Hobby Lobby - Tips & Tricks

The other week at our last MOPs meeting, one of the moms passed on some information to me that I have never known about Hobby Lobby. I mean, I get their coupons, I watch their ads, items go 30-50% off quite a bit so I wait to purchase items.

She told me if you are purchasing non sale items, to ask if it was on sale the week before. If it was, they will give you the sale price! Most of the times when their items go on sale, they rotate being 50% off or close to it.

I didn't believe her. Could this really be true??? I spoke to a gentleman at my church who manages our local Hobby Lobby. Yes, it is true. Nationwide! The checkers will either have it memorized or have the past week's ad at their station. You don't even have to know if it was on sale the week before, you can just ask!

JUST in case the item is not on sale, sign up HERE for their weekly ad emails which also include a weekly coupon for one non-sale item.

Find a location near you HERE (or near where you will be visiting this summer :D )

Check their weekly ads HERE to see if any items you are wanting to purchase are on sale.

Good news for those of you that live by Jessica - on their site it says they are opening a store in Viera soon!

You have seen a Hobby Lobby around before, but have never stepped foot in there. Here are just a FEW things I have purchased from there!

• craft kids for my kids
• seasonal decor
• scrapbooking paper, stickers, supplies
• large mirrors
• custom framing
• picture frames
• gift items
• candles
• party supplies and decor

Have fun, and enjoy your shopping!

Guest Contributor: Denise

Target deals 4/11-4/17

There are some great Target deals this week. I will be updating this throughout the week as it seems there are new deals discovered all the time!

Here are two different links for the deals this week:

#1-deals

#2-printable coupons

New Publix deals start today (4/5-4/13)

Publix-where shopping is a pleasure. I wholeheartedly agree. There are always great deals at Publix and these deals start today. Go HERE for a complete list with coupon match-ups.

There is also a great gas card deal this week. $10 off of $50 BP gas card. The coupon is in the weekly ad at the front of the store. You might as well go for it! You pay $40 for $50 of gas which is something everyone is always in need of!

Target Deals: 4/5-4/10

There are some good deals at Target this week. Here is a link to a great razor deal where you get $5 gift card back. And go HERE for a full list of the deals with coupon match-ups. If you are new to couponing and ever have any questions, let me know!!

Business cards for just $1 Shipped via Overnight Prints

Darn, I just went to order and apparently they decided to make the code expire early! Sorry!!

The company Overnight Prints is offering 50 one-sided or double sided business cards shipped to you for $1 when you use the code REDDITENDED. This coupon code expires today, March 31, 2010. Go HERE to order.

Free deal right under your butt

Guest Blogger- Matt (husband)

There are free deals right under your butt or maybe your husband's butt. I looked in my wallet the other day and I found a fully filled out free movie stamp card for a free ticket that had been in there for a few months and a $25 gift card to Wal-Mart . I told this to my friend Tom and he had a $10 card to Wal-Mart and a expired $25 card to ticketmaster. My sister in-law overheard us and looked in her wallet and she had a $25 gift card to Kohl's that she didn't know she had and just bought a $60 dress at Dillard's to her regret. She could have bought it at Kohl's with the gift card and saved 25 bucks. She also had really good coupons and some stamps she forgot she had. Now she is going to take the dress back and save 25 bucks at Kohl's.

So check your wallet or you spouse's wallet and start saving.

Note from Jessica: Thanks to my husband for 2 awesome guest posts today! You will be seeing a lot more of that on days like today where there is ZERO time for me to blog. Also, I just noticed that my blog count has crept over the 1,000 mark! I am sooo excited about this. :) Thanks to everyone for reading my blog, signing up to become a follower (right hand side of the blog/halfway down), telling others about it and for being so encouraging and supportive. :)

UPDATE-Toys R Us Hasbro deal even sweeter

As an addendum to my previous post on the awesome Toys R Us Hasbro games deal, here is a link to some wonderful Printable Hasbro game coupons.

These include the following plus many others:
$4 Battleship
$5 Bop-It
$4 Connect 4
$4 Clue
$5 Elefun
$5 Gator Golf
$4 Hungry Hippos
$5 Monopoly
$5 Operation
$5 Sorry! Sliders
$4 Twister

Don't forget about the rebate too!

