Shopping trip

Our usual shopping day was premted by my having to play store detective.  I waited virtually all day for the perp to show up.  I stalled him as long as I could waiting for the police to show up.  The guy was huge and had a purse bigger than mine!  LOL

So, shopping happened yesterday.  I don't like to shop Saturdays, , it's too hectic and I couldn't watch the register because the rest of the family was lost in the store.  I spent more than usual, but I stocked some really good buys.  ALBERTSONS had pasta and cake mixes for .49 if you bought a total of ten products on their list.  I had two Duncan Hines coupons.  That made two of the mixes .07 cents each.  

It costs .075 for a cup of flour.  Yogurt was 10/5 and I got an additional .40 off.   2 pounds of cheese were 4.88.  Apples were a dollar a pound and I got an additional 1.00 for buying a bag.  I got grillers with a coupon for buy one, get brats for free and got the  grillers for five bucks.  I got Nathan's hot dogs buy one, get one and eggs for .79.  

If you can match a coupon with a special it's better.  That being said, I am not going to spend an exorbitant amount of time couponing.   I want to spend less time than it takes the coffee to drip in the morning.  I quickly look at  www.couponconnections.com once a week.  And download any coupon from  Www.coupons .com --anything I see that we NORMALLY buy or matches with an ad price that we normally buy.  I'll try something new if it is free or nearly free.  

Couponing was a little awkward, but I am sure it will  get better and more efficient.  I have done the organize and shop sales bit  for so many years that its second nature,  I download my add blog and my just 4 You savings list. gather my coupons I keep in an envelope from the recycle bin and the ads.

I don't need a grocery list. Because, by buying just what's on sale and milk , we are set because we stock.  If there are no good meat buys, I just don't buy meat.  

The object is to never get caught paying full price, or what my mother used to call top dollar.  Almost everything I buy is at rock bottom prices.  Buying seasonal is preferable because the fruits and veggies are at their peak, and the meats are the lowest prices.  Not having to go to the store because there is nothing in the house to eat is liberating.  I didn't  have to panic when I was to nervous to go to the store after Fridays Unscheduled work shift.  

To those naysayers... You go all over town to shop.....I plan my trip to hit the stores I want in the least amount of time.  I am lucky to have stores clustered together to make a tight circle either ast or north of us.  Alternative stores are near other errands we need less frequently.  The normal family can save about 4000. A year....has a hefty amount to pay down the mortgage or go on a nice vacation. !!!

That's about it.  

Thanks for stopping by

Jane

4+1 =5

 better cheaper faster 

 basically you get paid more for shopping than you do cooking.  

Ps.  Lets do the math.  5 cake mixes at 2.79 is 13.95.  5 pastas at 1.39 is 6.95. Less .85 coupons totals
20.05

I paid 4.90 less .85 or 4.05.  Eighty per cent savings.