Please see previous post for Hy-vee deals. Here are a few of my favorite deals from other stores around town.

Bag N Save

• Green Giant Steamers $.88 (LOTS of coupon match ups possible! Please click here to see a list of possible coupons you might have or could print.)
• Kraft Cheese 8 oz (shread or chunk) $.99 each with in ad coupon when you buy 5 or $1.19 each
• King's Hawaiian Bread  2 /$5 (and it says "see deli for $.40 coupon) (There were coupons in the Red Plum Sunday insert on both 1/31/10 and 3/21/10 for $1/2)
• Campbells Cream of Chicken or Cream of Mushroom soup $.55 each (There is a Printable coupon for $1/2 here so you could use that and get them for $.05 each.)

Super Saver

• Dozen Medium eggs $.98 each
• 4 lb Strawberries $4.48 (making them only $1.12/lb)
• Dole 20 oz Pineapple $.86
• Cantelope $.98 each
• Best Choice French Fried Onions 6 oz $1.84
• Leg of Lamb $3.98/lb (I am Greek, so this is an Easter "must have")
• Purified Water refills $.08
• Easter Bushel Baskets $.68

Bakers (Not really impressed this week, but one thing I need to mention for my husband's sake!)

• Prime Rib Roast $4.99/lb

No Frills Fresh

• Spiral Sliced Ham $1.48/lb
• Our family Butter 1 lb $.99 (limit 1-additional are $1.48/lb)
• Our Family canned vegetables 3/$1 (Limit 12 then additional cost $.43 each)

Aldi's

• Baby Carrots $.49/pkg
• Garden Salad $.39/bag
• Potatoes $1.39/10-lb bag

Please note that there are MANY coupons out there that can match up with some of these items. I have noted a few of the coupon match ups that I found. Please feel free to let me know if you found a great deals or coupon match up that I did not list here! Thanks!

Here are my favorite sale items from this weeks Hy-Vee ad (running today 3/31-Tues 4/6):

• Coke 12 packs 4/$10 with in ad coupon
• Lay's Potato Chips $1.77
• Celery stalk $.59
• Nabisco Crackers $1.88

Plus Hy-Vee has a special ad going on tomorrow, Thursday April 1-Saturday April 3 as well (This came in the mail yesterday). My favorites from that ad are:

•  7Up, A&W, Sunkist, Dr Pepper (yeah), RC & Diet Rite 12 packs are (gasp) 4/$8.88! What?! Only $2.22 each?!
• Cook's Ham Portions $.98/lb
• Hy-Vee Whole Bone in Spiral Sliced Hams $1.68/lb (Half bone in Sliced Hams are $1.98/lb)

You can get a free sample of Dove Mens Care body and face wash by requesting it here.

Thanks Mojo Savings.

Update: I just checked for today's deals, and it looks like htey are the same ones as last night: Garden Cafe, Big Brain Productions, and Sam & Louies! Yum! But I also noticed that in their Clearance tab, they have 65% off The Rug Shop and 60% off Wake 'n Skate Boardhouse. Check the clearance section here.

Did you know that KMTV news in Omaha has a Deals portion of their website called The Right Price? They have made deals with area restaurants and businesses where they can get 1/2 off gift certificates for you and me! Seriously, there are some great deals at great places.

You have to pay attention to the deals though! To quote their website "At 10:00 AM each Wednesday, we'll open up the ONLINE store for that week's business. But you have to be fast - we are only able to provide a limited number of gift certificates per week."

Go check out their website here.

So, April Fools Day tomorrow, huh? GOt any big jokes planned? I have nothing planned and my son just this morning asked me if I was going to so the same trick for dinner as I did last year or if I had something better planned...oh no...I started something last year and I cannot live up...that is where I need your ideas!

Every year when she was alive, my aunt Cathy would do the same April Fools joke: put a rubber band on the kitchen sink sprayer so the first person to turn it on would get sprayed. And every year my Papou (that means grandpa in Greek) would humor her and get sprayed adn act surprised. This went on for 50 years...yes 50.

