The Rest of Week 1

Yes, yes, yes... I committed myself to sharing my couponing shopping trips with you and I will. Please excuse the lack of line by line detail in this post. I have several trips to share with you as I didn't do much shopping until this weekend.


Fred Meyer
(not pictured a card I purchased for my husband to give to him while we were at Weekend to Remember this last weekend.)
Paid $3.99 (cost of overpriced greeting card, all Got2Be products were FREE!)


Rite Aid
Trans #1
Veet
Regular $7.89
after 20% discount $5.83
used $2/1 in Ad Rite Aid coupon
& $2/1 Manuf. Coupon
Paid $1.83
Received $1 +Up back

Trans #2
I used
(4) Buy 1 Olay Cleanser Get 1 Body Wash FREE
$3/2 Olay Cleansers
$2/1 Olay Bar/Body Wash
$2/1 Veet In Ad Coupon
(1) $2/1 Veet
$5 + UP
Paid $19.44 CASH
Received $10 +Up for $50 in Olay Products and $1 +Up for Veet Products
Will submit for $15 Rebate
Value before sales and coupons $84.99
SAVED 77% and paid $1.80 per item BEFORE +Up and Rebate


I was in Eugene this weekend and I got to go to Target! LOVE IT!
Sadly I’ve misplaced my receipt but I know I paid $1.42 for the crayons and the beauty tools were FREE!
I used
2 $5/2 Target Revlon Beauty Tools
1 $1/1 My First Crayola

Now, here's my confession to you all. I shopped at Costco for vitamins. I KNOW I can get these less expensive with coupons here in town. BUT for some reason I am terrible about remember to get them and my poor dear husband wants his vitamins! So I tucked my tail and stocked up for about 6+ months on them at Costco. We spent, ugh, like $60 something....

When we finally got home from our wonderful weekend, we curled up as a family to watch the Incredibles. I crawled in to my pajamas and relaxed! Only to remember I had TWO $5 off new frozen food catalinas expiring today! Back in the regular clothes and off to Safeway I went! Lo and behold I found some goodies in the clearance frozen food! I have yet to find clearance frozen food that was close to its expiration date... I was so happy to find ice cream!

Trans #1
2 Breyers Ice Cream
$6.29
on sale for $3.49
1/2 off = $1.75 each!
1 Lucerne Ice Cream
$3.49
on sale for $2.79
1/2 off = $1.40
4 Waffles at $2.50 each
used (2) $0.75/2
$2.13 each
Used $5 off new frozen food catalina

PAID $8.37
saved 69%
received another $5 off new frozen food catalina

Trans #2
This transaction involved some 2 rainchecks, 1 for the fruit snacks - did you know those bad boys are $3.89 a box regularly - I don’t think I had ever realized that before. I haven’t paid over $0.50 in over year! and the other for the pork sirloin chops. That does bump up my savings.
Another score in the clearance frozen food.
Birds Eye Steamfresh Rice - $2.50 regularly 1/2 off - $1.25 each.
I only had coupons for the fruit snacks and I used another $5 off new frozen food catalina.
I am not sure if there are some coupons out there for the Steamfresh, there may be- I don’t shop with a binder and there are downfalls to that.
Paid $29.11 for $95.73 in product
saved 69%
recieved another $5 off new frozen food catalina

Countdown to "Learning to Coupon"

I will be teaching a couponing class in less than two weeks. While we're counting down to that class I thought I would share my own couponing trips with you and share with you just one of the ways this family intends on being able to afford Disneyland in less than a year (oh and I so need to post where we are at towards our goal, but another time.)

I plan on sharing all my grocery shopping with you over the next two weeks, so you can see how I save with coupons. What this will not show you is what is already in my pantry/stockpile. Please know that what you see is not necessarily what we will eat this week.

Here's my first haul of the week.

I paid $14.68 for $63.42 worth of groceries.
Yes, that is SIX boxes of fruit snacks. Yes, I know they aren't the healthiest things, and no, we will not even go through one box in a week.

Here's how my transaction breaks down.
6 boxes of fruit snacks on sale $1.99, buy 4 save $4 - so $0.99 a box = $5.94
Orbit Gum on sale BOGO $1.49 = $2.98
Eggo Waffles on sale 2/$5 = $10.00
Snyders Pretzels on sale $1.69 w/in ad coupon = $3.38
Mission Tortillas on sale $1.49 w/in ad coupon = $4.47
Strawberries on sales BOGO $3.99 = $3.99
Total after sales before coupons = $30.76

Coupons used:
(6) $0.50/1 Ocean Spray Fruit Snacks = -$3.00
(2) BOGO Orbit Gum (up to $1.29) = - $2.58
(2) $0.75/2 Eggo Coupons = -$1.50
(2) $1/1 Snyders Pretzels = -$2.00
(1) $5 off New Frozen Food Catalina = -$5.00
(1) Safeway Doubl'r (doubled 4 coupons up to $0.50 more) = -$2.00
= $16.08 in coupons used

You'll notice over the next two weeks that I go to the store more than once a week. I happen to live just a few minutes from Safeway and Rite Aid and tend to shop late at night or on my home from work, so often my trips are just quick one to pick up a few deals.