Today I’m sharing my Dollar General Haul, plus info for 3 new penny items I found that I haven’t seen listed elsewhere – read on to see my whole shopping trip or click here to jump to the images of the new penny items!
It’s been a long dry spell for me as far as coupons and deals are concerned, because the coupons on offer recently just haven’t been the same as back in the glory days. However, I’ve noticed that coupon deals have been picking up lately, and it’s been exciting to start doing hauls again! This morning, I scored a deal that reminded me of hauls I did during the early days of this blog: I picked up 44 items from Dollar General, worth approximately $146.66, for just .43 cents! That would be a great deal any time, but that’s an extraordinary deal for 2025!
My receipts shown in the DG app – I did 2 transactions, because I found a few more items on my way out and got back in line before I left!
I got one item for free with a coupon, and the rest were clearance items priced at 1 cent each. If you’re unfamiliar, Dollar General marks some clearance items down to a penny; I just learned about this recently through a video from Coupon Daddy, who was showing a penny haul and recommended the fabulous resource Kristie’s Connections. To learn more, check out Kristie’s “How To Penny Shop Dollar General” page and bookmark her site and YouTube channel, as this will be your go-to resource for finding penny deals! Last night and early this morning, I watched this video and this video from her channel about today’s penny deals, and with this list in hand, went in to my DG first thing this morning and hit the jackpot! I’m brand new to penny shopping, and this was a fabulous way to get started!
Click the image to see my haul full size!
So here’s the breakdown of what I got – the first item on the list was free after coupon, and each item after that was one penny. I’ve listed the full retail price for each penny item, just to give you an idea of what an amazing deal this was; since these are clearance items, it didn’t say what the original price was on the receipt, so what I did was look up the price of each item online in order to get an approximate retail value.
1 Air Wick Warmer – regularly $4, free after using the $4 off coupon in the DG app
4 bags of Ghirardelli chocolate – regularly $5
1 Fisher-Price Poppity Pop Hipppo – regularly $21.79
1 Fisher-Price Poppity Pop Turtle – regularly $7.88
1 Kiddy Dough Mini Dough Factory – regularly $7
1 Nerf gun – regularly $18.99
3 Storm Squad Blasters – regularly $12 each
16 fuzzy creature keychains – regularly $1 each
5 sparkly bird pens – regularly $1 each
10 Christmas 6 Color Pens – regularly $1 each
So my total from both transactions came to .43 cents for approximately $146.66 worth of items!!!
And, just in case anyone is wondering why I need 16 big-eyed, fuzzy keychains: The only products I am keeping for myself from this haul are pens and chocolate. The rest will be either gifted or donated – I have a little bag set aside to donate to a local classroom, gifts picked out for my nieces and nephews, and products being saved for other future gifting as well as this year’s Christmas toy drives. Early, I know, but I collect things year-round as I find sales! 😉 I only mention this because sometimes when people see a photo with a ton of items/multiples of the same product, it can be perceived as overconsumption or hoarding, and I see that kind of question come up a lot. So don’t worry, because nothing’s going to waste here and everything will be shared widely and enjoyed! 🙂
3 New Dollar General Penny Deals: The products are listed below, followed by a closeup photo of the item and a photo of the UPC number – you can click on all of these images to view them full size.
None of my penny deals today would have been possible without Kristie’s Connections, so huge thank you to her! One of the things she mentioned in her video this morning was that she expects that a lot of other clearance toys may be marked down to a penny also, and she recommended scanning all of the clearance toys at your local store by using your phone and the DG app to check the price. I did just that, and thanks to that tip I ended up discovering 3 new products that were also a penny!! I did not see these anywhere on Kristie’s list or on any other coupon creator content, so I wanted to share them here in case you guys can find them at your stores and snag a deal too!! If anyone has listed these already and I just missed it, please let me know, and I’ll update this and add their blog/social handles to this post! The first item I’m sharing is a brand/product I didn’t see anywhere on today’s list, and the second two are new variations of products from the list, i.e. separate items from the same product line with different UPCs.
Product #1 – Storm Squad Blaster:
Product #2 – Kiddy Dough Mini Dough Factory:
Product #3 – Fisher-Price Poppity Pop Turtle:
Readers: Did YOU score any penny deals today? Did you find any new penny deals you want to share with us? Tell us in the comments below!
