Grocery Shopping

Today my in-laws had the kids, and after my husband went to work, I had a couple of hours to myself. So, after relaxing for about an hour, I decided to go grocery shopping.

Armed with my "grocery game" list, I went to Pavilions (owned by Safeway). The "list" was really good this week cleaning products especially! Also, paper towels and toilet paper. Also, mushrooms were like $.88 a package (they have been over $2 a package in the past year).

With only 30 minutes of work, consisting of cutting out coupons, I saved $58.53, of which almost $20 was just coupons.

Not bad!

Therefore

I am a mom (although there ARE many other people who don't have time to grocery shop until 11pm). Therefore I am going to the grocery store right now - at 10:35pm.

Got back at 11:30pm - that included the grocery store staff running around making sure I had the right items for the Ralphs/Kroger Mega Match $5 off deal!

Not everything I bought was part of that deal, but 20 of the items were. The other items I still had coupons for.

Here is my haul:



Here is the length of the receipt:




And here is the amount I paid and the savings:



I am not only a mom but LOVE bargains and deals. Therefore I play the Grocery Game and don't need to find these bargains myself. I just print out the list, cut out the coupons and go shop :)

More for Less

People always say that coupons aren't worthwhile. That they really don't add up to very much.

I know that's not true. And I re-prove it to myself, time and time again (not on purpose).

Thursday I stopped in to the grocery store for a couple of items. No coupons, but I did buy things on sale, and with my Ralphs card. The total - somewhere around $25 for about 12 items.

Late Thursday night, after the gym, I went back with my coupons.

The result:






SO MUCH MORE FOR THE SAME AMOUNT!