A few days ago, I shared a little info about how to get started with couponing. You can read that
here. Today, I want to share with you a couple of my recent shopping trips to show you an example of how much money you can save by couponing. It also shows that you can get good products and that you don't have to do anything extreme to save money!
Shopping Trip #1
Here's what I got:
- (2) Purina Beggin' Strips 14 oz.
- (2) Right Guard Body Wash
- (4) Kashi cereal
- (1) Huggies Wipes 216 ct.
- (2) Green Works Dish Soap
If I bought all of these items at full price and didn't use any coupons, I would have spent $54.13! However, all of these items were on sale and I used coupons to bring my total down to $12.75 including tax! Here's how I did it:
- (2) Purina Beggin' Strips @ B1G1 FREE at $7.39 = $7.39
- (2) $2/1 Purina Beggin Strips (store coupon) = -$4
- (1) $1/2 Purina products = -$1
- (2) Right Guard Body Wash @ B1G1 FREE at $3.91 = $3.91
- (2) $1/1 Right Guard Body Wash = -$2
- (4) Kashi Cereal @ $2.99 = $11.96
- (4) $2/1 Kashi Product = -$8
- (1) Huggies Wipes @ $5.99 = $5.99
- (1) $1/1 any baby wipes (competitor coupon) = -$1
- (1) $0.50/1 Huggies wipes (doubled) = -$1
- (2) Green Works Dish Soap @ 2 for $5 = $5
- (1) $1/2 Green Works products (store coupon) = -$1
- (1) $1/2 Green Works products = -$1l
- $5/$30 purchase (competitor coupon) = -$5
- Tax = $2.50
Shopping Trip #2
Here's what I got:
- (1) Pepsi Next 2L
- (2) Mission Tortillas
- (1) Butterball Turkey Bacon
- (2) Butterball Turkey Sausage
- (2) Arnold Whole Wheat Bread
- (1) 2,000 Flushes
- (2) Suave Shampoo/Conditioner
- (2) Old El Paso Refried Beans
- Garlic
- Cilantro
- (4) Avocados
- (3) Limes
- Onions
If I bought all of these items at full price and didn't use any coupons, I would have spent $47.20! However, all of these items were on sale and I used coupons to bring my total down to $19.24! Here's how I did it:
- (1) Pepsi Next @ 3 for $4 = $1.34
- (1) $1/1 Pepsi (store coupon) = -$1
- (1) $0.35/1 Pepsi (doubled) = -$0.70
- (2) Mission Tortillas @ B1G1 FREE at $2.69 = $2.69
- (1) Butterball Turkey Bacon @ 2 for $5 = $2.50
- (1) $0.55/1 Butterball Turkey Bacon = -$0.55
- (2) Butterball Turkey Sausage @ 2 for $5 = $5.00
- (2) Arnold Bread @ B1G1 FREE at $2.99 = $2.99
- (1) 2,000 Flushes @ B1G1 FREE at $3.49 = $1.75
- (1) $0.55/1 2,000 Flushes = -$0.55
- (1) Suave Shampoo @ $1.75
- (1) $0.50/1 Suave (doubles) = -$1
- (1) Suave Conditioner @ 4 for $5 = $1.25
- (1) $0.50/1 Suave (doubles) = -$1
- (2) Old El Paso Refried Beans @ 4 for $5 = $2.50
- (2) $0.50/1 Old El Paso (doubles) = -$2
- Garlic = $0.77
- Cilantro = $0.79
- (4) Avocados @ 10 for $10 = $4.00
- (1) B3G1 FREE Avacoado = -$1.50 (took off the max value)
- (3) Limes = $1
- Onions = $1.16
- $5/$30 purchase competitor coupons = -$5
- Tax = $2.04
With this trip I also got a $50 Lowe's gift card for only $40 because I spent at least $25 in groceries
before coupons! I went ahead and got it because I knew we would be moving soon and would be doing some home improvement stuff.
So there you have it! I was able to get some quality, healthy grocery items for very cheap because of couponing! And, I didn't have to do anything extreme like on the TV show! It took me probably around 30 minutes to put together my shopping lists and gather my coupons. I think it is time well spent!
Do you have any couponing questions? I would love to help!
