Coupon Savings: Walgreens Register Rewards

Boy, I really go in spurts around here about what I write about. You can tell what's on my mind this week - saving more money! I'd talk about the happenings of my garden but it's drowning in rain this week. But thankfully we don't get as much of the severe weather as my home state of Kansas. My heart goes out to all of the people around the midwest and the south that have lost their homes and friends and family to all of these spring tornadoes. Sometimes you feel helpless not having much money to help but I know I can continue to pray for them.

I did a little more coupon shopping today. Two transactions at Walgreens and one at CVS because I found another Sobe coupon! Everything shown below cost me $33.53 and the total savings listed on the receipts is $35.13. I look at these shopping trips where people would get all of this for free and I see where you can really save the most money is if you already have Register Rewards or Extra Care Bucks to put toward your purchase because in today's transactions I earned a total of $15 in Register Rewards to use next time! Like yesterday at CVS, I had Extra Care bucks which made the Sobe 6 for the price of 1. The 6 I got today were about the price of 2 because I didn't have the extra savings.

Can't you tell what a grey yucky day it is in the photo? Normally my kitchen is nice and bright and sunny!

Coupon Savings: 6 for the price of 1

It's been about a year and a half now that I've been couponing off and on. I really got into about the time that my husband started his current job after his 2009 lay off. I just wish I would have started it while he was laid off but in 2010 I was laid off too so after those 2 big life changes I'm glad to have the skills to save us some money. I'm not extreme about it, I don't buy things that we won't use. Depending on how many of a particular item I buy we sometimes give some to Grandma because she does so much to help us and why not save her some money too!

CVS is having a BOGO sale this week on Sobe drinks. I'm not crazy about them but my husband likes them and with vitamins and no calories, they are definitely better than soda and he can take one to work with him. I just wish I had another coupon and more extra bucks to use on them!

Here's the breakdown:
They are $1.69 each so 6 of them would have been $10.14
With the BOGO sale the price was down to $5.07
I had a $1.50 off 5 manufacturers coupon plus $2 in Extra Bucks bringing the total down to $1.92 with tax for 6!


Yes, one is missing because Mr. took one to work already!

Savings Time!

Since being laid off work I am pushing hard to get back into savings coupon mode. I wanted to take a photo of all the food I got this morning but my husband was putting it away when I brought it in and I plum forgot!

Between Meijer, CVS and Jewel I spent $64 and saved $56! I hear about people that spend like $10 on $100 worth of groceries but I haven't quiet figured that out yet! Saving $56 is pretty darn good for me and the more I do this the more I have been saving.

Here is everything I got for $64!
Jewel:
2 pkgs Fresh Pork Chops
2 pkgs Jennie-O Ground Turkey
2 cans Starkist Tuna
3 boxes of Pop Tarts
CVS:
2 bottles 50 oz. Wisk laundry detergent
Meijer:
4lbs. Chicken Thighs
1 Country Crock butter
2 boxes FiberOne bars
2 boxes Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches (husband loves these!)
2 family size Stouffer's lasagna
2 huge boxes of Rice Krispies
2 gallons of milk
3 condensed soups
1 bottle mustard
1 bottle ketchup
2 ranch dressing
2 frozen orange juice
2 loaves wheat bread
1 bag frozen broccoli
1 bag frozen peas
1 jar salsa

I know some people think, but you have to drive all over town. Actually for me we don't live in a big city and all the stores are all placed on one road not far from each other so I can do everything in one trip. I'm sitting here thinking it doesn't look like that much as a list but it sure looked like a lot in all the bags and dest of all my husband is thrilled to have some all the chicken, turkey and pork in the house again and the BOGO sales at Jewel on the Jennie-O Turkey and Pork Chops made an awesome deal!