This Kroger Mega Event post is rated PG

Or make that P & G (Procter & Gamble).
For the first time since I started this current couponing journey last year I went to a store to purposely purchase laundry products. Timing was everything. First we were almost out of laundry detergent and fabric softener. Second it was the week that the newest P & G Brandsaver insert was in the paper. Third many stores are having sales on P & G products.

So after a month or so of not buying extra papers due to them not having any or enough inserts to bother I did get my 3 total this past week. Each paper had 4 inserts: 1 Red Plum, 2 Smart Source, 1 P & G. Also one of my papers had an extra of 1 Smart Source.

Kroger has one of their mega events going this week and possibly next week in which you buy a combination of participating items and you get an additional dollar amount off the sale price. This event is buy 4 P & G items with the special blue tags and get $4 off or $1 off each item.
Then repeat with 4 more items if you want. Then you try to match these items with coupons to get even more off. So I researched my two favorite local matchup blogs, Coupons Equal Cash and Bargains To Bounty to see what the best prices were on the items I wanted for the past year and what I found is for the most part the best prices were for the same P&G event last New Years at Kroger. Although a few items went up a few cents. Bargains To Bounty's Kroger matchups for this week has the prices for the items in the ad but the store has more items with blue tags.

So I needed Detergent and Softener and Tide & Downy are both in the event. I did 2 shopping trips yesterday and today, both at the Kroger I work at. Yesterday I had 3 coupons for $2 off 1 Tide and 3 coupons for $1.50 off 2 Downy or Bounce. I also had 3 coupons for 20¢ off 1 Dawn which double to 40¢. So that's 3 Tide (50 oz 30-32 loads) for $2.99 each + 6 Downy (51 oz 60 loads)at $3.54 ea + 3 Dawn (24 oz) for $1.34 ea = 12 items or 3 Mega combos. I also bought 2 Liquid Plumr using $1 coupons I found on their Facebook page

Today was payday so I was saving my bigger trip for today using other coupons. Last night I loaded another $2 off 1 Tide coupon and a $1 off 1 Downy coupon onto my Kroger Plus card which you can do at Kroger's website. You need a Kroger card in order to get their sale prices.

So here's the rundown for both trips.

4 Tide total for $2.99 ea or 200 oz / 120 loads for $11.96.

6 Downy (51 oz / 60 loads) at $3.54
1 Downy (51 oz 60 loads) at $3.29 (420 loads total for $24.53)

3 Dawn (24 oz) at $1.34 (72 oz for 4.02)

6 Old Spice deodorants 99¢ ea after Mega and then $1 off 2 coupons made them 49¢ ea

This completed my P & G Megas with 16 items. I also had a spend $50 get $5 off coupon that Kroger mailed to me that I used yesterday. I had some non coupon items also that put me over $50 after coupons but then back to $48 after. I had 17 items so that's like having a 29¢ coupon for everything.

Here's some of my other coupon items

~~~~~ Yesterday ~~~~~

2 Liquid Plumr $4.19 ea - $1 off ea = $3.19 ea

1 Kroger Hot Sauce 12 oz - $1.07 after 10% employee discount
1 Kroger Honey - $2.25 after 10%

1 Kroger brand / Everyday color bleach $6 after 10% (didn't have a Clorox 2 or similar coupon.)

~~~~~ Today ~~~~~

Frozen items ~~~~~

I had a buy $15 worth of frozen get $3 off

2 Kroger fries - $2.59 ea - 10% emp - 60¢ coupon on card
It took the coupon off the first bag making it $1.99 then - 20¢. Second bag was -26¢ = $2.28 or 2 for $4.27

1 Kroger Fully cooked chicken - got nuggets. $5.49 - 10% and $1 off card coupon - $3.99

2 bags Banquet chicken patties at $3.99 ea to help get me over the $15 mark plus I needed some.

So that's $3 off of those items or another 60¢ off ea

Mailed Coupons ~~~~~

2 Kroger buns $1 ea - 10% - 40¢ off 2 = 70¢ ea

1 brick of Kroger cheese - $2.29 - 10% - 40¢ coupon = $1.66

1 Kroger fresh selections salad - $1.51 - 10% - 50¢ coupon = 86¢
1 Kroger fresh selections salad - $1.51 - 10% - no coupon = $1.36

1 24oz Kroger Cottage Cheese - $1.99 - 10% - 40¢ coupon = $1.39

1 Kroger ground Turkey - $3.79 - 10% - 50¢ = $2.91

2 Kroger Tortilla chips - $1 ea - 10% - 40¢ coupon for ea = 70¢ ea

The Rest of the items ~~~~~~

12 cans Progresso soup - 3 for $4 - 3 coupons for $1 off of 4 = $1.08 ea

3 Starkist Tuna pouches - $1.25 ea - 50¢ coupon doubled = 25¢ each

1 Kroger Daytime cold pills - $3 - 10% = $2.70 (Dayquil is part of the P&G but this is cheaper for me)

3 Red Gold tomatoes - $1.09 ea - $1 off 3 printable that expires 1/7 = 75.6¢ ea

3 Big K pop 2 Liters - 88¢ ea - 10% - 50¢ card coupon + 10¢ ea deposit = .81¢ ea

2 gallons Kroger Milk - $2.49 ea - 10% - $2.24 ea (would have been free if I wanted Special K Cereal)

4 Chex Cereal - $1.99 ea - $1.50 off 2 coupon & $1 off 2 card coupon = $5.46 for 4 boxes or $1.36 each

1 Mike Sells 8 oz chips - $3.19 - 30¢ coupon doubled = $2.59

And that's it except for 2 packs of assorted pork chops for $2.29 lb at just over $8 ea.

Yesterdays total was $48.11
Today was $89.50

Its hard to read the receipts as far as what were my coupons and what were the store discounts but it says I saved 48% $42 and 43% $69