Toys R Us Hasbro Toy Deal

Here's the deal: Get $20 in Hasbro toys and get a $5 Toys R Us gift card. In my mind, that is not that great, but it gets BETTER. Keep reading.

Combine this deal with coupons and even better, a Hasbro Rebate, for some almost FREE games!! They had a similar deal back in December and I got 7 or 8 practically free, brand new games for my kids for Christmas. I am definitely doing it again to have some nice gifts on hand!

The info below in red indicate coupons from the March 21st Smart Source (3/21 SS) insert in the newspaper. I have these coupons if you don't and really want to do these deals. Just comment to let me know how to get them to you and which ones you want (I obviously have a limited quantity of coupons, so comment quickly!!)

$4.99 Games ($2.99 each after rebate)

Candy Land
Cootie
Chutes & Ladders
Memory
Hi Ho Cheerio’s

$8.99 Games ($5.99 each after rebate)
Battle Ship
Operation
Trouble
Connect 4
-$4 off Hasbro Connect 4 game SS 3/21
Twister
-$4 off Hasbro Twister Game SS 3/21

$9.99 Game (no rebate)
Monopoly
-$5 off Hasbro Monopoly Board Game, Any SS 3/21

$11.99 Games ($8.99 each after rebate)
Bop-It
-$5 off Hasbro Bop it game SS 3/21
Sorry! Sliders
Connect 4 Double Grid
-$4 off Hasbro Connect 4 game SS 3/21
Guess Who Electronic

A Few Deal Ideas

Buy:
(1) Monopoly $9.99
(1)Twister $8.99
(1)Connect 4 $8.99
Use:
$5 off Monopoly SS 3/21
$4 off Twister SS 3/21
$4 off Connect 4 SS 3/21
Total = $14.97
Get back $5 Toys R Us gift card
Submit Hasbro rebate for $6
Grand total = 3.97 for 3 games!!

Or…
Buy:
(1) Bop-It $14.99 and
(2) Twister $8.99 OR Connect 4 $8.99
Use:
$5 off Bop-It SS 3/21
$4 off Twister OR Connect 4 SS 3/21
Total = $14.98
Get back $5 Toys R Us gift card
Submit Hasbro rebate for $6
Grand total = 3.98 for 2 games!!

Thanks SouthernSavers!!

Toys R Us BOGO ALL DVDs-thru tonight only!

Sorry I am realllly late on this one, but you still have 2.5 hours to make it if you are interested. Toys R Us, through tonight only, is selling ALL of their DVDs (box sets as well!) for BOGO (Buy one, Get One Free). This excludes Blu-Rays. The way to make the most out of this is buy 2 and use coupons for both of them even though you are getting one for free. Here are some links to some helpful coupons:

$3 off ANY Disney DVD

$5 off Princess and the Frog

More Disney printables

$2 off Flicka, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Legally Blonde, The Black Stallion and More (click on entertainment on the left)

Have fun!

Swagbucks Testimony

Just the title of this post is cracking me up, but seriously. This is pretty awesome. My friend Heather, who gave me full permission to share her testimony, saw my post on swagbucks the other day (if you missed it-go HERE) and signed up! Well, she decided to take advantage of the special offers (i.e. signing up for netflix, magazines, etc.) to earn some quick swagbucks and so this is what she did:

"So today I have made 11,540 by ordering Directv and also web searches. We have no cable but use Netflix. Lately I have been ordering bunches of Disney and kid movies. I saw Directv has Disney and Animal Plant for $29.99 a month no start up costs or deposits and I am just canceling my Netflix. The whole thing only added $10 to my monthly budget but now I can trade in my swagbucks for $100 at Amazon. I order lots of things on there including gluten free products so in my eyes I will break even for 10 months ($100 divided by $10 I pay out each month) LOL. That is my swagbucks testimony lol, thanks for letting me know about it. -Heather"

GO Heather!!! I think that is so cool! ALSO, Heather signed up at houseparty.com. See my post here if you missed it and already won a party! I am getting envious. :)

So, today is Mega Swagbucks Day. They have this every Friday and will award higher value bucks for searches....30, 40, 50, even 100!!! So, sign up here, do some extra searching and earn some bucks to get some free stuff!

Blockbuster Express

Use these promo codes below to get a free one-night movie rental or Rent 1 Get 1 Free at your local Blockbuster Express.

Print the entire list of codes to be safe because I have not able to test them.

