Walgreens 3/31:
Dove shampoo $4.00 SALE
2 Reese's cups 2 for $1.59
2 Hershey's bars 2 for $1.59

Original total: $7.52 ($8.01 before sales)

Coupon: $.39 ad coupon for Hershey's

Total paid: $5.90
Received $4 RR for Dove

I was sick during the time that the Dove coupon was available online and so I didn't get any printed before they were gone. And we didn't get the coupon in my area's paper. But I still wanted to roll Dove and...

Getting sick made me get behind in keeping track of my spending, but luckily getting sick also kept me from spending much so I'm not too far behind.

3/21 at Food Lion
Not going to write it all out because I can't remember exactly what all the coupons were for but...
Original total: $97.73
MVP discounts: $18.91
Coupons: $12.20

Total paid: $66.62
Also received a Free Milk catalina for buying 3 boxes of Kellogg's cereal

...

I just went to the store, outside the store there are the free papers, one of which has the SS coupons. I recently discovered this location, and today it was wiped out. Gone. Not just the inserts but the newspaper itself. Normally this isn't so. Is it possible that the distributors may have decided not to come to this location anymore?

I'm kind of freaking out right. :sad:

After a really bad week, and realizing alot of things... I decided to make it my personal goal to make a store realize how screwed up their policys differ.

Due to bad information given by everyone, and the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.. it created a problem that people wanted to look over.

After countless hours on the phone, explaining situations and reminding them of conversations with other people that called asking the same thing, i'm proud to...

Can I do it? This year has been harder than I thought it would be, and I almost wanted to 'surrender' and up my budget, then I realized that I was able to put money in my savings for the first time in 5 months, and that would not have been possible if I had blown my budget.

I'm counting the week starting 3/28 in my April spending, so 5 weeks for this month.

Starting out the month with:

CVS $6 ecb, no GC (waiting on $10 from MyPoints)
WG $4 RR $20.96...