Crazy Carla

Old Navy Weelky Chatter!

2009-10-22T10:34:00.001-04:00

11/22/09 from the M80 site:

Tank tops aren’t just for summer. The Old Navy Item of the Week: Women’s Ruffle Tanks.

They are just $7 (reg. $14.50) from Nov. 13–19 and are a super-sassy way to dress up a pair of jeans for dinner out or for a gathering with the fam. Fun, vibrant colors and playful ruffles that cascade down the center of the shirt say, “I’m fun, witty, daring…and know how to shop!” You’ll feel good and look great in this ultra-feminine tank. Visit OldNavyWeekly.com for more fun fashion ideas and deals. This week’s highest value unlimited coupon is $10 off $50

Meijer Free Soup and Bread

2009-10-12T23:09:00.000-04:00

This week at meijer you can get 5 cans of soup and a loaf of pepperidge farm bread for free + overage.

If you buy 5 cans of condensed soup and 1 loaf of pepperidge farm bread you get back a 5 dollar coupon for your next purchase.

Tranaction:

1 Loaf 2.49

5 .65 cent soups

Total 5.74

Use 1 $1/4 soup coupon from meijermealbox.com

So only 4.74 after coupon and you get $5 coupon back! And it rolls.....I did this 10 times today and got 50 cans. This will be a great donation, the food pantry's around here are empty.

Tomato .68ea

Chicken Noodle .68ea

Cream of Chicken .65ea

Cream of Mushroom .65ea

other soups are .99ea

You can also use the $1/2 coupon from campbells to get your total lower.

Night at K-mart!

2009-09-28T20:55:00.002-04:00

So I have learned that if you want to score good deals during Kmart doubles you have to go early in the week. They seem to let the shelves sit empty once product is gone. I had an awesome night at Kmart tonight, here is what I did!

Transaction 1

The first coupon handed over was 5/50
10 frapachinos 1.79ea, used 8 1/1 coupons
2 sierra mists 1.25ea, used a BOGO
1 Huggies wipes 5.99ea, used 1 2/1
2 Glade holders 3.59ea, used 2 2/1
2 Glade refills 2.50ea, used 2 1.50/1
2 Tasters Choice 1ea, used 2 .75/1
1 Juicy Juice 2.49ea, used 1 1/1
5 Special K 2.50ea, 5 off instantly, and used 5 1/1
1 Honey Bunches Oats 3.99ea, used 1 2/1
7 Healthy Choice fresh mixers 3.49ea, used 7 2/1
At this point my total was -.84 so I grabbed a pack of M&M's for .89 and so my total was .05cents!
Total 85.37 before coupons and .05 after!

The only reason I did 2 transactions was b/c I did not know what would happen if I purchased 10 Special K items.

Transaction 2

1 Huggies wipes 5.99ea, used 1 2/1
4 Sierra Mist 1.25ea, used 2 BOGO
1 Juicy Juice 2.49ea, used 1 1/1
5 Special K 2.50ea, used 5 1/1
1 Halloween Item .49
Total 26.84 before coupons and .84 after!

So I got 112.21 worth of stuff for .89cents. But it gets better b/c something I bought generated a $2 catalina plus I had .60 worth of bottle deposits, which I will get back! I got paid to shop!

Who wants it?

2009-08-04T10:22:00.001-04:00

First one gets it! Leave your e-mail here.

Old Navy and Great Clips

2009-07-29T17:57:00.002-04:00

When I was at ON last week by the registers they had $2 off coupons at great clips. We get our boys hair cut there. Every little bit helps right. Anyway the coupons are good until 9/30/09. Our boy need his hair cut every 4 weeks so we used one today and saved two more for the end of Aug and Sept. Keep your eyes on the look out!

Guess Now for 50/100 coupon

2009-07-28T11:28:00.002-04:00

I have switched it up this week. I will give the coupon to who ever guesses closest to a number between 1-100.

You may guess twice!

