Here's the mess I made in my food storage area this week. Now I've got to reorganize and find space for this crap. They had a crazy awesome sale at Albertson's and I spent some time and major money stocking up on some staples around our house. I'm not great at this yet, but I'm learning. It was a good enough sale on items my mom uses that I even went once for her, along with my own two trips. So here's the damage this week. I spent $299.82 ($105.58 was for my mom) and saved $652.84. It ended up being about 68.5% savings and that was with quite a few regular groceries mixed in with the sale items. Not too shabby. That included a bunch of baby items that were only 20% off, but I was out of baby wash, lotion and wanted some diapers so I got some stuff from that sale too. Kind of chaotic trying to check out with millions of coupons, but the few I forgot, they gave me cash for at customer service. I figure I don't need to buy laundry detergent, fabric softener or dish soap for probably a year and many of the other items like diapers, paper towels, and toilet paper for 3-4 months. Hopefully. It's hard to estimate this stuff, but I sure like not paying full price. Hurray to coupons!
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Wow, good job. I'm still getting the hang of it too. Though I LOVE Dan's (and use them for my usual perishables) Albertson's sales rock for the stock up stuff.
WOW!!! I want to learn how to do this.... Please when can you teach me??!?!?!!!
Brandy- I have to admit, I love Dan's too. They are super friendly there and it's never too chaotic. Some weeks I go to more than one store and sometimes I figure it's just easier to deal with one-stop shopping. My happiest moment is just ditching Walmart though. They're cheaper for a lot of things, but Walmart ruling the world is not my idea of a good time so I'm trying to avoid supporting them unless absolutely possible.
Lau - I'm actually going to another grocery class tonight. We'll see what I learn there. The main thing - follow the sales and only stock up when something's on sale AND you have a coupon. There are a couple good websites out there that I follow. I'll have to come over one of these days and just give you the basic coupon rundown.
Can I come over with Laura and learn too?
That would be SO fantastic!!! Sounds like you have a couple of interested people :)
Yeah, I'll put together something. Maybe I can actually host a group like my friend Courtney did a few months ago.
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