Brag Thread..PLEASE POST ALL BRAGS IN THIS THREAD.

[cmricha2]

I was so shocked after my trip today to Kroger that I started to laugh nervously :nervous7:(of course, I also thought I was going to have a hard time with Kroger when I saw the total).

I went today because I had $8 in cats that were going to exp today. I got:

2x Sunny Delight @ $1 each (10/10 sale)
1x Disney Precut/packaged Apples @ $3 (on sale, thought they were $3.99)
2x Celestial Seasonings Tea @ $1 each (10/10 sale)
1x Pillsbury Honey Biscuits, 8 ct @ 1.39
1x Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls, 8 ct @ $2.20
1x Pillsbury Flaky Twist, Chocolate $0.50 (manager special)
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-0.55 MQ (Sunny D)
-2.00 MQ ($1 each Celestial Seasonings)
-0.75 MQ (blinkie, off 3 any pillsbury item)
-4.00 CAT - Glade
-4.00 Cat - Glade

Total Cost: $0.01 :excited2:

Coupon Savings & Kroger Card Savings: $19.37

Not to mention, I picked up a beer tag for up to $4 of the purchase of any bagged apples or any produce (nbpr). Hoping that means $2.99 MM. Either way, that is the CHEAPEST I have ever gotten any groceries.

Thank you all for all the tips and great info! :THANKS6:

[AshburnMom]

Good job!! Makes ya feel like you're getting away with something, doesn't it! :wink7:

[WVU_fan]

I bought too much to list out, but will give totals. I didn't notice until I got home, but I didn't get the $15 I was due for the mega sale. I called after I got home and looked at the receipt, and they said it wasn't working today (my luck), and to bring my receipt in and they'd give me my $15. Why they didn't bother to tell me when I checked out that it wasn't working is beyond me.
Hubby was with me and rushing, or it would have been better. The girl I checked out through took forever with the coupons, and needed help on each one. The CSM helping her, looked at my coupon total when I was done, and said you did very good, if she only knew what it could have been. When the cashier got done she says, I've never been good with coupons, sure wish I could do this. Then I said, I didn't even get through the other 40 coupons I have with me., I thought her eyeballs were going to pop out. I used 37 the way it was.

Anyway my totals:
$88.67 before coupons
$43.34 in coupons
oop $45.33 (should have been $30.33)
Total savings with coupons and Kroger Plus card $71.95

[zydeco]

:BigHand:

[slickcat79]

Ok...I guess it must have not been working for me either. I bought 20 items and my $10 didn't come off. The MANAGER told me that since I didn't buy 10 from each price grouping, I wouldn't get $10 off. B-S. And of course customer service is closed. But I will be calling in the morning and getting my money back. SO MAD, because it was otherwise a perfect transaction. All my shortcuts and e-saver Qs came off, and all my paper coupons were scanned and doubled as they should have been. My total was exactly what I thought it would be...plus $10 :mad20:

[heather37]

:smile: Great job!!!!!!!!

[heather37]

:shrug7:

[hburmeister]

thats great! yes, it can get better, but you will have plenty of time to "play" in your glory of savings! LOL, i don't know if i would roll in it...but u certainly can play with them! LOL ....little kids, gotta luv'em!

[katncaed]

Just got back from Krgoer, and had to brag. I got:

10 boxes of Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate, $2.19, on sale for $1.00
20 boxes of Fruit by the Foot (Boo Berry & Franken Berry) $2.79, on sale for $.50 :biggrin:
(They had a buggy full of them. I would have gotten more, but didn't want to be too greedy so I only got 20 :whistle67:.)

My coupons: (5) Swiss Miss $1/2 IP's (search the coupon database)

I got $5 off three times with the mega sales event specials!!!

So:
$77.70 retail
-$57.70 sale discounts
-$5.00 coupon discount
-$15.00 mega sales discount
= tax, which was $.40

You should have seen the look on the cashiers face. Priceless...

[Moma]

that is great!!!

[Moma]

Great Job!!!

[shecrab7]

0.40?!?! amazing fantastic wonderful!! now that's inspiring.

i was happy today. got 10 nail sponges, 3 palmolives, 6 boxes of bc potatoes, 2 boxes hamburger helper, & one pack of ocellos all for $13.26. had 3-.75 Qs for palmolive, 10-$1 nail Q's, 5- .40 potatoe Q's, and 2- B3 potatoes G1 free h-helper Q's (on the potato boxes! bonus!) so, despite missing out on the free sponges last week, i was happy today. the cashier's face was great. she said "what? no fair!"