Two years ago on April 8, Cathy passed away, so last April Fools I was feeling nostalgic and felt I had to do something big in her honor...

Last year I made little "cupcakes" for dinner and "french fries" for dessert. The cupcakes were actually meatloaf with pink colored mashed potato "frosting" and the fries were actually pillsbury dough bakes and sprinkled with sugar. Here is a picture:

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How is the world do I top that (with minimal cost)? Ideas welcome! In fact, I am begging for ideas...Please...

I do not drink coffee, but I love flavored steamed milk or Hot Chocolate. So, I am always excited for creamer coupons/deals or flavor deals. So, I am REALLY excited for this free sample!! Right now you can request a sample of Splenda "Flavors for Coffee" product. Hazelnut (my favorite flavor) and Mocha flavor are avaliable to request. Click here to make your request!

Thanks Combat Clippers.

Yesterday I posted a blog about my borther's awesoem service project here. Please take the time to read all about it, but even if you don't read that whole explaination, basically he is collecting toys adn rollerblades to donate to the Kidstar Program at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Hospital. It is a GREAT cause!

If you are considering donating something but do not have a lot of money, I just wanted to let you know a couple things.

First, there are many toy and game coupons available from Hasbro here. Using those coupons, you can score some pretty great deals at Walmart with their everyday prices. Second, often you can find sales going on which you can combine with the coupons to get great deals!

One of those great deals is going on today only at Toys R Us. Their Deal of the Day is My Little Pony B1G1. If you have your Hasbro Insert from the Sunday paper on 3/21, there is a B1G1 free coupon for My Little Pony in there. So, presumably, if this works at Toys R Us like it does at other places, they should both be free. You can also print out that same B1G1 coupon at the Hasbro site here. (Thanks Couponing to Disney.

Why, you ask, would those be free?! Basically it is like getting 1 free from the store (in this case Toys R Us) and 1 free from the manufacturer. Manufacturers coupons are just another form of payment like a check or credit card or cash as far as th stores are concerned. So, when the store has a B1G1 sale and you have a manufacturers coupon for B1G1, the store is giving you one free on their sale. You give them the coupon which gives you 1 free from the manufacturer, and the store gets the money from the manufacturer (which is why the coupon is like cash to them).

WOW!! Graveyard Mall's deal today is pretty sweet! It is a scrapbooking book called "This is My Story". It comes in a 2 pack for only $12.99 today (compare at $79.98). This is such a great deal that I suspect it will go quickly!!

It includes:

Album
44 scrapbook pages
24 page protectors
20 sheets of elements
2 sheets of stickers
CD-Rom with printable journal boxes, frames, alphabet letters, Bible verses and more

How neat is this? You can buy it here.

How fun is this?! Today's Groupon is $6 for Three Rounds of Laser Tag at ZZZAP! Laser Adventures! That is $9 or 60% off! NICE!! You CAN split this between 3 people!!

As with all the deals, make sure you check out the fine print before purchasing. To sign up for Groupons, click on my referral link here (this does NOT commit you to buying any deal-you choose what you buy) and to see the Omaha page, including today's deal, click here.

Not sure what Groupons is? Then click here to read all about it!

Did you know that you can buy your diapers, wipes and formula from Amazon? They provide an easy and convenient way to buy the essentials for any baby. With Amazon you get:

• Free 2-Day Shipping on all diapers, wipes, and formula sold by Amazon
• An additional 15% savings through their auto-delivery program, Subscribe & Save.
• They sell popular brands like Pampers, Seventh Generation, Huggies, and Similac

To start shopping for your baby essentials on Amazon, click here.

My 12-yr-old brother is doing a very cool service project that he just emailed me about. I think it is a very good cause, and worth donating too. I do not have a lot of money to donate, but recently I have gotten a lot of great toy deals, and I cannot think of a better place for those toys to go than to this project! Please read this post through and if you are willing and able to donate, please email me at beckeesdeals@gmail.com and I will let you know where to send donations! Thanks you for reading this and considering a donation! Here is the email from my brother:

Hi everyone:
I am doing a service project for Hope of America, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club.

