This Wife's Savings

My first experiences with double-coupon shopping. I'm not familiar with Winn-Dixie anymore, so I made it a very light trip.

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9/18
I stopped by to just browse the store. Ended up buying a bag of things, but the best thing was... on my way to check out, I walked by a discount buggy. They had a pack of opened Always Overnight pads marked down to $3. I had a $.50 coupon, which doubled, so I paid only $2 plus tax for the pack. At the end, I had saved a total of $8.95, not bad.

9/22
2 Juicy Juice on sale for 2/$5
-$.50 coupon doubled
$4.36 OOP
savings of $2.98

I looked for other items that I had $.50 coups on, but they didn't carry a lot of the sizes I would need. And their prices are a lot higher than at Wal Mart. So even with them doubling coupons up to 50 cents, they are higher. Which really blows, because I think we all know how much I dislike Wal Mart.

Posted by Daphne at 9:26 AM 0 comments  

Labels: Grocery, WinnDixie

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Trans #1
Huggies Pullups - $9.99
-$2 coup
discount pen - $.34
paid with $4.50RR
ad $3.83 on Giftcard
$0 OOP
got $2RR

Trans#2
Huggies Pullups - $9.99
-$2 coup
paid with $.84 on Giftcard
$7.95 OOP
got $2RR

Total Savings of $13.50

Posted by Daphne at 9:17 AM 0 comments  

Labels: Grocery, Walgreens

Sorry I haven't updated lately. Been working through some family issues. I haven't done a great deal of shopping lately, but I will try to get everything added today.

Posted by Daphne at 9:16 AM 0 comments  

Labels: Misc

That's a police officer who was there to direct traffic into different lanes! It took me a total of 45 minutes to get gas!

Posted by Daphne at 6:42 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Gas

I wanted to check back to see if they had restocked yet, since I missed out on the Chex Mix deal. But they hadn't. I also wanted to get more Glade Fabric & Air and Visine.

2 Peeps - 2/$1 (one didn't make it to the picture)
3 Mini Highlighters - on sale - $.25 each
Schick Razor - $4.99
-$2 coup
4 Schick Refills - $4.99 each
-(4) $4 coups
Visine - $4.49
-$2 Wags coup
-$3 coup
Glade F&A - $2.99
-$1 Wags coup
-$1.50 coup
Snuggle sheets - $2.49
-$.40 coup
Printer paper - $3.99

-$10RR from Robitussin deal
$8.01 OOP

Savings of $59.15
What a great trip!


Total Saved since 8/1/08 : $745.75
CVS Savings: $295.25
Walgreen Savings: $257.47
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Posted by Daphne at 1:44 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Grocery, Walgreens

September 2008

Grocery & Household Needs - $108.73
Saved this month- $162.98

60% Savings!

How much of these savings were ....

CVS - $100.86
Walgreens - $22.25

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Total Savings since 8/1/2008: $686.60

CVS Savings - $295.25
Walgreens Savings - $198.31

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Posted by Daphne at 4:49 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Savings Log

September 2008 Monthly Totals

Posted by Daphne at 4:44 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Spending Log

3 Robitussin - $3.99 each
-3-$3 coupons
Visine - $4.49
-$2 Wags coupon
-$3 coupon
Excedrin - $3.99
Gum Toothbrush Twin Pack - $1.99
Oral B floss - $1.49
Glade Fabric & Air - $2.99
-$1 Wags coupon
-$1.50 coupon
Crest Pro Health Mouthwash - $4.29
-$.75 coupon

-$2 RR that didn't print last time
-$10 on giftcard I won from The Coupon Game
$4.30 OOP

Received:
$10RR from Robitussin
$4.50RR from Crest Pro Health Mouthwash
$3.99 Rebate on Excedrin
Savings of $22.25

Posted by Daphne at 4:06 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Grocery, Walgreens

CVS didn't have much to entice me this week.

2 Schick Disp. Razors - BOGO - $7.99
2 -$2 coupons
=4.39
paid with $3ecb
paid with $1.39 on gift card from returned lipstick
$0 OOP

Savings of - $14.99

My $3ecb from misunderstanding printed. Along with an Extracare Coupon for $5 off Zaditor.

Posted by Daphne at 3:53 PM 0 comments  

Labels: CVS, Grocery

Not my greatest, but I didn't want to go to the opposite side from the food. So No freebies on this trip.

Here's what I used coupons on:
2 Pizza Rolls - 2-$ .35 coups. (can't really see in picture)
making them $1.29 each
2 Hot Pocket Panini - 2-$1 coups.
making them $1.68 each
Sausage patties - $ .55 coup.
making it $1.45
Chicken BBQ - $1 coup.
it was on sale! making it $2.48
2 fruit snacks - $ .50/2 coup.
making them $1.25 each
Au gratin potato - $ .50 coup.
making it $1
2 Betty Crocker small bowls - 2-$.55 coups.
making them $1.57 each or 79 cents per bowl
4 Easy mac cups - 2-$1/2 coups.
making them 25 cents each

Total before coupons - $57.60
Total after coupons - $49.25
Savings of - $8.35

Posted by Daphne at 3:29 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Grocery, Walmart

Thanks to Taylortown, I've found a new (to-me) printable coupon site.