$41.96 retail
-$10 mega sale
-.35 shortcuts (forgot that was even on there!)
-.20 bag buy back
-$16.25 Q's
-$3.18 free hamb.helper

that's like getting each item for 0.60. but i'm slowly working my way up to "free"!

[Dreams4us4]

here's what I got:

6 deer park waters (2) 1.00/3
3 tylenol (3) 2.00/2
1 quaker oats (1) .50/1
1 cottonelle 4 pack (1) .25/1 plus .50/1 esavers

total 1.21

[judeshoney]

We were out of milk tonight so I headed to Kroger. I had read in one of the Kroger topics that the Booberry/Frankenberry fruit roll-ups were on clearance and counted towards the mega-event so I went searching.

They had stuck what they had left over - and it wasn't much - next to the other fruit roll-ups. I picked up 10 packages and a gallon of milk and headed to the register.

They rang up at .70! So.....

10 x fruit roll-ups = 7.00
Gallon of milk = 3.69

- .50/2 x 5 coupons (doubled)
- 5.00 mega event discount
- .10 bag buyback :biggrin:

Final cost - .79!

The cashier said "DAGGONE! You got all that for under a dollar!"

HCW rocks!!!!!!

[disneyrocks]

Great job!!

[katncaed]

I'm in that same boat with you. We made a Kroger run tonight and got 30 cans of Carnation Evaporated Milk and 10 boxes of Celestial Seasons Teas (we had a 10/$10 raincheck) for $.65. :biggrin:

[heather37]

Great Job.......

[shay47]

my kroger trip today 176 dollarsof groceries for 71.00

[ellie1912]

My local Kroger has had a bunch of makeup on clearance for the past 3 months (it is just sitting in baskets and not moving at all). So when the $4 off Maybelline coupons came out I knew exactly where I was going to use them... :-D


17 Lipsticks/Lipglosses: $3.09, $2.97 & $2.89 each (on clearance) -----$45.79

2 Bags of pecans: $6.74 each, -----$13.48:
1 Milk ---$3.79

SubTotal before coupons: $63.06

Coupons: 17 -$4.00 off Any Maybelline Lip Product

Total after coupons & before tax: $.92
Tax: $3.01
Total: $3.93

Saved $68.00 with coupons :)

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[maahke]

My first post...bare with me. Here's what I got, and how I did it! Total on receipt 50.86, oop 3.65, total savings......95%!!!!!

11 sobe life waters w/.50 hangtags
2 boxes Capt crunch 2 @.50 1/4 ss
2 boxes fiber one 2 @.50 1/4 ss
3boxes natures own granola bars 3 @ .50 ss(forgot which date)
3 packs TP with .50 printables each
4 J&J buddies printables 1 off each
1 bag Green Giant steams .50 ss
franks hot sauce .50

with doubles and the sale ($5 off participating 10 items x 2)
also scored cats for 1 off fiber plus bars and a 3 off 3 J&J products
and found Dannon coupons by the pharmacy in brochure about digestive health
love HCW!!thanks for all the tips!! DH was so impressed he fowarded pics to entire staff! Would post pic, but can't figure out how!

[justmama]

I went for the mega deal. The only thing they were out of is the steamers. My Kroger is remodeling, they have lots of dog food on clearance. I only took a couple extra $4/1 Purina Q's

My Kroger doubles up to 50c
I got:

quant/item/#q's/q value

3 4pk cottonelle 3 50/1 (free)
4 bags totinos rolls 4 35/1
2 rotel 2 30/1
4 Hormel chili's 2 55/2
1 17lb Purina (reg 14.97, sale, 11.99, clearance 5.99) 4/1
1 8lb Purina (reg 8.99, closeout 4.97) 4/1
2 boxes Tyson anytizers 2 1/1
2 halls cough drops 2 50/1
6 Worcestershire sauce 6 free q's
1 pack keebler fudge strips 55/1
1 pk gold fish
4 glade air fresheners 1/2
4 glade gel refills 1/2
4 glade plug ins b1g1
2 Gillette shave gel 2 55/1, plus one PE 55/1
1 Gillette shampoo 1 2/1 and one PE 2/1
2 Frenches mustard 2 50/1
2 franks hot sauce 2 50/1
2 tidy cats litter 2 1/1 peelies

total $117.00
after Q's and card 42.60

BUT the dog food rang up for 11.99, they have price guarantee, you get the item for free, so i got a refund for 12.29 :BigHand:

48 item about 63c per item :biggrin:

[shelleyf]

great job.:BigHand::smile:

[doulas3babes]

SWEET!!! You did a GREAT job!!!

