Where I post my coupon-related musings, and the weekly shopping trip excursions, helping me keep track of how much I've saved since I started this. Ideally, it'll keep going up! (:
Meijer 15 June 2008
Posted 06-15-2008 at 08:01:46 PM by Kyrthira
Normal Price: 66.27
Sales + Coupons: 23.41
Total OOP Cost: 42.86
The point behind this is to find out Why it cost as much as it did. Looking over the receipt, I see why I paid as much as I did. I don't have a problem with paying this much, but the why will help me figure out what to do later on.
#1: I bought four boxes of Near East pasta. I learned that Meijer only doubles two coupons of the same type -- in this case I had four $.50 IPs, but only the first two doubled. I could have saved another dollar by splitting the NE boxes into two transactions. They were on sale for $2 each, and I paid $5 for four. IN THE FUTURE I will try to get a small basket and anything that needs to be split into a second transaction can go into that basket and done FIRST.
#2: I completely forgot to use the $.45 coupon for the cottage cheese I bought. That's another ninety cents I could have saved. (I do see, however, that the tubs were on sale for $3 apiece, so there it is.)
#3: I bought three boxes of Carefree pads, which I hadn't planned on. They were B2G1F, and I had a $1 coupon, so I paid only $1.66 per box (4.99 total afore tax). They were an unplanned buy -- but I now have enough of the things to last me for MONTHS, so I won't have to buy any of the other packages for a very long time.
#4: We also had a few unplanned buys: R wanted to get two of the Cottage Doubles we saw on sale for $1 apiece. I had a $.55 coupon which brought them down to $1.45. Snyders of Hanover are very tasty snacks, and they were BOGOF @2.89. Meijer frozen stuffed pasta in the 25-oz packages were on sale for $2.50 apiece. We bought four, costing us $10. We've been out of hand soap for a while, so a small Softsoap dispenser cost us $1.50 on sale.
In the end we could have knocked it down to roughly $20 by eliminating the unplanned items and remembering how to properly use all my coupons. I likely could've done better.
On the positive side, we have enough of a stockpile now that we may be able to avoid going into town altogether for a week or so and just shop in the local store for the consumables that we need!
Sales + Coupons: 23.41
Total OOP Cost: 42.86
The point behind this is to find out Why it cost as much as it did. Looking over the receipt, I see why I paid as much as I did. I don't have a problem with paying this much, but the why will help me figure out what to do later on.
#1: I bought four boxes of Near East pasta. I learned that Meijer only doubles two coupons of the same type -- in this case I had four $.50 IPs, but only the first two doubled. I could have saved another dollar by splitting the NE boxes into two transactions. They were on sale for $2 each, and I paid $5 for four. IN THE FUTURE I will try to get a small basket and anything that needs to be split into a second transaction can go into that basket and done FIRST.
#2: I completely forgot to use the $.45 coupon for the cottage cheese I bought. That's another ninety cents I could have saved. (I do see, however, that the tubs were on sale for $3 apiece, so there it is.)
#3: I bought three boxes of Carefree pads, which I hadn't planned on. They were B2G1F, and I had a $1 coupon, so I paid only $1.66 per box (4.99 total afore tax). They were an unplanned buy -- but I now have enough of the things to last me for MONTHS, so I won't have to buy any of the other packages for a very long time.
#4: We also had a few unplanned buys: R wanted to get two of the Cottage Doubles we saw on sale for $1 apiece. I had a $.55 coupon which brought them down to $1.45. Snyders of Hanover are very tasty snacks, and they were BOGOF @2.89. Meijer frozen stuffed pasta in the 25-oz packages were on sale for $2.50 apiece. We bought four, costing us $10. We've been out of hand soap for a while, so a small Softsoap dispenser cost us $1.50 on sale.
In the end we could have knocked it down to roughly $20 by eliminating the unplanned items and remembering how to properly use all my coupons. I likely could've done better.
On the positive side, we have enough of a stockpile now that we may be able to avoid going into town altogether for a week or so and just shop in the local store for the consumables that we need!
Total Comments 0
