August 2009

August grocery/eating out total:
oop:229.05
savings: 670.16

clothes/gifts/shoes: oop: 71.16
savings:195.50
office/school: 7.86
savings: 47.08
entertainment: 40

Week 4+5: august 24th to 31st
oop: 123.75 eating out/groceries only
savings:250.83

target: 8/30

OOP: 7.15
savings: 12.45 plus got 5$ g/c for special promo

thriftshop: oop: 6.48 books/playclothes
saving: 25 est.

henhouse 8/26

OOP: 12.69
savings: 25.30

hyvee: oop: 14.58
savings: 23.10

mcdonalds: 4.47

price chopper 8/28
oop: 14.57
savings: 36.10

price chopper: 2
oop: 5.62
savings: 8.64
hyvee: 11.79 chinese

cvs: oop 0
savings:11.68

kmart: oop: 6.90
savings: 86.45

cvs: 3.91
savings: 41.11

office max: 7.86
savings: 47.08

hyvee: 11.07
savings: 6.00
2.00 newspaper
subway: 13.00
dh out w/friend crackerbarrel 19.77
entertainment: ethnic festival and deanna rose: 40.00

mall: bookstore 2.15
pretzel shop: 6.02
burlington coat: 6.45
savings: 12.01
TCP outlet: 22.80
savings: 65.66
payless: 16.36 used 25% coupon and shoes were bogo, one pair was reg 22.99 oncleareance for 8$ so pretty much got them for .20 after all sales/discounts/promo!
savings: 22.79
target: 12.34 clothes/gifts only
savings: 5.00

Week 3:

august 16th to 23rd

OOP: 67.01
savings: 231.62,
kmart super doubles, hyvee, cvs, price chopper, aldi's etc, eating out.

clothes shopping kohl's and jc penney: OOP: 5.75
savings: 76.85
Week 2:

august 12: 13.17
savings: 109.91

target: OOP: 3.93
savings: 7.70

aldi's: oop: 6.05

august 9: slow to get out, but managed to get my cvs shopping done for the week, (unless some new deal comes along...) only had to go to 2 stores to get all my mars bars, i got 34 total all free! also got some wrigley's gum so did the candy deal 2 times. also did huggies, revlon and monitor deal, got 2 newspapers too.

OOP: #1: 3.19
savings: 76.85

OOP: 2 1.22 (all of this was tax)
savings: 25.36

Week one:
oop: 25.12
savings: 77.80

August 8: cvs: had to get a bday card and ran in for a raincheck for electrosol, scoped out the benefiber deal i read about online and and it was clearanced and a big moneymaker.

OOP: 1.06
savings: 36.71

August 6:

OOP: 19.39 Aldi's. No great sales this week, and we are trying to eat more fruits and veggies so aldi's was the place to shop!
got: 6lbs bananas, 3lbs onions, 3lbs carrots, 3lbs apples, 10lbs potatoes, 2 lbs strawberries, 1 cantalope, 1/2 gallon soymilk, and 3 12ounce bags of salad mix for less than 20!

Also stopped at target as i wanted one of the clearanced baby scales, reg price 59.99 clearance 14.98. I plan on using this to weigh produce from the garden, mail, and the next lo as ds had trouble gaining weight when nursing, so i want to be prepared for the next lo to monitor progress, of course i'm not preggo yet, but we're ttc!

oop: 19.96 ds got a couple small toys also

August 2: oop: 2.67 cvs
savings: 41.09

newspaper: 2.00