Good morning! Let’s rise, shine and save. . . .
Let’s see, the big news yesterday was that people were walking out of QFC with a ton of FREE groceries. I didn’t make it over there yesterday, so I couldn’t post my own shopping trip. I would LOVE to post your trip! All you have to do to be featured on Queen Bee Coupons is take a photo of your groceries (not blurry, please) and send me a list of what you bought and what coupons you used! It’s always fun to share great shopping trips here and I love to get emails from you about your saving successes! Email them to thehive @ queenbeecoupons (dot) com (remove spaces).
I received some frustrated emails and comments from some of you who went to Albertsons for the Round-up event yesterday and found store shelves empty. Boo, I always get bummed when I hear this. I really like to believe the best in people so I’m really hoping it’s not just one or two people clearing the shelves at each store. It might be that more people are getting back into couponing now that summer is over? The round-up events are easier than the doubler events. Easy means more people do it AND it’s harder for limits to be set – so we all have to be thoughtful about limits we set for ourselves. To some extent couponing has always been about “the early bird getting the worm” (I don’t like it, but it’s true) – the question is, “how many worms do you need?” This topic is a hotly debated one and probably worth a post all in itself. I’d love your thoughts and/or comments on this!
At 6 a.m. PST we are posting the unadvertised Albertsons round-up deals – hopefully you’ll have better luck with deals not in the local ad.
You can get FREE Voucher for WHOPPER® Sandwich, Original Chicken Sandwich, or Real Fruit Smoothie at BURGER KING®, with the purchase of one. Sign up for Amazon Local and click on Idaho —> Boise. Get your voucher, get your BOGO Food. p.s. There is no fine print on this deal that limits this deal to the Boise location! Sign up for Amazon Local and grab your voucher (it’s FREE). You can pick between these options:
- Free WHOPPER® Sandwich with the purchase of a WHOPPER® Sandwich
- Free Original Chicken Sandwich with the purchase of an Original Chicken Sandwich
- Free Real Fruit Smoothie with the purchase of a Real Fruit Smoothie (free smoothie must be of equal or lesser value)
COUPONS
A couple new Disney-Pixar coupons popped up yesterday! $10 off any Lightning McQueen Hawk Interactive Flying Buddy or Space Mission Adventure and $5 off Disney-Pixar Cars Mattel and Fisher-Price Toys ($20 minimum)
There are new Margaritaville coupons out – which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before.
FAVORITE DEALS
Use promo code TRULYFREE to get a FREE 8×10 enlargement from Walgreens today only (10/18). I’d love to know what photo/memory you want as an 8×10! I’m thinking a pumpkin patch pic.
Get a one-cup Gevalia coffee maker with four boxes of coffee for only $9.99!
Did you see my Target shopping trip yesterday? I was impressed with the clearance I found at my local store and I hope you have the same kind of success at your store.
RECIPES & MEAL PLANNING
Did you see my slow cooker rotisserie chicken chicken broth recipe yesterday? Let me know if you try it out, I’d love to hear what you think!
Today is Thursday – which means the Outback Steakhouse is giving away FREE wings with purchase today. Of course they aren’t free if you weren’t planning on eating out anyway – but it’s a nice bonus, huh?
And don’t forget Olive Garden is doing their deal with buy a meal one night, get one for the second night for $12.95!
What are you having for dinner tonight?
FOR THE LOCAL NW FOLKS
Olympia – On Saturday October 20, from 9.m. to 2 p.m., there’s a garage sale at the Hands On Children’s Museum in Olympia, 106 11th Avenue SW. Toys, games, office furniture, file cabinets, and more are up for grabs. They’ll accept cash or credit.
Seattle – Take a ride to the top of the Space Needle for only $1 this Saturday thanks to Bartell Drugs. Save the date and we’ll remind you Saturday!
If you plan to pick up a pumpkin soon – TOP Foods & Haggen stores has pumpkins for only $0.19/lb. We mentioned this in the weekly match-up but wanted to call it out because it’s such a good deal! We also plan to remind you tomorrow. Do you go for a traditional carved pumpkin or do you get detailed and fancy?
ONLINE DISCOUNTS & PROMO CODES
Cheap toilet paper right now over on Amazon – get 48 DOUBLE rolls for only $20.50 shipped.
Today is the LAST DAY to get FREE shipping from the Disney online store – when you buy a Disney Parks item.
What are your plans today?
Patty says
Funny you should mention the Alb’s situation, QB. I finally decided that I’m done trying to use their doubler coupons and won’t be shopping there anymore.
Time after time, I take my 3 sets of doublers (total of 9) and several different sets of coupons for various deals and MAYBE find 2 or 3 items to buy…IF I’m lucky.
Alb’s regular prices are ridiculously high, so I never shop there if I don’t have doublers. I’m consistently finding that they’re out of the items I want and don’t restock the items until after the doublers expire.
So, that’s it for me and Alb’s doublers!
Jenn says
For the $1 Space Needle admission, do you need a coupon or anything specific to get in for $1?
LoriH says
The cashier said that one or two people are clearing the shelves at her store. One person picked up over 98 bottles of v8:( If someone wants that many they can call and order a head of time they don’t need to wipe out the shelves.
Erica says
98 bottles…yikes! Not cool!
Wahayla says
I live in Tacoma and I have the same problem all the time! I went to buy newspapers from Fred Meyers when they were only $1 and I ended up getting to Albs around 7:30 am (it opened at 6am) and everything I planned on getting was gone. The shelves were cleared! Question: Is it possible to pre-order just a few of certain items? And how many days ahead of time do you need to pre-order?
Julie2 says
The Lacey QFC is out of the pizzas this morning. They expect a delivery overnight. So I’m gonna try again first thing tomorrow morning. (today is the Thurs/18th).
Dyron says
D: cleared shelves!?! AHHH! that is like a couponer’s worst nightmare!! i get so jealous of you guys, our Albertson’s here in Nevada don’t do coupon round-up. ; – ; good luck to all of you shopping at Albertson’s, from what it sounds like, it sounds like Black Friday. lol
thanks for all the updates and deals Heather!