Walmart paid ME to shop there today!

I am so excited to share the great deals I got today!  I want to start this off by saying that moral ambiguity aside, I'm not a huge Walmart shopper.  In my personal experience, I have found that places like Target and drug stores (if you participate in their rewards program), often have better deals.  That being said, while I was organizing some coupons that came in the mail today with a One Beyond cat food sample, I noticed that the coupons for FREE cat food I had clipped from the paper earlier had an expiration date of today!  So I rushed out to target to get some deals!  Colin and I have been talking about switching the cats to an affordable natural food, and these free coupons were just the push we needed. I also took with me one target coupon for $5 off a grocery purchase of $20 or more, two target coupons for $2.00 off One Beyond, and two manufacturer's coupons for $4.50 off the same size product, a coupon for a FREE three pack of the new Jello temptations product, and a buy one get one free coke coupon, just in case ;) (I plan on doing a larger post about target shopping, but for the sake of understanding this good deal - at target, you are allowed to use one target specific coupon, and one manufacturer's coupon per item).


When I got there I realized they were out of the smaller sized boxes of food that the free coupons were for.  Bummed, I grabbed the bottles of coke, and the larger bags to use with the stacked coupons I mentioned above.  At the register, everything rang up at $20.68!  Totally over excitedly, I handed her my grocery coupon first, and then the rest.  Since Target doesn't apply overages, I ended up with a balance of ZERO on my receipt, paying only something like $.71 in tax!  Woo!!

My target deal

Hyped on the good deals I just got, I decided to head up the street to Walmart.  I was so happy to find not only the pudding, but also the FREE boxes of cat food!  This is when the magic happened.  According to the new Walmart coupon policy, they are awarding coupon overages to the rest of your order.  Since everything I was purchasing was for free, I didn't really think about it, and was more worried about having to fight someone about not paying for a single thing (I've had some bad experiences with Walmart cashiers and coupons).  I anxiously awaited her response, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the value of my FREE cat food coupons was actually $3.00, and since they were on sale for $2.50, she actually owed me $1.00!  She was also surprised, so of course she called a manager over, and he verified what the screen was saying, and handed me four shiny quarters!  What a great bargain!

My Walmart purchases

Has anyone else gotten any squee! worthy deals this week? 

Update:  I forgot to mention that both of the larger bags of cat food had target specific peel-off coupons on the front for $2.00.  Since I already had more than enough to get them for free, I get to use them next time with my left over manufacture's coupons!