Building up my pantry

Here are my coupon savings for today.  This is from Albertson's.  I struggled to keep strictly to my list and I made it!  If you've ever seen Dave and I shopping, you've got to know that this is a monumental accomplishment.  The first help was that I left Dave home....haha.  So.. Albertson's had a "Big Chill" sale and if you bought 10 specfic frozen foods you get a $3.50 Catalina (a coupon to spend on your next visit for anything, it doesn't have to be a specific item).  Everything here except the ice cream bars (which were still on sale) had a coupon, and the three big coupons had double coupons from Albertson's with them.  When all was said and done, I paid $11.20, had a total savings of $26.85, and got a $3.50 catalina, so in the end it was like it cost me $7.70.  Pretty cool, huh?!

Day 63

I had to do another with Flower Soft.  I really love this stuff.  I don't have a lot of stamps that will work well with it, so will be looking at buying stamps with another eye now.  I have had this one for a long time and really like it.  It's a woody, but I think it would be nice if it was acrylic and you could bend the stem a little bit.  Guess that will be the next one...haha.

I was so anxious to use the Flower Soft though, that I didn't ink the paper first.  I know... I know.. you don't HAVE to have it inked, I just prefer iet to stark white.  But I think I like it this way anyhow, I think it highlights the flowers a little better.  Flower stamp is Rubber Stamped, sentiment CTM, flourish T.H. Stampers Anonymous.

Day 62

My new found love... Flower soft!  I love this stuff.  I think you'll be seeing a lot of it here o my blog.  Only have three colors so far.  The Scrapbook Nook, the ONLY scrap store in the area just started carrying it.  They also just got copics, and I'm still thinking about them.

Stamp is Unity.  Corner was cut (painfully) from my Cuddlebug.  Background was inked with T.H. new distress ink color Victorian Velvet.  I know that it is just a "color" but in real life it actually looks velvety.

Day 61

Yes, I'm still playing with paper, besides saving money!  haha.  The second half of my Orange phase.  Stamp is February Unity Stamp.

More Super Savings

I realized that I had two more Purex coupons.  So this is today's booty.  Four bottles of Purex and two bags of Nestle's candies and I paid $4.14! Each bottle of soap is normally $5.99 each, but were on a Buy one Get one Sale at Wahlgreens, and I had two manufacturers coupons for buy one get one Free, so they were free except the tax of $1.14.  Candies were on sale and I had two coupons for $1.00 off of 2 packages.  Wahlgreens Rocks again!  Total savings on this purchase was $27.94.  So just at Wahlgreens in the last two days I have saved $59.19 and spent $14.18, of which $1.92 of that was tax.

Savings

I have always followed the sales at Grocery stores and used coupons when it was handy, but when we were visiting Christy she showed me how you could get your groceries for practically nothing.  Last week I did really good at Wahlgreens but didn't post exactly what it was, so this week I will.  It will take a while before my groceries bargains really start adding up like this because I don't have a lot of the ads (coupons) needed to make them super deals yet.  Christy can go to the grocery store and get over $100 worth of groceries for $10 or less, don't know if I will ever get there, but I'm striving towards it anyway. 

So this is my Wahlgreens deal for this week.  I could have done better, but just learning and made a couple buys this week that we one sale, but not double coupon deals.  I spent $10.04 and saved a total of $31.25.

The soap was free because it was buy get one free and I had a manufactures coupon for buy one get one free.  The Klenex were buy one get one and I had a coupone for .50 off.  Not a big savings, but it made the cost .85 each.  You can't buy even the cheap stuff for that.  Altoids, no coupon just on sale for .59.  Don't think I did the Starbucks stuff just right, but hey, it's good and it was pretty cheap.  Olives were double coupons and Dave loves the green ones and rarely get them.

Anyway, some mistakes, but i'm learning and will save even more in the future.

It's Orange...Day 60

My first 'on-time' card in some time now, and it's quite orange, along with tomorrow's card.  I got a couple of lovely orange papers at Ben Franklins and thought this resist technique card worked well with it.  Distress inks are Shabby Shutters and Dried Marigold.  Stamp is Rubber Stampede and is heat embossed with clear EP.  The card based is inked with Shabby Shutters also, but hard to see in the scan.