I have decided to collect items for the Kidstar Program at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Hospital. This is a great place that helps kids who are having trouble with depression and other emotional things. Kidstar is the school program for kids younger than 12. Some of the kids stay at the hospital all the time and some just come during the day for school. I have a friend who was helped a great deal by this program, and his mom said they really need some things for the kids at the school.

The items needed are (appropriate for 3-12 years old): legos, toys, puzzles, board games, dress-ups (boys and girls), and dolls. If you have any of these things you can contribute, either new or gently used (please make sure all pieces are there), I would really appreciate it. If you would rather send me a gift card or cash donation, I will turn those into one or more of these items.

If I am able to collect enough card/cash donations, I am going to buy some roller blades, which is a special physical activity reward given to kids staying in the hospital.The kids don't get to keep the roller blades, but they use them in the gym at the hospital.

If you can help, please respond to this email, and I will arrange to pick up the items, or tell you where to send them. I would like to have everything collected by April 18 so that I can deliver by April 28.

Thank you very much for any help you can give.

Sincerely,
Spencer

If you are a member of  Vocalpoint, go check your email! You can sign up to try Pantene specifically for your type of hair right now! I think everyone must be trying to get this right now because it took me forever to request mine, but it finally worked! If you are a Vocalpoint member, go log in and request your Panttene before it is gone. And if you are not a mamber, join now so you too can test out awesome items when they come available! Click here to get to the Vocalpoint page.

Simply put I think this is an awesome freebie and I can't wait to get mine! What a great teaching tool to have at hand with my kids! Reuest a free "pocket Constitution" here.

Thanks Moms by Heart!

Well, I have convinced a few of you to join Swagbucks, but I do not think I have fully explained how to utilize it to make as many Swagbucks as possible. Luckily, Swagbucks has a page that explains how you can get points. So, if I have not yet convinced you to join, this is a good time to do it by clicking on my referral link here. After you join, please read this page at Swagbucks and learn about all the ways to earn!

Did you know that KMTV news in Omaha has a Deals portion of their website called The Right Price? They have made deals with area restaurants and businesses where they can get 1/2 off gift certificates for you and me! Seriously, there are some great deals at great places.

You have to pay attention to the deals though! To quote their website "At 10:00 AM each Wednesday, we'll open up the ONLINE store for that week's business. But you have to be fast - we are only able to provide a limited number of gift certificates per week."

So, you will want to check tomorrow morning for their newest deals! Right now though they have Garden Cafe, Big Brain Productions, and Sam & Louies! Yum!

Go check out their website here.

My sister, Andrea, and her husband are very tight with sticking to their budget and they have a lot of good tips and tricks for sticking with a budget. To try to share some of the lessons they have learned and the ways they budget, Andrea has started a budgeting blog called Budgeting our Way to Financial Freedom. It is brand new, but I think it already has some good tips and ideas, so please go check it out here.

To request a FREE sample of Hussana face cream, click here. 

Thanks Mojo Savings.

This is really neat! April 17-25 is National Park Week and to celebrate that, the National Park Service is waiving entrance fees to ALL 392 national parks!! Please see details here. Also, some of the national park concessioners are offering special promotions as well. You can see those detalis here.

Thanks Coupons Deals & More.

Are you in college? Do you love Disney? Would you be interestd in a FREE screening of Toy Story 3? If you answered yes to these questions, you will want to go here to the Disney Pixar Facebook page for more details on how you can possibly see a free screening of Toy Story 3 (you will have to have a studet id).

Thanks Money Saving Madness.

I LOVE free Photo books! In fact all the free photo books in December were a major factor in me starting this blog.

So, I am pleased to share with you that another company, Picaboo is offering free photo books to new customers. Just click here to get signed up with them and to claim your free photo book with code AFFLGB.

Offer is good until March 31, 2010. Your free book includes 20 pages and you choose from large classic, classic leather or classic custom photo book (a $39.99 value). You will have to pay shipping costs ($8.99) and any tax. But still a good deal-these look like really high quality. I have not done mine yet, but I hear you have to download their program to make your book. Just an FYI!

