FREE iCarly Episode Download and $5 - $6 In Coupons In Select Mead Notebooks @ Target

I finally got a chance to visit Target today and found a select few surprises in the Back-To-School area. A few notebooks (specially marked) had coupons for $5-$6 in coupons for MEAD and Scotch products. The MEAD 1-Subject notebooks (retail for $1) had $6 worth in coupons inside: $1/1 Scotch Restickable Shapes, Strips or Tabs; $1/1 Scotch Pop-Up Tape Dispenser; $1/2 Scotch Ultra Edge Non-Stick Scissors; $1.50/1 Scotch Poster Tape; $0.50/1 Mead Vinyl Binder; $1/1 Mead Five Star Flex NoteBinder. All coupons expire 12/21/11 except for the last 2, they expire 9/10/11.

In the Mead composition notebooks there are $5 worth of coupons and a FREE sample of the Scotch Restickable Shapes product. Coupons inside are: $1/1 Scotch Restickable Product; $1/1 Mead Five Star Zipper Binder (x9/10); $1/1 Scotch Wrinkle-Free Glue Sticks; $1/1 Post-It Glags or Durable Tabs; $1/1 Scotch Restickable Shampes, Strips or Tabs. All coupons expire 12/31/11

You'll also find an EXCLUSIVE, TARGET ONLY special on select iCarly Notebooks (retail $2.50). You'll notice some sticks on the iCarly Notebooks mentioning a FREE iCarly episode, downloadable via iTunes and exclusively available via Target. This offer expires September 27, 2011. I am a HUGE iCarly fan (and Freddie is a cutie!), as are my siblings, so we'll be enjoying our free episode! :) Make sure you keep an eye for these notebooks!

My 7/14 Target Shopping Round-Up (Saved 97%)

I haven't been on a shopping trip for a couple weeks! Unbelievable! I've just had way too much too worry about, but after I stopped by the bank to open a new savings account for my student account (which I get $100 for depositing x amount for free!), we stopped by Target. I have been waiting for this Target Toy Clearance madness! The good majority of toys are only at 30% but found some toys for far less! We spotted some leggo-type toys marked down to $4.23 (down from $12.99). My little brother has taken a likinh to leggos, so we got him one and bought 12 more to send to Nicaragua. For kids who get NO toys whatsoever on Christmas, these toys will produce some of the best smiles you'll ever see!

We also bought a whole bunch of cute sandals for $3.45 each. There are TONS of SHOES ON CLEARANCE! We bought a lot so we can send them to Nicaragua for Christmas. We might be going at the end of this year, and we love to buy toys and other things to give away to the kids out there! More on that on a later post. My $5/2 Revlon catalinas gave me overage, and my scotch magic tape manufacturer coupons had a lot of trouble going through. My trip:

•Bought (4) Sharpies (2ct.) - $1 each 

-Used (4) $1/1 Target Catalina

•Bought (8) Pedigree Wet Dog Food - $0.69 each 

-Used (4) BOGO Manufacturer Qs

•Bought (1) Sierra Mist Cans (12pk.) - $2.50

-Used (1) $1/1 Target Q

•Bought (1) Raid Ant & Roach - $3.54

-Used (1) $1/1 Target Q -&- (1) $1/1 Manufacturer Q

•Bought (1) Scotch Magic Tape - $1.79

-Used (1) $0.50/1 Target Q -&- (1) $1/1 Manufacturer Q

•Bought (1) Revlon Nail CozyShine - $2.89 

-Used (1) $5/2 Target Catalina

•Bought (2) Revlon Tweezers - $2.24

-Used (1) $5/2 Target Catalina

•Bought (2) Revlon Lash Curlers - $2.89 each

-Used (1) $5/2 Target Insert Qs

•Bought (5) Revlon Nail File - $1.47 each 

 -Used (2) $5/2 Target Insert Qs

Total - before coupons & sales: $37.85 | after coupons: $1.59* (before tax) 

Saved: $36.26 -or- 97%

Click Here to see my other Shopping Round-Up Trips and how much money I've saved on other trips.

Target Weekly Ad for 7/17 - 7/23

Here is a partial list of deals for the Target Weekly Ad of July 17, 2011 I don't list the whole ad, just Grocery, Pets, Beauty and Household. Mainly, only sections that contains items that can be matched with coupons. Remember, Ads may vary, I'm in the Los Angeles Area in Southern California.

