SHOESTRING: SOAP DEAL AT TARGET

As I have stated before, not a big couponer but when I know I will be buying a specific item.

Target has a deal this week, $5 gift card with $15 personal care purchase.  I need more soap for my boxes.

99 cents for 3 bars, I googled Ivory soap coupons and found a 50 cent coupon. I could print two on my computer and two on my husband's computer.
This isn't has confusing as it seems:

15 packages x .99 =  $15
Minus $2 total coupons
Total: $13
$13 divided by 45 bars = .289 cents per bar and $5 in FOUND MONEY (Target gift card)

OR IF you want to think of it this way....
$13 minus $5 gift card = $8  or .178 cents per bar

For last minute needs, this isn't a bad deal.


(If you have a Red Card, 5% more off, or 16.33 cents each)

MY 2CENTS ON WASHCLOTHS

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I know most experience shoebox packers include a wash cloth.  I have three points to make.

1.  Use packaging to sew a hanging loop on the cloth.  Have you ever sent a kid to camp?  There aren't usually towel bars available, maybe a nail.  I imagine that this might also be the case for shoebox recipients.  I think it is a thoughtful thing to do.  It only takes a minute or so.  
I use the ribbon or twill tape that comes around the package.  I have always had enough.  See below.

2.  Do any of you live in the South and have boys?  When my boys were small, it was IMPOSSIBLE to keep their socks white. Back to the Summer Camp theme, white items were never a good thing to send with them.  This would also be true for shoebox recipients using well water or river water.

I try not to send white washcloths, a few sneak through when in an assortment.  Try to pick colors that won't be stained with mineral stains.

3.  Prices are all over the place.

Home Goods:  $4.99 for 8
Big Lots $5 for 9 (some packages have 8)
Walmart $3.47 for 18
Target on sale $3 for 8  ( I haven't seen these in person)

In the past, I used the Walmart ones.  I have given up even the price is soooo good.  These are cheap, thin, flimsy.  When my husband was doing his PhD research in Mexico, I remember how HARSH the detergent was.  Our clothes were in tatters when we left.  The Walmart washcloths just won't last.  Spend  few extra bucks and spring for a quality washcloth.  Does anyone have any feedback on the Target ones?  Other sources?

SHOESTRING: 8 CENT SOAP, MAYBE FREE

I am not a big couponer.  I tend to print them and let them sit on the printer.

Thanks to Krazy Coupon Lady, she pointed out a great deal at Rite-Aid this week.  You can get 6 bars of soap at 49 cents total or 8 cents a piece. Coupons.com

Use a $1.00 Smart Source coupon to get a six-pack of bar soap for $0.49, or $0.08 per bar. Check it out:

Buy 1 Irish Spring Gear Bar Soap, 6 ct $3.49, sale price through 9/26

$2.00 Off With In-Ad Coupon through 9/26

Use one $1.00/1 – Irish Spring Signature for Men Body Wash/Bar Soap OR Irish Spring Gear Body Wash/Bar Soap from SS 9/20

Final Price: $0.49, or $0.08 per bar

 Actually, it may be better than what she shows, when I printed the coupon, it shows bar soap, so it may be free.  You can print two coupons (go to her site to find the link, I don't do affiliate links and since her deal, let her get credit).

You will have to go to Rite-Aid twice to get use this deal 2x.