Shopping Foray 1/30

Did well today! woot!

Rite Aid Transaction #1:
1 Lay's Stax
1 Chex Mix
1 Dreyer's Cookies & Cream ice cream
1 Smucker's Jam
2 JIF peanut butter
1 Dawn
1 Colgate toothpaste
1 Viactiv calcium chews (chocolate)
1 Coricidin Cold med
1 Afrin nasal spray
2 packs Stayfree

Merchandise total: $56.47
-18.09 Rite Aid sale
-17.75 coupons
-16 Rite Aid +UP bucks
= $6.29 out-of-pocket w/ tax
-$30 Rite Aid +UP bucks to use on future purchase

Walgreens
1 Arnicare muscle pain gel
1 Palmolive dish
2 packs Butterfinger Snackerz
1 Ajax powder
2 Reese's King Packs
3 lollipops

Merchandise Total: $20.12
-5.38 Walgs sales
-2.66 Walgs-specific coupons
-11.40 Mfg. coupons
=$0.68 out-of-pocket
-$6 wags bux on receipt


Giant Eagle

1 Taco Dinner Kit
2 6-pack of popcorn
1 box frozen pretzels
1 box frozen corn
1 box frz. cheese pretz. sticks
2 boxes thai noodle dinners
1 red baron pizza
1 newman's own pizza
1 box frozen fish fillets
3 pillsbury biscuits
1 pillsbury sweet-rolls
6 yoplait yogurt
2 Kraft cheeses
4 progresso soups
1 sour cream
4 lg. cans Red-Pack tomato
1 FL natural OJ
2 jars nutella
2 lg. jars Smucker's jam
1 log-cabin syrup
1 cheerios
1 pk. hamburger buns
3 teas 20oz.
2 sinex nasal sprays
1 crest toothpaste
1 bag Nestle hearts
2 42-ct. boxes Prilosec
1 bag chips
1 6-pk Bounty towels

Merchandise total: $200.16
-$48.66 sales/promos
-$43.25 coupons
=$108.25 out-of-pocket
-$16 Giant Eagle credit
-$0.30 off per gallon of gas ($3.30 saved at fill-up)
-$24 mail-in rebate

Extreme Couponing

Inspired by some information and website addresses shared with me by another mother at our church (thanks Leslie C!), I've forrayed into the world of couponing. There are an array of bogs dedicated to matching store sales, whether grocery or drug stores, to the coupons available in circulars and online.

In only my second trip to CVS since perusing these sites I managed to score:

4 - 12-packs of Coke
4 - vitamin water
2 canisters of emerald nuts
4 packs of Orbit gum
2 jugs of laundry detergent and
2 bottles of Crest Pro-Health mouthwash

My expense? $3.04

Yes, folks... this I could like...