Staples FREE Batteries Deal is Back Again!

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The Staples battery deal has come around once again and I love it! This is a great time to stock up for Christmas toy batteries!

Several times a year Staples gives 100% back in rewards when you buy 16 packs of Duracell AA and AAA batteries, limit 2 per customer. You can then take those Staples rewards and buy anything else in the store that you need- copies, office supplies, ink, etc. (I tend to use mine to get free or discounted HP printer ink).


Here's how it works: You must first have a Staples rewards card. If you do not currently have one, just ask at the front counter and they'll be glad to help you sign up immediately.


Then, you must buy the 16 pack AA or AAA batteries. I believe they are $10.99. You will pay for them at the counter, regular price, but then several weeks later in your e-mail or postal mail if you prefer, you will receive a full rebate for them in the form of a Staples reward certificate. This would amount to 21.98 if you had bought 2 packs. You can then print out your reward and bring it into Staples to buy anything else in the store with it! I tend to buy printer ink with mine. 

Here's an example: right now Staples is running a special on printer ink where you get $6 back per cartridge if you buy $50 worth of ink. I've done that before- bought $50 worth of HP ink, then used previously earned battery rewards to help pay for it. So I might get $50 worth of ink for $28.02 and then turn in 5 cartridges to earn $30 back on the ink. If you count the cartridge money that I get back, it's almost like the ink was free. 

For those in Wilmington, there are now two Staples stores. One is near Sam's Club on N. College Rd. and the other is in Monkey Junction.

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Star News vs. News and Observer

Good morning! Today I found two inserts in each newspaper- a Red Plum and a Smart Source. I also found what appeared to be an additional bonus insert in my Raleigh paper. It was a Smart Source insert with lots of General Mills product coupons. My Wilmington inserts appeared to be thinner so let's take a look and see exactly which coupons were in each paper.

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Smart Source Insert Raleigh Newspaper Only- Black; Both Papers- Blue Wilmington Only- Red


Campbells Soup, Uncle Ben's Rice, Campbell's Chunky Soups, Campbell's Soups to Go or Microwaveable Soups, Dr. Pepper TEN and Diet Dr. Pepper, Friendship Cottage Cheese, Woolite, Honey Bunches of Oats, Tyson Anytizers Snacks, Tyson Bagged Breaded Chicken Strips, Farmer's Garden Pickles, Chow Mein, Ensure, Reynold's Parchment Paper, Buitoni, Fancy Feast, Fisher Baking Nuts, Starbucks Coffee, California Olive Ranch Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Dixie Crystal's Sugar, Werther's Original, Mueller's Pasta, Smithfield Smoked Sausage, John Frieda Products, Ban, Jergens, Woolite Carpet Cleaner, Curel, Smithfield Bacon, Smithfield Marinated Pork, Fresh Pork or Ham, Ortega, Zest Products, Olive Garden Coupons, Method Hand Wash, Schick Xtreme 3, Pediasure, Renu Contact Lense Cleaner, Boston Contact Lense Cleaner, Scotch-Brite Bontanical Disinfecting Wipes, Air Wick Candles, Zyrtec, Cooked Perfect Meatballs, Tyson Mini Bread Bowls or Chicken Sandwiches, Celestial Seasonings Tea, Libman Wonder Mop, Pledge Floor Cleaner or Armstrong Floor Cleaner, Harbor Freight Tools, Tylenol Cold Product,. Tylenol Sinus Product, Schick Disposable Razor

Second Smart Source:

Yoplait, Toaster Strudel, General Mills Cereals, Progresso Soups, Betty Crocker Boxed Potatoes, Hamburger Helper, Chex Mix, Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks, Nature Valley Granola Bars, Pillsbury Crescent Dinner Rolls, Pillsbury Grands, Pillsbury Sweet Rolls, Yoplait Simplait, Yoplait Greek Yogurt, Progresso Soups, Totinos Pizza Rolls, Fiber One, Yoplait Kids Yogurt, Shake n Pour Betty Crocker Desserts, Betty Crocker Ready to Spread Frosting, Brownies, Dessert Mix, Green Giant Seasoned Steamers

