Brooke Geery

Nature Valley Granola Thins: My Official Review

Nature Valley (ahem, General Mills) has been desperately trying to get people addicted to these granola thins. I know because I had tons of coupons for them that have been accumulating almost every week. They were finally cheap enough at Safeway that I decided I would pick some up. They are regularly $3.99 and on sale for $2.99. If you bought four you saved an extra $1 per box, plus I had 4 $.75 coupon, which Safeway doubled all four of, saving me another $2. Total I paid $.74 cents a box. Now the real question: was it worth it? I was kind of excited that they were only 80…
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But it Was Free!!

Two-packs of Dry Erase markers are on sale for $.99 each at Walgreens right now. A few days ago, a $2/2 packs of said markers appeared on Coupons.com (it looks like it's already be gone). Now I don't even own a dry erase board and have no plans to purchase one, but I'm sure you can do the math here. I only printed out one coupon, but I figured if I happened to be at Walgreens and they happened to be in stock, well, why not? Today I had to pick up a prescription and sure enough, there were plenty of markers. So I got some. And technically, I saved…
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Cheap, Healthy and on the way Home!

Originally this blog was called "Couponing is making me fat" because I definitely am more likely to buy things such as chips and cookies when they are free/cheap and then eat them all! But it is possible to get good deals on so-called healthy food too, which is what I did on my way home from the office. Admitedly, this took two stops, but neither is out of the way, so therefore, not totally insane, right? A little insane, but not TOTALLY. At Fred Meyer: 2 packages of Tillamook Sliced Cheese (On sale $3, 3/$7 with "extra savings" coupon - $1 MFG coupon = $1.34 each) At Safeway: 2 bottles…
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Walgreens 8/7/2011

One of the many things I've learned is that if you want the "money maker" items, you can't slack. And this week Keri lotion (regularly $8.29) at Walgreens was one of those coveted items so I got my ass over there Sunday morning. Allow me to explain: The lotion was on sale for $5.99, and I had a few $2 off any Keri coupons from the past week's newspapers. For buying one you received a $5 register reward, which earns you $1.01 for each one you purchase. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) you can't just clear the shelves and get a bunch of free money,…
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Ten Dollars at Target

There is some concern at that I am just "hoarding" at this point, but you say hoarding, I say stocking up. The truth is, I am buying things for the game of couponing, but I make it a point to ask myself with every purchase: is this something I will actually use. One thing I've noticed through my increased consumerism is that there are a lot of products out there that you don't really need and can easily live without, but they sure are nice to have. My latest Target trip last week included some of them, such as the bathroom wipes, which make it 100x easier to keep the…
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Coupon Cook Off!

This is the third cook off we've done for Yobeat and the 5th one ever, and this time, I was able to take advantage of my couponing to pull it off cheap! I dipped into my mini stockpile and here's the break down on the ingredient cost: Two boxes of Kellogs Cornflakes $3.98 total (plus 2/5's of a free movie ticket!) Two cans of green chili peppers $.98 total (2.98, on sale for 2.48- $1/2 coupon -.50 doubler) Two jars of Classico Pasta sauce $.74 each (Regular price $3.59, On sale $2.49- $1 off in ad coupon – $1/2 mfg coupon – .50 safeway doubler) Two packages of Tilapia $3.98…
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$100 Worth of Groceries for $45 at Safeway

While there are no incredibly amazing individual deals at Safeway this week, there are a couple store coupons for $10 off a $50 purchase and $5 off $15 worth of frozen items, which means it's a good chance to get stuff that never really goes on sale, or you know, you actually need. But I always fall victim to spending WAY more than the necessary amount to use these minimum purchase coupons, so this trip, I was determined to keep myself in line. There may have been excel sheets involved, but I don't think anyone really needs to know about that... I ended up spending $45.77 out of pocket for…
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Thai Kitchen Bowls $.89 Each

Albertson's put out some twice the value coupons last week, which is generally a pretty good reason for me to drive to Milwaukee. Unfortunately, there were only two (usually it's three) and the match ups were not that exciting, so it actually took me needing to make a trip to get some stuff for dinner to go. And when I got there, a few of the deals I'd found were already wiped out. All was not lost however, as I found these Thai Kitchen noodle bowls on sale for $1.89 (usually $2.29) and I had a couple $1 off any two Thai Kitchen items. I was able to grab four,…
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I Hate Most Banks, Cellphone and Cable companies.

I've severed almost all ties to bloodsucking corporations over the past year. My top three categories of "predatory corporate evils one inevitably has to deal with as an on-the-grid adult" are banks, cable companies  and cellphone providers in that order. 1. Banks. A few months back, I abandoned Bank of America in favor of a local credit union that I'd say is about, oh, 1000000000000000x better. Haven't looked back. I only wish I made the jump sooner.  I'll be doing a more in depth blog post about how to save and even earn a lot of money by changing banks soon. 2. Cable Companies. I decided I didn't need cable…
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