New to couponing at Target? Check out the Target 101 starter post for info and policies. 

If you ever need extra coupons or didn't get regional coupons, try CouponClippers.com.

Groceries:
Cherries (1lb.) $2.99
Fresh Express Bagged Salad (5-12oz.) 2/$5
-$0.75/1 Fresh Express Limited Time Only Kit or Other Kit, any 6/26 SS
Perdue Fresh, Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts $2.49/lb
Hormel Always Tender Boneless, center-cut pork chops 15 oz $3.49
-$1/1 Hormel Always Tender Product (printable)
Market Pantry Reduced Sodium Lunchmeat (7-9oz.) $2.99
-$1/2 Market Pantry Cheese 5oz+ AND Lunchmeat 7-9 oz Target Q x8/13
Archer Farms Shredded Parmesan Cheese (5oz.) $2.99
Market Pantry Cheese Shredded or Block (6 or 8oz.) $2.15

Del Monte Fruit Cups 12 pk $5.97, 4 pk $1.99
Doritos (11.5oz.) or SunChips (10.5oz.) 2/$6
Frito Stax (5.5oz.) $1
Hostess Snack Cakes $2.50
Mars Minis Mix Bag (40oz.) $8.49
Orbit, Trident, or Stride Gum (3pk.) 2/$4
*Orbit spotted on clearance for $1.71
-$1/2 Trident Gum 3-pk. Target Q x8/9
-$1/2 Stride 2.0 Gum 3-pk. Target Q x7/19 (if included)
Pellet Gum (3pk.) $1.79
Pepperidge Farm Goldfish (6.6oz.) $1.75

FREE Smartwater (6pk.) wyb 10 Vitaminwater or Smartwater:
•Vitaminwater or Smartwater $10 for $10
-B2G1 FREE Vitaminwater Beverage 20-oz. Target Q x8/9

FREE Fanta Cans (12pk.) wyb (3) Coca-Cola 12 pk 12 oz Cans:
•Coca-Cola Products; Cans (12pk., 12oz.) 3 for $11

Gatorade (12pk., 12oz. or 8pk., 20oz.) $5.99
Tropicana Trop 50 Raspberry Lemonade (59oz.) $2.29
-$0.50/1 Tropicana Trop50 Lemonade, Raspberry Lemonade 6/19 RP
Market Pantry 100% Apple Juice (64oz.) or Powder Drink Mix (10ct.) $1.75

Beauty / Health:

FREE Johnson & Johnson First Aid Kit wyb any 3 Items Listed:
-FREE First Aid Kit wyb 3 J&J Red Cross, Band-Aid, Cortaid, Neosporin, Benadryl MIR 5/15 RP
•Neosporin+Pain Relief .65 oz $3.89
-$0.50/1 Neosporin product OR Band-Aid brand adhesive bandages  6/12 RP
-$1.50/2 Neosporin product AND Band-Aid Brand Adhesive Product 5/15 or 6/12 RP

•Johnson & Johnson Waterproof First Aid Tape (10yd.) $2.59
-$1/2 Johnson & Johnson Red Cross Brand product 5'15 RP x7/31
•Band-Aid Cars (20+6c.) or Hello Kitty (2 or 20ct.) $2.19
-$0.50/1 Neosporin product OR Band-Aid brand adhesive bandages 6/12 RP -$1.50/2 Neosporin product AND Band-Aid Brand Adhesive Product 5/15 or 6/12 RP

Wow! 200,000 Page Views!

Really? Already? Wow! 200,000 Page views and counting. Its so crazy, I just posted reaching the 100,000 page views and 100,000 visitors not too long ago! 200,000 page views is like having a page view from each of the residents from Fayetteville, North Carolina; Modesto, California; Boise, Idaho; or even Des Moines, Iowa... I love the way Des Moines is pronounced :) lol.

Thank you all that keep coming back, I know a lot of you are regulars :) Hope you guys bear with us as we are still working behind the scenes to make Student-Saving-Bucks.com better. Remember, use our new contact form for any suggestions, questions, submit deals you think would be great for us to post (credit will be given), guest posts, blog button swaps, etc! :)

Los Angeles Times Sunday Newspaper Only $0.19 A Week!

