Mom's Learning How To Coupon Too!

Teaching Mom the ropes of couponing, and this is the trip we had today...

75 items, original retail $188.23, and with her coupons she paid only $87.21.

Saved $100....yipee :)

Good Deals Today!!!

Price Cutter and Dillon's, I got 85 items for a total of $78! Some of the bet deals were

Yakisoba- .99 ~.50 coupon doubled= free

KC Masterpiece-.88~ .50 coupon doubled= free

Rice A Roni-.79~ buy 3 get 1 Pasta Roni free= .10 a box

Lay's 1.99- .55 matched to 1.00= .99 each

Bumble Bee Tuna .79- Buy 2 get .75 off= less than .50

Wheat Thins 1.69- 1.00 off 2= 1.19 ea

BandAids 1.79- .50 double to 1.00= .79 ea

Ajax .99-.50 double to 1.00= free

Free Shipping At Disney Store~ Over 30 items for less than $5!

 

Club Penguin 2'' Plush Puffle $2.99

 

Shop at Disney Store today and get free shipping on any order with the code LUCKY. I found several fun things in the Sale section under $5! Maybe some good Easter basket items???

 

 

Tron Toys $1.99 and up

 

http://www.disneystore.com

 

 

TIP~ Don't Be In A Big Hurry!

So I was shopping yesterday with my Mom, hoping to show her the ropes of this whole couponing thing, and it was going decently. We had ordered our coupons and made a tentative plan of attack. First one store to scoop up a few goodies, and then off to the other store for their sales.

But then I realized time got away from me! It was 12:30 one minute, and then all of a sudden it was time to get the kids out of school!

So I rushed over to the self-check lane, leaving Mom to her grocery cart and praying I could get out the door and on my way to pick up the kiddos at school. Scanned my shopper's card, all my items, and all of my coupons. Swiped my card. Waited. Why isn't this transaction over with yet???

"Ma'am, these 2 coupons are past our allowed expiration, I'll have to take them off your ticket."

Uggggghhhhhh. Fine. Do it. (I didn't say this out loud. I am polite and calm.)

So she proceeds to remove the coupons and my total goes up $2.00. I pay and leave.

Then I realize that she was incorrect, and in fact, my coupons were EXACTLY TO THE DATE allowable. 2 weeks. Excatly. That is this particular store's policy. But I was in a hurry, so I didn't catch it in time to politely discuss with her. Lesson learned, right?

On to today's shopping experience...
I went to the other store that I don't particularly love for two specific deals. Of course, like any trip to this store, you cannot leave with only the items you came there for.
Again, I am a little rushed. Not because I need to be somewhere immediately, but because this store is overrun with people for some unknown reason at 2:00 in the afternoon.
She scans my items. I hand her my coupons, and she studies them. And then she scans them, oddly making 3 piles of my coupons on her register... I pay, I collect my items (oddly enough you CAN fit 15 heavy items into ONE plastic bag!)
and I look at my reciept.

Hmmm... what happened to those 7 coupons I handed her???

1, 2, 3, 4, nope. Not 7.

So 3 of my coupons went into a pile on her register. No big deal, right? It's just a couple of coupons, right?

Nope. That's $4.50.

You bet I asked her about them. She was a bit shocked, I believe.

"Well, they are right here."

And she hands me the coupons.So I fan them out to show her all 7 of the one coupon. Instead of holding up the whole line (If you were in that line, you are welcome!) I took my coupons and left. At least I wasn't getting to pay full price AND lose the coupons. I could have gone to the service desk and gotten it fixed, but you can guess what that line looked like.

There are times when I let it fly, but not today. I really didn't care if it held the line up a little bit. I am not giving away my time and energy to make these deals work to let someone's inability to do their job affect me.

So, the morals of my long-winded story are...

Don't be in a hurry.

Count your coupons and watch the screen for them. All of them. 

Know what the policies are. (She also doubted me on the store's new policy regarding Catalinas)

Stay polite.

Build A Bear Deal!

Sign up for the Build A Bear email list, and you can get in on deals like this current one. Pair a BOGO with some of your BuildA Bear Bucks to get a REALLY good deal!

Expired Coupons~ Pass Them ON!!!

GrocerySavingTips.com Military Family Coupon Project - Send Expired Grocery Coupons to Military Fam

This is the site that maintains the list and information for where you can send your expireds overseas to assist our military families. YES~ they can still put to use your old and expired Q's for an additional six months past date. Go to this link when you are ready to send them, check the bases that are on the list and spread the love ♥


http://www.grocerysavingtips.com/expiredgrocerycoupons.htm

Murfin's Ads Now On FB!

I am SO GLAD the folks at Murfin's are making things a little easier on us and catching up with the technology! YAY~ Now the ad is on FB and posted the night before the sales start. I was going to comment earlier, they have officially been posting the ad for a few weeks, but there were a few glitches at first. Now I think they will be getting them out early for us serious shoppers.
Get your Murfin's Card ready!!!

Sometimes It Pays To Shop Them All!

Quite a nice haul for today. I was a little dissappointed when some of the things I had planned for today's trip didn't work out like I expected, but you sure can't complain about a total like this~

$14.59

Yep. That is 42 items. And I paid less than $15 cash for it all.

I did some store hopping this morning, but now that Price Cutter is closer with their West ByPass location, I shop there more frequently. And the Texas Toast croutons were on sale this week for .99. Which works out nicely when you have the .50 off coupon that they will double to 1.00 off.

So next I hit Dillon's, where the scenario gets confusing beause they gave me these catalina coupon last week for $3.oo off your grocery order, except you can only use one per transaction. So I did one last Daytona 500 deal (which printed out another $3.00 coupon) and I paid $7.59 for these 10 items. Then I did 4 seperate transactions with all of my 3.00 off cats, using the self-check out so I don't annoy anyone behind me :) for .43, .39, .58, and 1.67.

Then it was Murfin's time. They had the brownie mixes for .69 with your Murfin's Points, and the flour was .79 with Murfin's Points.

Not too shabby. Now I have to reorganize my cabinets again.
(PS That was over $80 worth of groceries!!!)