VOTE : time to choose the super shopper!

It’s time!  The five semi-finalists have been selected and it’s time for you to crown the champion shopper!  You can vote once every 24 hours until Sunday, October 17 at 11:59 PM.  Whoever has the most votes wins!  Thanks to everyone who entered.

Here’s the candidates – read through them and then vote for your favorite at the bottom.

Ginger M wrote: I bought all these things at the ARC thrift store and used the $10 coupons they had to score a great deal!  These Wearever AirBake cookie sheets were $2.99 and retail for $20!  The stainless steel stockpot mispriced, I think, at $1.99! Then the gravy boats, a ginormous stainless steel bowl priced at $3.99 – you can’t get this new for much less than $16. I found one of those stainless steel inserts that restaurants use to either keep things hot or cold… They sell ’em at Sam’s and they still aren’t cheap.

Lastly, I got a Pampered Chef deep stoneware baker (which they no longer sell) for $4.99.  For all this stuff, I paid around $5 using my coupons. Even without a discount, all this stainless steel and stoneware piece totalled $22.52. Everything is completely utilitarian and will hold up forever!

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Kara P wrote: I went garage sale-ing  this last weekend for toys, etc for my daughter’s birthday. We are short on money and I am trying to make the most bang for my buck. I drove 30 minutes to a certain garage sale I saw on Craigslist and boy did it pay off!!

I got a pink Leapster plus 7 games, a Disney Hannah Montana costume complete with shoe covers, microphone and new sunglasses, three board games, two minnie mouse head bands….all for $20!! I was soooo excited!

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Laura C wrote: We’ve been scouring the newspapers, Petfinder.com, Cragslist.org, and Freecycle.org for a small dog to join our family. On Thursday, I happened to call the local animal shelter, and the clerk told me about a small, young adult female Pomeranian who had just become available for adoption. I fell in love when I met the small dog. So did the kiddos!

We adopted her with the bargain price of $80.00 (including first shots, getting spayed, and a $10 refundable Rabies fee). Better yet, she came with a couple of coupons to the local pet shop, so my husband and I picked out a small food dish, a purple leash, a fancy pet comb, and 2 dog bows for $10.16 and got the tag for free. The tag alone would have been $8. Funny thing is that the pet store had Pomeranian puppies for $799!  We named her Sally and she has been a wonderful dog so far!

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Felicia J wrote: Monday we took my daughter to town for her 12th birthday. We started at the ARC thrift store where we used our 50% military discount and the $10 coupon to get a handful of books, a wooden train piece, and a glass jar for $5 and some change!  Then we ate at the Airplane Restaurant and, using a Restaurant.com gift certificate, treated the kids to an appetizer, meal and dessert for the same price I normally would have paid at Subway!

Our final stop was the The Picture Show at Citadel Crossing, where watching a “big movie” only cost me $6 for all of us! We had a great day and a happy birthday for my oldest.

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Cathy V wrote: I’m brand new to this couponing thing, but I was pretty excited when I scored these deals at Whole Foods: 28 oz cans of Muir Glen Tomatoes for $0.25 each and ThinkThin Bars for $0.25.

My total for 5 things from Whole Foods that day was $1.25! I never thought I could walk out of that store spending so little.

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For more information on the contest rules, read here.  May the best bargain finder win!

*For the record, I’m not voting in this one since it’s a contest. :)