[StifflersMom]

:BigHand:woohoo

[all4katelyn]

My first post...bare with me. Here's what I got, and how I did it! Total on receipt 50.86, oop 3.65, total savings......95%!!!!!

11 sobe life waters w/.50 hangtags
2 boxes Capt crunch 2 @.50 1/4 ss
2 boxes fiber one 2 @.50 1/4 ss
3boxes natures own granola bars 3 @ .50 ss(forgot which date)
3 packs TP with .50 printables each
4 J&J buddies printables 1 off each
1 bag Green Giant steams .50 ss
franks hot sauce .50

with doubles and the sale ($5 off participating 10 items x 2)
also scored cats for 1 off fiber plus bars and a 3 off 3 J&J products
and found Dannon coupons by the pharmacy in brochure about digestive health
love HCW!!thanks for all the tips!! DH was so impressed he fowarded pics to entire staff! Would post pic, but can't figure out how!


WOW!!! Great job!!!! Welcome aboard, I hope to hear about a lot more of your great "adventures".:wavehi:

[MammaLakn]

Im pretty happy with what I got:

Trip 1

(2) Goldfish
(2) Tropicana OJ ($1.25/2 coupon)
Orville Popcorn ($0.40/1 coupon)
French's ($0.30/1 coupon)
Chex Mix ($0.50 coupon + $0.60 Shortcuts Coupon)
GG Steamers ($0.50 coupon + $0.50 Shortcuts Coupon)
(2) Kraft Cheese

Non Mega Sale Items:

Pull Ups Jumbo ($2.00 coupon + $2.00 shortcuts coupon)
(2) Cottonelle 4 pk ($0.50 IP Coupon)
(2) Quaker Rice Snacks ($1 coupon)

Paid $17.30
Saved $30.34

Trip 2:

Kraft Cheese
(2) Rotel ($0.30 coupon = overage of $0.23 each)
(6) Sobe Waters ($0.50 coupon = overage of $0.50 each)
Cheetos

Non Mega Sale Items:

(2) Cadbury Chocolate Slabs
(2) Donuts (kids bribe http://savvydollar.org/forums/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif )
(2) Cottonelle 4 pk ($0.50 IP coupon)
Comforts Diapers Jumbo Pack ($3.00 peelie making it $3.49)

Paid $6.52
Saved $25

Trip 3:

(5) Kraft Cheese ($0.75 Blinkie)
(3) Sobe Water ($0.50 coupon = $0.50 overage each)
GG Steamers ($0.50 coupon + $0.50 Shortcuts Coupon)

Non Mega Sale Items:

(2) Cottonelle 4 pk ($0.50 IP coupon)
Bakery Rolls 8 pk
(5) Cadbury Chocolate Slabs (we are chocoholics, all done http://savvydollar.org/forums/images/smiles/icon_redface.gif )

Paid 10.79
Saved 29.34

Trip 4

Mega Sale:

(10) Kraft Cheeses - various types of bricks, shredded, 2%, regular etc. not to be a shelf clearer :wink7: (used $2 Cheese WineTags and $0.75 blinkies)

Non Mega Sale:

Milk

Paid $4.50
Saved 35.62

I found 8 more $0.50 Sobe WineTags, so Im going to do 1 more water/cheese run :smile:

[valerama]

8 cans Ro-Tel (.30/1)
8 bottles of French's Mustard (.50/1)
5 cartons of Daisy Sour Cream (.50/1)
3 pks. Nestle Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (1.00/1)
2 pkgs. Twizzlers ($2/2)
4 8 oz. bricks of Kraft 2% Cheese (.75/1 - blinkie)
1 box of Wheat Thins ($2/2)
1 box of Triscuit

$10.55 --- AND.... I got TWO catalinas for $1 off my next purchase

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Except for the cheese, these were all newspaper insert Qs. The cheese Qs were blinkies.

