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Updated January Totals

So far, this has been a spectacular month!

Spent $111.75

Saved $ 776.91

Savings of 87%

Great savings at Meijer

I went to Meijer today and knew it would probably be a long trip. Luckily, I knew a few of the sales clerks and they helped direct me to the person that was least likely to give me any trouble with my multiple coupons/transactions!! They had a great sale this week and I did stock up on a lot of items. One item that I've come to love is the Green Giant Steamers and almost everytime I do, the one variety I buy is low on stock. I really like the cut green beans, I prefer the whole great beans but when I can get frozen vegetables for under .30 that only require being turned on in the microwave and VOILA...well, I grab as many as possible. They were part of the buy 10, get the 11th free promotion so I got a raincheck. When your store is out of stock during a sale, make sure to get a raincheck!

I was pleased at my end result, I bought $246.38 and spent $67.83, $25.00 of that was used to buy carpet cleaning fluid for our new Bissell Spot Bot (which is AWESOME!).

I do wish we could use more than 2 identical coupons that will double. I could cut my check out time down by at least 20 minutes if I only had unlimited doubles! I never realized what a luxury it was at Kroger (until they took it away!).

I'll be sure to post my favorites of the week soon.

Totals for January to date

As I've mentioned, I want to become a lot more diligent at watching what I'm spending. The numbers speak for themselves, to date here are how things are looking for me....

Spent $96.41
Saved $373.96
79% savings

Super deals at Kroger

Today I also went to Kroger and got free Gatorade, frozen vegetables for .30 after coupons and Quaker Oatmeal for .88. It felt great saving so much. I'm going to shop at Meijer on Friday and they are having a great sale this week so I wanted to get a few quick shopping trips out of the way this morning.

Please check out Macomb Money Savers for her AWESOME coupon matchups for all the local grocery stores.

I love getting products for free, don't you?

Serious deals at Target -.69 Electrasol, $8.16 moneymaker on Rolaids, donatable items

I had a great shopping day today! One of my stops was Target and I wanted to tell you about some great deals!

I bought the 75 oz (the BIG box) of Electrasol Finish powder (rather than the gel pacs) with the recent $2.50 coupon that came in last week's paper. The coupon at first glance looks like its on the tabs only but it does say Finish on it and it went through without a problem (no beepage). I thought this was a great deal, although I do have enough dish detergent to last probably over 2 years now, but when you can get a great deal, I grab it!

Many of you might know about the moneymaker at Target for Rolaids. I have bought the packages of Rolaids at Walmart before but their computers are getting tricky at giving overage. If the item is priced under the coupon value, the system is asking the cashier if the coupon amount is valid. Target didn't blink an eye and I used my 6 $4.00/2 coupons that came in the 1/3 inserts. It said when you buy ANY 2 products listed (and rolaids was shown without any size restriction other than trial size), receive 4.00 off. They ring up 1.32 and so I made 8.16 in overage. Knowing this would probably be the case, I threw in a package of Huggies diapers that were 8.99 but I had a 1.50 coupon so essentially the diapers were free.

It's my desire to contribute more to my local area and donate a lot more items that our family either has ample stockpile of or that we won't simply use. I grabbed Johnson & Johnson First Aid Kits and Band-Aids for free today in the travel section of Target, using coupons (that didn't have any size restrictions) from the 1/3 inserts. I also had 1.00 off Kotex Hygiene Products (Target Store Coupon) and so I bought the smallest package in the travel section that were priced at 1.02.

My total before coupons was $65.37, and I paid 5.87 (3.32 which was tax), for a savings of 91%. Basically everything was free except the package of Electrasol!

Happy New Year!

I am sorry for the delay in posts but my family had a very busy December so I gave myself permission to take a slight break from the blog. But I am back and energized and am loving some of the deals I'm seeing!

I've set some new goals for my spending and downloaded a terrific tracker that I found on Macomb Money Savers. If you look through her old posts on trackers, you should be able to find it. It was a link to another person's website. I want to be accountable for every penny I am spending and I found that 1.00 here and 1.00 there at CVS, Walgreens, etc can really add up. So stay tuned for my favorite deals.

While cleaning out my 2 large coupon boxes (they are more like storage bins), some of my categories were very large. My health care section alone was over 5" wide, so I decided I need to subcategorize. If anyone is interested, I will see if I can upload it somehow. I noticed how neat one of my friend's indexes looked and I copied her idea! I took card stock and made template for tabbed index cards. I think printed out 5160 labels and once I applied the label, I put clear tape over it to add some strength. Before I used the separators that you get in the photo boxes and those tore very easily and with all the flipping I do, I needed something to hold up better. I've included a picture so you have an idea as to what I did.

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