Not until recently have I had a need to buy the Sunday paper, but I can't coupon without coupons! :) I found a GREAT deal for the Los Angeles Times newspaper. You can score the Los Angeles Times Sunday Newspaper for Only $0.19 a week!  If you're looking to get the Los Angeles Times Sunday paper delivered to your home, NOW is the time to buy a subscription! The Sunday paper is the one with all the great coupon inserts, so if you decide to register for service, it will practically pay for itself!

Visit the L.A. Times Self-Service website and enter your address, zip code (to see if they deliver in your area) and enter 900929 in the coupon code section. You will then be taken to the next page where you have the option to chose your subscription type (just choose Sunday only). Next page is where you will see the rates (with the coupon above added). You can get up to 3 Sunday newspapers delivered straight to your house for as little as $4.56 for 8-weeks, $6.84 for 12-weeks, $13.68 for 24-weeks or $29.64 for 52-weeks. Keep in mind, these prices reflect THREE copies of the Sunday paper for each week. So if you choose only 1 copy of the Sunday paper, you'll pay as little as $1.52 for 8-weeks and only $9.88 for 52-weeks! WHAT A HUGE SAVING! 

I hope you guys hurry and take advantage of this deal. I just registered for 3 copies of the Sunday Los Angeles Times newspaper for 24-weeks at only $13.68. I also set it on auto-renew, as it guarantees the SAME price for the next 24-weeks in case the coupon expires by then.

WUC - Coupon Preview Wednesday For 7/17

Every Wednesday  I will be posting EARLY PREVIEWS available through (WUC) WeUseCoupons.com. I will be highlighting the best deals from (2) particular stores; CVS and Walgreens. Don't worry though, you guys will still have your Target Ad + Coupon Match-Ups too! So make sure to drop by Wednesdays and check the early previews here at Student-Saving-Bucks. I will have an individual post for each store. This main post will be used to direct you to early coupon insert previews.

This upcoming week you will have (2) Coupon Inserts. The preview(s) are already available below, so click to get a very early preview of the great coupons for this upcoming Sunday. 

Coupon Previews from WUC:

•Smart Source (SS) 7/17 

Target coupons in 7/17 Newspaper:*

Will now be be posted on Thursdays.

*Target Coupons may be regional

WUC has a pay-per-click Affiliates Program. If you're interested click here to join. New sign ups get a $3 bonus! If you do, please list "SSBucks" as your referrer and let me know you did. Thanks

WUC - CVS Early Preview + Deals

CVS Deals on WUC Early preview of the CVS Ad for 7/17 w/ coupon match-ups. The full Ad scan is available. Here are a few highlighted deals from the CVS Ad  7/17 - 7/23:

Pantene Pro-V Shampoo, Conditioner (12.6oz.) or Styler (5.7-11.5oz.) (get $4 ECB) - 2/$6.97

-$3/2 Pantene Products 6/19 SS

Total: $0.98 each wyb 2 after coupon and ECB (Limit 1)

Pepsi Cans; (12pk., 12oz.) (get $3 ECB) - 3/$10

Total: $2.33 each wyb 3 after ECB and coupon (Limit 1)

 

Edy's, Haagen-Dazs or Nestle Edy's (48oz.), Haagen-Dazs (14oz.), Drumstick  (4ct.), Eskimo Pie or Fruit Bars (6ct.) (get $3 ECB) - 3/$10 

-$1/2 Edys Products, 48oz or more 6/12 SS

Total: $2 each wyb 3 Edy's after coupon and ECB (Limit 1)

To view the full CVS Ad + Deals, click here

WUC - Walgreens Early Preview + Deals

Walgreens Deals at WUC - Early preview of Walgreens Ad for 7/10 w/ coupon match-ups. The full Ad scan is available. Here are a few highlighted deals from the Walgreens Ad for the week of 7/17 - 7/23: 

Mitchum or Lady Mitchum Antiperspirant/Deoderant (get $4 RR) - 2/$6

-$0.75/1 Mitchum Product 6/26 SS 
Total: $0.25 after RR 

Splash Mini Highlighters (Limit 4) - $0.09

Penway #2 Pencils (10pk.) - $0.19 

Papermate Mechanical Pencils (5pk.) - $0.19

2-Subject Notebooks - $0.39

To view the full Walgreen Ad + Deals, click here

GIVEAWAY - SoBe Lifewater FREE Coupons!

Yup, thats right! Thanks to YOU guys that voted for us a couple weeks ago, we won the SoBe "Dare Of The Month" promotion on SoBe's Facebook page! Don't remember about it? Read my old post about it. Either way, a HUGE thanks to the ones that voted for us, me and my baby sister (who helped make the earring for the entry) were exited when we got the news. My baby sister was the most exited, as she was happy to finally get "a magic package in the mail" like her big sister always does.

