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If you are an Amazon shopper, make sure you join my Addicted to Amazing Deals Facebook group! This group is specifically for Amazon deals. This holiday season, there will be lots and lots of deals on LEGOs, toys, TVs, tablets, electronics, etc and I will post all of these deals in my group! It IS possible to buy Christmas presents on a budget!
The Kohl’s Black Friday Ad is released!!! Scroll through the ad below to see all of the amazing deals they will be giving us over Black Friday!
Get ready for the holidays and make sure you bookmark our Holiday Deals page HERE!
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If you are an Amazon shopper, make sure you join my Addicted to Amazing Deals Facebook group! This group is specifically for Amazon deals. This holiday season, there will be lots and lots of deals on LEGOs, toys, TVs, tablets, electronics, etc and I will post all of these deals in my group! It IS possible to buy Christmas presents on a budget!
This year’s 2016 Target Toy Catalog is ready to view! Simply scroll through the pages to see all of the toy recommendations for this year! And, head HERE to Target’s website to view their current toy sales!
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If you are an Amazon shopper, make sure you join my Addicted to Amazing Deals Facebook group! This group is specifically for Amazon deals. This holiday season, there will be lots and lots of deals on LEGOs, toys, TVs, tablets, electronics, etc and I will post all of these deals in my group! It IS possible to buy Christmas presents on a budget!
This year’s LEGO Toy Catalog is ready to view! It is filled with gift ideas for LEGO lovers! Simply scroll through the ad to see the entire 2016 LEGO Toy Catalog! Or, head HERE to go directly to LEGO!
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Get ready for holiday baking with these cupcake liners! Head over to Amazon and get this Set of 12 Coloured Silicone Cupcake Liners for just $2.97 Shipped! Go HERE to see the cupcake cases. **Prices are subject to change so grab this while you can.
Get ready for the holidays and make sure you bookmark our Holiday Deals page HERE!
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Make sure you don’t miss ANY deals on toys, games, electronics and more! Join Addicted to Saving’s Holiday Deals Facebook group and stay on top of all of the latest deals! And, don’t miss my 2015 Holiday Gift Guide to see all of the gift ideas I am loving this year!
We added Silhouette to this year’s 2015 Holiday Gift Guide. Their Black Friday sale is live and we can save over 40% on Silhouette Mint, CAMEOs & Portraits! Go HERE to see the sale. Shipping is free on orders of $50+!
20% off Silhouette Design Store Subscriptions
Machine bundles as low as $99.00 including:
Silhouette Mint $99.99 (reg price $179.99)
Portrait & Mint $189.99 (reg price $359.48)
CAMEO $199.99 (reg price $349.99)
CAMEO & Portrait $289.99 (reg price $578.98)
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The Starbucks Black Friday Deal is here and ready to go! In year’s past, we’ve had to wait until Black Friday morning to take advantage of their deals. But today, it’s ready to go NOW! If you frequent Starbucks, check out this deal. For $40.00 you will purchase this double-walled tumbler. That’s a pricey tumbler BUT it gets us one free grande brewed hot coffee or tea at participating Starbucks® stores every day in January 2016! Go HERE for more info and to purchase your tumbler!
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ACK! Black Friday is almost here! Can you believe it? This is the absolute busiest time of year for me from a blogging standpoint. I’m constantly updating my 2015 Holiday Gift Guide, posting regular grocery store and drugstore deals as well as posting as many gift deals as I can find. In the midst of my work schedule, I will take the time to prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Do you go shopping on Black Friday? I know many of you do. Personally, I will not be stepping foot in any stores on Black Friday. Instead, I will be sitting online all day Black Friday and all day Cyber Monday posting deals on Addicted to Saving for all of you. But if you ARE planning on heading out in the chaos known as Black Friday, I have some tips for you to make your day smooth AND frugal.
