First Stab At Extreme Couponing

Ok, so I'm calling it extreme because to me it was. It was nothing close to what those ladies on the television show can do. But I was very pleased with my first adventure.

So this week at Target they had a few offers for personal and home care that I decided to take advantage of and buy a large supply of some items. Hey, at least now I know I won't run out. The three offers I took part of are as follows:

• Free $5 Gift Card when you buy any two Tide items listed.
• Free $10 Gift Card when you buy any three laundry care items listed. 
• Free $5 Gift Card when you buy any four hair care or personal care items listed. 

So what first got me interested was getting the gift cards back to spend on a future purchase. But that is also when I decided that I want to get this stuff for a steal so I need to go find me some coupons. I got my coupons from the Sunday paper (yes, they still print them), Coupons.com, and Target.com. 

Here is what I did for each offer:

Any four hair care items listed:

I got 4 bottles of Pantene Shampoo at $4.99 each = $19.96

I then used 2 coupons that where each $2.00 off two Pantene hair products = $8.00

So with just the coupons it was a total of $11.96 or $2.99 a bottle of shampoo (40% off).

But if you take into account I got a $5 gift card that would now bring the total down to $6.96 or $1.74 a bottle of shampoo (65% off)!!

Any two Tide items and any three laundry care items:

I need to call this one out together since the coupons I used helped in a combined effort on this one. 

I got 2 bottles of Tide detergent at $9.99 each = $19.98

I got 3 boxes of Bounce dryer sheets at $9.00 each = $27.00

I then used a large variety of coupons - (1) $2.00 off one Tide product, (1) $2.00 off two Tide products, (3) $0.50 off one Bounce product, and (1) $5.00 off any three Tide or Bounce products = $10.50

So with just the coupons it was a total of $36.40 or $7.28 each item (23% off).

But if you take into account I got a $5 and a $10 gift card that would now bring the total down to $21.40 or $4.28 each item (55% off)!!

I'm excited to use my $20 worth of gift cards for the next grocery trip to Target. 

I'm proud of my first attempt at a more extreme couponing effort and look forward to saving more in the future. 

Rustie J