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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Grocery Store Roll Call 12/11/09

CVS #1

1 Zantac Cool 24 ct - $8.99
1 Sudafed  Day/Night 30 ct $6.99
1 Bayer Breeze Blood Glucose Monitor $19.99
1 CVS Thin Lancets 100 Ct $6.99
2 Crest Toothpaste 2/$4.50

1 Coupon for $2/1 Zantac
1 Coupon for $2/1 Sudafed PE
1 Coupon for $30/1 Bayer Countour or Breeze Product (adjusted to price of product)
1 Coupon for $1/2 Crest Toothpaste
$19 in Extracare bucks

Total Spent: $6.32 (Used $1.76 off FSA account and balance on gift card paying only $4.56 with the gift card) (My husband was like you didn't spend any money you gave them a piece of paper! But in reality it was prepaid.)
Total Saved: $89.37
Percentage Saved: 93.4%
Received $14.49 in extracare bucks

Kroger (Went to Grand Blanc Kroger that doubles 3 coupons up to $1)
Number of Items: 26
Total Spent: $10.08
Total Saved: $48.24
Percentage Saved: 82.7%

CVS #2
Double Pack Renu Contact Solution - $12.99
Feminine Care Product - $19.99

Coupon $2/1 Renu Contact Solution
Coupon $5/1 Feminine Care Product
$15.99 in Extracare bucks

Total Spent: $13.47 ($7.04 on electronic gift card, $6.43 out of pocket)
Total Saved: $24.49
Percentage Saved: 64.5%
Recieved $13 in ECBs

Walgreens
Schick Trimmer Razon $6.99
2 Theraflu Sugarfree 6 pack - $10
2 Triaminic Strips - $10
1 Feminine product - $3.99
2 Walgreens Big Roll Toilet paper - $.89 (needed 3 fillers to use all my Registry Rewards and bought things I genuinely needed)

Walgreens coupon for $2 off Theraflu
Walgreens coupon for $2 off Sugarfree Theraflu (yes you can use two no problem if they have different bar codes)
Walgreens coupon for $2 off Triaminic
MFG Coupons for $2/1 Theraflu and $1.50 off 1 Theraflu
MFG coupons for $3/1 Triaminic and $1/1 Triaminic
MFG coupons for $2/1 Schick Razor
$10 in Registry Rewards

Total Spent: $5.34
Total Saved: $40.47
Percentage Saved: 86.8%
Received $16 in RR

Meijer
Number of Items: 28

Total Spent: $9.18
Total Saved: $34.03
Percentage Saved: 78.8%
(I had a few coupons for free items and with their 10 for 10 deal I got some overage I bougt a $5.99 container of salt without a coupon so I got a lot of groceries free!)

VGs (Waterford that doubles coupons to $1.00)
Number of Items: 45

Total Spent: $31.61
Total Saved: $69.19
Percentage Saved: 68.6%

Walgreens #2
2 Eucerin body lotions at $11.00
4 Gift Card boxes on clerance $.50 (fillers to use registry rewards)
Used $5/2 Eucerin moisterizers coupon
Used $16 in registry rewards
Total Spent: $4.14
Total Saved: $24.74
Percentage Saved: 85.7%
Recieved $8 in Registry Rewards

So I spent $76 and got $410.58 worth of goods and groceries, including rock salt for the driveway, tons of personal products and a lot more cold medicine! Total Savings was of 81.49%.

1 comment:

  1. I know a way to save more on toilet paper than any coupon or special. This covers all the bases = saves you money, helps the environment, helps your health, makes you feel better, it's so easy to do and it costs less than $50.00; Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: "if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn't wipe it off with paper, would you? You'd wash it off” Available at www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won't even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don’t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without feeling guilty. It's cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You'll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but remember the water use of industrial users far exceeds the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways.

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