Don’t go into your Black Friday shopping frenzy without a plan. Most stores will offer their sale ads online days before Thanksgiving, and we will be posting Black Friday ads as soon as they come available here on Addicted to Saving. We also have a Black Friday Category and a Black Friday Page that we will be updating as the ads/deals come available, so bookmark the page in your browser for easy access. Of course, you can grab a newspaper and plan your strategy after your Thanksgiving meal if you prefer. Either way, you need a plan. Saving money doesn’t just magically happen! Decide which bargains you want to go for then make a plan to make it happen. You will need to decide which stores you want to shop at and make a list of the items you want to buy at each store. Decide in which order you will go to which store.
Don’t rely upon your memory — Black Friday will be stressful, confusing, and very busy. Write down your list of items at each store, or print the deals you really want from the Black Friday Ads in the Black Friday Page. If you veer from your list, you will end up spending more money than planned. And let’s be honest, on Black Friday it’s really easy to just pull our credit card out and buy everything we see because we automatically assume they are good deals. That isn’t always the case. So stick to your list and don’t get distracted by the bright shiny sale signs.
I can’t tell you how important this is. While I will find you plenty of wonderful Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, you shouldn’t buy something just because it’s a deal! Make a budget for how much you want to spend during your Black Friday excursion and stick to it. Will you be paying cash, writing checks, or using debit and credit cards? Decide ahead of time how much money you want to spend and how you want to spend it. I discourage credit card shopping as much as possible, unless you are in a financial position where you are 100% comfortable that you will pay it off in full the next billing cycle. As you make your shopping list, note how many you need of each item. And keep in mind that some stores may impose limits on their best deals.
To make your Black Friday shopping a success, you may need to call in the troops. Enlist fellow savers in your shopping spree master-schedule. Will you be taking the whole family? Will you be shopping with friends? Put your heads together as you plan your strategy. If there are five shoppers in your group and five stores that you all want to shop at, make out your lists then split them up. Instead of each of you having your list of items from five different stores, send one person to one store with everyone’s list for that particular store.
If you are shopping with a group, be sure to make use of your cell phones to communicate while you are shopping. Keep each other posted about your whereabouts and what items you have managed to snag so there are not unnecessary duplicates.
Since I’m online all the time anyhow trying to find deals for you all (and myself!), I’m more of an online kind of Black Friday shopper. Join my Holiday Deals group on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and set up your Twitter account to get a text every time I post a deal. Then turn it off once the Holiday Shopping season is over (or keep it on to get year round deals!) 😉 See my post HERE about how to turn on Text Alerts on your twitter account. Both of these ways are excellent ways to stay on top of the latest deals.
There was one year when my husband and I decided to get up early like so many of you do on Black Friday. We left the house around 4:00 a.m. and were in line at Best Buy before the doors opened. When the doors opened, we went crazy piling junk into our cart. Why do I say junk? Because we had NO reason to be buying all of the stuff we bought! We got caught up in the frenzy and found ourselves buying things we didn’t need. This brings me back to my first two tips Make a Plan and then Make a List and Stick to it! 😉
Make sure you join the group Holiday Gift Ideas for Less to insure you don’t miss any deals.
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Are you getting your FREEBIES on Black Friday? This year CVS is not disappointing us! I am noticing that the freebies are for lesser priced items (we can get tons of candy for free). And I do wish there were a few more practical type freebies we could get. But it was still a lot of fun to put together these CVS Black Friday Scenarios. I have you doing five (yes 5) transactions. In the end, your out of pocket spending should be $9.21 on roughly $42.81 worth of items! Will you be heading out to CVS on Black Friday??
Head HERE to see the entire CVS Black Friday Ad & Coupon Matchups. Head HERE to see all of the Black Friday ads for this year!