I will award sometime later tonight!

Dont forget ON 50% off clearance sale going on right now

30% off at Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic

2009-07-20T22:17:00.003-04:00

Do you wish you could use those great Old Navy coupons at all the Gap brand stores? Good News! From 7/30/09 to 8/2/09 Gap brands is having there semi annual Give and Get 30% promotion. This coupon is distributed through email or if you know an employee. (I always get one in my email, I get weekly emails from ON)

Copied from Gap site: The company's semi-annual Give and Get sale, which offers discounts of 30% on all merchandise, including sale items, is kicking off on July 30th. Most coupons will be distributed via email, but you can also pick one up from a Gap employee if you know someone who works there. Employees will be getting 25 postcard coupons and 25 email coupon codes. The email codes will also be good for Gap's newest store, Altheta, which is great news for exercising moms!

In addition to the already-popular Corsica and Abbey Road lines currently available on Gap's website and in stores, shoppers can expect to see the full Dance line, which is already getting heavy buzz on the Internet.

As in the past, Give and Get shoppers are asked to specify one of several charities to receive 5% of the total order price. Since Give and Get began, Gap has contributed more than $5 million to various charities through this program alone.

More details are expected to be released about Give and Get this week.

Making the water deal more refreshing

2009-07-15T15:40:00.002-04:00

If you have been following the coupon blogs lately you may have noticed you can get free water at Walmart! You can use the 1/1 coupon on the six packs of nestle water at Walmart, which are price at 1 dollar. This got me thinking, is free water a good deal.

If you drink as much water as we do, initially free water sound like a good deal. However upon further examination I have calculated a better deal! I usually buy nestle water a Sam's Club, a 30 pack there costs 3.88 or 12.9 cents each. If you were to buy the 6 pack for a dollar you would be paying 16.6 cents a piece.

The deal I have figured is to buy five 20 packs at walmart. They are 3 dollars each but I will use 5 $1 coupons, making them 2 dollars each, or 10 cents per bottle. Then I will send in the rebate and get two free coupons (upto 4.99 value) which I will use at Sam's Club for the thirty packs. In the end I will get 160 bottles for $10 dollars or 6.25 cents per bottle.

Print the $1 coupons here. http://www.everydayeating.com/specialoffers/default.aspx
Print the rebate here. www.crazycarla.com/nestle.pdf

Sweet Kmart Weekend!

2009-07-14T17:51:00.002-04:00

I stopped into Kmart Saturday afternoon to take advantage of some last minute doubles! In addition to getting almost everything for free, I scored a free prize. Up on the screen a message appeared and said "customer has won a Kching Surprise! I wonder what it might be... Could it be a free pack of gum, a free bottle of water, a free candy...hmmm... the suspence was killing me. When done paying the cashier my reward printed out and she sutdied it like I had won the grand prize! At this point I am ready to pee my pants!

What I won was $50 dollars off a $50 dollar purchase. I was thrilled. What made this deal even sweeter was the fact that a few weeks back when they had that buy a $50 dollar gift card get a $10 bonus card. I bought 2 $50 cards got 2 $10 bonuses. Then I used one of the cards on a big purchase that got me $14 in catalina cash and now I got a $50 bonus for spending almost nothing. So I spent $100 on the gift cards and got 20+14+50= $84 in free money. In addition I used the other $50 gift card and the two $10 to purchase several toys on clearance and grouped them into 20 dollar purchases so I could use the 5/20 toy coupon! I estimate I have purchased $600 in purchases for my orginal $100 investment!

I used the $50 bonus for a splurge item, I bought a lil quad for my boy! The quad was priced at 79.99 not on sale. But if it goes on sale in the next thirty I will be doing a price adjustment.

I just wanted to let everybody know that the Kching rewards really does pay off!

Is big brother watching?