For the promotion, we won an amazing TimBuk2 Q SoBe Promotional backpack (these things retail for about $100). The quality of this backpack is great, surely made for students, as it has so many compartments, including a velvety soft one for your laptop. We also won a bunch os FREE SoBe Lifewater coupons that don't expire until December! That means that as soon as Target has another Buy 10 Get $5 Gift Card FREE" comes around, I will be getting at least 50 SoBe Lifewaters for FREE! So... we've decided to share the wealth with our readers and offer 5 FREE SoBe Lifewater coupons to 1 lucky winner! When the Target deal comes around again, you will be able to pick up 10 SoBe Lifewaters for FREE. We wanted to test out this new rafflecopter giveaway entry system to see if we might integrate it into out site, instead of our old method (commenting).

To Enter this giveaway, no comments are required. All entries for this giveaway will be through the rafflecopter widget you will see below. If you want, leave me a comment on this post letting me know what you think about the rafflecopter widget and if you think we should keep using it for giveaways! Please remember, SoBe Lifewater coupons are quite rare, they don't come in inserts! Thanks guys, and good luck! Contest will end July 20, 2011.

Want to win this SoBe Lifewater Giveaway? Click "read more..." to enter the giveaway!

My Nutrisystem Weekly Weigh-In (Week #10) #NSNation

This is my 11th week on the Nutrisystem program.11 weeks into this journey and I have accomplished losing over 20lbs, that is amazing. This last month has been quite tough on me, and I have shown it with my low numbers. The heat, stress, work, and problems I have at the moment took a toll on me. I'm slowly managing to regain control.

This week I haven't felt like eating much due to the heat, and it draws me to pick the quick microwavable-only Nutrisystem foods. Sticking to the program as best as I could under the circumstances, my numbers were ok this week once again. The past month, I have gotten little to no excessive. I plan to change that this week since the forecast doesn't mention anything about triple-digit weather for the week! I'm exited to get to work on that!

This weeks weight-loss was ok, but due to the circumstances, It was expected. Who knew it would be so hard to lose weight during summer? :) I can't wait to keep pushing myself and lose more weight. I need to get into my exercise again! I have made a personal goal to lose a minimum of 10lbs. a month over the next 1 1/2 months I have left. :) Don't forget to Check out my entire Nutrisystem Journey, my photos on Flickr or my videos on YouTube! Now its time, my weight loss for the 11th week on Nutrisystem:

Weight Loss: 

             -6.2 lbs. [5/1/11]    -2.3 lbs. [6/12/11]
             -3.1 lbs. [5/8/11]    -1.1 lbs. [6/19/11]
             -2.6 lbs. [5/15/11]   -0.8 lbs. [6/26/11]
             -1.8 lbs. [5/22/11]   -0.8 lbs. [7/3/11]
             -2.5 lbs. [5/29/11]   -0.5 lbs. [7/10/11] 
             -2.6 lbs. [6/5/11]

Total: 24.4 lbs.

Nutrisystem Nation Bloggers:

I want to say HELLO to my fellow Nutrisystem Nation Bloggers! I read their blogs and their ups & downs with the system! Don't forget to check them out! Trisha @ Makeup Files, Heather @ Living On Love & Cents, Di @ Free Sample Mama, Lisa @ Mommy & Me Giveaways, Carmen @ Closer To Lucy, Sara @ Dealicious Mom, Brett @ This Mama Loves Her Bargains

Want to join me on the Nutrisystem Program? Sign up online or call 1-888-853-4689!

Disclaimer: As a part of the "Nutrisystem Nation Blogger" Program, Nutrisystem is providing their food, services and program to me free of charge in exchange for blogging about my experience. Opinions are my own and I will provide only fair and honest reviews.

Blog Hops For The Week Of July 11, 2011

Another week of Blog Hops nicely organized into a NEW convenient post :) lol. Join us, make new friends, and find new blogs! This is my 53nd week! Wow! Super long time!

Make sure you guys check out the "Quick Links" on the left sidebar for the Target Weekly Ad with coupon match-ups and coupon previews (updated every Wednesday). Also, check out my giveaways and enter to WIN AN HTC INSPIRE 4G SMART PHONE! Ends July 22, 2010.