January 9, 2012 Savings

I have set a budget of $100 a week on all groceries, paper goods, dollar store, thrift store finds and Target (that store being my weak point every week)

My husband and I went through the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace Program about three years ago and while we still use many of the awesome tips; we have gotten lax on other wonderful points this program provides.  One being the money envelope system.  You put cash in separate envelopes and only spend that money and/or save that money for specific things.  I am starting a money envelope for my weekly groceries, so when the money is gone I spend no more, no matter how great the deal is.  It will take discipline but I know I can succeed. I would like to drop my budget back down to $50 a week like I have done before.  I hope week by week as I rebuild my stockpile that I can drop $5.00 every month until I am down to a $50 weekly budget.

Kroger saving today 1/9/2012

Deal: select 8z Kraft and Sargento cheese 2 for $5 ($2.50 each)
(4) Kraft Cheese 8 oz. packages
(2) Sargento Cheese 8oz packages
Total $15.00 - 4.40 in Manufacture Coupons - 2.00 off Dairy order of $10.00 or more = $8.60 oop
Or $1.43 each (Awesome price for name brand cheese!!)

Deal: Buy 5 Lean Cuisine get FREE Skinny Cow Candy (coupons on S.C. boxes)
Lean Cuisine 5/$10 - 1.00 Manu. coupon = 9.00oop
Plus Skinny Cow Candy $3.50 - Free w/ purchase coupon= $0.00

Skinny Cow Candy 2.$7 -B1G1 manu. coupon=  $1.75 each


(2) Starkist Tune Pouches $1.29 - .50 manu. coupon x 2 (doubled) =  0.29 each

Total before coupons = $38.08

OOP $24.29  ( saved $13.79)

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HOT coupons right now:

$2.15/1 Finish Quantum Dishwasher Detergent 25 ct+ X1/30

SPEED STICK or LADY SPEED STICK DEODORANT COUPONS .50/1 02-20-12

 $.55/1-- Any BARILLA whole Grain Pasta CAN BE DOUBLED Exp 3/4

BOGO FREE COUPONS - BOGO FREE Stayfree product coupons max value: $4.49

A little side note about the above coupon:  The last time I bought B1G1 Stayfree coupons, Walgreens had an awesome deal that made both packs free.  That was four years ago and I still have around 10 packs left! lol

I'm going to use my blog to keep track of my savings this year.  So you will see a lot of these post start popping up.

My year to date total saving this year includes sale pricing, store promo and coupons:

January 2012: $254.52 so far

Starting the New Year off with good savings

~ HAPPY NEW YEAR~

I took a ridiculously long break from couponing last year.  Sad to say I was a little burned out, not on the savings but on the work that goes behind every penny saved.  When my husband ask me to start couponing again, I knew it was time to step back into the crazy coupon world.

With all the negative hype around the extreme couponing showing that have been on tv.  I had heard the stores have tightened their coupon policies and really restricted how coupons can be used but I decided it was time to relearn all the store policies and all the new rules that have came about over the last year.

So here is a few deals from this week:

Walgreen's:  Buy 2 Kids Triaminc (2/$10) get a $5RR

I paired this deal with (2) $3 off 1 coupons

$10 -(2) $3coupons= $4 received a $5RR (made $2 off this deal)

I did this deal twice, so I have $10 in Register Rewards to use

Got to L.O.V.E. Target

I love the after Christmas sale at Target.  We went out of town this year for Christmas and lucky for me we took two vehicles; my first stop back in town on the 26th was to Target when every thing went 50% off.  I was actually shocked at how much they had left; besides all the artificial trees being gone the Christmas aisles looked partically untouched.  

Today I had to run over to Target to return some items and decided to check the Christmas clearance because I knew it was finally 90% off, there was still many item left.

 

I bought two of these bulb pots when they were 50% off last week but I was so excited to find about 10 on an endcap so two more for work.  These little beauties help me get through the winter gloom.

Original Price: $9.99

Sales price: $2.98

More Target deals:

Boxed Photo Cards: $7.00  -90% off = .70 each
Flintstone vitamins: $5.57 -$2 Target Q -$2 Manu. Q= $1.57 each
Market Pantry Mac & Cheese: .74 -$1 Target Q= $0.00 FREE
Dunkin Doughnuts Pumpkin Coffee $9.49 - 50% off -$1 manu Q= $4.74 each
Bulb pots (shown above) $2.98 each

Original price (presale and clearance) totaled $71.84
My OOP (out of pocket): $20.68

   

 Stopped by my favorite thrift store and they had all Christmas items 75% off

2 beautiful glass candy jars .25 each

Saving these for next Christmas' candy gifts

Baby steps, baby steps.  Start coupon, ever penny saved adds up and by the end of the year you will be surprised how much you have saved!

***Happy 2012***

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