Along my shopping adventures, I am always making mental notes…mental notes of items that I often see coupons for, that I use often and where they can be found with the lowest price.

For instance, I know that the [pictured above] Pedigree Dentastix and 40 ct. Snuggle Fabric softeners are both normally priced $2 each at Dollar General. Every other month or so, the Sunday coupons typically include a $2 coupon for the Dentastix*freeee-bbiiieee – sung operatically* and some sort of coupon for Snuggle.

For some reason, the Snuggle coupons were having a hard time ringing through. The cashier said, “The register won’t ring all of these up.” Since I already know the Dollar General coupon policy, I asked her why? She just stared at me because she had no answer. So, she went to ask a manager and then entered them all. If you ever have a coupon question, don’t be afraid to ask a store manager. Remember, it’s YOUR money you’re spending.

Here’s how my Dollar General Mini-Stock Up went today:

• 7 Dentastix: $14.00 – (7x) $2.00 Sunday coupons = 7 FREE
• 6 Snuggle: $12.00 – (3x) $2 off two Sunday coupons – (Store BONUS) buy 2+ get $2 off = $4.00
• Subtotal: $4.00
• Tax: $1.82
• Total: $5.82

Looovveee Itttttt!

It’s been nice – extra days off of work for me AND hubby, getting tasks accomplished playing X-Box Kinect and visiting with family members who are in town from Pennsylvania talking about people.

Just because I haven’t been online much doesn’t mean I haven’t gotten some great deals. As I was getting caught up on coupon clipping, I noticed that many coupons expire today – I can’t let THAT happen! So…here is what I found on my coupon almost freebie crawl:

Dollar General

• Snuggle 40ct. fabric softener: $2.00 – $.75 Sunday coupon = $1.25
• 8 Dentastix: $16.00 – (8x) $2.00 Sunday coupons = Eight FREE

Total Paid: $1.25 + tax

(Also, a $5/$25 coupon printed on the end of the receipt for January 1st use only)

Family Dollar

• 4 Snausages: $4.00 – (4x) $1.00 Sunday coupons = Four FREE
• 50 ct. Splenda: $2.50 – $1.00 Coupon (found at Kroger) = $1.50
• 5 Quaker Oatmeal 7 pk. boxes: $11.25 – (5x) $1.00 Sunday coupons = $6.25 for Five
• Giant Christmas Bag: $1.00 – 50% off = $.50
• 15 paper Christmas bags: $3.75 – 50% off = $1.80 for Fifteen

Total Paid: $10.05 + tax

Walmart

• 11 bags 12 ct. disposable Schick razors: $21.67 – (11x) $2.00 Sunday coupons = Eleven Free PLUS $.33 -  Yes, they paid me to buy these.
• 2 Always liners: $1.86 – (2x) $1.00 Mailer coupons = Two Free PLUS $.14 – Yup, paid me for these too.
• 4 Athenos Greek Yogurts: $4.00 – (2x) $2/2 printable coupons = Four FREE – What? no payment? sheesh.
• Simply Yogurt Tubes: $2.50 – $2.50 Blogspark coupon = FREE
• Simply French Bread: $2.38 – $2.38 Blogspark coupon = FREE

Total Paid: NOTHING…and earned $.47

Well, actually, they won’t give you money back. I also had a few after-Christmas items, so that change was just subtracted from my already 50% off deals.

After all was said and done, I paid:

$10.73 (plus tax) for $72.91 worth of items.

Not too shabbeh.

How’d you do this week?

But…guess what? Recently (April) their corporate policy has changed and they now accept all sorts of coupons. Whoopeee for me!

Guess where I went today?

• 4 Snuggle 40 ct. sheets: $8.00 – (4x) $.75 Snuggle Sunday Q’s = $5.00 for four
• 3 Pedigree Dentastix: $6.00 – (3x) $2.00 Sunday Q’s = 3 FREE
• 3 Carefree Liners: $3.00 – (3x) $1.00 Sunday Q’s = 3 FREE
• 12 pk Cascade Action Tabs: $3.00 – $1.00 Mailer = $2.00
• 4 Reg. Size Suave Deo: $7.00 – (2x) $3.00/2 Printable Q = $1.00 for four
• Suave small Deo: $1.00 – $.75 Sunday Q = $.25

Total: $28.00
- Coupons: $19.75
Grand Total: $8.25 + $1.98 tax = $10.23

Have you found any Dollar General deals lately? Link up with a comment. *wink*