FREE 1 NIGHT RENTAL:

GL9RA (expires March 31)

GY131 (expires March 31)

CALENDAR (expires March 31)

OUFXMV (expires April 17)

6HHQLC (expires April 17)

ETKGH7 (expires April 17)

ICA33W (expires April 23)

VGG8U2 (expires April 23)

GOLIVE (expiration unknown)

G413A (expiration unknown)

BBXPUB (expiration unknown)

RENT 1 GET 1 FREE

MARCH (expires March 31)

345G13B (expires March 31)

POPCORN (expiration unknown)

Remember to return your one-night movie rental before it's due (9pm the next day) to avoid an additional night rental charge. Check to find your Blockbuster Express Location.

UPDATE Target Deals-FREE Connect 4

I just found a coupon on Target.com for $3 off select Hasbro games. This includes Connect 4. Refer to my previous post and you can get Connect 4 for absolutely free. You are allowed to combine 1 Target coupon with 1 manufacturer's coupon per item at Target. Hip hip hooray for free!!!

Free lava chocolate cake from Domino's Pizza

Complete a short survey for a free Lava Chocolate Cake with your next delivery order at Domino's Pizza. I did it, it worked! They either give you a code to use at the end of the survey or I have also heard that they e-mail it to some people instead.

Let's be fair

So, we had a Starbucks post this morning, let's be fair and post a deal with a competitor, Dunkin Donuts. Apparently, America runs on it? :) Click HERE to get a free sample of Dunkin Donuts coffee mailed to your home!

Today is the day...

This is ME in the first ever original Starbucks in Seattle when we went there in January

Today is the day for a FREE Starbucks Pastry. I posted this a couple of days ago and this is your friendly reminder. When "Starbucks" and "free" is used in the same sentence...I cannot contain my excitement. :)

From open til 10:30 AM you can get a free pastry at participating Starbucks with the purchase of a beverage. Print this coupon or "show it to one of the baristas on your mobile device". So, you could click on the link on your phone from my blog and show it to the barista to get your free pastry! Don't waste that printer ink! :) I will try to remember to post a reminder on March 23rd as well.

10 pairs of sunglasses for $10!!!

I saw this deal weeks ago before I started this blog and tried to get it and they were sold out!! SO, I just saw it again on facebook and I jumped on it. It was actually a little over $15 with shipping, BUT if you sign up for shopathome.com HERE which is a cash back site (they give you a certain percentage of cash back for shopping through their site versus going directly to the site you want to shop at), you will be paying around $10!! Every site you can think of is on ShopAtHome and I have used this site for well over a year. If you have heard of Ebates, this is the same concept.

1.) So, sign up for ShopAtHome and you get $5 for signing up if you are new and then you will get 6% cash back on the sunglasses.

2.) Search for Graveyardmall.com and use that link to get to the graveyardmall.com website

3.) Check out! After rebates and shipping, your total will be around $10 for 10 pairs of name brand sunglasses! Note the rebates are not instant rebates.

GnuCash

Free accounting software. If you have a small business, this could save you lots of money!

This is from their website:

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software.

Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.

Click HERE to check it out. This of zero interest to me (lol!), but maybe someone out there can get good use out of it!! :)

Free BJ's membership

Click HERE for a FREE 60-Day trial membership. They also have tons of in-club coupons that you can print from their website. I spend WAY too much money at this place, but they do have awesome deals.

Target deals 3/21-3/27

Target has some great deals on board games this week! Here are a few of them and then a link to all of the deals this week. Even if you already have these games, they would make great gifts!

Monopoly Board Game – $7
Use $5/1 here and in 3/21 Smart Source insert
Final Price = $2!!

Connect 4 Board Game – $7
Use $4/1 here and in 3/21 Smart Source insert
Final Price = $3

Battleship Board Game – $9
Use $3/1 Hasbro Target coupon here
Final Price = $6

For many more coupon match-ups, go to one of my personal favorites: stretchingabuckblog.

Starbucks Free Pastry Day March 23rd

From open til 10:30 AM you can get a free pastry at participating Starbucks with the purchase of a beverage. Print this coupon or "show it to one of the baristas on your mobile device". So, you could click on the link on your phone from my blog and show it to the barista to get your free pastry! Don't waste that printer ink! :) I will try to remember to post a reminder on March 23rd as well.