Jul 8, 2009

Target Trip 7/8 – LOTS of Kashi!

Jul
8
2009
Wednesday


Have I mentioned how much I LOVE Target? And how much I LOVE Kashi? Well, put the two together and I just go a little bit overboard. Okay, maybe “a little bit” is a bit of an understatement.

I hit Target early this afternoon with my friend Stephanie and got 34 boxes of cereal… yes, 34 boxes! And I almost bought more. In fact, I might go back for more! :) I really have no idea where I’m going to store all of this cereal, but we love it so much that I just couldn’t resist.

On top of the cereal, I got several boxes of Kashi cereal bars, granola bars, cookies, 4 Pictureka card games, 5 pizzas, several of the Eggo Bake Shop, 8 bags of veggies, small Dryer’s ice cream cartons (they were 19¢ each after the Target coupon), and 6 packages of the Bare by Solo plates. I had free product coupons for the Jennie-O turkey and the DiGiorno. By the way, the Jennie-O ground turkey was on price cut down to $2.99 at my store, so by using the $5 coupon that was available a couple of months ago, I got $2 in overage on that. The only item I got without a coupon was the Tom’s of Maine deodorant, because that’s what I use and it was a decent price.

The great thing about this trip is that the only coupons from the newspaper inserts that I used were the ones for the 4 trial size Banana Boat Sunscreens! All other coupons were ones that I printed online, or that I received in the mail (from an offer that I signed up for online).

So how much would all of this have cost regularly? $299.44

How much did I pay for it? $64.62!

That’s a savings of 78%!!

Even though I didn’t have enough $1.50/1 manufacturer coupons for the Kashi cereal, I figured it was worth it to stock up since they were $1.08 a piece with just the Target coupons! Like I said, we love Kashi cereal. :) (And no, I don’t get paid to say that.)

You can see all of the coupon matchups for everything that I got today HERE.

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Comments

  1. Together We Save says:

    Wow – that is awesome. I wish target was closer. I love it too.

  2. Stephanie says:

    You're a rock star!

  3. Anonymous says:

    Where is your nearest target?

  4. Shelly says:

    WE love target too. Went there today to do the kashi thing as well as the eggo deal, and just filled out my rebate for kellogs!! :) Didnt get quite as much as you did, but I had fun, all the same!! :)

  5. Adriana says:

    Lol. I've only bought 4 boxes of cereal, but I will so be going back for more!

  6. Amy says:

    I'll take some cereal, loL!

    The Bare plates were not on sale at my Target, just the cups… and they were out!

    I am SO coming on a Target shopping spree with you and Steph sometime!

  7. Angie.. says:

    I hve kashi coupons 1.50 off and free waffle that i got in the mail- that i prob want ever use.

  8. Suzette says:

    I was at target today and tried to get the small ice cream cartons and they wouldn't accept the coupon. The cash register beeped and they said I didn't have the product. I pointed out that I DID have it and she said "it must be for the bigger cartons." I politely pointed out that the coupon doesn't specify a size. She seemed to not care, so I didn't purchase them.

  9. TyandMegBillings says:

    On the Kashi Target coupons it says one per guest. Do they enforce that? Did you really have to go through the line 30 times?

  10. Erica says:

    Did you purchase everything in one transaction or multiple ones? I always worry that the cashier won't let me use several of the same Target coupon all in one transaction.

  11. Rachel @ Surviving The Stores says:

    I was able to purchase everything in one transaction, but I am always more than willing to separate it all if they want me to.

    When I go up to the cashier I say, "Hi! I have a WHOLE lot of coupons… do I need to separate all of this into separate tranactions?" And every single time they have said "Oh, that's ok, I can do it all in one."

    In saying that, each time I am more than willing to separate it all… yes, do 30 transactions… if they say that I need to. But I've never had an instance where they have.

  12. Rachel @ Surviving The Stores says:

    Suzette,

    Your Target should have taken the coupon for the ice creams. I would recommend calling customer service while you are in line next time and they can get it straightened out. Customer service's number is: 1-800-440-0680

  13. lisette (coupon queen of corning) says:

    Did you have any problem with the coupons scanning? Neither my IPs nor the Target IPs scanned automatically and she had to put each coupon in manually. Although I didn't buy as much as you, I probably had 20 or more coupons.

  14. Anonymous says:

    Did you leave any cereal there for me.Lol!!!!good job.

  15. Leandrea says:

    I love it!!!

  16. Anonymous says:

    I just went a spent $10.06 and saved $34.11. I had to do a few trans, but it was well worth it! I might go back and get some more cereal since you can't beat B1G1! I LOVE TARGET DEALS!

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