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| Spent $42 for $120 Worth |
After a few weeks of lack luster shopping trips (in my opinion), I was so happy with how today's trip turned out. Today was the perfect balance of buying what I needed for our life/meals and stocking up on couponed items. I was finally able to break out of my two week slump of saving less than 60% this week. I ideally like to save 70% but because I coupon a little more "realistically" than extreme types, I don't always save that much since I still try to buy what we want within reason and not buy more than we need of the super deals.
I was lucky to have the $5/$30 Publix coupon from this past Sunday's paper as well as the option to use either a $5/$30 Enjoy The City Winn Dixie coupon (hate parting with those!) or a $5/$50 Target catalina that printed for me last week. I didn't know if I would hit $80 before coupons but surprisingly I did and I was able to use the Target once which expires in 10 days.
I only spent $42 today which includes a 5 pound whole chicken, trash bag, sandwich bags, salad, 2 boxes of Kashi bars and much more. Pretty good day in my book. I did hit up Target Easter clearance earlier this week and spend about $15 so that still keeps me under our weekly spending budget with a little extra left over from the week to stick into our new camera fund : )
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Breakdown of today's trip:
Total retail value: $120.64
Total spent: $41.79
Total saved: $78.88
Percent saved: 65%
What I bought with sale/coupon match ups:
- 2 bags of Fresh Express Salad, retails for $3.99 each, on sale BOGO ($1.99 each)
- Used a $1 off bagged salad coupon from the Target Get Fresh mailer
- Made them $1.50 each
- 2 bags of Alexia Frozen Sweet Potato products, retails for $3.79 each, on sale for $3.00 each
- Used two $1.00 coupons from Coupons.com
- Stacked with two .75 cents off Publix coupons from the Freshen Up Your Menu Booklet
- Made them $1.25 each
- 2 bags of Cape Cod chips, retails for $3.79 each, on sale for $2.50 each
- Used a $1/2 coupon from the 4/1 SS
- Made them $2.00 each
- 2 boxes of Kashi granola bars, retails for $4.05 each, on sale for $2.99 each
- Used two $2.00 off coupons from Recycle Bank
- Made them .99 cents each
- 1 half gallon of Silk Almond Milk, retails for $3.49, on sale for $2.50
- Used a .75 cents off coupon from Coupons.com
- Made it $1.75
- 4 bags of Goldfish crackers, retails for $2.39 each
- On sale BOGO, made them $1.19 each
- 1 bag of Terra Sweet Potato Chips, retails for $3.50
- On clearance rack for $2.00
- 2 Pillsbury Crescent Rolls, retails for $1.59 each, on sale for $1.00
- Used a .50/2 coupon from Pillsbury.com
- Made them .75 cents each
- 1 bag of Kraft Shredded Motzerella cheese, retails for $4.19
- On sale 50% off, made it $2.10
- 1 package of whole wheat Tandoori Naan retails for $2.99
- On sale for $2.50
- Almost 5 pound Purdue whole chicken, on sale for $1.29 a pound
- Made it $5.93
- 2 packages of Kraft Big Cheese slices, retails for $3.19
- On sale 50% off made them $1.59 each
- Used two $1 off manufacturer coupons found in the store, I had some from a few weeks ago but there was also a display of them in the aisle at my store
- Made them .59 cents each
- Banana, on sale for .28 cents
- Used a $1.00 off produce WYB Kraft Cheese slices Publix coupon from Cooking With Kraft
- Made it FREE plus .72 cents overage
- Lemon, .67 cents
- Used a $1.00 off produce WYB Kraft Cheese slices Publix coupon from Cooking With Kraft
- Made it FREE plus .23 cents overage
- Glad Tall Kitchen trash bags, retails for $8.11, on sale for $5.99
- Used a $1 off coupon from Coupons.com
- Stacked with a $1 off Publix coupon from the One Stop, One Store booklet
- Made them $3.99
- 4 Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaners, retails for $2.29 each, on sale BOGO ($1.14 each)
- Used two .50/2 coupons from Lysol's website
- Made them .89 cents each
- 2 boxes of Glad storage bags, retails for $3.49 each
- On sale BOGO made them $1.74 each
- 1 loaf of Publix Bakery Sourdough bread, retails for $3.65
- Used a $1 off Publix bakery item WYB Kraft Shredded Cheese from Cooking With Kraft
- Made it $2.65
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