2009-07-10T22:44:00.002-04:00

This has been a really great week for deals. I got 20 eggo products for 10 dollars, plus will get two $10 rebates and 2 $70 dell codes (going to sell on ebay!) Then I got 8 Kashi Cereals and 5 Kashi breakfast bars for only $1.67

Whenever I score a really great deal like this is always makes me wonder if big brother is watching. I usually like to pay with a credit card but in cases like this where the deal is just too good to be true I pay cash. I feel like if I use my credit card they are going to write my name down, and the next time I shop there some alarm is going to go off and I will be escorted from the premises. I know using coupons is not wrong, but the look you get sometimes are alarming. I would just rather not have a business know my name. If the know my name, I fell like every time I walk in there they are going to be looking at me and saying there's that Carla, you know what she does.... and to that I would say "hell yeah, I am saving money!"

Almost Free Beer!

2009-07-08T15:00:00.003-04:00

Last Friday I went shopping for 4th of July Beverages, here's what I found.

In the beer aisle every package of beer had a rebate form attached. All of the forms were for a $15 dollar rebate.

Buy 3 Miller 12 packs get $15
Buy 3 Budweiser 12 packs get $15
Buy 3 Coors 12 packs get $15

Each pack was priced between 8-9 dollars so spend $24-$27 on 3 12 packs and get $15 back! Almost buy one get 2 free!

The mail in offers are valid in: AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MS, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, VT, WA, WI & WY.

They all had offer end dates of around 7/12/09 If you have a beer drinker in your family or want to stock up for labor day now is a good time to do it!

I bought 3 of each brand on different receipts b/c you do have to mail the receipt in.

Kelloggs Rebate

2009-07-08T14:01:00.003-04:00

Some people have had problems printing the Kelloggs, so I have added the pdf to my site. The pdf is directly linkable here www.crazycarla.com/kelloggs.pdf

In case you do not know the Kelloggs deal, here it is.

Purchase 10 of the following:
Any Kellogg's Cereal (10 oz. or larger)
Any Keebler or Austin Product (8 oz. or larger)
Any Sunshine Product (8 oz. or larger)
Any Eggo Product (4 ct. or larger)
Any Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Cereal Bar (8 ct. or larger)
Any Kellogg's Special K Cereal Bar (8 ct. or larger)
Any Kellogg's Pop-Tarts Toaster Pastries (8 ct. or larger)
Any Kellogg's Reice Krispies Treats Squares (8 ct. or larger)
Any Kellogg's Fruit Flavored Snacks (6 ct. or larger)
Any MorningStar Farms Veggie Foods Product (5 oz. or larger)
Any 100 Calorie Right Bites (6 ct. or larger)

Right now at target you can purchase 10 Eggo bakeshop products for $15 and use 10 $1 off coupons from either coupons.com, redplum, a bricks link, or kelloggs.com After rebate you will make $5 dollars and get a $70 dell coupon code

I have done this twice, sent one to home and one to our office. 20 free eggo's $10 free dollars and $140 in dell codes! This has been a good Wednesday!

Buy expensive items online

2009-07-07T20:33:00.004-04:00

For the past several years whenever I have to make a purchase of over one hundred dollars I check online first. You can save a ton of money by purchasing online and usually save sales tax too! The biggest problem with making big purchases online is having to delay your gratification.

Another way I save online is making the minimum purchase for Free Shipping. American Eagle has a kids clothing store online only. The stuff is way over priced but we did get a 20% off coupon and wanted our boy to have shorts like daddy. I only wanted the shorts, but was not about to pay $7 for shipping. So I ordered some clothes for me. They all came in the same box and I returned the clothes for me back to my local AE store leaving me with free shipping and the shorts I wanted. It really bug me that stores double and triple the "cost" of shipping, this is one way I fight back.

7/7/09 Right now AE is having a 70% clearance sale and free shipping for 3 or more items. If you find something you like order it and two more items, then return the other two item to your local store.

