BOY oh BOY it was a CRAZY coupon week huh? There were a TON of good deals to be had and I took advantage of MANY of them!!! So much so my hubby is concerned! LOL!!!!
Luckily for me by my house there is literally 3 Walgreen's in 5 miles, a Walmart, a Target and a CVS! Every day this week while I was out I popped in to one of them it seemed cashing in on the best deals of the week.
Look at my haul!!! (now you can see hubby's concern! and ignore the messy homeschool bookshelf in the background - keepin' it real!)
My haul includes -
1 Charmin 9 pk
7 rolls of Bounty paper towels
1 Febreeze set and refresh
1 Airwick freshmatic
4 2 packs of magic erasers
2 soft scrub cleaners
4 soft srub sprays
3 bottles of dawn
2 bottles of whisk
2 bottles of purex
8 old spice body wash gift sets (includes one full size 16 oz bottle and an 8 oz bottle)
8 full size deodorants
4 travel size women's deodorants (were free and Sara likes that size for dance bag)
1 3 pk of zest soap
4 3 pk ivory soap
4 travel size toothpaste
8 full size toothpaste
7 bags of 75 count GUM flossers
4 schick hydro shave gel
4 gilette fusion razors
4 schick hydro razors
1 12pk men's disposable razors
13 packs women's disposable razors
4 Nivea sun kissed lotions
2 Nivea regular lotion
4 Nivea Men's body wash
4 Suave shampoo/conditioners
2 Pantene shampoo/conditioner
15 bottles Nivea body wash
8 bottles Right Guard body wash
2 pairs scissors
eyelash curler
tweezers
gain fabric febreeze spray - travel size (love to keep in car!)
I *think* that is it!!! :)
I know you are wanting the TOTALS right????? It's not all exciting like Extreme Couponing - not all free :( I did get the Ivory soaps free, travel size deodorants and toothpastes free, the men's and women's Nivea body washes free (that was big deal last week but all my stores were out then), Right Guard men's body washes free and the tweezers free :) LOVE FREE!!!!!!!!
Total OUT OF POCKET - $124.29
TAX - $29.64
CVS extra care bucks to use later (as cash) - $4
Walgreen's register rewards to use later (as cash) $16
SO TOTAL ----------- $64.65!!!!!!
Total Price of all items BEFORE coupons and sales - $640.06!!!!!
That is a savings of $575.41 or 89.89% WOW!!!!!!
Now some of you may ask WHY even spend the $65 if you don't NEED the stuff???? Well, we WILL need it! I only buy stuff that we will use in our household. I am just getting back to couponing and getting a stockpile started so my budget is a little higher than those you may read on other blogs or see on TV etc. I looked at what we were spending which for our family of 6 pre-coupons it was not uncommon for me to spend $200 to $250 A WEEK at the store - that was food and formula and stuff for school lunches (yes I was lazy and alot of times would buy the prepackaged chips and such). Sometimes that included diapers and cleaning stuff and soaps/shampoos/lotions and sometimes not. There were still trips to Walgreen's, Target, Walmart,etc. I wasn't super good about keeping track of it all. So now we set a budget - I would like to spend $200 on EVERYTHING while building up the stockpile - that is food AND health and beauty and cleaning stuff. This week with coupons my weekly food shopping bill was $104.60 add that to my $65 and you can see that I am actually UNDER budget but got A TON more stuff. YEAH COUPONS!!!!! And as you get a little inventory going you will find each week that amount goes down and down. I have so much now as far as body washes, razors and such I can now be at that "cherry picking" stage and the couponers call it - which means I won't get them unless totally free and even then I may pass til the cycle through again and we use up some of what I got this week.
What did you score this week????
Happy Shopping!!!
xoxo,
Jill
