Sunday Savings

I am going to start incorporating my coupon deals into my blog. I am still semi new to this whole coupon thing. I started last year, however, I focused on the drugstores. Today I included Bi-Lo and Publix. I normally spend $80 every other week and on the in between weeks I spend approximately $30. My first stop today was CVS. I wanted to take advantage of the Special K cereal deal, which was 3/$10 and then you get $4 ECB back. I don't have my receipt right in front of me but I believe my total came to approximately$10.80. I had $1 off coupon which brought it down to $9.80. I also used my previous $5 coupon which brought it down to $4.80. I received the $4ECB, so it was like paying $.80 for three boxes of Special K cereal.


Our next stop was Walmart. I will only be getting items that I need that aren't at sale from Wal-Mart. The only coupons I had were for Axe shower gel and Totino's pizza. I have also set a goal of letting fewer coupons expire throughout the year. No, I won't buy something just to keep the coupon from expiring, but if I think it's a good deal then I will definitely use it. Wal-Mart consisted of B1G1 free Axe shower gel, five pizza's using a $1 off coupon, two newspapers, 24 pack of mello yello, All You magazine, and two bottles of water. My total came to $26.46 ($4.97 savings)


 

Bi-Lo was our next stop.By this time Maddy was becoming very tired of shopping so it became a more hurried trip. I bought two boxes of zip-loc bags, a gallon of mayfield chocolate milk, birds eye steam fresh penne pasta, and jimmy dean snack size sausage biscuits. Total out of pocket paid was $18.05 (My total savings was $7.15). I messed up on the chocolate milk. I thought the coupon said $1 off a gallon of milk OR two half gallons of milk. Instead it said $1 off a gallon of milk AND two half gallons. If I had not gotten the milk my total would have been $7 something...lesson learned to look at the coupons closely!


Publix was our last stop, however, I cannot find my receipt and I have no idea what my total or savings were at the moment. Once I find that receipt I will come back and edit. I am also going to start taking pictures of my purchases instead of finding pics online because I think it looks better, but I think having pictures in general help put in to perspective just how much money is being saved.