Great Shopping Trip!

Well Dian,

I followed your deals for Walmart and Target and Walgreens with my own little twist. First off I gathered the ads from my local country mart, Shop n’ Save and Schnucks grocery stores. I then gathered my coupons and instead of shopping at every place I did price matching at Walmart. It took me about 20 minutes to check out but it was so very worth it.

I spent $98 at Walmart and there were only 5 or 6 items that I didn’t have a coupon for and I cashed in $43.12 in coupons. I also went to Shop n’ Save because they had Special K on sale 4/$8 and free Special K cereal bars box with purchase of 4 boxes of cereal so I saved $3 there.

I also saved $3 with coupons at Steak N’ Shake for lunch. I could not find any of the Target deals and had to get a raincheck for the Walgreens Ester C but I will go back next week.

I got quite a few FREE things and I am so very happy. Also, I have to share with you and all your readers. CLIP EVERY COUPON! Even if you don’t ever think you will use it.  I wanted to take advantage of the Snuggle offer at Walmart and found that I did not clip the Snuggle coupons from 12/6 because I use the Dollar General store brand.  Luckily I went out to the recycle paper can on my porch which had not been emptied yet and dug out coupons from 12/6 and was able to get two boxes FREE. I learned my lesson and I won’t do that again.

So my total savings today was $49.12 which was great because we had to buy a new battery for the minivan at a cost of $82. Ugh! Anyway, that’s my story.

God bless everyone and let’s save our way out of this recession!

April