So, after going to a "Cents-ible" shopping (ways to feed your family) at church. I wanted to attempt couponing. I have done it for 2 weeks and I see how it could become addicting at trying to save money....lol. Each week, trying to out do yourself with the next. I find my deals at
http://www.southernsavers.com/. I stay up after everyone is asleep and to at it. Here are details from
My first week:
Publix: spent $4.58, saved $8.40
Kroger: spent $11.26, saved $20.48
Ingles: spent $7.02, saved $28.22
Total: spent $22.86, saved $57.10 (72% savings overall)
At the 3 stores I got, 10 cans Delmonte vegetables, 1 box wheat thins, 2 boxes of jello, 3 easy mac cups, 2 packs of oscar myer hotdogs, 2 digorno pizzas, 1 box honey bunches of oats, 1 16 oz box elbow macaroni, 1 16 oz box of spaghetti noodles, 3 tuna pouches, 3 brown cow yogurt cups, airwick air freshener, glass plus, 2 green giant steam fresh bags of veggies, and a pack of kaiser rolls. All that for $22.86!! I felt accomplished.
2nd week:
Publix: spent $40.56, saved $51.43
Ingles: spent $35.75, saved $30.86
Total: spent $76.31, saved $82.29 (52% savings)
At the 2 stores I got, 2 Tyson whole chickens, pack of 3 beef cube steak, 1 Tropicana Trop 50 Juice, 2 Green Giant Sauced Vegetables, 2 Freshetta pizzas, 4 boxes of Kellogs mini wheats, 1 Mccormick chili powder, 1 pack of huggies pull ups, 2 cans carnation evap milk, 1 Lloyd's BBQ meats, 2 Juicy Juice 64 oz bottles, 2 Ragu Pasta sauce 45 oz, 3 hamburger helper, 1 lb ground beef, 1 Nestle Toll House Refrigerated Dough, 2 bags Lay's potato chips, 1 pack dial bar soap (3 bars), 10 jars Earth's best organic baby food, 1 pack crunch pak apple slices, 1 pack pillsbury crescent rolls, 2 pillsbury grands biscuits, 1 stouffer's lasagna, 1 chex mis, 3 idahoan mashed potatoes, 1 purex complete 3 in 1 detergent, cottonelle double rolle bath tissue (12 rolls), and 2 resuable publix shopping bags (both free). All this for $76.31 (I felt accomplished again, b/c I got detergent, pull ups and toilet paper)
Our church is having the Centsible night again on, October 11th from 6-8:30 in the Kidz worship center.
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