More savings

This was a SWEET DEAL!  Albertson's has Post cereals on sale for $1.59, I had a $2 off of one box, and I got a $4 coupon for next purchase.  Average price per box .39.  Jose Ole's chimichanga's on sale for $1 each, bought 10 got the Big Chill Promo for $10 off next purchase, final cost a big ZERO!  It's these kind of deals that make all the work of saving coupons etc. WELL WORTH the time.

Coupon Savings

I am really loving this couponing!  I started yesterday at Target and spent $15.24, saved $41.36 in store and manufactured coupons, plus all the items I bought were on sale.  I received $10.00 back in Target gift cards.  Today went back to Target with more coupons, manufactured and store.  Didn't have quite as many coupons this time, and it was $16.63, used my $10 in gift cards from yesterday so it was $6.63 out of pocket.  Then I got two more $5 gift cards.  Then to Albertson's where I bought sale items and used manufacture coupons and store doublers coupons and spent $6.00.  Then to a different Albertson's and ended up spending $1.76 for 4 cans of soup, a package of Keebler cookies and a box of Keebler crackers.  Total out of pocket for all trips was $29.63, minus the $10 in gift cards, and a savings of $85.74.  Now all I have to do is put it away!  Won't be needing any cereal or soup for a long time now.

Another really cool thing about this is that it makes me so much more aware of what I am buying, and I found out that I can actually go to the store and get only the items on my list.  Our spending had really gotten out of control.

Here's what it all boils down to: 

8 Boxes of Kellogg's cereal

8 boxes of Nutrigrain bars

2 Nutri Air starter kits (free after coupons)

16 cans of Campbell's soups

1 Package Keebler crackers

1 Package Keebler cookies

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?!

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.