Saturday, June 22, 2013
My Top Most Annoying Things About Coupons
Then there's buying something one week cause it's cheap cheap cheap, just to find during the next week that it's even cheaper if you had waited, bah!
I have searched and searched for a blog like KCL's, but local, that would list the prices we have here and the stores we have here. But I've yet to find one. I've toyed with the idea of creating my own, but I'm a noob, I don't think I want to be giving advice on what's a good price and what isn't. Not to mention, with everthing my family has going on, I'm not sure I'd have the time to do it and no one really reads my blogs anyway lol. I'm not a social person and never have been.
Regardless, we found some good deals this week. Free Head & Shoulders 2 in 1 Shampoo and Conditioner at Dollar General. It retailed at $4.50 a bottle, we got 8 bottles for $3.20, as well ya still have to pay tax. Chef Boyardee for $0.63 a can at Kroger, yay coupons inside of Banquet TV Dinners awhile back. Snickers 6ct Ice Cream Bars, $1 at Kroger. There were others, but they don't come to mind at the moment.
Our grocery bill was still high this month, but couponing takes awhile before it really starts paying off. Ya have to have the right coupons when the right sales hit and we just got back into doing it a few weeks ago. Next month should be even better!
Well, it's about time to start dinner for the herd. Pizza Pasta tonight. I'm going to be using mac & cheese that I got for $2 for 5 boxes. Pizza sauce, tomato paste and tomato sauce. Pepperoni we got 2 for $1. Some ground turkey, bacon bits that got lost in the cabinet from last week's shopping trip and motz cheese. Yum! Or here's hoping anyway lol.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Coupons Didn't Quite Go As Planned, But..
We were not able to purchase everything on the list, mostly due to Dollar Tree not having most of the items we were after, however, this is what we did manage to snag and add to our stock, with coupons.
Dollar Tree
4 Suddenly Salad $0.75ea
4 Hefty Sandwich Zipper Bags $0.50ea
4 Hormel Pepperoni $0.50ea
1 Secret Deoderant Free
Retail: $13.00 without tax
Paid: $7.00 without tax
Wal-Mart
4 Kraft BBQ Sauce $0.50ec
4 Barilla Whole Grain Spaghetti $0.68ea
4 Kool-Aid Canisters $1.25ea
2 Star Olive Oil $4.12ea
2 Breakfast Burritos $0.12 Money Maker
2 Reymolds Baking Cups $0.37ea
2 Raid Fly Ribbon 4pk $0.12ea
4 Hershey's Snack Size 6pk $0.50ea
2 Valasik Pickle Relish $0.02 Money Maker
Cheeseheads String Cheese $5.08
2 Angel Soft Double Roll 4ct $1.89ea
7 Almay Intense Eyeliner $0.97ea
2 Ducan Hines Frosting Creations Flavor Packets $0.12 Money Maker
4 Oscar Meyer Weiners $1.00ea
4 Steamfresh Broccoli $0.83ea
Starbucks Iced Coffee 11oz $0.43
2 Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers $0.77ea
Retail: $104.46 before tax
Paid: $47.11 before tax
Ibotta: $1.75
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
jingle bell rawk!
I've had this happen many times. Spend a month or more window shopping, having everything planned out, placing your order just to find that half of what you thoughtfully picked out is no longer available or has doubled in price. Not to mention hitting the check out online, placing your order and getting the email of death a few hours later announcing that whatever you wanted isn't available any longer. Then you have to go shopping frenzy style grabbing whatever might please those on your list, MIGHT! Because all the good stuff has left the shelves at your local shops..
So yes, I'm patting myself on the back for beating the rush and all the crap! And now that I won't have to spend every waking moment shopping around, I might actually get a start on wrapping it all, so I can avoid the wrapping marathon come xmas eve lol.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Monday Madness
All the madness gave way to a pretty relaxing morning however.. With everyone else gone except Muppet whom passed back out after breakfast, the house was unusually quiet, so I got some much needed peace. Unfortunately the toll of getting up at 5:30 this morning is setting in, so now I don't really much want to do anything else on my To Do list lol. I don't think this is going to matter much however.. Tonight is going to be more madness..
Lily has cheer and band practice, BOY! has football practice and Car Man possibly has a scrimage tonight, we're still unsure if it's tonight or tomorrow night.. Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if kids listened when their teachers or coaches speak? All of this on top of the typical Monday evening crazies of homework and folders full of papers to look at.. I'm going to be flying by the seat of my pants I think..
At least I've decided to have an easy dinner, Tyson's Any'tizer Honey BBQ Wings, Mac & Cheese, Peas and I might perhaps throw in some jalapeno poppers. Here's to making it through the day and hopefully semi sticking to our schedule!
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
In Full Swing
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Kaotic World
I'm still kicking around the idea of posting my own extreme couponing info here, however the world inside our home has been a bit crazier than usual here lately. Lily is in the marching band this year, and though school hasn't quite started yet, has had band practice almost on a daily basis for a couple of weeks now. BOY! is playing tackle and having practice and scrimages several times a week. Car Man is also playing football, flag football, and has practices as well..
All this combined with my husband recently switching jobs, school starting this coming Monday, our own attempts with extreme couponing and now I've branched out into thinking about trying to following flylady.net's way of doing things.. It's a bit nuts lol!
By the way, if you, like myself, have issues keeping a presentable house, you might want to check out flylady.net.. I haven't starting trying out her process yet, but I've been reading up on it here and there the last couple of days and it looks promising. It's all about routines, which though works well for me, I've always found difficult to sticking to, so we'll see.
Anyhow, I should run as there is a scrimage tonight for BOY!, a practice for Car Man, some sort of band thing for Lily and meet the teachers night all going on at one time..
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Lessons Learned
I spent yesterday evening revamping the drugstore list and jotting down the grocery list as well. The plan was to hit CVS, Walgreens, Kroger and Wal-Mart, all in one trip. There would still be small trips to Dollar General, Family Dollar and Brookshires, but we could deal with that later, as they are not 24/7 stores.. So, I plan it all out and we leave a bit after 2am.. We get over there just to find that neither of the drugstores are open! A bit annoying.. But it worked out in the end because at least we didn't make the run just to hit the drugstores..
We ended up just hitting Wal-Mart though and will have to make another trip tonight or tomorrow night.. This is just a prime example as to why planning is everything when it comes to the world of extreme couponing. Check and double check everything, especially when you're first starting out!
As for the Wal-Mart haul, nothing to really brag about. I shop Wal-Mart for all of the weekly purchases we make that there are not awesome deals on currently, as over all, they have the best day to day prices.