Weekend Shopping

So a few months ago my cousin Tara introduced me to the WONDERFUL world of coupons and it has quickly gone from something I thought I would like to do to an obsession!!! I think once you get going and see how much money you save it just makes you want to do it more!

This week, just when I thought I was getting desperate for cereal deals and we were down to our last box, along came the cereal deals! Now mind you, since I have started clipping coupons I have not spent more then $1/box of cereal with the exception of three boxes of Cheerios last week, which I paid about $1.30/box for.

Here are my transactions for the week:

Kmart (they were having double coupons last week) - $6.69
4 boxes of Raisin Bran
2 boxes of Frosted Mini Wheats
1 box of Strawberry Mini Wheats
(For buying 7 boxes of Kelloggs cereal I got catalinas for 3 free gallons of milk)
Saved $15.17

Target Transaction #1 - $7.05
2 lightbulbs
5 boxes of Kelloggs Lowfat Granola cereal
(Received $5 gift card for buying 5 boxes of Kelloggs cereal)
Saved $20.55

Target Transaction #2 - $6.90 - $5 gift card from previous transaction = $1.90
5 boxes of Kelloggs Lowfat Granola cereal
(Received another $5 gift card for buying 5 boxes of Kelloggs cereal)
Saved $14.55 +$5 from gift card = $19.55

CVS - $16.75
4 12-packs of Coke
(Received $3 ECB for Coke purchase, $1 ECB for Green Bag Tag, $1.50 from Winter Spending)

Safeway - $1.50 - $1.00 catalina = $0.50
1 bag of carrot chips

Grand Total Spent - $32.89
That's 17 boxes of cereal, 2 light bulbs, carrots, and 4 12-packs of soda!!!

Plus I have catalinas for 3 free gallons of milk, a $5 gift card to Target and $5.50 towards a future purchase at CVS!!!

I think I did pretty well this week!