Sigh... hubby and I had decided that we were going to buy a Wii for our family for Christmas. We figured that it would be a great way to keep the kids physically active while having fun when it was just too cold, wet, snowy, and/or muddy, etc. this winter and beyond. Now I will start by saying that we did know what the cost of a Wii was as we made this decision, but what I hadn't given a huge amount of thought to was what the "rest of the story" was in terms of needing more controllers...

I just had to share my excitement.... I track our family finances on our computer and was just reviewing our spending for the month. To my pleasant surprise I discovered that we have only spent $311.71 on groceries this month with net coupon savings of $391.86 ($421.77 total coupon savings less $29.91 purchasing additional Sunday papers and coupons through clipping services)!!! I am so excited!!! It has taken a few months of really "working" my coupons and building my stockpile, but I...

I did some MEGA sale shopping yesterday at Dillon's! Spent $72 and saved $282!!! I should have saved $8 more but some how missed out on one of my $5 deals and they refused one of my $3 coupons (and it wasn't worth arguing over). Here's what i bought:

1 - Cheerios
6 - Lucky Charms
30 - Brut deodorant (FREE & will be donated)
4 - Powerade (FREE with overage)
10 - Swiss Miss (FREE)
15 - Betty Crocker cookie mix
3 - Betty Crocker muffin mixes...

Sorry these are out of order...

$2.00 Items ($1.50 each when you buy 10):
* General Mills cereal, there have been a variety of coupons in recent inserts as well as a recent Dillon’s mailingl; also, there is a $1/2 printable at:
* Banquet boneless chicken
* Betty Crocker cookie pouches, with printables for $.75/1 at www.bettycrocker.com, www.coupons.com and http://www.boxtops4education.com/Coupons/ making them $.50 each, or with recent insert coupons for $.40/1,...

$2.50 Items ($2 each when you buy 10):
* Advil; with a $1/1 printable coupon available at: http://www.wyeth.com/specialoffers?rid=/wyeth_html/home/user_group_landing/for_pc/coupons.html these would be $1 each. NOTE: while it appears that you can print as many of these as you want, each coupon does print with a unique tracking code, so you really can only print and use 1 per registration (so, if you have multiple email addresses, then you can probably print more than 1)
* Armour Meatballs...