I had my list all made out hoping to reach the $40 before q's so that I could use the $5 off coupon, only to find out that they did not have enough of one of the bogo cereals that I needed to make the deal work

. I thought I would be oop about $10 - $15 for my entire order. Fortunately, I noticed that they had clearanced all there small boxes of cheerios. There was a couple of blinkie coupons next to them. After reading the coupon I realized that there was no size restrictions on them

. I quickly looked in my stash of q's to see if I had any more and also found a few laying around on the floor and on and under the shelves. Praise the Lord for a lazy cleaning crew.

Anyway, here is what I bought:
1lb ground beef x 2 =$5.18
Hunts 4 pack pudding x 8 = $8.00
Excedrin PM x 2 = $6.00
Hamburger Helper x 5 = $5.00
Serving size boxes of cheerios x 30 = $7.50
Kashi Vive Probiot x 3 = $3.99 BOGO Cereal
Kash Granola x 1 = $4.29
I was going to buy $2.50 worth of grapes as well to put my total a couple $'s over $40 so that I could use the $5 off coupon. But in my excitement to get to the cash register, I must have left them in the the scale.

Anyway, when the young man rang me up it came to only $39.96. I was so sure that I had calculated correctly I was confused for a minute but then I grabbed an m&m pack to put my total over. I am not going to bore you with the details of the 29 coupons that I used. I will just get to the good part and tell you that I bought 52 items and only spent $1.49 out of pocket.

I was in shock myself! The cashier and the manager were impressed. Quite frankly, so was I. I came in with a plan had to tweak it and ended up even better than expected. Thank you Jesus! I was so proud of myself I called my husband and my mom right away to tell them about it.

At the bottom of my receipt it says that I saved $75.46. Don't think I can ever top that, but with 6 mouths to feed and 2 more on the way, I'm sure gonna try.
