I would have had an awesome shopping trip this afternoon, except for Hubby's "necessary" requests. Beer and Bread. Not just any bread. Special bread from the bakery section at $5 a loaf! :hectic1:

Oh and when did Angel Food cake get to be $7?!?! I had to buy it for a get together this Saturday. But good grief!

Still I managed to save over $50 with coupons and sale items...not including an MIR for Excedrin $4.99.

My favorite sale item - Mission Tortillas...

Over the last week or two, I've made some small purchases at CVS. I forgot to include them, partly because they were pretty small and not quite worth mentioning PLUS they managed to be OUT of something I wanted each and every time I went. Talk about frustrating ...

We went grocery shopping today, so we went to CVS-A that's in the town our Meijer is in (as opposed to CVS-T, which is in the little piddly town I live in). THEY HAD EVERYTHING I WANTED!!! For once, my scenario went...

Yesterday was a great shopping day!
I finally found a krogers I like and boy did I hit the jackpot :). This particular store had lots of blinkies! Also... they had great closeout sales and a big clearance table.
My husband and I try to eat pretty healthy mostly organic stuff and they had a bunch of products marked down (which I had coupons for) making them really cheap. I ended up saving 50% on that grocery bill. I was rolling down all the rows with my big coupon binder opened...

Keeping up a blog is hard work! I have been busy with school, and kids, and life in general. I have not stopped shopping though!

The manager at CVS was ringing me out on Sunday and he complimented how well I did with my coupons and said I was one of those "smart shoppers". I'm not even a super couponer at CVS. I don't do all the ECB deals and I don't do multiple transactions and I only have one card. So the fact that he complimented me just shows that there are no other...