It still surprises me when I come home with so much for so little... When you compare that to what it costs for lunch at a burger joint... well y'all know what I mean.

Of course, one of the reasons I like to save money on food and other things is so that I can afford to eat out occasionally and do stuff I might not otherwise be able to.

[ellie1912]

I bought 30 bags of Steamers for a total of $.44 this week :) Saved 100% -So much fun! -- The cashiers know me by sight these days :) I'm there 2-3 times a week when there is a MegaDeal :)

[sarahplum]

Went today for the last day of the MegaDeal (and to get a few treats for tomorrow's big game).

2 containers Lloyds Pork (BOGO, $1/2 catalina)
10 Sobe Lifewater
2 Gorton's Fillets
2 6-pks. White Castle cheeseburgers ($.50/1 doubled)
6 Kraft 2% bricks cheese ($.75/1 blinkies)
2 Kraft 2% shredded cheese ($.75/1 blinkies)
4 DelMonte grapefruit cups ($1/2)
1 bunch bananas

Total OOP: $36.98
Mega Deal Savings: $10
Other Sale Savings: $23
Coupon Total: $21

I've only been at this a week and a half, so I was super proud of myself! :biggrin: Total would've been much lower (by about $12-15!) had I not picked up the cheeseburgers and Lloyds for tomorrow.

[niecey1996]

Yesterday I went and found a peelie on the Dial soap that is $.88 And I had a .35q that doubled to .70 so it was .18. The peelie was Save $1.00 on one (1) Dial Hand soap Refill (40oz. or larger) exp. 12/31/09
I bought 7 items and spent $7.10, I only had 2 q's so not too bad....most of the things were 'closeout items'.
I got Cottonelle for .97 and had a .50 q for the Cottonelle (so that was free!!)The Oust (Citrus Scent only) was closeout priced at $1.99 and I had a q with me b1g1, so I got 2, 1 free.
The rest was 3 things of Band -Aids, 2 brand name, 1 Kroger brand all 3 different size pkgs. 1 was $1.19 (Kroger brand 45 assorted latex free foam bandages) was originally 2 something or more, 1 was .77 (Band-Aid brand 10 butterfly closures), orig. 3 something I believe, and the last was 1.97 (Band-Aid Water Block Plus finger care 20ct.), orig. 2 or 3 something. So I figured I saved at least $10. And we needed Band-Aids!! ;)

[shecrab7]

comforts is new kroger brand name for their baby line in the green packaging/labels. last week or the week before, i got some sippy cups with $1 peelies on them for any comforts item, exp. 12/09. this week the comforts full size hand sanitizer (lavendar scent) is on the 10 for $10 deal, so i got three hand sanitizers free! the travel pack of wipes were also $1 at one point last week or the week before (i didn't look today) so someone else out there might get some wipes and hand sanitizer free too! look carefully on all the comforts items ... others besides the sippy cups had peelies on them! good luck!

[genie]

Kraft natural cheese and Cokes---5 pkg cheese and 4 12 pk 12 oz cans Coke Zero for under $4. Cheese is $1.24 ea--if buy 5, get one free so 99 cents each. 50 cent coupon on cheese so is free. Coke is 4 for $13 and $3 off your order so $10--had 2 $1 coupon off 2 Coke so $8. Cheese is free and Coke is $8---$4 on your next order when buy 5 natural cheese so now is $4---with tax and senior discount is under $4.

[genie]

unadvertized special at Kroger's in Richmond, VA area. Tyson fryers 49 cents a lb. Spoke to meat manager and Tyson's offered them a special deal if they took full order. Bought 2500 cases of fryers. Too late to get in ad.

[slickcat79]

Bought 2500 cases of fryers. Too late to get in ad.

LOL, for a second I thought you meant you personally bought 2500 cases of fryers. I was momentarily jealous of your freezer space but scared for your family's diet over the next few years :hysterical:

[genie]

No, I only bought 25 fryers and distributed them. I personally kept 3. Everybody needs a good laugh. I also bought 2 sirloin tips, 7 lb organic hamburger on clearance for $1 lb., and 3 lb roll of hamburger for $3 so am out of freezer space now.

[lallyy]

Can anyone tell me if Kroger will accept unlimited IPs and if there is an overall limit on the number of qs you can use (like HT)??? I have to go tomorrow and don't want to be embarrassed. Can you go more than once a day?