So work and illness have been getting in my way of blogging about my shopping experiences and the savings.

I have been taking advantage of some of the sales, usually just getting what's on sale that I have coupons for or what's a bargain.

I've been getting my samples, coupon train and some RAOKs in the mail, received a refund and some refusal of refunds because of being incomplete. Of course, I didn't thing of making copies of what I sent. I was too excited that I was...

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Finally got to Walgreens last night - saved $60.13! After closer review of my receipt - I kind of cheated Walgreens - I ASKED THE MANAGER about using multiple Walgreen coupons - one coupon per one item as I ripped out several coupons from the easy saver. She said, sure, it say's one item per coupon. Come to find out - it automatically took the multiple of the 1 coupon I needed! Whoopies! So I actually cheated Walgreens out of $3.

I got some good receipt coupons too - $5 off my next...

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So I definitely needed to get to Giant today since one of my $7 off coupons was going to expire today. PLUS a friend gave me a 5% off coupon (saved $4.15)

Highlights from this shopping trip:

• buy 6 lean cuisine/lean pockets get a Skinny Cow dessert FREE!
• Lean Pocket - 6/10 plus 50 cent coupon doubled = 67 cents each!
• Pepperidge Farm garlic bread - 2/$4 plus $1 off 2 coupon = $1.50 each
• General Mills cereal - 4/$6 plus 2 75 cent coupons = $1.13 each!
• Perdue shortcuts - $2 each

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I forgot to post that I dropped off two refunds in the mail on Monday.

$5 from Pert
$4 from Walgreens

I requested a Walgreens giftcard because you get an addition 10% added. So that will almost cover the stamp to send it in!

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