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Albies (peanut butter and mac&cheese)

$6.69 spent, $65.63 saved (and $5 for next time!)

I didn't get a paper yesterday, and it seems that it was the only way to get the doublers for this weekend, so my trip was not quite as exciting as I had hoped. I did want to get some Mac & Cheese for the church, plus I had some good pb coupons (thanks to Jane @ All Together Beautiful for the heads up on free bread coupons!) to use this week.

The Mac&Cheese deal is awesome! You can find Buy 3 get 1 Free coupons here (how well you do with these depends on how they enter the value- either $1 or $0.50) and there's a catalina deal as well tight now! You'll get $1 for 4 boxes, $1.50 for 5 boxes, and $2 for 6 or more boxes. You only get 1 catalina for each transaction, so keep that in mind when creating your plan.

Free Movie Monday!

It's the first Monday of the month, and that means a free movie rental courtesy of Redbox! Today's code is 4J7LF6. To see what movies are available or to find a location near you, visit redbox.com.

It doesn't look like there's anything new that I want to see, so maybe we'll rent something random. We don't mind picking something completely random (or that we might not like so much) when it's free!

Free Starbucks Ice Cream!

Have a facebook account? Starbucks is giving away 20,000 coupons every day through July 19th for a free pint of Ice Cream! Just sign into your facebook account and click here to send a coupon to a friend (or yourself). That translates to 800 coupons every hour and it re-loads on the hour, so if you don't get one right away, just pop back during the next hour!

The Carmel Macchiato flavor is my favorite, it's amazing! I've heard good things about the Mocha Java Chip as well, for free you may as well give it a try! Note: you can only request 1 free pint, and only 1 will be sent per household (so if you have your friends send you one, make sure it goes to their address!).

Walgreens and free bread

spent $14.89 on a gift card

... for all this and 6 more boxes of Capri Sun!!

That's a savings of $38.96 (not including the bread)!

The bread in the picture was free, using a "free bread" coupon everyone here got in the mail Tuesday for the Orowheat bakery. I did one transaction at Wags with 6 capri sun and 4 chips ahoy, and used 4 coupons to pay $14.47. I got back a $5 RR that I used on my next transaction. 4 pork and beans, 8 cans pringles, and one pack (clearanced for $0.50) pens. Used the store coupon for beans along with a $1 off 4 coupon, and 4 $1 off 2 pringles coupon, plus the RR to make my total $0.46. The guy double checked the receipt to make sure everything was right like he wasn't sure my total should be so low! I wanted olives too, but all the black ones were gone so I'll just check back later this week.

For more Walgreen's deals, check over at MoneySavingMom.

If you want cheap canned black/jarred green olives, go here: http://www.lindsayolives.com/ and sign up to print a coupon. They're on sale for $0.99 at Walgreens with store coupon, so you can use the printable to get 2 for $0.98 instead!!

A peek at my stockpile

We live in an older house, it doesn't have much in the way of closets and storage, but it does have a laundry/"mud room" that we've turned into out pantry-type area. I thought it'd be fun to share what my "stockpile" looks like. This is just the food stuff (although we keep some of it in the house since this room has no insulation)...

That's canned goods and pasta stuff. Below it is another shelf with lots of oatmeal, peanut butter, bbq sauce and some salad dressing. I have more salad dressing in the house. Below that one is a shelf with juice, water, and 2-liters of soda.

...that's what you see if you look over by the backdoor, our freezer is just to the left. The bottom shelves have soda, capri sun, lemonade mix, water bottles, Cheerios, and some cookies...

...then you'll see a ton of crackers (saltines are hidden in back), some cereal and granola bars. I have a ton of quakes and goldfish, and some hefty bags and aluminum foil...

...on the top shelf is cereal and some more cookies. Above that is pasta salad, taco shells, and tortilla chips. Just to the left is where I keep diapers, I'm down to one box for the toddler (then he's back to cloth) and a few more packs for the little one (then he'll go to cloth as well, I didn't have tiny cloth diapers).

There you have it! I do have a stockpile of hygiene items, probably enough of everything for almost a year or so, stashed in the bathroom. I also have a very small stash of cleaning supplies stockpiled, but it's certainly nothing to brag about. My stockpile is low on some things at the moment... I really don't feel right keeping a stockpile on hand unless I go through it once in a while and take some things out to donate. It looks like I probably could have taken a few more things out, maybe I should make some time today to re-organize.

Do you have a stockpile? What does it look like?

Sign up for Kraft coupons

MoneySavingMom posted a link today that takes you to a page to sign up for a free calender and coupons! It looks like $15 worth of coupons and 2 $20 rebates. I signed up and you should too... Visit Nabisco World and create an account to do so.