Retail Price: $123.03
My Bottom Line: $28.84
Savings: 77%
Savings Breakdown:
Coupons Tendered: $32.15
Double Coupons Tendered: $14.38
Catalina Savings: $7
Advertised Sale Savings/Markdowns: $30.66
Rebate Savings: $10 Kelloggs Rebate
You wouldn't know it by this picture that I was moving in 2 weeks! Although I've been trying to buy just basics lately-partly because we're moving and partly because the sales have been terrible-I had such a hard time turning down the sales this week! There was a great sale at Copps on Kelloggs Products which allowed me not only to take advantage of the $10 Kelloggs Mail-in-Rebate, but when I matched this offer up with coupons I had from the Sunday newspaper inserts and special Kelloggs coupon booklets I found at the store and Copps/PickNSave "Double Dayz" double coupons I was able to get $41.97 worth of groceries for just $1.20!
We should have no problem eating up our perishable items before we move, and we are planning on just bringing all the extra boxes of cereal and everything else I've managed to stockpile this summer back to Utah with us. One of the things I hate about moving is after several weeks of cleaning, packing, a long drive is to show up to your new place with weeks of unpacking and organizing and no food. In the past I would inevitably end up making a huge (and expensive) shopping trip within the first couple days to fill our cupboards. Although it might not make sense to many other people to move boxes of cereal, pasta, salad dressing, and tons of other non-perishables across the country it is SO much cheaper to do this when I can get all that food at 70-80% off the full price.
Are you curious how I manage to do this? In the weekly posts I give you the readers digest version of my grocery trips, which are mostly meant to inspire you that consistently having enormous savings by using coupons and sticking to a budget can be done! I also do it to hold myself somewhat accountable to our family budget (sometimes it's easy to get carried away with the deals). This week though I am going to do a full breakdown, step-by-step, of how exactly I combined my coupons to sales and hopefully enlighten new couponers to how you can do it too! Look for that post shortly!
My Bottom Line: $28.84Savings: 77%
Savings Breakdown:
Coupons Tendered: $32.15
Double Coupons Tendered: $14.38
Catalina Savings: $7
Advertised Sale Savings/Markdowns: $30.66
Rebate Savings: $10 Kelloggs Rebate
You wouldn't know it by this picture that I was moving in 2 weeks! Although I've been trying to buy just basics lately-partly because we're moving and partly because the sales have been terrible-I had such a hard time turning down the sales this week! There was a great sale at Copps on Kelloggs Products which allowed me not only to take advantage of the $10 Kelloggs Mail-in-Rebate, but when I matched this offer up with coupons I had from the Sunday newspaper inserts and special Kelloggs coupon booklets I found at the store and Copps/PickNSave "Double Dayz" double coupons I was able to get $41.97 worth of groceries for just $1.20!
We should have no problem eating up our perishable items before we move, and we are planning on just bringing all the extra boxes of cereal and everything else I've managed to stockpile this summer back to Utah with us. One of the things I hate about moving is after several weeks of cleaning, packing, a long drive is to show up to your new place with weeks of unpacking and organizing and no food. In the past I would inevitably end up making a huge (and expensive) shopping trip within the first couple days to fill our cupboards. Although it might not make sense to many other people to move boxes of cereal, pasta, salad dressing, and tons of other non-perishables across the country it is SO much cheaper to do this when I can get all that food at 70-80% off the full price.
Are you curious how I manage to do this? In the weekly posts I give you the readers digest version of my grocery trips, which are mostly meant to inspire you that consistently having enormous savings by using coupons and sticking to a budget can be done! I also do it to hold myself somewhat accountable to our family budget (sometimes it's easy to get carried away with the deals). This week though I am going to do a full breakdown, step-by-step, of how exactly I combined my coupons to sales and hopefully enlighten new couponers to how you can do it too! Look for that post shortly!
3 Comments:
You're nuts. How are you going to move all this??
haha...thanks. Well i really do think that we should be able to fit it in, and should we have some tihngs that don't fit there is some food we have right now that I don't mind giving away to some friends of ours here, or the local food bank.
I'd like to know more details, cause i haven't cracked the 45% savings yet and it makes me sort of discouraged that I'm not as sheik in the couponing combos.
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