Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Do you get applause when you shop?

Today when I checked out at Publix, the friendly cashier gave me a round of applause. He also encouraged my boys (I had the 11 year old and 9 year old with me) to keep learning from Mom because "she is very smart." The 11yo said, "Yea, I know!" LOL I really don't feel like what I did today was worthy of applause, it just wasn't that great but I did get stuff we use and it was cheap so I am OK with that.

Forgive the not so great arranging. I had about 15 minutes before I needed to pick up my youngest daughter from the high school and so just kind of threw the stuff up there.

Today's haul included:
2 Miracle Whip 2.18/each. 
14 bags of Pizza Rolls 1.89/each.
10 boxes of Go-Gurt 1.40/each
6 boxes of Pop Tarts .97/each
16 Old Orchard 100% juice .75/each
8 boxes of Deluxe Brownie mix 2.49/each
2 boxes Reese's Puff cereal 2.49/each
2 boxes of Cheerios 2.49/each
1 smaller box of Cheerios 1.99
2 pints of Starbuck's Ice cream 1.70/each
(and 2 cokes for the helpers 1.39/each)

Total before sales/coupons: 182.18
Special sales: 88.04
Coupons used: 28.85

Total out of pocket: 65.29 or a savings of 64%

Definitely not applause worthy in MY mind but enough to make my boys (and Harold, my cashier) proud.

2 comments:

Ashley Aeger said...

where did your coupons come from? the go gurt was that a store sale? or coupons? and the other items?

Rebecca said...

Hi Ashley,

I get my coupons from the paper, on-line or I order them from a coupon clipping service. I try to find blogs that post ads a week or so ahead of time so that I can order my coupons with enough time to get to the sales.

These deals were from last week's Publix sale. The Go-gurt was BOGO so about 1.40 each. I had 35 cent coupons which Publix will double so 70 cents off each one. My final price for the yogurt was about 70 cents each.