Deal of the Week: Amazon Subscribe and Save

Can I first start off by saying how much I love Amazon. I hadn't used it much until I created a baby registry on there, but now I am addicted. I first started out signing up for Amazon Mom. Sign up is free and you get 3 months of Amazon Prime which gives you free 2 day shipping (and returns) on any purchases shipped directly from Amazon. You get another month of free shipping for each purchase of $25 you make from the baby store.

Anyway, another savings they have is Subscribe and Save. S&S allows you to set up a subscription to that particular product (you will have one sent every 1,2,3 or 6 months) and they reward you with an additional 15% discount. Combine that with the 15% discount you get for being a member of Amazon Mom and that is 30%. I had a few concerns about S&S but after looking into it I found that

* You can cancel your subscription at any time.
* They only charge you when the item ships
* All orders ship for free
* They send you an email before they send the next item, so if you haven’t used up what you have you can adjust (or cancel) your subscription.


So here is where I got the deal. I don't have any diapers yet except for some in a diaper cake my friend Kaelin made for my shower. While I don't really know how many I will need, I know my little guy will be in size 1 for awhile so I thought it was safe to go ahead and buy a big box of these.

Amazon had Pampers Swaddlers DryMax Diapers Size 1 216 count for $46.99 on sale for $40.20. I had two coupon codes to use as well. Many of the baby and parenting magazines have Amazon coupons for 20% off diapers. There are two different types of codes: one that starts with YJ and one that starts with YT. You can use one of each and stack them if you want. I don't have any of these magazines but my OB's office does and I found one in their magazine in the waiting room yesterday. The other I got from the back of a magazine in the dressing room of the maternity clothing store.

So I used both coupon codes and stacked them. Here is how my order summary looked:

Amazon Prime Member
Items: $40.20
Shipping & Handling: $0.00
Promotion Applied -$8.04 (one of the coupon codes)
Promotion Applied -$8.04 (the other coupon code)
Subscription Discount -$12.06 (from S&S)

Total Before Tax: $12.06
Estimated Tax: $0.72
Total: $12.78

Add that the remainder of a gift card I had from a Groupon and I spent just over $5 on the box. Not bad.