Transaction One
Buy one Hershey’s Single Serve Candy – $0.77 (receive $0.77 ECB)
Buy one Air Heads Singles OR Mars Singles OR Mentos Rolls – $0.79 (receive $0.79 ECB)
Buy one CVS brand Pantiliners, 20 ct – $0.99 (receive $0.99 ECB)
Buy one Excedrin Extra Strength, 10 ct – $0.99 (receive $0.99 ECB)
Buy one Wrigley’s Orbit Gum, 14 piece – $1.00 (receive $1.00 ECB)
Buy one Skittles OR Starburst Single Serve Candy, 1 – 2.17 oz – $1.00 (receive $1 ECB)
Minus ECBs Earned from Previous Transactions
Total Due: $5.54
Receive $0.77 ECB, $0.79 ECB, $0.99 ECB, $0.99 ECB, $1.00 ECB and $1.00 ECB
Transaction Two
Buy two Palmolive Dish Soap, 10 oz – $1.00 each (receive $1 ECB)
Buy one GUM Supreme Toothbrush, 2 ct – $2.00 (receive $2 ECB)
Buy one Trolli Extreme Sour Bites Fruitz, 7 oz – $2.00 (receive $2 ECB)
Buy one Starbucks DoubleShot Energy Coffee Drink, 6.5 oz – $1.50 (receive $1.50 ECB)
Minus one $1.00/2 Palmolive Dish Liquid – 11-8-15 SS (exp. 11/28/15)
Minus $5.54 ECBs from Transaction One
Total Due : $0.96
Receive $1 ECB, $2 ECB, $2 ECB, $1.50 ECB
Transaction Three
Buy two CoverGirl Lipslicks Smoochies Lip Gloss – $5.00 each (receive $8 ECB)
Minus one $2.00/2 Covergirl – 11-1-15 PG; Excludes Trial and Travel Size; Limit 4 Like Coupons Per Household Per Day (exp. 11/28/15)
Minus $6.50 ECBs from Transaction Two
Total Due: $2.50
Receive $8 ECBs
Transaction Four
Buy one No Gray Quick Fix – $5.79 (receive $5.79 ECB)
Buy one Colgate Optic White Toothpaste – $3.00
Buy two Xtra Liquid Laundry Detergent, 30 lds – $1.99 each
Minus one $2.50/1 Colgate Max, Total, 2in1, or Optic White Toothpaste coupon from CVS Coupon Center, Limit 1
Minus one $0.75/1 Colgate Optic White Toothpaste
Minus one $1.00/1 Xtra Laundry Detergent printing at CVS Coupon Center,
Minus one $1.00/1 Xtra Liquid Detergent, Nice ‘n Fluffy Fabric Softener, or Sureshot Laundry Detergent Paks – 11-8-15 SS; Includes Liquid, 144 oz or Larger Only; (2) Liquid, 75 oz or Smaller Only; (1) Nice ‘N Fluffy Fabric Softener Only or (1) Sureshot Laundry Detergent Pak Only (exp. 12/19/15)
Minus $8 ECBs from Transaction Three
Total Due: FREE
Receive $5.79 ECB
Transaction Five
Buy one CVS brand Alkaline Batteries, 4 pk AA or AAA – $2.00 (receive $1 ECB)
Buy four Progresso Soup, 18.5 – 19 oz – $1.25 each (receive $1 ECB)
Minus one $1.00/3 Progresso Products; Excludes Pasta Bowl- $1.00/3 Progresso Products; Excludes Progresso Pasta Bowl
Minus $5.79 ECBs from Transaction Four
Total Due: $0.21
Receive $1 ECB
Total Remaining ECBs to apply towards next week’s ad: $1.00 ECB
Total Out of Pocket for 3 transactions: $9.21 plus applicable taxes for approximately in $42.81 products.
** Don’t forget that your ECBs will expire in a few weeks and if you let them expire, you are basically throwing away money. If you are concerned you will let them expire and you want to use them now, I would put your ECBs towards paper products like toilet paper, paper towels, etc which are hard to get dirt cheap!
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My name is Liza and I began my money-saving journey in the Spring of 2009 as a way to stretch a limited household income. I had lost my job and my hubby was self-employed. I launched Addicted to Saving in November of 2009 and it has grown by leaps and bounds. Since then, my hubby and I have struggled with the ups and downs of two failed adoptions and are now LOVING being parents to our little man Asher who we brought home from Ethiopia in August of 2013. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to help you save money. My goal is that you will have FUN and become empowered to save more and more money each week..Read More Here...