I. Love. James.
Something happened at Target today that changed my life.
But first, I have to tell you that I stopped at Walmart to get the facebook Sunbelt buy one get one free goodies. They were on sale for $2, so I got 2 boxes of granola bars and 2 boxes of fruit snacks for $4. And now my kids are happy, because I never buy fruit snacks anymore. You want a fruit snack? Here’s an apple. But I buckled under the pressure. Sometimes the coupons dictate my life.
Pit stop. I had to go to Chick Fil A and Sonic, because it was happy hour and also, I’ve learned to never ever ever ever go to the grocery store hungry. Unless it’s Costco. Then I graze.
Okay, now we’re at Target.
I had so many coupons today, I was almost hyperventilating, so I had to get the big ones out of the way.
Free gift card when you buy 2 marked Schick products. They were on sale for $6.49, and I had $3 off Schick refills, $3 Schick Extreme razor from the P&G booklet I got in the mail. (If you haven’t ordered one yet, you have no idea what you’re missing.) This brought the total to 6.98, and with the $5 Target card, $1.98.
Target web coupon Airwick Plug in scented oil unit with purchase of scented oil refill. Target web coupon had $1 off of any one scented oil refill pack, as well as the Sunday insert. The scented refills are $2.99, so the total for both the unit and the oil was $1.99.
General Mills cereal – on sale $3.49. Buy 2, get a multi pack of kids’ Yoplait yogurt free. I also had a coupon for $1/3 General Mills cereals, and a .65 off of Reeses Puffs. I bought the 3 boxes of cereal, and took a chance at checkout, and they all went through. This made 3 huge boxes of cereal and a yogurt pack around $6.50.
Digiornio Pizza – On sale for $4.50, buy 2 get one single serve pizza free. I bought 2, and then 2 California Pizza Kitchen pizzas. Coupons.com had a $1 one California Pizza Kitchen pizza, and I found $1 Digiornio coupons at smartsource.com. So, 4 nice pizzas for $8.This one was awesome. We have lots of kids coming in and out this weekend, so we need quick food. Way less expensive than ordering even 1 pizza.
More pizza. I had an Archer Farms print out from a previous visit for a buy one and get one free, and $1 off target web coupon. So, 2 more pizzas for 1.99.
Smart Ones – $5 gift card for buying 10, $4 off of 10. Most of them are $1.88 each. Total was 9.80, so that makes them less than $1 a piece. Brad’s leaving town next week, so I hid some of them from the kids, and lets be honest, from Brad so I can take it easy while he’s gone.
Baked Lays – on sale for 2.79, $1 Target web coupon, $1.79. Gotta have some chips for all that salsa.
Nabisco crackers – $1/2, Target web coupon
$2 off Quaker oats, on sale for $2.34, so .34
Ground Beef – 4 pounds at $1.99 a pound, used 4 .50 off coupons, $6 for 4 pounds. Lots of options this week.
Old El Paso – .50 off coupons.com, so .19 cents.
Green bell peppers- .69 cents
Carving Board Turkey – $1 Target web coupon, .75 coupons.com
Market Pantry bread – .50 Target web coupon, so .49 cents
Kraft cheese – on sale for $2.00, $1.50 printout at register from a previous visit, so 2 for $2.50. You can find a kraft cheese coupon at smartsource.com or coupons.com
Beggin Strips – $1 Sunday Insert, $1 Target Web, so .49. And there was a coupon on the bag, so free in my book.
And last but not least, use this with this sale on Wholly Guacamole, and it will be $2, which is almost unheard of. (sale ends Oct.30)
Those were the best deals today. At least I thought they were, until I met James.
James was my check out boy. I warned him right up front that there were going to be a lot of coupons I was going to hand him. He didn’t even wince. God bless James.
Poor James. I talked and talked and talked to him about each deal I was getting and did he want to see the pictures I took on my phone? And yes, I bought 3, do you want me to find it in the bag?
And then James said something to me I’ll never forget.
James asked me if I wanted a Target card to save 5%. And I was only hearing the word card and I said, oh no, thank you very much, credit cards are bad for me. And this is the part where he changes my life. He says to me, no, I mean a Target debit card. We’ve only had it about 2 weeks. It takes your cash directly from your account when you pay, and you save 5% each time you use it.
And this is the part where I turned into one part tornado and one part whirling dervish. Literally. Something took over me and I spun around and then grabbed my hair and said way too loudly, ARE YOU KIDDING ME! James! You just changed my life!
Poor James turned super red. I asked all the right questions. And bam. I have a Target debit card that I can use anytime I want. ( And your local school of choice benefits. Ridiculous.)
Thank you James.
He saved me even.more.money.
See?
And don’t forget I got 2 $5 gift cards. This is what I have to show for it.
God Bless America.
P.S. lots of freebies this week on Gypsy Jules. Don’t miss out!
4 responses to “James”
James from Target
October 28th, 2010 at 22:39
Hi everyone. This is James and yes she really did react that way when I told her about the extra savings. I have never seen someone get so excited about saving money.
kingdomfinance
October 29th, 2010 at 09:09
James, you are more famous now than you realize. You will have people coming to see him from this. Julie, your has must smell like a nursing home by now with all the free candles and plug ins.
Brian
thegypsyjules
October 29th, 2010 at 10:47
Brian. it’s funny. I never bought those things before but now that they are practically free, I’m going hog wild.
Wait till Kathryn starts dragging things home…
Cora
November 13th, 2010 at 13:04
Kinda weird that he said they’ve only had the debit card for a few weeks, I’ve had mine for over a year now. (: Maybe Boulder is just more advanced than other Targets, haha.