also has wipes on sale that would make this a good deal as well.

*I will mention that the Gentle Care Diapers are only for sizes newborn and 1,2, but you can buy them for a friend or someone you know that's having a baby soon.













The next awesome printable is for Johnson Baby products which I use to stock up on FREE Johnson's Buddies soap. I love these easy grip sudzing bars and have a ton under my bathroom sink. They put out coupons for these every few months it seems and Walmart always has them priced around 97 cents making them free with these coupons. My kids love them and they smell really good, even Morgan at 21 months can grab it and scrub himself up. Follow this link to Money Saving Mom to print yours off and stock up on free soap every time you make a trip to the store.

Did you also know that Target has printable coupons? You can follow this link or visit Target's website, scroll to the bottom of the page where it says Target Stores, and under that click on grocery coupons. Sometimes even with a coupon, the products are still a little more than what I would normally pay at another store, but every once in a while they will have a really good one (like this week's $1 off Mott's single serve applesauce) that you can combine with a manufacturer coupon to get a GREAT deal. Even if the coupon printed says Super Target on it, I've never had a problem with them not accepting it, except for one experience but that's a whole other post.
Click here for another Mott's coupon for an additional 55 cents off.

I truly believe that it is not being cheap to look for good deals and bargains, but it is being a good steward of the money that you have. To me it's like flushing money down the drain if I have a coupon for something I needed and bought the item without out. This does not mean however that I buy something just because I have a coupon for it. Quite the opposite. And sometimes, word of mouth is the best way to share all of the good deals out there and we can all help each other get the best bang for our buck. So if anyone else has any great deals or finds to share please do!

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That's Good Customer Service

Back in December I took advantage of some good sales Bath & Body Works had online. I purchased some gifts and saved quite a bit thanks to their markdowns. I was totally happy with my purchase and received my order in a timely fashion.

Last week I received a letter from their customer service department saying their system had some glitches charging some patron accounts twice for their order (luckily that did not happen to me) and to make up for that, they were giving anyone who had made an online order in that time frame $25 dollars towards their online store with free shipping. Are you kidding me, how generous is that? I was so excited because they still have some great sales going on and here is what I was able to score for FREE thanks to their willingness to make sure their customers were happy:


Slatkin & Co. Vanilla Coconut Room Spray

Fekkai Haircare Glossing Cream

Sweet Pea Body Lotion

Goldie Lip Gloss in Whip It

They also threw in a free Fekkai hair mask.

This was a great opportunity for me to try out a few things that I would not normally buy. The room spray smells wonderful and the lip gloss not only smells good enough to eat, but is a very pretty pink and not sticky.

I felt like sharing this because I feel that companies who are good to their customers deserve the recognition. I'm totally loyal to places that I've had good experiences with and that offer products that I love.

*Have you had any good customer service experiences lately?

SCORE

A few weeks ago I did a post about scoring some freebies and finding good deals from different websites. Walmart.com is an excellent place to request product samples from. I like product samples a lot because #1 they are free and make the perfect travel size for trips, #2 they give you the opportunity to try products you might not usually buy and #3 they make checking the mail every day really fun because you never know what might be waiting for you. Many manufacturers offer free samples and as a bonus a lot of these come with coupons as well. Double score! On my sidebar I have a link to Freebies 4 Mom, which is a great resource.


Every time I get a freebie in the mail, I put it in a box on top of my fridge. I keep it handy in case I want to grab something like a little tube of lotion to throw in my purse, or whatever. I'm starting to run out of room though, so it might be time to get a bigger box! Here is some of what I've gotten in the last two months since I started receiving freebies:















Some things not pictured that I've gotten for free were:
-mini boxes of cereal
-mini desserts
-free camera tri-pod
-awesome coupon booklets
-magazines
-recipe booklets
-child's sippy cup

Anything I don't need or want, I can give to other people. There are lots of free baby samples that come in the mail, (usually with really good coupons and sometimes whole cans of baby formula) and since my baby isn't so little anymore I can pass those on to friends and family that can use them. Excess items can also be donated or used for care packages, and they'd be great to send to college kids or missionaries, or tuck them away in 72-hour and emergency preparedness kits - lots of uses I can think of. Our family is going to the Oregon Coast for our summer vacation next week, and usually I find myself at the store buying last minute travel sized toiletries. But this year, I've already got shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, lotion, laundry detergent, baby wash, and a cute bag to zip it all up in. For FREE!


So don't be afraid to request product samples, (only the free ones, some ask for participation in other promotions and I NEVER do those) and have fun checking your mail everyday like me!


*If you already receive freebies in the mail, what is one of your favorite things you've gotten lately, or one of the best deals you've scored?