Great Baby Stuff

I am on a baby kick today. Here are some other Huggies offers and coupons I've run across:

$3/1 Huggies Little Swimmers here
Free 3 pack Sample of Huggies pure and natural diapers here
$.75/1 Huggies Baby Wipes here (in group A)

find any other great deals on baby items? Leave a comment or post it on Pinching Your Pennies (Nevada deal forum)

Baby Presents on a Budget Part II

I am always looking for great deals to help boost my baby presents pile. I found two great stores this week to help me with this, CVS and K-Mart. I paid $19.94 out of pocket for all of the items pictured. Here's how:

CVS
CVS is running a promotion this week that if you buy $25 of participating baby products you recieve $10 ECB's (Extra Care Bucks, its just like a voucher you would get from Albertson's) at checkout. I bought all of the bath products and wipes using this promotion. I got $1/1 coupons for all of the bath products here and here (just so you know the Johnson's head to toe foaming baby wash is NOT part of the sale but all the other 1 item coupons are!)
I bought 7 $3 bath products and 2 $2 CVS wipes to total exactly $25. This is how the pricing ended for my purchase:
$25 baby products -$7 manufactor coupons -$10 ECB
= $8 for all 9 products or $.89 an item!!
Tip: there are several other baby items in this promotion such as diapers/pull ups and wipes that can be paired with coupons here in group A coupons or pull up coupons from the SS 1/11, 2/22, or 3/22. If you still have any of the printable Huggies coupons that are still valid from last month they will work too. Go here to see CVS add online or check your Sunday paper for your add.

K-Mart
K-mart is having a great clearance sale on all of their winter baby clothes. All the clearance racks are marked $1.99 and as you can see from my picture a lot of the items are nice jamies and two piece sets. Even if the sticker says more on it the clothes will ring up for $1.99. These clothes at normal price rang from $9.99-$12.99
My break down:
6 items @ $1.99 = $11.94!

$8 (CVS) + $11.94 (K-mart)= $19.94 (pre-tax) for 15 items!

These deals are good for the rest of the week so don't miss out!

Baby Presents on a Budget

Do you know anyone having a baby? How about several people having a baby?? Its an exciting time to be expecting a new little one and when its our friends or family we all want to wish them well. However doesn't it sometimes seem like EVERYONE around you is pregnant (maybe for some of you, yourself included)? How can you then "shower" your loved ones without breaking your budget? Easy, plan ahead and shop smart.

I currently have a VERY long list of friends who are expecting in the next 6 months that I know I want to be able to give a gift to so I made a personal goal to be able to put together a nice gift for each of them for only $5 a person. Sound crazy? Well the gift pictured above is one I am taking to San Diego this weekend to give to one of our close family friends who just had their first little one this past week. This gift if bought at normal retail value would come in somewhere between $40-$50. Shopping Smart I was able to put this together for only $5! (nice huh?)

Here's how:
Pink Dress: $1 (Wal-Mart clearance sale last summer)
Shirt and Sweater Set: $1 (Wal-Mart clearance sale last summer)
Johnson & Johnson Night time baby wash: $1 (Albertson J & J promo 1 week ago)
Wipes: $1 (Walgreens sale two weeks ago)
Diapers: $1 (Walgreens sale two weeks ago)
Air Freshener for all those stinky diapers : ) : Free! (CVS sale one month ago)
Gift Bag: Free! (recycled from one of my baby showers years ago)
Total: $5

Wouldn't you enjoy getting a gift like this and not be offended if you found out that your friend only spent $5? What do you think? Leave me a comment I'd love to know.