Tuesday, May 26, 2009

I Have Been Sucked In!

Ok, I have to start out by saying that at first I was not a believer.  Everytime I got together with my sister-in -law Dana, she raved about her new experince with coupon shopping.  I just sat and would listen to all the great deals she talked about getting, but in my mind was thinking that seems time consuming and questioned...How much money are you really seeing back in saving. It can't be any cheaper than going to Winco or Grocery Outlet!  Well I have to say I was wrong!  

So this last weekend we all had a BBQ together and the girls got chatting..as we all know we do, and the coupon thing came up again.  Only this time Dana had recruited Heidi, my other sister-in-law.  They prceeded to tell me that Heidi had gone to the store that day and got about 10 items for free....Yes, FREE!  I said to myself, if others are really doing this, I can too.  So this morning I called Dana, she walked me through what I needed to know & do.  I took about 20 minutes printing off coupons, it would have only taken 10 if my printer hadn't run out of ink.  So I drove to Brandon's parents house and printed off the others.  Getting things for FREE can't always be problem free...right?  Well I got my coupons and I was off to Albertsons.  

I Placed my items on the belt, my calculation left me expecting to pay about $2.47 for all the items, but....I only ended up paying $ .90 cents! 

Original Prices for items= $32.20
My Price=$ .90 cents

I was hooked! I had the hugest grin on my face. Thanks Dana 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

.90 cents a week times 4 weeks. Your new grocery budget is $3.60.

Satirical Gangster said...

I'm seeing Smores and barbecue soaked brownies sandwiched between Wheat Thins.

Anonymous said...

ok girl, you have to come over and show me the secret.....cause I don't know how people do it either! Do tell!

Andrea Shaw said...

It's so much fun, isn't it? You feel like the cashiers are just going to laugh at you and tell you to get out of the store, but they don't. I've actually had a number of cashiers seem quite impressed. You are lucky you live in the land of double coupons (they don't do it around here)!

KateSue said...

Oh my gosh! I TOTALLY know how you felt! Bryce is even getting on board!