A quickie Share

Ok, so I am not doing so good on the sharing of the art daily thing.. its just been a real busy week, as most of my weeks are. I do not work this weekend so my plan is to hopefully get some crafting done. I do have to get ready for my get a way in Primm next weekend but that will involve some creating so that is a good thing. So hopefully come Monday, I will have some art to share. In the mean time I thought I would share with you a little bit of my shopping savings today.. it was huge!

Its no secret I live, breath and swear by grocerysmarts.com. It IS the best thing since sliced bread... really. For those of you no familiar its a free service that pairs up sales ads from the local grocery stores to the coupons currently valid. The idea is to buy items with coupons when the item is on sale thus maximizing your savings. You also want to stock up when you do this as you will find some weeks you are buying cereal, other weeks it might be frozen pizza. It just depends on what's on sale. I have been doing this since Feb. and I can tell you the difference in my grocery bill is HUGE! Not only that I am so stocked up on items that I can now actually skip weeks (other then perishables, milk etc)

And just so I can actually "see" what I am saving I started taking my coupons savings and transferring that money into a checking account. Hopefully down the road I can use the money to take the family on a vacation or pay off the Van or something..

So today in between the running between the house and the school for our market place I stopped at Walgreens. I only picked up a couple of things.. but wait until you see..

The list was small but I bought 6 packages of Ecotrin Aspirin and 6 packages of the Chinet Dinner plates: Total Value of items purchased-21.00
Total out of pocket for items purchased 3.00
Total Savings 18.00


Yep I paid 3.00 bucks for it all. In addition I got 3.00 in "bounce backs", coupons you can use on your next purchase, so technically it was all FREE. Normally I would use them right a way but since I didn't need anything else I will just save them for next time. That has probably been my biggest savings yet.. well maybe not but I was impressed.. The cashier was impressed, everyone in line was very impressed that I had to share the website and the pass code with everyone that was interested. Kind of made my day. Now granted I don't know if I will go through 6 boxes of Aspirin before they will expire.. but when they are FREE you might as well get them. You never know when they could come in handy for care boxes, a supply in our RV, upstairs, downstairs.. whatever.

Hopefully I will remember to share more of my shopping excursions, tips I have learned etc. Its the least I can do to help all of us save big money on our grocerys.