Saturday, January 30, 2010

Couponing at Krogers....



Tonight we went to Kroger as they are having the Mega Event which is my most favorite time to shop there. I so love Kroger. The Mega event if you don't know is where you buy 10 participating items and get $5 off your total and at our store you can do that as many times as you want in one transaction. At the end of mine I got $30 off as I had 60 participating items and then came the coupons....I handed the sweet young and patient guy about 35 coupons and apologized, lol. He was so nice though and him and the young guy bagging were entertaining Cameron and telling him that the sweeper thing transforms at night into a transformer and hello you had him at Transformer.

 

Anyways, I spent a little more than I planned but I got A LOT of stuff and stocked up on snack foods and things for the kids that are normally so high. I got 4 boxes of wheat thins and triscuits for a little over $1.00 a box as I had $1.00 off coupons, The nature valley nut clusters were each about .30 cents a bag after my paper coupons, and e coupons from shortcuts.com ( I so love being able to use both on one item, this I just learned not to long ago ) The ritz were 1.00 a box after coupons, the fruit cups we got 2 free. You can't see it but the deli creations hot sandwiches were $1.00 each. All the goldfish I had no coupons for but with the mega event they were only .88 cents a bag and I love these the kiddos love these. The boxes of 100 calorie count snacks were a little over $1.00 a box after coupons.

We got 4 boxes of capri suns for less than $1.00 a box after coupons. Some other deals I got with coupons were French's Mustard, Franks Hot Sauce, French's Honey Mustard, French's Dipping Sauce and each were only .19 cents. Awesome! I got guacamole for $1.00, oh and my favorite deal was the Kraft Cheeses, each was only .99 and I got 6! That's awesome for Kraft cheese in my opinion. I got 2 Tombstone pizzas for around $1.50 each. I got 4 boxes of Velveeta Shells and Cheese for .61 a box. A huge thing of velveeta for 2.79. They also had good whole grain bread for $3.89 a loaf but it was buy one get one free plus there was a .55 off coupon on each load that I used making them 1.39 a loaf for my favorite bread.


I also got several boxes of fiber one granola bars for  about .60 a box as I had paper coupons that were doubled plus ecoupons. Not even close to everything is pictured, I stocked up on hamburger for the week, plus they had big bags of salmon, tilapia, and catfish for 9.99 and I got tilapia. We also got cereal, milk, eggs, juice, water, those kinds of things. Oh I also got 2 sets of ziploc storage containers, nice big casserole sized ones for 1.25 each set.

Ok I think that's enough....Wanna know my savings??? I saved $85.32 with my krogers card, 2.25 bonus coupons?, and with mfg coupons...........$33.67!!! A total of 121.24!!! Woohoo!! Seriously though once I see the total saved just from the coupons it makes it all worth it! Every little but helps, and even though $33 is not a ton of money it sure will add up to the end of the year.

So that's my weekly couponing. Do you bother? How's yours going if you do?

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Family Christmas Video....

A little late but I have been playing around with videos I took Christmas. Enjoy!

Coupon Highs....




Something I want to try and do this year is post more on my family blog. I want to of course share what's going on at home with the kiddos as well as share some of my couponing. I just started couponing about 7 months ago and  am not great at it yet but getting better. I slacked off for the last 2 months or so and am getting back into it. It's something that REALLY helps us save money and we definitely need that. It's a lot of work but completely worth it.

Tonight we headed to CVS as I had $11.50 in extra care bucks to spend from the pepsi deal they had. Yesterday we bought Six 12 packs of pepsi and paid $16 and some change and got $10 back. Plus I had $1.50 from my quarterly earnings.

So ( counting the soda ) we got....

Six 12 packs of pepsi
Bag of Stacys Pita chips ( free bag coupon I got from facebook )
Conditioner
8 Rolls of Bounty Paper Towels
1 Airwick Freshmatic starter kit ( join here if you want these coupons )
1 Box of Hersheys Granola Bars
12 pack of thread ( for sewing practice )
Shoelaces ( cam needed new ones )
2 Tubs of Clorox Wipes
A new Sippy Cup for little man ( $5 geesh )

I paid about $28 ( again that is counting yesterdays soda purchase )

I had $16.50 in ExtraCare bucks, ( $5 of which came from a survey I did as I am on the CVS advisory panel and $10 from the soda, and $1.50 I had from my fall earnings )and $8 in coupons plus I got $1 back for my next visit.

Now I could have done it so that I would have earned more extracare bucks back to spend next time but I stuck with getting things we needed.

We also went to Krogers tonight and I used 16 coupons, my total before coupons was a little over $100 and after coupons we spent around $60. That's good for me. Again I am still learning.....A few deals I got...

 5 Healthy Choice Dinners *FREE
12 double rolls of Cottonelle for $3.88
Cheerios ( big box ) for $1
2 full size AirWick Freshmatic automatic starter kit .49 each
1 Airwick freshmatic Compact Starter kit .49
2 cans of pilsbury grands biscuits free
2 rolls of pilsbury chocolate chip cookie dough .89 each
3 cans of Starkist Tuna *Free
1 DelMonte fruit cup *Free
2 big boxes of ritz crackers $1.00 each
2 Boxes of Hostess 100 count Calorie cupcakes packs ( YUM ) $1.50

Those are some of the deals I got with coupons. I could do better and I know the ritz deal and hostess are incredible but still a good deal. I remember when walmart was the only place we shopped and now Krogers is pretty much it. You can do very good there if you shop the sales. Plus you can load coupons on your card and use paper coupons ( check your store )with them as well.

For my coupons I load my card here, you can also go here for printable coupons, and anytime you want a coupon for a specific product definitely visit the companies website, they almost always have coupons available on their site for their products. I have also written companies ( whom have products I love ) on several occasions telling them I loved their products and they mailed me high value coupons.

Also a few blogs that are AWESOME with couponing and sharing deals are My Frugal Adventures, go here to visit her blog. Also Engineer a Debt Free Life here. There are tons I will list more later as well.