Old Navy Locations

2009-07-03T09:20:00.003-04:00

Well, my check 4 change did go off...I was just to sound asleep to hear it. Not to mention it was about 5am EST

I did not get any big ones, but that is ok. The only two that make sense using I have listed their locations below.

10/50 put the three item on the bottom of the page in the bag on the bottom of the page (20% off)

10% click lolie pop

45/100 and 65/100 are gone

and now I must go on vacation till Monday!

WOW 1 More 50/100 Givaway!

2009-07-01T16:27:00.002-04:00

In anticipation of a ON reset I was deleting coupons from my e-mail. I found an extra 50/100 coupon, I had filed it in my 30/100 folder.

This is really good news for the first person to respond to this post!

But, hurry the coupon expires 7/2/09 TOMORROW.

Trouble Printing Coupons?

2009-06-30T13:32:00.003-04:00

Are you tired of the dirty looks you get from cashiers just because you are trying to use an INTERNET coupon? I can not believe some of the things I have been accused of when trying to use a coupon. I only print coupons using a laser printer. I get some of the dirtiest look because some cashier who does not even own a computer thinks I made up or copied a coupon because it is in black and white. I have been accused of coupon fraud more than once. When this happens I simply point out the coupons have different pin numbers and if they have a problem I will call corporate right there in line.

In the past few weeks I have been testing a coupon printing solution. In my case Walmart and Walgreens seem to be the biggest internet coupon complainers. I was in office max a few weeks back and they had "flyer paper" on sale buy one get two free. I had a free ten dollar off ten coupon coupon so I got all three for free! When I go to print a coupon I now think about where I am going to use this. If Walmart or Walgreens I print them on flyer paper. Coupons.com coupons prectibaly print in the same place everytime to I have been cutting each flyer into 4 pieces and taping them in place on a regualr piece of paper so there is minimal waste in this more expensive paper.

I am happy to report that this different paper is making a difference. Because the flyer paper more resembles sunday coupon paper, cashiers seem to be happier and they dont even notice that they are printed in black. If you are having trouble with "INTERNET" coupons, try printing on different paper!

Leave the kids at home...or not.

2009-06-29T08:27:00.000-04:00

Like getting a good deal but hate spending hours at it? I like to keep thing organized. I put all my coupons in envelops at the beginning of the week, one for each store. I have a Meijers, Walmart, Walgreens, rite aid and another local grocery store. I do this so I am ready when the time presents it self. I could be driving down the road and see walmart and think yeah I have 30 minutes, I can do this! I love a good challenge. I seem to do best when time is short. When you lack extra time in the store you tend to leave only with the things you need. Most of the time when I go shopping it is for 30 items or less b/c I live very close to all the stores I previously listed. I usually visit one store a day in my regualar comming and going.

The other thing that short on time shopping has taught me is to look at dates on everything. I had been burned on gragging and going before. But, now it is like a game, I grab, spot the date and throw it in the cart. I can not beging to tell you the number of times I find a product that is set to expire within a week. This always happens with yogurt. I pick up a yogurt that is set to expire in two days, when another flavor has 20 days left.

To sum up todays tips, go quick, go often, go for long shelf lives!

OK it's here.....First to respond...

2009-06-26T19:56:00.005-04:00

Gets the 50/100 Old navy coupon!

I also have 3 30/100 and 2 25% off 50 available.

PDF printing coupons

2009-06-24T14:06:00.003-04:00

UPDATE: I just got back from walmart, I got 5 ice cream sandwiches for free, they are in the single serve section and they are only 1 dollar. If you print off the $1 off any blue bunny, you score free ice cream. I only did five because I didn't want to appear greedy. hehe I will however print a bunch of these and get 5 for free every time I go there! good til 10/31/09

Do you ever wish you could get around that pesky per print limit. The answer is printing PDF. If you have the ability to print to PDF you are in luck. On my computer I have Acrobat installed which allows PDF printing. I was excited to see a Blue Bunny coupon available today, however the coupons available were either for bomb pops or quarts of ice cream I was unable to print the bomb pops coupon so I went to the Blue Bunny website and signed up for their emails. Within a minute I got a welcome email and a 1 dollar off any BB item. When I clicked print it allowed me to select a printer, I choose PDF. The best part of doing this is any time for the rest of summer I can print off my PDF for more savings! The coupon does not expire until 10/31/09.