It's called Coupon Loop

Check it out!

Posted by Daphne at 5:32 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Coupons

Last week I had emailed Walgreens about my 2RR I didn't receive on the Huggies Pull-ups.

On 9/4 I received a call from My Walgreen's Manager telling me how sorry he was about what happen.
And that whenever I come in to ask for him and he will make sure that they take the $2 off my next purchase.
And if I ever needed anything, just to call him and he'd do his best to satisfy me as a customer.


Why, oh why, can't Wal Mart take some notes from Walgreens, & CVS?

Posted by Daphne at 4:45 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Walgreens

I called CVS today about the Moisture Shine Lipstick that I was overcharged for.

First, they told me that the Moisture Shine was not one of the products included in the ECB deal.

So I asked why it was advertised at $5.99 with 3ecb.

He then seen that it was in the ad and told me he would add the ecbs onto my account.

I then asked about the $3 overcharge.

I told him that I didn't want the lipstick for $8.99 even if I got 3ecbs.

I was starting to get a little upset, so I just asked if I could just return the lipstick for my money back.

He said, Yes I could, if it hadn't been used (which it had not)

He then said that he would still credit my account for the 3ecbs for my trouble!

I thought that was very nice!

So I returned the lipstick, got $9.71, even though I had used a $3/2 coupon. And I will have $3ecbs printed on my next receipt.

CVS sure likes Happy Customers!

Posted by Daphne at 3:59 PM 0 comments  

Labels: CVS

September 2008 Monthly Totals

Posted by Daphne at 9:00 AM 0 comments  

Labels: Spending Log

August 2008 Monthly Totals

Posted by Daphne at 8:55 AM 0 comments  

Labels: Spending Log

A little trouble at WalMart too.

First, I don't understand why WalMart's cashiers have such a hard time being nice to couponers (is that a word?) 95% of WalMart workers are rude when you present them with coupons. I feel like I'd rather go to a regular grocery store and pay more in the end, just to avoid that place. I mean, can't WalMart teach their cashiers to be polite? Like at CVS or Walgreens? Maybe we should strike on WalMart??

Second, the coupon from TGI Fridays will not scan or manually go in at WalMart. I don't know about other stores, but not at WalMart. (Last week, the cashier pushed them through anyway) I know this is not WalMart's fault. It makes me ill at the TGI Friday site for releasing the coupons if they are not usable. It's makes another reason for the cashiers to be leery of IPs. I will be emailing them about the situation, if the coupons are not accepted at the next store I visit.

Now, I'm upset and won't list all the wonderful coupons I used, but you can see my savings in numbers:

Total before coupons (& after they had to take the TGI Friday items off):
$72.19
Total after coupons:
$41.57

Savings of $30.62

Items that were FREE after coupons:

• 2 Kraft dressing - $1.58 value each
• 2 Oscar Mayer hot dogs - $1.50 value each
• 2 Cheerios - $3.54 value each
• 4 Kotex - $1 value each
• 2 Sara Lee Bread - $2.24 value each

• Huggies Cleanteam wipes - 64 cents
• 8 Easy Mac cups - 25 cents each
• Cinnamon rolls - 36 cents

Posted by Daphne at 8:25 AM 0 comments  

Labels: Grocery, Walmart

I am having issues (likes some other boggers) with the Test Run areas having items ring up wrong. The Neutrogena Moisture Shine was suppose to be $5.99 with a $3ecb return. Not only did it ring up for $8.99, but I didn't get my ecbs. I will be calling the 1-800 to get this cleared up and get my money back.

Trans #1
3 Pringles - 88cents each
-.30/3 coupon
4 Rice Krispie treats - $1.69 each
2 -$1/2 coupons
2 Colgate toothpaste - $2.99 each
~$2ecbs back each
2 -$1.50 coupons
2 Covergirl Wetslicks - $5.99 each
~$5.99 ecb back (limit 1)
- BOGO coupon

-$8ecb
$9.62 OOP
got back $9.99ecb

Trans #2
Neutrogena Healthy Volume Mascara - $5.99
~$3ecbs back
Neutrogena Moisture Shine Lipstick - $8.99 (This is where the mistake was.)
-$3/2 Neutrogena
4 Covergirl Outlast Lipcolor - $9.99 each - BOGO
2 -BOGO coupons

-$9.99ecb
$3.99 OOP
got back $3ecb

Total savings today:
$85.87

I'm very upset with the $6 mistake. I hope they get it corrected.

Posted by Daphne at 8:04 AM 0 comments  

Labels: CVS, Grocery

4 jars tomatoes
6 jars purple hull peas
6 jars green beans
6 jars homemade veggie soup

Cost to me? 0! That's right - Z.E.R.O.
My MIL canned each kid's family some of the goodies from their garden.

Yum!

Posted by Daphne at 9:25 AM 0 comments  

Labels: From the Garden, Grocery