FREE CFL Light Bulbs at Ace Hardware

Ace Hardware has GE Energy Smart CFL light bulb singles on sale for $1.00.  Use the $1/1 coupon from the 1/9 SS insert and it makes them free.

Beware, even though Missouri tax code states you don't pay sales tax on coupons, the store I went to DID charge sales tax. I wasn't up to explaining Missouri sales tax laws, so I just paid it. Since Ace stores are independently franchised, you may or may not have the same experience.

Walgreen's PediaCare Fever Reducer Register Reward No Longer Working

Apparently today Walgreen's "fixed" the register reward for PediaCare  Fever Reducer - it is no longer printing. I checked with the manager and confirmed the register reward was only for the Cold formulas.

Countdown to My First "Frugal Living Columnist" Post

Be looking for my first post as Examiner.com's new St. Louis Frugal Living columnist early next week!

As I told you a few days ago, I've been selected as their new Frugal Living columnist. Right now, Examiner.com is setting up my column and bio page which is expected to be complete by the end of the week. Once that's complete, I can start posting.

Help me choose what to write about. Post your suggestions in the comments.

PediaCare Fever Reducer Included in Walgreen's Sale

As you may know, PediaCare is on sale this week at Walgreens for $5.99 and triggering a $4.00 Register Reward. What you may NOT know is that PediaCare Fever Reducer (their version of Tylenol) is INCLUDED!

This is fabulous because there are $1.00 coupons in the 12/5/10 and 1/23/11 SmartSource inserts, making it only $0.99 after coupons and Register Rewards.  The newspaper coupons, unlike the $1.00 printable here or here, specify that they are for Fever Reducer or exclude the cold, allergy and sinus versions pictured in the ad.

Now, moms of little ones too young for PediaCare cold formulas can take advantage of this sale.

iPhone users should also download their symptom checker ap for free, here.

Double My Coke Rewards Points

If you've got Reward Codes from Coca-Cola products and you been putting off entering them... DO IT TODAY!

Why? Today only, you'll earn double points for all My Coke Rewards Codes you redeem.  There's nothing additional to do.

I've never seen Coke offer double points, so take advantage if you can.

L'Oreal Gold Rewards = Free Hair Dye

If your a user of L'Oreal at-home hair color, you'll love L'Oreal's new program, "L'Oreal Gold Rewards." Boxes of hair color will now come printed with a code (a la Pampers rewards codes) which can be entered here. After 5 boxes, you'll receive a 6th box of hair color free.

I'm Examiner.com's Frugal Living Columnist

I'm excited to announce, that I'm back, but in a new way. I've been selected as Examiner.com's "Greater St. Louis' Frugal Living Examiner." This means a few times a week, I'll be posting articles on Examiner.com and I hope you'll follow me there.  I'll be posting snippits of my articles here with a link back to them on Examiner.com.

You may have noticed that I've been making a few posts here and there. I'll continue to pass on deals that catch my eye. However, coupon matchups just wasn't the type of writing I enjoyed. I hope that the more journalistic approach of Examiner.com will quench my thirst for writing and help me continue to share with my readers what I've learned and continue to learn.

Wish me luck. And thanks for following me.

Another $5 off $25 at Dollar General

First things first.... If you print this coupon tell the cashier that they need to key in the number. Scanning the coupon doesn't work! I've had this experience each of the last two $5 off events. The cashier scans the coupon, it says it's accepted, but doesn't deduct anything. The manager comes up, voids my transaction, re-rings and keys in the coupon code instead of scanning - $5 deducted, no problem.

Now, for the deals. STL Mommy has a nice list of regular price items matched with coupons here. Because these are regular price, they should be the same even though this post is from last week.

There are a couple ads with prices that will be valid for the week (including Friday). The first is the Super Savings Event ad here. The other is the WOW Savings ad here.  The weekly ad doesn't update until tomorrow. It may be something different than the Super Savings Event ad and it may not. We'll have to wait to see.

I haven't found any good matchups to the sale ads, but I'll keep my eyes peeled and pass them on if I find them.