Couponing

Since I will probably do several coupons posts, mainly for my benefit of being able to look back and see progress or not, etc. there will just be several posts with the title of "couponing." I mean, I could try to think of names to call the posts, but I just don't want to think that hard.

Tonight I did late night shopping. The store closed at midnight. I turned on the car just a few minutes before the hour. I would have gone earlier but my husband worked late and I would have gone tomorrow or early next week but there is a bad weather forecast and I really don't want to go out in bad weather, not to mention it is great to shop without kids, no matter what the hour.

It was double/triple coupon week again. I think they do this at least every month or two so it is easy to take advantage. I got a lot of cereal and could have waited for the cereal to be on sale but I was satisfied with the price, and it got me pretty low anyway. I even got meat, which I normally wouldn't have done, but we needed some.

My main haul for the day ended up being tons of breakfast foods. I don't mind though. Sure, I could've waited for some things, but I haven't been shopping in a long time and we kind of need some food. Not to mention, I am in a rut right now and can't think of anything to make, so I went for a few easy fixers. All in all, I was pleased. I had people at the checkout behind me asking me if I was going to get it all free and how many papers I get or if I get the coupons from my neighbors. Everyone was impressed as was I and since I really don't want to make it a career to get all my food cheap, although if it happens I'll take it, I will continue to be pleased.

The total before coupons was $137.65
I spent a total of $60.96
Which saved me $76.69

I don't even have to figure this all out because the cash register does it for me and my receipt tells me I saved 56%