Grocery Store Roll Call 11/15/2009

This week I shopped a couple of everyday low price stores I will have some very unscientific estimating so take with a grain of salt!

CVS #1
1 EARinse $7.99 (Saved $2.00)
1 Rimmel Curly Black Mascara (with bonus eyeliner) (Saved $.50)
$1/1 Rimmel Mascara
$11 in ECbucks

Received $7.99 and $4 in extracare bucks

Total Paid: $3.88
Total Saved: $14.50
Precentage Saved: 78.9%

Walgreens #1
Walgreens Peroxide $.99
Tylenol Sinus Congestion $4.99 saved $1.00
Tylenol Allergy $4.99 saved $1.00
Tylenol Cold Medicine $4.99 saved $1.00
Sudafed Triple Action PE $5.99 saved $1.00
$2/1 coupons for each of the cold medicines
$1/1 Walgreens Tylenol Coupon (deducts $3 for each)
$8 in Registry Rewards from previous transaction
Received $10 in Registry Rewards

Total Spent: $4.27
Total Saved: $27.00
Precentage Saved: 86.4%

Aldi's Foods (The general consensus is that Aldi's everyday low prices are about 50% of what you would normallly pay so that is what we will go with!)
Garden Salad $.99
Fruit Bowl mixed Fruit $1.39
3 Fruit Bowls Tropical Fruit $1.59
Vanilla Pudding Cups $.88
Applesauce Cups $.99
Total Spent: $10.61
Totals Saved: $10.61
Precentage Saved: 50%

Walgreen's #2
Number of Items purchased:10
Used $13 in Registry Rewards
Recieved $15 in Registry Rewards and bought a coloring book with various coupons

Total Spent: $6.01
Total Saved: $17.39
Precentage Saved: 74.3%

CVS #2
Clearance Peeps $.38
2 Garnier Face Products $5.99 each

Used 2 $1/1 coupon & $7.99 in ECBs

Total Spent: $3.09
Total Saved: $11.11
Precentage Saved: 77.9%

Dollar General
Laundry Basket $3.00
2 Yellow Tissue Paper $1.00
2 Greeting Cards $1.00
Used 20% everyday home items coupons available for this weekend on-line

Total Spent: $5.60
Total Saved: $1.40
Precentage Saved: 20% (Although I think it is a bit more with the price of the Laundry basket I think that would be more expensive at another store.)

Meijer's
Number of Items: 8
Used leftover on Bank of America card I received as a gift for trying an offer

Total Spent: $.6.39
Total Saved: $6.11
Precentage Saved: 48.9%

So this week I spent $33.05 and recieved $127.79 for a total precentage savings of 74.2%.  Still not too bad.  Also again I may can count more as I'm not sure of the exact savings for Dollar General in addition what I bought there was used for a gift. I took the suggestion of Hip 2 save and many other bloggers and put together a gift basket with household and personal goods that I shopped from my personal stock pile.  So the $5.60 at Dollar General were for mostly that gift.  While taking all the price tags off everything was on average worth $3 or so I probably included $80 of items in the gift but didn't pay a dime.  Also I had a baby shower and ordered two magazine subscriptions for that.  Both of these are previous savings already counted elsewhere but were used for something else and I only spent the money at Dollar General for cards and packaging.  When you consider all that I think it was a very good week!