Most stores start their new sales on Sundays, hence I often spend Sunday mornings heading out and getting the deals. I really enjoy doing it, but feel guilty sometimes for not attending religious services more often. But look at what I got today for $28! I didn’t do as well as last time, if you go on a % basis, but still got lots of stuff for little money.
The above photo is my CVS haul.40 items total
So $0 cash OOP, though I did sacrifice some ECBs. But Dan really likes Gatorade and we eat a ton of the Quaker instant oatmeal, so it was worth it. I’ll build them back up.
8 boxes of oatmeal, 20 quarts of Gatorade, 4 packs of razors and 8 soyjoy bars. The soyjoy bars are horrid, but they enabled me to gain $2 ECB on each card.
The above photo is my Kmart haul.
The above photo is my Kmart haul.44 items total
$103.95 before coupons
$33 after coupons and a $5 oyno
Good news, bad news with the superdoubles. Yes, Pike Creek is doing it, no hassles and they took my IPs without so much as a blink. They also took a $2 Viva catalina that I had from Acme. The bad news is that they have fixed their registers to no longer give overage. I had many items–Pert, Gillette, Dove, Glade–that were either $3.19, $3.50 or $3.79 and I had $2 coupons. Last time it did double to $4 and I got whatever the overage was. They have fixed that, so while I still got them for free, no overage. Which I had kinda planned on to help cover the cost of my other items, though I don’t think anything I got was over $0.29 after double coupons. My final total came to $33 and I got a $5 oyno, so $28 balance.
Staying organized–last night I went through my coupons which are sorted by category, and put all the $1.50 and $2 ones near the front of the stacks. Then as I got to each aisle, like “hair,” I just pulled out my stack and compared what I had to what the sales were. I also had an idea of what good, high value coupons I had because I had just looked at them last night. With both CVS and Kmart, I was only gone from the house 90 minutes and I had Kevin with me.
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