Favorite Deal of 2008

[FreckleTown]

I started couponing in October so I only have a few months to draw from.

A few of my favs...

Free Cottonelle t.p. at Kroger
Yeast MM at Kroger
FREE Green Giant veggies at Kroger and WM
FREE batteries at CVS and Target
FREE hair dryer after RR at WAGS
FREE ham at Target
FREE carrots at Target
Soleil MM at WAGS when they were BOGO... paid for groceries that week!
.50 Kellogg's cereal at Randalls... we go through TONS of cereal each week
FREE Schick Titanium razors (DH LOVED these!) at WAGS

That's what comes to mind. I'm sure there are others I've missed.

I'm looking forward to a full year of couponing in 2009!

[Kris B]

Many of my favorites have already been mentioned here like the Glade cats at safeway, albertsons and fred meyers that were MM! That deal came at a time that I really needed the help being able to buy groceries. Also the wags olay and crest pro health were awesome deals and of course the kraft deals with the koolaid. My store had bunches of those tearpads.
Some I didn't see mentioned were the deals I got with the olympic booklets at SW. I have tons of kleenex for almost nothing and I think I ended up with over 120 bottles of diet sprite for deposit only, still have loads of both in my closet. The sprite was a B3G3 deal and the coupons were for B1G1 so it all ended up being free. I can't remember exactly the kleenex deal but there was a promo that kleenex was included in, something like buy x amount and get a $20 oyno that rolled and the olympic book coupon was for .50 off 1 box. It was awesome!!!
Thank you HCW!!!!

[Moma]

Here is a funny one...

One of my favorite moments was
"Quaker oats on sale"
DH says"good...how many q's do you have"
me "6"
dh "load them in!!"

At that moment...i KNEW he got "IT"!!

he is a gem!!!

[thickbluebug]

I had 2. Something I would buy even if I didn't have the coupons for it.

french's mustard free after double q and I used the crt's for condiment rebates ...so it was a mm

free reynold's foil at wags and wm

[coupondink]

Hmm, very good question!

There have been many great deals this year.
Here are few that stand out in my mind:

-- the free hair dryer at wags is mint. I love it.
-- the thousands of dollars of free after rebate stuff I got at walgreens and riteaid and rebates - many of them with profit by using a Q
-- the Gift of Savings at Riteaid. $20 free gift certificates for picking through the garbage!
-- Acme is a surprise noteable: The closets of free cereal, super cheap diced tomatoes, chex mix, popcorn, and free Ragu with the rolling catalina deals. Acme steps up!
-- all that free thin-as-air Marcal tp with those great Q
-- boxes of free Powerade and Joint Juice
-- a freezer full of Steamfresh veggies from Shoprite - finally something free that is healthy!
-- a freezer full of pumpkin puree from pumpkins I picked out of garbages and from nice people of freecycle.org. mmmm....pumpkin pies coming up!
-- a fridge full of free hummus. I am still eating that stuff
-- a fridge full of free sour cream. I finally finished the last one!
-- a fridge full of free guacomole
-- I vaguely remember more free yogurt than any person should eat toward the beggining of the year.
-- an entire closet of free Pantene travel size from Walgreens.
-- lots and lots of free fiber pasta
-- can anyone say free gum at Walgreens?

There are too many to choose. I love them all. If you force me to pick, I guess I will say the free veggies, just because it is rare to find freebies that are healthy, the free sauce at Acme (I love tomato sauce), and the free $20 Riteaid shopping spree.

[Coriander]

WOW, you guys were smokin' this year!
When I grow up I want to shop like you guys. I'm fairly new to this and can't wait to figure it all out. @(*_*)@

[shashabell]

I really like the Walgreen's Robitussin deal. I got so many 10.00 RR's that I was able to buy most Christmas presents there - Subway giftcards, toys for my son, hand held wet/dry vacs, and tons more. I ended up with over $200.00 RR because of the deal.

The second sweet deal would have to be the Walgreens brand diaper deal. I did this one way too much too (if there is such a thing).

Tallk about two big money makers. And to top it off, these were sold at my garage sale so I made an even bigger profit.

[jengirl483]

I know it is a regional store, but Meijer has been very good to me this year...
- Buy 3 meijer brand HBA get $5 cat...made LOTS of "money" on that last January
- Kellogg's deal...don't remember exactly, but I would buy 6 and get $10 cat and $2 in gas rewards.
- Many other random deals...pillsbury rolls, veggies, etc. Lost a lot of it in the power outage in September (thanks Ike :sad:)--still good deals.
- Glade, Glade, Glade (this was everywhere, all the glade has made me a very happy girl)...
So, the award for the best deal goes to Meijer as a whole
I agree the Target wipe deal was good, along with Kmart SuperDoubles...
OH, and was the CVS perfum unadvertised 90% off in 2008? That was good too.
so, Here's to 2009! May it be the same, if not better than the last!

[appleeyes84]

This is a great thread! Let me see....

A lot of my favorite deals are ones that introduced me to items I never would have bought before couponing:

Grocery stores:
Deli Creations Sandwiches were 2/$4: with a $1 coupon, only 1 dollar, now my family loves these

Sara Lee Soft & Smooth bread: FREE coupon, because I can use expireds, I'm still getting free bread!

Glade Flameless Wisp candle (started this at Jewel) buy one, get $3 off next order, I used this with the BOGO printable and I get these at Walgreens for rebates

I liked the free Kraft wyb Kraft items, i can still use these too!

Walgreens:

Nivea Body Wash for men: FREE after rebate, my guy tried this and loved it! He loves to take showers now!

CVS:

L'Oreal Age Perfect Pro Calcium: FREE after ECBS, I bought this for my mom and she loves it for her hands, keeps them smooth

Benefiber stick packs: FREE after ECBs last week (love them!), now I'm going to get them again this week and at Walgreens next week

All the BIC Soleil ECB deals (especially the FREE after ECB on Black Friday), I have enough for 3 years

Kmart:

Super Doubles, got Gillette Body Wash for free, Welch's sparking grape juice and big boxes of cereal for .50

Thanks for the chance to look back, I feel 2009 will be even better!

[mama22qts]

Gotta say I loved the Sara Lee bread Q's. Also loved the Sister Schubert 50/1 -- with the bogo raincheck and the current sale price I got them for .25/each. Woo hoo!!