Today only The Body Shop has Body Butter full size products 3/$30. This is an online only special, so click here to start shopping!

OK, I love that the Graveyardmall.com says "where high prices come to die". That is awesome! Anyway, I think the Graveyard Mall Deal of the Day today is pretty interesting. For $9.99 you get 50 assorted Marvel Comics (Spider Man, X-Men & more). If you are a comic book fan this looks like the deal for you! Check it out here.

Today's Groupon is $25 for a Lip, Eyebrow, and Bikini Wax at Viziato Skin Care Studio ($62 Value). That is 60% off.

As with all the deals, make sure you check out the fine print before purchasing. To sign up for Groupons, click on my referral link here (this does NOT commit you to buying any deal-you choose what you buy) and to see the Omaha page, including today's deal, click here.

Not sure what Groupons is? Then click here to read all about it!

***Update: Evidently they have been blocking account access today for entering the codes online. So, don't enter them. Please see Couponing to Disney's post about this issue here.***

Are you a member of Disney Movie Rewards? If so, you will want to see the list of current codes on the Couponing to Disney blog. You can see that here.

If you are not a member of Disney Movie Rewards, I think it is worth joining. I just did today and entered 10 codes (which I learned is the limit you can enter per day) and still have more codes to enter from the list mentioned above as well as codes in my 3 new Disney Movies (The Princess and the Frog, Toy Story & Toy Story 2). AND evidently you can get points for seeing Disney movies in the theatre, so when we go see Toy Story 3 it will give me points too. Wow, that is a lot of points I have been missing! Another wayo to earn points is to refer friends through email, so if you want to join, I would love to be able to email you an invitation to join-just let me know you are interested by emailing me at beckeesdeals(at)gmail.com Or if you just want to join without that hassle you can just join here (I won't get referral points that way, but that's ok).

Just went to Walgreens and Hy-Vee and got some free stuff and great deals. Here is what I got:

The picture above is from my Walgreens reciept. I spent $12.35 out of pocket and saved a total of $18.94 between Walgreens store savings and Manufaturers coupons. Here is what I bought:

• 4  12-packs of Diet Coke with Lime ($2.60 each)
• 1  12-pack of Sprite zero ($2.60)
• 1 12 pack of Cottonelle Toilet paper ($4)
• I used a $5 RR

The picture above is from my first transaction at Hy-vee where I got 17 items for only $15.14 and I saved $23.70 in coupons. Many of the items were free because I had free coupons for them. Here is what I bought at Hy-Vee in that transaction:

• 1 Campbell's Chunky Soup $.89-coupon peelie for $.75 = $.14
• 1 6-pack Orville Reddenbacher popcorn (FREE with coupon from Vocalpoint)
• 1 bag Sunchips (FREE with coupon from Sunchips Facebook fan page promotion)
• 1 20 0z Vitamin Water (FREE with coupon from Vitamin Water Facebook fan page promotion)
• 3 Keeblers UpBeat drinks 1 FREE with online coupon, Other 2 B1G1 coupon at store=$1.68 total
• 1 Silk Almond Milk  $3.66-$1 coupon=$2.66
• 2 Gallons Chocolate Milk (FREE with catalinas from cereal the other day)
• 4 bags Kraft shredded sharp cheddar cheese on sale 2/$3, had coupons there for $1 off 2 bags, so ended up as 2/$2 or a total of $4 for the 4
• 3 soda 12 packs on the 4/$8.88 sale. I have no clue how I forgot to grab a 4th one...oh well. they were $2.22 each anyway.

I did a second transaction at Hy-vee where I bought 7 more Frosted Flakes boxes for a total of $6.16 + I got back 3 coupons for free milk valued at up to $4.19 each(for a total of $12.57 in free milk). Best thing there is the cereal boxes also have codes to enter online to earn free Toy Story 3 prizes and with 6 codes I get a free movie pass to see the movie in the theatres. I have 7 codes in the 7 boxes!!