Notes on PDF printing. PDF printing will not work with coupons.com, smartsource.com or any other site that prints a pin number on the coupon. PDF printing a pin encoded coupon would be fraud and gives couponers a bad wrap. Printing a bunch of non pin coded coupons is like a license to print free money!

Here is a link to my PDF Blue Bunny $1 off any item coupon. Print it early and often!

http://www.crazycarla.com/BB.pdf

Using Log Me In

2009-06-23T17:44:00.004-04:00

I am sure you have either heard of logmein.com or gotomypc.com I have been using Log me in free for about 6 months now and it is great. The idea behind these products is that you can access your computer from anywhere. Meaning you can go on vacation, leave your computer on and connected and access it from another computer. I use the program a little differently. I use it to access our work computers to take advantage of the 2 print limit on coupons. Say there is a deadline to print something, or a limit of one per ip address. I can log in and use on of our work computers to print more or register one more time. Recently I used two computers during the Biggest Loser Finale. They had that 5 dollar turkey coupon offer. I registered here at home but it would not let me do it again to send one to our work address, so I logged in and registered one at work! Yesturday I got two packets for turkey. This would have not been possible w/o being able to use two computers and this was possible because of logmein.com

Logmein.com has a free version, Gotomypc.com as far as I am aware does not.

We are having turkey kabobs tonight!

2009-06-22T14:42:00.002-04:00

I am not a oracle or a wizard but I think the next reset will be on Thursday. The coupons available on ONW right now have an expiration of 7/2/09 but upon looking around I notice "item of the week" The item special pricing is valid to 6/25. Certainly they are not going to be advertising an old item of the week until 7/2. So this leads me to believe a Thursday reset is in order. Now as to the time....this is where we need the wizard. Last week the message about site updating was up for several hours before the site changed. I would assume that this will be true again this week too. All I can recommend is once you see the site changing message, turn on the Check 4 Change feature in firefox. Good Luck, If any of you missed a 25% off 50 or 30/100 I have a few saved up! Also, check back friday...I will post blog message for a 50/100 coupon, the first person to respond gets it!

Buying and Returning

2009-06-22T13:35:00.005-04:00

Have you ever noticed the words on your receipt under an item that say "refund value". This comes in handy for those But one get something sales. For example: BOGO, Buy one get one 50% off, or buy one get one for .99 or .01 I always take a second look at these types of sales, this weekend at JC Penny white onezies were buy one get one 50% off. I needed one pack of 18 month and had that free ten dollar certificate. The packages were listed at 12.99 each. So I could have bought one, less my free 10 and paid 2.99 OOP. Or as I did bought two for $19.49 (12.99 + 6.50)

I paid a total for $19.49 for two packs less my free $10 certificate, I paid 9.75 in cash. Then once she bagged them up I took one out of the bag and said I would like to return this! She refunded me the $9.75 So I walked away with free onezies! I saved 3 dollars OOP just by taking advantage of their sale and return policy.

I do this all the time. Khols has BOGO sales all the time, recently they had BOGO on purses. Who needs two purses at the same time? A BOGO sale is basically a half off sale. I bought the purses for $40.00 total and then returned one for $20 back. The purse only cost $20!

This also works at Old Navy, say you get one of those 50/100 coupons and you do not need $100 of new threads. 50/100 is just 50% off so go buy what you need add some filler items to get your total upto $100 then return then excess items you will still be getting 50% off the items you wanted. Old Navy will not let you return items right away. So either go back in 30 minutes if at the mall or stop by in the next 30 days to return your items.