Red Plum Insert Raleigh Newspaper Only- Black; Both Papers- Blue Wilmington Only- Red

Skittles, Starburst, Life Savers or Grab Bag Mix Candies, Maybelline, Nature's Bounty Vitamins, Nature's Bounty Optimal Solutions Supplement and Shake Mix, Whisker Lickins, Osteo BiFlex, LA Looks, Soft Scrub Spray, Soft Scrub Cream or Gel Product, Purex Crystals, Purex Detergent, Dial or Dial for Men Body Washes, Dial Lotion, Dial Liquid or Foamin Hand Soap or Dial Bar, Right Guard, Ester-C, M&M or Mars Candies, Jimmy Dean Products, Jimmy Dean Rolls, Bon Yurt, A Taste of Thai Peanut Sauce Mix and Coconut Milk, Nestle Toll House Ultimates Refrigerated Cookie Dough, Land o Frost Deli Meat, Herbal Essence Aussie Products, Chapstick Active Sport Ready, Chap Stick Regular, Gillette Fusion ProGlide Razor, Gillette Disposable Razor, Venus or Daisy Disposable,  Snausages or Snaw Somes Dog Snacks, Pup Peroni Dog Snacks, Milk Bone Dog Snacks, Milo's Kitchen Dog Snacks, Kibbles n Bits Dry Dog Food, DermaSilk, Folgers Gourmet K-Cup, Folgers Gourmet Selections Coffee, Special K Popcorn Chips, Rice Krispies Gluten Free and/or Cocoa Krispies, Crunchy Nut, Gaviscon Antacid, McCormick or McCormick Gourmet Spices or Herbs, BJ's Warehouse Coupons, Citrucel, Sweet Tomatoes Salad Bar Coupons, Allegra Allergy

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Wilmington's Red Plum insert today was awful! I could count the number of coupons on one hand. Raleigh Red Plum was very nice.

On the other hand, Wilmington's Smart Source, although still thinner than the Raleigh Smart Source, did have a couple of coupons that were not in Raleigh at all- Celestial Seasonings Tea, Wondermop, Pledge, Tylenol Cold and Sinus Products and the Schick Disposable Razor Coupons.

Until next week......

Robitussin at CVS for only $.49 each!

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I always say to buy your medicine BEFORE you get sick. With winter and flu season coming up, now is the time to begin stocking up on your medicine. There's nothing worse than having to run out to the store and look for medicine while you're feeling bad. In fact, when you do go shopping sick, you're sure to overspend and pay any amount just to feel better.

This week CVS has a great deal on Robitussin cold medicine. You can get the liquid 4 oz. or the 20 ct pills and they come out only $.49 each! This is a better price than store brand medicine AND it's a lot less than the usual price of $

It's very simple:

Buy 2 Robitussin on sale for $4.99 each
Use two $3 off coupons from yesterday's Red Plum newspaper. 

Total you pay at register: $3.98 for two Robitussin

(Honestly, that's already a steal but it gets better)

For buying two, CVS will give you $3 back in Extrabucks after you pay. You can then redeem these in the store for anything else you want (minus alcohol, tobacco, lotto).

Counting the Extrabucks, you paid only $.49 each for the name brand medicine!

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It's hard to beat that price! Don't you just love couponing? You can do this 5 times and buy up to 10 medicines, thus earning $15 in Extrabucks depending on if you have enough coupons. 

NOTE: I got it FREE at Harris Teeter yesterday! It was on sale for $4.99 and I used a $3.00 off paper coupon and a $3.00 off EVIC coupon for a total of $6.00 off. I actually came out $1.01 in the positive! I don't know if the Robitussin is still on sale at Harris Teeter but it never hurts to ask!

