I went back to Harps today with all of my coupons, and I took my mom with me as back-up. We had fun pulling boxes off the shelf, and basically chasing a crazy lady away from my cart. (I stepped about 6 feet from my cart and this lady comes up to it, eyeballing everything. My mom gave her the stink eye and warned me to get back to my cart. Ha! As if that lady would have made it far with my binder. I would have tackled her.)
When we were finished and ready to check out the cashier said that we could only have 1 transaction per person, but I told her that it was necessarily true because Thursday ladies were having several transactions when I was there. She kind of glared and so I told her that if she insisted I would carry everything out to my car then come back in for the next transaction. Since we had already loaded everything onto the grocery belt she didn't argue any more. Next time I will be better prepared for that sort of incident.
Anyway, for a break down of the shopping trip:
(Order from cheapest to most expensive.)
Colgate Toothpaste
Retail: $1.99
Coupon: $1/1 doubled to $2/1 =$2 saved
Total = Free
Napkins
Retail: $17.40 (1.45 each)
Coupon: $0.75/1 doubled to $1.50/1 = $18
Total = Free (They don't give you any overages, like the extra five cents covered by doubling the coupon.)
Rhodes Rolls
Retail: $3.96 ($1.98 each)
Coupon: $1/1 doubled to $2/1 = $4 saved
Total = Free
Crest Toothpase
Retail: $2.19
Coupon: $1/1 doubled to $2/1 = $2 saved
Total = $0.19
5 Rain Gum
Retail: $2.76 ($1.38 each)
Coupon: $1/2 doubled to $2/2 = $2 saved
Total: $0.76 ($0.38 each)
Texas Toast Croutons
Retail: $1.38
Coupon: $0.50/1 doubled to $1/1 = $1 saved
Total = $0.38
Dole Canned Pineapple
Retail: $12.00 ($1.00 each)
Coupon: $0.50/2 doubled to $1/2 = $6 saved
Total = $6 ($0.50 each)
Act II Popcorn (3 pack)
Retail: $1.50
Coupon: $0.50/1 doubled to $1/1 = saved $1
Total = $0.50
French's Mustard Spicy Brown
Retail: $9.00 ($1.50 each)
Coupon: $0.50/1 doubled to $1/1 = $6
Total = $3.00 ($0.50 each)
Simply Lemonade (Personal Size -I was thirsty!)
Retail: $1.69
Coupon: $0.50/1 doubled to $1/1 = $1 saved
Total =
$0.69
French's Dijon Mustard
Retail $5.70 ($2.85 each)
Coupon: $1/1 doubled to $2/1 = $4 saved
Total = $1.70 ($0.85 each)
Toaster Strudels (Normally wouldn't get this because of HFCS so this is considered a splurge.)
Retail: $1.88
Coupon: $0.50/1 doubled to $1/1 = $1 saved
Total = $0.88
Raspberry Tea (Hot tea)
Retail: $2.95
Coupon: $1/1 doubled to $2/1 = $2 saved
Total = $0.95
Pillsbury Ready-to-bake cookies
Retail: $5.54 ($2.77 each)
Coupon: $1/2 doubled to $2/2 = $2 saved
Total: $3.54 ($1.77 each)
My total on all three of my transactions after taxes was $74.32.
My total savings from coupons was $49.51.
My final out of pocket cost was $24.81.
That is a 69% savings.
I definitely call this a successful trip. Tomorrow I'm going to the regular grocery store to get things like bread, deli, and regular meat - things I don't have coupons for. Then I'll begin collection coupons for next month's double coupon event.
