Saturday, January 9, 2010

$308.31 in Groceries...$72.51 OOP...saved $235.80

Since I do my shopping in smaller, more frequent trips (as I get better at this couponing thing I am going to attempt to go less times to the store) I always seem to have a few items missing from my photos. The following items are missing fom the above photo:

1 box Valentine Transformers Cards
1 box Special K cereal
1 gallon milk
3 Christmas pencils (filler items)
2 boxes Nabisco Chips Ahoy cookies
1 bottle Wishbone Italian dressing
3 bottles International Delight creamer
2 I Can't Believe It's Not Butter tubs

Where I shopped:

Homeland
4 Wishbone Italian dressing
15 Del Monte canned tomatoes
3 International Delight creamer
2 I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
1 Velveeta

Walmart
2 Downy Wrinkle Releaser
2 Dove Deoderant
1 Razor

Walgreens
3 Christmas Pencils (.25 ea...filler items)
22 Nabisco Chips Ahoy (Valentine's gifts for my 3 yr old son's daycare class)
1 Oreo Double Stuff (.99 sale...for Hunter)
6 Neosporin Lip Health (2/$8 w/$3RR and used IP...overage)
4 Special K cereal (2/$5 - IP)
6 Honey Nut Cheerios (2/$5 - IP)
4 Cinnamon Toast Crunch (2/$5 - IP)
3 Cottonelle TP (on sale $5 used RR to get for stockpiling)
4 St. Ives Body Wash (1.49 ea (30% extra) used raincheck)
6 Hefty One Zip Bags (2/3.29 and they had .20/1 peelies)
2 Johnson & Johnson Body Wash trial size (free w/IP)
2 John Frieda Weather Works (1.69 ea w/$5 RR when you buy 2)
3 Sally Hershberger Shampoo/Cond/Gel (clearanced for 2.39 and 3.19)
4 Electrasol Tabs (3.49-$2.50/1 w/$1 RR)


Breakdown:
Subtotal before coupons: 308.31
Coupons used: (126.96) includes RRs
Discounts/sales: (124.72)
Taxes paid: 15.88
Total OOP: 72.51
Savings: 235.80 (76.5%)
Left to Spend:
$27.49 in cash
$14.00 in RR from Walgreens
$7.00 in ECBS from CVS (just started with CVS in December)

1 comment:

Shannon "Coupon Princess" said...

Wow.. thanks for sharing. Great trip.