I have been a serious coupon clipper for about 18 months now. It may sound cheezy and not worth the time it takes, but things are tight around here and WE'RE IN A RECESSION, right Vickie? I took a class through our local newspaper and saw how easy it was and I was hooked. She has a website, does all the hard work and all I have to do is clip and organize the coupons every Sunday. Well, the last few months my coupon clipping has gotten away from me....until this week. I finally sat down and got busy clipping, sorting and tossing expired ones. So, this morning I headed out to Albertson's to get a few things that were on sale....
Order #1: 10 Boxes assorted fruit snacks & fruit roll ups. I normally don't buy these things. I now have a system in place and they are carefully hidden from kids who can devour an entire box in one sitting. I handed the cashier coupons for the boxes and the boxes were already on sale this week, making them $1.75 a box...order total : $18.91. Not really that great of a deal until you take into account that after I rang up my order, the machine next to the cash register gave me a little present: one coupon for $10 off my next order and another $3.50 off my next order. (So, if I were to take into account those nice coupons, each box I just bought just cost me .40 a piece.)
Order #2: 4 boxes general mills cereal, 6 boxes Nature Valley granola bars. After using the manufacturer coupons that I had for each item, and the $13.50 store coupon from the above order, my total came to $8.75. Nice! And, because I had bought a total of 10 items from the sale list, I again got another $13.50 off my next order!
Order #3: 4 boxes Kellogs cereal, 1 gallon of milk (this was free with the purchase of these 4 boxes of cereal!), and a case - 12 cans - of 32 oz Hunts diced tomatoes. After using coupons that I had for each of these items, and the $13.50 off coupon from the above order, I paid...drumroll, please.....$2.62!!!!
Totally made all those hours of trying to get myself and my coupons organized worth it. I'm on a money saving high right now.....
2 comments:
yay! I was just about to blog about my Albertsons trip too!
LOVE those Albies sales!
Wow...and I thought I was a bargain shopper. I don't use many coupons anymore because the ones we get in the Sunday paper are basically save 50 cents when you buy 2 brand name items. I found I can save a lot of money by buying Walmart's "Great Valu" brand instead of brand name items. Of course, there are always a few items where I have to have brand name...but not too many.
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