Coupons...

Okay, so I have used coupons a lot through the years. No big deal, right? Sometimes I would save a few dollars on my grocery bill and I thought I was really doing something.



But when I read this blog and this blog with all of those who commented on their savings, I began to think that maybe there was much more to couponing than I understood. So I began to read, and study and this is what I did..

Kroger is having a Mega deal event this week and next. If you buy 10 of selected items, you get $5.00 off the purchase. Kroger also doubles coupons up to 55 cents,(that's $1.10). So I had coupons on all these items. I got these 10 items for a grand total of ...are you ready?

I got

4 boxes of Quaker Oats,

1- 3 liter bottle of water,

2 boxes Betty Crocker scalloped and Au Gratin potatoes

1 package Betty Crocker Triple chunk chocolate chip cookie mix

2-24 boxes of Tylenol extra strength

That is 10 items

I paid....$4.13!!!!

I was so pumped! I have never saved that much on anything before!

I was hooked. I am like a crack addict looking for my next fix!

Here it is. The water was free and the tylenol was also free with coupons and the money back after buying the 1o items. $4.13!! Wow!

So I go to another Kroger store today, because the one I went to yesterday didn't have some of the items I wanted. So today this is what I got. Minus the items listed earlier.

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Today's haul was great. I got:

1-4 roll Cottenelle tissue- .29 cents!

1-2 liter DrPepper

1-2 liter Big K Ginger Ale

1-64 oz Welch white grape juice

4 cans condensed soup

2 cans carnation cream

16 slices kraft cheese

1 can Pringles

3 cans Chef Boyardee

1-package Betty Crocker Chocolate chunk cookie mix (in addition to the one I got yesterday)

1 box Duncan Hines brownie mix

3 boxes Swiss Miss hot chocolate mix

2 Peter Pan peanut butter

4 boxes Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal .40 cents a box!!!!

1-box Ritz crackers

2 boxes Pilsbury Toaster strudels

1 bag Totinos Pizza rolls

2 kroger chili envelopes (seasoning)

1 bag Fritos

1 bag Chili Cheese Fritos

1 bag Cheetos

5 cans kroger brand sliced potatoes

With the $10.00 off because of buying 20 of the items and with the coupons I had the total for today's shopping trip was.....

$38.02!!!!

I am so into this now!!

I can't wait to go back to save more money!

I am a crazy woman. I am so excited!! I use to dread going grocery shopping, now I want to go everyday just to see how much money I don't spend!!


My total savings from both trips was.....

$73.16

If anyone out there doesn't use coupons, and you get them in the mail or in your newspaper, I would be glad to take them off your hands...

Just let me know and I will send you SASE's and you can just drop them in the mail to me!!

Here are a couple of cute quotes about money to end this post. Enjoy!

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.
~April Foiles~

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
~Edith Wharton~

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
~Jackie Mason~

"Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you."
~Winston Churchill~

And the truest statment of all is:
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
~Henry Thoreau~

If more of us thought in these terms, we would have much less junk in our homes and much more happiness in our lives!