Saturday, March 29, 2014

Second Round of Couponing

Couponing this week was not as easy as our last couponing trip. I used the same website as before (couponmom.com) to combine coupons with store deals.

Our first stop was Walmart. There were a few things on our list that were not in the store, which frustrated me because they were some good deals!

Our second stop was Ingles. This was our first time couponing at Ingles. We noticed on the sign outside of the store explained how they doubled coupons. Which I guess we should have checked before we even went to the store. Because unlike Walmart, Family Dollar, & Dollar General- Ingles doubled their coupons BUT there were "rules". In order to use 3 coupons you had to spend at least $10, 6 coupons with $20, 9 coupons with $30, & 12 coupons with $40. It completely threw me off. When we realized we had 11 coupons, we would have to buy enough things that would add up to $40 (minus coupons & store deals). Since we only had around $15 worth of stuff to buy, we bought more groceries that we needed in order to use all of our coupons. Ingles also did not have a couple of the deals that couponmom had listed. From now on if there are good deals/coupons at Ingles, we plan on making a whole grocery list to be able to use all of our coupons. We will actually be prepared!

Our last stop was at Dollar General. They were out of only 1 item that we had on our list. Other than that, every thing at this store went smoothly!

Walmart


{Oscar Mayer P3 Portable Protein Pack}
In Store Sale Price = $1
Coupon = $0.75
Total Price : $0.25

{Zest Soap Bar}
In Store Sale Price = $0.97

{Gillette Venus Embrace Razor}
In Store Sale Price = $6.97
Coupon = $4
Total Price : $2.97

{Mitchum Advanced Control Deodorant}
In Store Sale Price = $2.97
Coupon = $2
Total Price : $0.97

{Garnier Fructis Conditioner}
In Store Sale Price = $2.96
Coupon = $1
Total Price : $1.96

{Suave Professional Infusion Conditioner}
In Store Sale Price = $2.88
Coupon = $1.50
Total Price : $1.38

{2 Afrin Nasal Spray .5oz each}
In Store Sale Price For 2 = $4.64
Coupon = $3
Total Price : $1.64

{Tresemme Heat Protector Spray}
In Store Sale Price = $2.74
Coupon = $2
Total Price : $0.74

TOTAL PRICE : $10.88
TOTAL SAVINGS : 57%


Ingles


{Greek Gods Yogurt}
In Store Sale Price = $1
Coupon = $0.50
Total Price : FREE

{2 boxes of Zatarains Rice}
In Store Sale Price for 2 = $1
Coupon = $0.50
Total Price : $0.50

{Post Poppin Pebbles Cereal}
Store Sale Price = $2
Coupon = $1
Total Price : $1

{Picsweet Premium Corn}
In Store Sale Price = $1
Coupon = $0.50
Total Price : FREE

{Bounty Basic Paper Towels Single Roll}
In Store Sale Price = $1
Coupon = $0.25
Total Price : $0.50

We bought TWO-we had two coupons.
{Angel Soft Bath Tissue, 4ct}
In Store Sale Price = $1
Coupon = $0.45
Total Price = $0.10 EACH

{2 boxes of Barilla Pasta}
In Store Sale Price = $1
Coupon = Buy 2 get $0.45 off
Total Price : $0.73

{Sparkle Big Roll Paper Towels Single Roll}
In Store Sale Price = $1
Coupon = $0.25
Total Price : $0.50

TOTAL PRICE : $3.43
TOTAL SAVINGS : 82%
Keep in mind they doubled our coupons.



DOLLAR GENERAL


{Vidal Sassoon Hair Spray}
In Store Sale Price = $3.50
Coupon = $2
Total Price : $1.50

{Speed Stick Gear}
In Store Sale Price = $3
Coupon = $2
Total Price : $1

{Tums Freshers 25 ct}
In Store Sale Price = $2.50
Coupon = 1.50
Total Price : $1

{Tresemme Shampoo}
In Store Sale Price = $3.50
Coupon = $2
Total Price : $1.50

TOTAL PRICE : $6.35
TOTAL SAVINGS : 60%


When you take away all in store sale prices & coupons...the total for everything combined would be $76.50. We only paid only $20.66!!!!!! So we saved a grand total of $55.84!!!!!!!!!!!! When we were checking out at Dollar General...the lady checking us out said "I'm surprised there were any of these left!" (talking about the hair spray)- she said because one lady came in earlier with EIGHT coupons for them. I can't wait to work our way up to being that good at couponing!



Saturday, March 22, 2014

First Couponing Experience!

Using www.couponmom.com, makes it so much easier to coupon. They have it set up to where they combine the store's weekly sales with coupons. So after a few weeks of saving coupons from the Sunday newspaper (redplum, smartsource, & P&G) we had enough to where we felt we could make our first shopping trip. 


FAMILY DOLLAR


{2 boxes of General Mills Cereal} 
In Store Sale 2 boxes = $2.50 
Coupon = $2 
Total Price$2

{Garnier Fructis Mousse}
In Store Sale Price = $4.25
Coupon = $2
Total Price : $2.25

{Vidal Sassoon Shampoo}
In Store Sale Price = $2
Coupon = $2
Total Price : FREE

{16-18 ct. Tampax Radient Tampons}
In Store Sale Price = $4
Coupon = $2
Total Price : $2

TOTAL PRICE : $8.25
TOTAL SAVINGS : 56%


WALMART


{Oscar Mayer P3 Portable Protein Pack}
In Store Sale Price = $1
Coupon = $0.75
Total Price : $0.25

{2 Cover Girl Eyeshadows}
In Store Sale Price Per Eyeshadow = $3.14
Coupon = Buy 2 get $3 off
Total Price : $1.64

{Herbal Essences Shampoo AND Conditioner}
In Store Sale Price Per Bottle = $2.97
Coupon = Buy 2 get $3 off
Total Price = $1.47

{4 ct Sharpie Highlighters}
In Store Sale Price = $2.37
Coupon = $1.50
Total Price = $0.87

TOTAL PRICE : $6.59
TOTAL SAVINGS : 54%


DOLLAR GENERAL


{2 Dawn Dish Soap}
In Store Sale Price = $1 each
Coupon = Buy 2 get $1 off
Total Price = $0.50

{Cats Pride Litter 9lbs}
In Store Sale Price = $4
Coupon = $2
Total Price = $2

{BIC Sensitive Disposable Razors 12ct}
In Store Sale Price = $2.75
Coupon = $3
Total Price = FREE

{Speed Stick Deodorant}
In Store Sale Price = $2
Coupon = $1
Total Price = $1

{2 Nivea Simply Soft Lotion}
In Store Sale Price = $4 each
Coupon = Buy 2 get $5 off
Total Price = $1.50

TOTAL PRICE : $7.85
TOTAL SAVINGS : 65%


When you take away all of the store sale prices & coupons....the total for all of these put together would be $78.72. We only paid a total of $23.50!!!! So we saved a grand total of $55.22!!!!!! I would say our first couponing experience was a success! Now I'm excited to dig in to this Sunday's newspaper coupons!!!!!

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Walt Disney World

My first trip to Disney World.
Alex's millionth trip to Disney World. (He use to work there)
He surprised me with tickets to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party!!
November 2013









Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Alex, Karen, & Nannie's first trip to Myrtle Beach.
My millionth trip to Myrtle Beach.
September 2013




Fort Lauderdale, Florida


Surprise!

Alex & I are getting married on April 23rd  & moving to Florida that week. Everything happened so fast so we wanted to kind of upd...