Want to come to a Coupon Swap this Sunday?

Ok, so we're going to have our first coupon swap/coupon club this Sunday at 4pm at the Starbucks in North Park on N. First Ave.  We can try to have it at different places and different times around Evansville for anyone who can't make this date.  So we are just going to meet and hang out, swap coupons and stories.  I can't wait.  If your new to couponing and want to come by and ask some questions, please come.  I will be bringing my little one with me, feel free to bring your kids if you need to.  Come by even if you can only stop by for 10 minutes. We'd love to see ya there!

My Target Trip

There is lots of great clearance at the North Park Target that can be combined with coupons.  There is a rack in the baby's department with denim pink jeans for girls marked at $2.50 which will be $.50 after using the $2 off any newborn/kids denim coupon HERE.

There is also a rack of 75% clearance in the women's department.

This shirt was marked $7 on clearance but I price checked it and it was $5.  It ended up being $2 after I used the $3 coupon.  There were lots of these shirts.  There is also denim jeans priced around $17.

I paid $2.12 for everything in this picture.  All the coupon matchups for these are in my previous Target post.

I paid $.50 each for these pillows.  They are called STD (not kidding) pillows and are marked $2.50  and I used the $2 off any pillow coupon HERE.
Not a bad trip at all. They also had their garden and pool stuff marked 50% off.  The North Park Target will be done with their remodel on the 24th and will then have fresh produce, meats and frozen foods.

Coupon's I'm Printing Right Now

$1/2 off Kraft Shredded Cheese with Philly (you  may be able to stack these with the Target Kraft coupons)

$1/4 Lean Cuisine frozen meals

$1 off a 4-pack of Dannon Light and Fit

$2 off any Bic Soleil Bella Razor 2-pack

My Staples trip

Are you in this photo?  I took this Sunday at 11am in front of Staples.  I love all the moms ready to get their kids some back to school specials.  I bought 2 each of all the $.01 and $.25 deals and bought 5 packages of $1 drinking straws and my total was about $7 all together.

Yard Sale update

I made almost $90 at my yard sale this weekend and I'm pretty happy with that.  I didn't have any big items, mostly boys clothing at $.50 - $1.  My big seller was ziploc bags of misc. small toys for $.50.  I sold a ton of those and now I can see the floor in my boys bedrooms.  My sister-in-law is an expert in yard sale strategy and below are some of her tips she passed on to me:

- Put out lots of signs that say in big bold letters, yard sale, your address and date.  That's it.  Also, drawing an arrow pointing in the direction of your house helps too.

- Advertise free on craigslist.com and tri-state yard sales on Facebook. List all the different items that you are selling.  Someone may come to your sale just because you said your selling Crocs shoes.

- Spread your stuff out in the yard to make it look big and give people room to walk

- put everything you can on tables, people don't want to bend down and sit on the ground to look through stuff

- offer people a cardboard box to use as a "shopping box" to put their items into.  They can leave it up by you (where your taking money) and carry it around with them. Some people won't buy more than they can hold in their hands and this way they may spend more.

- sale cookies, brownies and bottled water

- put any big baby items like strollers, outdoor toys and such up front.  Lots of people shop for baby items and that will make them stop and shop

- be willing to bargain. 

- wash, iron, and run a lint roller on clothing and hang them if you can.  The nicer it looks, the more you can sell it for.

- Have your sale on 2 days like a Friday and Saturday if you can.  You may double your money that way.

If you have any more tips to pass on please leave a comment below.  I'd love to hear more ideas and hopefully it will help someone have a successful yard sale!

New Target Coupons

Target listed up some new coupons today so you may want to go check them out.  Click on the apparel tab and you will see that 2 new coupons are listed for clothing.  You might want to print these now and then wait to use them on a clearance item and possibly get it free.  GO HERE to print your Target coupons.

My Target Trip

Awesome trip to Target.  I bought all this plus 2 half gallons of Silk Almond Milk and a coke for just over $7.  I had no coupons for the milk and coke but everything else was free with overage with my Target coupons.  GO HERE to print a $1 off any Sharpie product, $1 off any 2 Bic Writing instrument, $1 off any Papermate product and $.50 off Scotch Magic Tape. The Bic pens did end up being $.50 after coupons but I used this COUPON HERE which is a manufacturers coupon for the Scotch Magic Tape to give me enough overage to get the Bic Pens FREE.  You can stack the $1 off Scotch tape manufacturers coupon on top of the $.50 Target Scotch tape coupon to get a total of $1.50 off the $1 Scotch tape (for the newbies!) which means Target pays you $.50 for buying this tape.