$5 off $25 Purchase at Family Dollar all Week

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I love shopping at Family Dollar, especially when they give out the $5 off $25 purchase coupons. They do this about once a month and it's back!

The coupon can be found on their website here and printed for you to take into the store to redeem. It was also in yesterday's Sunday newspaper on the front page of the Family Dollar store flyer. To my knowledge, it will not be found inside of the store in the store flyer, so you have to already have it before you go into the store.

Family Dollar accepts all manufacturer's coupons and on their website you can also find Family Dollar store coupons that you could stack with the manufactuer's coupons PLUS use the $5 off $25. 

Family Dollar runs some excellent specials each week and I find that I can come out really well by using their sales, plus coupons plus the $5 off $25. They do an item of the week special each week and this week's deal is Hershey's Jumbo Mix Candy Bag 17.31 oz or Mars Fun Size Mix Candy Bag 19.55 oz. for only $4. 

I plan to use the $5 off $25 and buy LUVS diapers. Here's the deal:

LUVS Diapers Jumbo Packs are on sale 2 for $14.

I will buy 4 packs for $28

I will use 2 coupons from yesterday's Sunday paper for $1 off 2 packs of diapers for a total of $2 off.

I will then use the $5 off $25 coupon

$28-$2-$5= $21 plus tax for four packs of diapers ($5.25 each)

I like to figure out the cost per diaper. This varies depending on what size you buy (for example, newborn Jumbo packs have more diapers than size 4 or 5) but since I'm buying size four we'll go with that. 31 diapers come in size four, so I'm getting a total of 124 LUVS diapers for $21. That comes out to 16.9 cents per diaper. That's a pretty good price. I've done better, but it's certainly a deal worth getting. In comparison, Sam's Club sells the same size LUVS for 17 cents per diaper, so basically you're getting a Sam's Club price without paying for a membership and without having to buy so many at a time. 

At Walmart, size four LUVS with 31 in a pack cost 21 cents per diaper, compared to the 16 cents at Family Dollar by using coupons.

As you can see, it pays to use coupons!

*Note- you may want to see if your Walmart will accept the $5 off $25 coupons from Family Dollar. Their policy states that they take competitor's coupons, so it should work.

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Star News vs. News and Observer

Good morning! It may be cloudy in Southeastern NC this morning but I hope you can make it out of bed for your newspaper! There were FOUR inserts in the paper today, totaling hundreds of dollars in coupons (and this number doesn't even count the coupons that may double).

Raleigh's News and Observer usually has more coupons; let's take a look to see if that's the case again this weekend!

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Smart Source Insert Raleigh Newspaper Only- Black; Both Papers- Blue Wilmington Only- Red

Pepperidge Farms JINGOS snacks, Swanson Chicken Broth, Boston Market Restaurant Coupons, Gwaltney Bacon, Gwaltney Bologna, Gwaltney Hot Dogs, Kleenex Tissues, Kleenex Hand Towels, Joint Juice, OXY Products, Green Mountain K-Cup Packs, Green Mountain Coffee, Eggland's Best Eggs, Ronzoni Pasta Creations, Frank's Red Hot Sauce, Frank's Sweet Chili Sauce, Purina Dog Food 4 lb bags, Mighty Dog Canned Food, ROC Skincare, Smart Balance Butter, Smart Balance Milk, Enfamil, Irish Spring Soap or Body Wash, Icy Hot, Colgate Battery Powered Toothbrush, Colgate Adult or Kids Manual Toothbrush, Colgate Toothpaste, Colgate Optic White Mouthwash, Softsoap Bodywash or Bar Soaps, Softsoap Liquid Hand Soap, Hefty Waste Bags, Hefty Slider Bags, Hefty Cups, Hefty Plates and Bowls, Reynold's Wrap Foil, Reynold's Slow Cooker Liners, Farm Rich Snacks, Dr. Scholl's Custom Fit Orthotics, Claritin, Drano, Neutrogena, Drano Septics, Splenda No Calorie Sweetener, Nectresse Natural No Calorie Sweetener, Soyjoy Bars, Sea Pak, Products, Mrs. Smith's Pie (freezer)

