Viva Catalina

I had a Viva paper towel Catalina print out at HT the other night.

:: Buy 2 get .50 OYNO

:: Buy 3 get 1.00 OYNO

:: Buy 4 (or more) get 2.00 OYNO

:: All items must be purchased in the same transaction.

Here is the best scenario I came up with…

Buy (4) Viva paper towel single rolls @ 2.19 ea = 8.76

Use (4) .40 coupons (from 09/19/10 paper) 3.20 = 5.56

Get $2.00 Catalina OYNO = 3.56

This comes out to .89 each

If you didn’t get the coupon or didn’t save it go here for a .50/2 coupon.

While this may not be a great deal overall for paper towels it will be a good deal for someone who loves the Viva paper towels and will buy nothing else. While you may not be “against” other brands per say you might want to give other ones a chance especially because Viva is so expensive compared to other brands.

I myself have tried quite a few other brands just because you are buying them to throw away. Even though you are only buying them to toss you still want good quality. Who wants to buy trash bags that fall apart and leave you with a mess? Same applies… you still want quality.

May I propose a challenge? Try seeing if you can NOT use paper towels. I did this when I was laid off and trying to save money any way I could and trying to save on things as expensive as paper towels that I was only buying to throw away seemed like a good place to start.

:: I took some old wash clothes and designated them to “rags” and used these like paper towels.

:: I took the car washing towels out of the garage (washed because they were dusty) and put these somewhere more accessible to use for bigger messes.

:: I used the rags for dusting and anything else I could instead of paper towels.

The bottom line was that just by me significantly reducing the number of paper towels I used myself this made the ones we did have last much longer because I was the one doing the cleaning with them and using them for everything. Granted, hubs does use quite a bit, but I realized that I used them much more. Repurpose some old towels and wash clothes for rags and use these instead of paper towels and see if you can make a difference in your grocery budget that way.

If you can’t not use paper towels then you need to…

:: Look for the deals and when they come out you need to stock up on them. Stock up enough to last until the next time there are good deals. Generally speaking sales rotate about six weeks.

:: Make a price list for things you use on a regular basis and list each store’s regular price for them. This way when you get to the point you have to have “it” now you can look at your list and see where you need to go.