Smokin' Hot Kroger Shop!!!!

[Moma]

WOWEEEEEEE!!!

Won't bore you with all deals....(unless you really twist my arm)


Total $180.06
q's 64.93
bonus q's 9.80
Kroger savings 52.18

taaadaaaaaaa

OOP 53.15 (74% savings!!!)

wooooweeeeee!!!

[MsKimber]

way to go!! ah someday i'll do one like that! still new at this. but learning!!

[pilesoflaundry]

Good job! Just wait until you save more than you spent and you will be flying :D. You got pretty close there.

[Moma]

one more little note.....

I bought 107 items!!! oh yeah!!

[educ8athome]

KUDOS!!!!!

Last Wednesday I went to Kroger's before I had surgery on Thursday.

48 items.

MQ 77.14
BQ 8.23
SQ/K+ 20.08
Total Savings 105.45 (104%)

Total oop 1.70

I love these trips!

[zansammommy]

On Monday I "broke even" spent twenty saved twenty.

Did that FL tonight as well. I am working on the save more than oop but I will settle for save equals sent. For Now

[Lmnde]

My total for today - 9 individual transactions in 4 different Kroger stores - $39.74 paid in cash, saved $351.29 with coupons and OYNOs, and came home with an additional $36 OYNO cats from Kroger alone.

Total for the day alltogether - 9 Kroger transactions, 5 FoodLion transactions, 2 Publix transactions - total cash out of pocket $56.16, coupons + OYNO catalinas used came to $649.01, and came home with $84 in OYNOs for future shopping. Roughly rounded up I got $700 worth of groceries free, and about another $28 in catalina overage - WOW!

Shopping today included 10 whole chickens, 6 good size beef roasts, 4 20# bags of dogfood, 25# bunnyfood, 4 Friskies dry catfood, bread, eggs, milk [Kroger had loads and loads of milk reduced in price!], yoghurts [{I lost count of these - mainly Activia and Danactive - but all recuded in price to .99 or $1.19 - so free or .19 ea with the .50 c/o doubled - I've got at least 30 packs or so, plus lots of Dannon single cups reduced to .19 - used the $1/5 c/o = free}, Ronzoni pasta, GreenGiant veggies and Pizza Rolls, as well as several Starbuck's chocolates for a buck ea and 2 packs of Coke. And an indecent amount of Glades PlugIns, LOL [thank you very much Glade Company!]

[emalou84]

wow you did great,:smilenod78: your my hero

[MsKimber]

lmnde: what I'm striving for!! Still really new at this but getting the hang of it.

[Lmnde]

Trust me - I am tickled too! I had just about given up finding the Glades - I've been looking here in town since early last week and ended up driving 50 miles to the next larger city on Sunday and none there either. I really, really needed to do this deal [my lifemate had passed away in August, and I've barely done any shopping or couponing since then - it kind of took the energy for everything away, sigh] - we were running low on fresh meat and I needed to start stocking up for veggies again. So I went again - the other direction this time [only 35 miles oneway] - and finally found plenty of them.

I know a lot of newbies think this is great, but also keep in mind that a lot of work goes into a big haul like this. I put about 110 miles roundtrip on my car yesterday, I left the house at 10 in the morning and returned at 8.30 pm - and had to unload and put up a mini van full of stuff - this was a good days work and I got paid very well for it. I had a total of 19 checkout transactions [found some more receipts while putting up the Glades this morning] in a total of 12 stores [I forgot CVS and one more Kroger] - and my bottomline looks more like $800 of free groceries now with $84 cats still to spend.

So what I am trying to say is - while it was a successful day, a lot of prep, coupon trading, buying, clipping and sorting went into it, and the perseverance to pull it off - not being able to find the Glade for the longest time and going out of my comfort zone to try again, dealing with crumpy cashiers and managers, and being at it all day long.

I've been couponing "hardcore" for about 15 months now, and there is definitely a learning curve - with recognizing + catching onto deals, with figuring out where to get the coupons from in order to be ready when a deal like this comes along, with learning to couponing correctly so you can have the confidence to stand up for yourself and deal with difficult employees, and then with getting lucky to actually find what you are looking for. When I first got started with couponing, and I read the posts from experienced pros, I was - NO WAY - too, I didn't see how ppl save 75-95% consistently of their grocery bills. Guys & Gals - it does work and it is doable, and even today where the deals are a bit harder to do and prices went up - it is still very much doable, just stick with it.

Off the soap box and off the subject right quick - this is the time when I buy veggies for the entire year - last fall I ended up with over 300 bags or boxes of various frozen vegetables and probably paid less than $50 out of pocket cash alltogether for it. Prices went up quite a bit this year - I've seen the regular BirdsEye for as much as $2.20 a pack [not the fancier varieties either!]. So if you guys buy frozen veggies - this is the time of the year when they all go on sale!!! I probably got easily 60-70 packs of GreenGiant yesterday - with zero at the bottom line! And I need more to stock up for the remainder of the year. I still have some from last year - if you have a good freezer, they will last and there is no noticeable deteriation in flavor. I thought I went a bit overboard last year with that, but looking back on a year worth of couponing experience - I did not, because things got so much more expensive and I have even less money to spend this year than I did last year - stocking up when it's free - as much as you can - definitely is a life saver!