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| Grand total: $5.97; Total savings: $17.18 |
I was surprised at what good prices we were able to get on some of the "healthy" foods. The garden and whole wheat pastas were free with our coupons (4 more freebies!), but they were $.49 with just the Mega Event and Kroger card pricing. The Silk Pure Almond milk was $.74 with the coupons and the Mom's Best cereal was $.24. The pretzel was $.79 (just the Mega Event and Kroger card price--our printable coupon didn't print correctly dang it) and the Sunny D was only $.74. Most of our money went to the Cheez-Its (a bit of a splurge) at $1.38.
The good news is I got my printer and we started gathering internet printables! All of my coupons for the Mega Event were printables (except for one e-coupon on my Kroger card). We were excited. Being able to pair those with paper inserts and e-coupons will help a ton.
I have a problem getting the coupons.com coupon installer to properly install on my computer, though. It keeps asking me to re-install even though I've already installed (like 4 times) and none of the coupon websites that use that particular application will print. I've missed a couple of freebies because of this, and it's not a huge deal but it's still sort of irritating. I've contacted the website people, so maybe they'll be able to help me. Or I'll have to steal my roommate's computer. We'll see.
We are trying our first CVS trip tomorrow. We have a couple of coupons and we'll only buy a few things. CVS is a bit overwhelming right now, so we are taking it slowly. Really slowly. But if we play our cards right, we'll spend roughly $8 (after coupons) and get 7 Extra Care Bucks to use later.
Fingers crossed :)
Good luck! Be prepared for things that you want at CVS to not be on the shelves.... I live in a big couponing town so I have to go to CVS on Sunday morning when the deals start to guarantee to get what I want!
ReplyDeletelooks like you guys did better than us. I didn't realize you had to actually get 10 items to get the deal now because it used to not be that way.
ReplyDeleteFor the printable coupons, I'm on a Mac and could never get coupons.com to work with google chrome. I have to use Safari to print coupons. I've used both firefox and IE on a PC though.
My co-worker was using Safari on her iMac and couldn't get it to work either. I used both Safari and Firefox and neither worked. It was really frustrating. I really might just use my roommates computer for those coupons.
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