I hope this helps the next time you are confronted with "I would really like to take advantage of this sale, but do I really need two Shamwows?"

2009-06-17T13:10:00.002-04:00

One of my readers sent me an extra 50/100 coupon they had and asked me to pass it along! First one to post a comment here will get it.

Make Some extra Cash!

2009-06-15T21:16:00.000-04:00

This may seem crazy, wild or too time consuming but I do it often for extra cash. Cell phone provider T-mobile has pre-paid phone kits, the kit includes a phone, sim card and 10 starter minutes. On limited occasion the kit comes with a free $25 dollar refill card. So what do I do with these phones? Sell them on eBay! I just finished purchasing the samsung t429 phone. I sell the kit in one auction and the refill card in another.

Typically I purchase a phone for 40.00 + tax....they ship for free!
List the phone for .99 List the refill card for .99
This model phone sells for up to $74.00 (offer free shipping)
The refill card sells for $19-$22 (I just email the pin number)
between ebay listing, FVF,and paypal fees, I usually make about $20-50 a kit.

T-mobile allows 2 phones to be purchased per address every three months. I ship two to my house, 2 to work, 2 to my parents house. So six phones every 3 months. I also order the phones one at a time linking to the T-mobile site through Fatwallet.com. You get a $5 rebate per phone/order for linking through them. If you order 2 phone at a time you only get $5 but two order spaced just 5 minutes apart gets you $10! Fatwallet sends the rebate to your paypal account after 90 days, you do have to log in and request it.

I know this seems crazy, I would recommend starting slow, Just order 1 phone and see what happens. T-mob offers the free $25 prepaid card about every two weeks. Before purchasing a phone I check eBay to see what they are selling for. I found one today (Item number: 110402112040) that sold for $74

Good Luck

Do you need a NEW FREE Phone?

2009-06-14T21:33:00.004-04:00

I have been with Sprint for almost ten years. I has been a mostly love relationship, I have never had any serious problems. In the past few years I have gotten a new phone every year for FREE! Phone technology changes every day and I am the kind of person that wants the newest, latest and greatest. It just so happens to be that time of year again so I thought I would write about how I get FREE phones every time. The secret is to avoid the Sprint store, Best Buy, and any other phone retailer. I do go to the sprint store to check out my eye candy, I pick out what I want, then I leave the store. I go home and call Customer Service and ask for the RETENTION department, once connected I tell them how much I LOVE SPRINT! I have never had a problem, but when a visited the AT&T store the other day I spotted a phone and they said I could have a great deal on it for switching. I then tell retentions that I so treasure our relationship I wanted to call and see if they could match the offer.

At this point if they refuse to play ball, tell them you are switching to AT&T ( this usually straightens them out, if not hang up and call back) I tell them I want the phone for free and no longer than a 1 yr contract. They usually can not give you the phone completely for free but they can give you a big fat service credit to offset the price of the phone. Once you have come to an agreement ask them to waive the shipping and activation charges. You will receive your new phone in a day or two. Once activated I take my old phone back to the sprint store and take advantage of their trade in program. They will give you between $25 and $75 for your old phone.

I do this every year for both of the phones on our account. A funny story....Last October we were in San Diego, our 1 yr old was screaming bloody murder, so we handed him a phone (palm centro) that shut him up. But, in the process he put the phone in his mouth and some how fried the phone:( When we got home, I went to the sprint store to see if they could fix it (it was only 4 months old, so still under contract) It was un fixable, so I called Retentions and told them I was not about to pay full price ($399) for a phone when I could just pay early termination (150) and go get one of these for free from ATT. He said no dont do that, he put a $100 service credit on the account and told us to go back to the Sprint store and pick up a new phone. I went back and the $399 price was knocked down to $250, we were then eligable for an instant upgrade credit(150) making the phone only $100. With the service credit free. Then the best part! I was able to turn the broken phone in for the $75 turn in credit. So the boy chewing on the phone actually made us $75 dollars!