Red Plum Insert Raleigh Newspaper Only- Black; Both Papers- Blue Wilmington Only- Red

Dove Men Care Body Wash, Bars, and Deoderant Products, Degree Deoderant, Vaseline Lotion, Simple Skin Products, Bertolli Meal Soup, Bertolli Meal Soup, Frozen Meal or Risotto, Knorr Homestyle Stock, PF Changs Spring Rolls or Dumplings, Luminous Clean Products, Pond's Cream, towelettes or cleansing products, Superpretzel/Softpretzel, Cesar Dog Foods, Brillo Sponge Products, Brillo Soap Pads, Deer Park Water, Dole 100% Juice, Centrum Flavor Burst Multivitamins, Pedigree Dog Food, Weight Watchers Sweet Bakery Products, Pringles, Sara Lee Pound Cake, Ball Park Franks and Angus Franks, Marvel Vitamins, 9 Lives Cat Food, Sundown Naturals Vitamins, Meow Mix Cat Food, Carnation Evaporated Milk, Dove Body Wash, Dove Soap, Dove Deoderant, Dove Hair Care, Healthy Life Bread and Buns, Healthy Life Soft Style 100% Whole grain bread, Greenies Smart Bites Cat Treats or Dental Treats, Robitussin, Children's Advil, Dimeapp Products, Surf Laundry Detergent, ALL Liquid Powder and ALL Mighty Pacs, Fiora Bath Tissue, Dirty Jobs Cleaning Products, Mazola Corn Oil or Spray, Karo Syrup, Fleishmann's Yeast, Argo Corn Starch, Welch's 100% Juice, Welch's Jams, Jellies or Spreads, Kellogg's Krave Cereals, Kellogg's All-Bran, Rice Krispies, and/or Raisin Bran, Francesco Rinaldi Pasta Sauce, Degree Men Products, Axe Styling Product/Shampoo, Tresemme Hair Care, Suave Hair Care, Dove Shampoo Conditioner

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There were also 2 additional inserts- a Proctor and Gamble and a Pepsi Moments to Save. They were in both newspapers so I won't list all the products as a comparison since you'll get them regardless of which paper you buy.

As usual, the Raleigh paper had many more coupons (see all the black letters). The Blue letters represent coupons that were in both papers and the red are coupons that are only in the Wilmington paper. As you can see there is only one product- Mrs. Snith's Pies, that were only in the Wilmington paper. So unless you specifically want that coupon, you'd be better off getting the Raleigh paper which will net you WAY more coupons for your money.

Until next week.............

Reminder: FREE Lunch at Macaroni Grill Today!

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I posted this earlier in the week on the Delly's Deals Facebook page but I wanted to post a reminder about the free pick two combo today at Macaroni Grill. Here in Wilmington, NC, the Macaroni Grill is located in Mayfaire Town Center. There are many locations across the US.

Go here and print this coupon. They were still available as of this morning. It entitles one person per table to a free pick two combo at the Macaroni Grill from 11-4 toady, Friday, September 28th.

I went when they did this the last time and it was wonderful! The restaurant was not unreasonably busy, either.

Hope you have a chance to get out an enjoy a rare freebie!

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Remember your Paper this Sunday!

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I wanted to remind everyone about this Sunday's newspaper. It's the first of the month coming up and that means lots of great coupons. There are supposed to be five inserts in the paper this week!

There should be:

1 Proctor and Gamble
2 Red Plum
1 Smart Source
1 Pepsi Moments to Save (certain regions)

Keep in mind that the inserts vary by region so there is no guarantee that we will receive all of them. However, it never hurts to be on the lookout and check several papers before you walk out of the store.

Also, try to get the Raleigh News and Observer newspaper if you can because it has way more coupons that the smaller local city newspapers.

I hope to be back on Sunday morning posting my weekly newspaper coupon listing and comparison. See you then!

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