Saturday, July 26, 2008

My Savings This Week: A Shopping Marathon!

I did some serious shopping this week! Can you believe I did all this in one day? No wonder I was so tired when I got home!

My first stop was Harris Teeter for triple coupons!!! I got the sour cream coupons off ebay because I knew they'd give $.45 overage a piece. I got 11 of those, and I already gave 3 away. I've got plenty more if anybody needs it! Everything you see was either free or free plus overage. The only thing that wasn't free was the peaches which were $.99 lb. I got about 7 lbs. of peaches and paid $1.09 for all this!


My next stop was at Rite Aid. Here's the rundown:

2 Dove shampoos = $4.99
2 Revlon emery boards = $1.25
1 pack drink mixes = $.99
Total before coupons = $7.23
Minus $1 Rite Aid Dove coupon
Minus (2) $2 Dove coupons
Minus (2) $1 Revlon coupons

Total after coupons = $.23 plus tax

Plus, I'll be getting a $3 rebate!


Next stop: Walgreens

All I got was 3 (yes, 3, obviously one is not pictured) packs of mechanical pencils for $.05 each.

Next I ran into CVS to use my lone Trident BOGO coupon. I would have had more, but I only got one paper because all the other papers were missing their inserts.

Total = $.10, and received $1 ECB

Next I went to Wal-Mart. I used my $2.00 Just Bunches coupon, some of my $3.00 Planters coupons, my $2.00 LiveActive cheese coupons, and my free Taste Escapes coupons. I also got some other things I needed. My total there was $14.11

After Wal-Mart I went into Food Lion. The juice was $2.00 after using the Food Lion $1 printable, I got 2 lbs. of strawberries and a pound of grapes by using the $2/$5 produce Food Lion printable, and free baby wipes and baby food with Food Lion printables. The cheese I got just because I needed it. I also got a frozen pizza to pop into the oven when I got home because I knew I'd be too tired to cook. My total was $14.23


Next I went to the other CVS because sometime during the course of the day I realized that I had let $20.00 in ECB's expire! Thankfully they are really nice there about letting you use them expired, but I didn't want to let them be any more "expired" than they already were, so I went ahead and used them. Thankfully it was a perfect week to need diapers!
1 pack of diapers = 11.49
1 Bic razor = 6.99
1 pack razor cartridges = 6.99
1 pack CVS pads = .99
1 bar CVS soap = .79
2 Trident gums = 1.49
1 gallon milk = 3.99
Total before coupons = $33.23
Minus $1 Huggies coupon
Minus (2) $4 Bic coupons
Minus $2 skincare coupon
Minus $.75 Trident coupon
Total after coupons = $21.48
Used $21 in ECB's
Total oop = $.55
Received back $6.99 in ECB's


Finally, I went to 2 different grocery salvage stores.

At the first store I paid $18 for all this. A rough estimation of what I would be willing to pay for this stuff at the grocery store with sales and coupons values it at around $45.00. That's a savings of $27.00, not off the regular price, but off sale price with coupons!

At the 2nd store I paid $20.00 for all this. A rough estimate of what I would be willing to pay for it values it at around $25.00. Not a huge savings there, but I did get it a little cheaper than I would with sales and coupons, and I didn't have to go through the trouble of clipping all the coupons.

My total for all this was $68.56. That's not quite 3 weeks worth of budget, but it should definitely last us at least 3 weeks with just a little restocking on the fresh foods every week.

5 comments:

  1. Hi, just curious how you found the salvage stores, and what makes the items different, are the boxes damaged, cans dented? Thanks! Looks like you did great this week! --Dana

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  2. I just happened to know about them by word of mouth, but you could try doing a Yahoo local search. I do that when I know I'll be shopping in another city, and want to find out if they have any salvage stores. The items are either damaged in some way or slightly outdated. I love shopping there because I get just as good of deals as I would with coupons without all the time and trouble.

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  3. Hi there. I was wondering, where did U get the $2.00 live active cheese coupons. My daughter loves these snacks and I wanna stock up.

    Also, You have rite aid, CVS, Walgreen, food lion, Harris teeter all near you. Wow great variety of stores, Lucky you. Where do u live?

    Lizzy

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  4. The $2 cheese coupon is at this link. http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=rabtbhm85063951&bt=wi&o=51639&c=KF&p=iNGA5OqJ

    It's been around for a long time, though, so I don't know if it will print for you or not. Worth a try though, for sure.

    I live in Shelby, NC, a small town of no more than 30,000 people. It really is amazing how many stores we have considering the amount of people in the town.

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  5. Hi-Just found you through Money Saving Mom and I am wondering how can I get started with all these savings? You mention all the coupons - are they from the newspaper or..? I have never done this before and it is about time to learn! I am so impressed with you ladies!~!!

    please email me at jaana100@ymail.com with any suggestion, if at all possible. I would greatly appreciate it.

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