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.