Couponing Can Be Fun

When you live in a highly saturated coupon/deal-seeking/frugal-minded/large-family/food-storage conscious community sometimes finding the deals can be a little frustrating. I can't tell you the many times I've missed out on some rocking deals because the shelves were empty by the time I made it to the store.

Albertsons had an awesome deal going on last week and by some amazing miracle I was able to get in on the action somewhat.


Transaction #1:
7- 500 ct Q-tips $21.00- $2.10 in coupons
2- Vaseline Lotions $10- $2.50 in coupons
-$2.00 Customer Service Coupon

Total w/ tax- $26.49 and received $27 in catalina coupons!!!

Transaction #2:
7 Cake mixes- $7.00
3 Muffin Mixes- $6.00
6 Skippy PB- $12 - $2.25 in coupons
3 Ragu- $5.00 -$.90 in coupons
-$25.00 in Catalina coupons
-$2.00 Customer Service coupon
Total with Tax- $.69 and received $15 in Catalina coupons!!

Transaction #3:
6 Cake Mixes- $6.00
2 NV Nut Clusters -$5.00 - $1.50 in coupons
1 milk $1.44
2 Butter- 2.94
4 Yoplait 4 pks- $10- $4.00 in coupons
4 Vaseline Lotions- $10 - $5 in coupons
1 misc cake mix $.50
-$2.00 Customer Service coupon
-$2.00 Double Coupons
-$17.00 Catalina coupons

Total with tax $5.72 and received $18 in catalina coupons!!

So, my out of pocket cost was: $32.90. The good news is that I have $18.00 of Catalina coupons to use next time I shop. That is like paying $14.90 for all this good stuff (48 items)!!!

PS: I didn't set out to buy so many cake mixes...but they were out of the cereal and health and beauty items I really wanted.