Today's biggest weekend adventure was our grocery trip to Albertsons. We were going to go last night while Maggie was at Grandma Williams' house, but we ran out of time. So we braved the elements and took all three kids shopping. Today's trip was not an ordinary occasion. You see, every now and then Albertsons has a deal where if you buy $30 of select groceries you get a $15 voucher for your next grocery purchase. You can buy the first $30-worth and then just keep going through the line as many times as you want. And it's not just the same boring things again and again either. I think there's like over 250 different items to choose from. We took advantage of the deal to stock up on some food storage.
In all I went through the line 5 times today. Whew, it was a work out. Megan and I each had our own carts. She would get a cart ready with $30-worth of food that we planned out ahead of time and then I would check out and take it to the car. By the time I came back she had another cart full. At the end of my 5 trips I had bought $273.82 of groceries for $51.26. That's over 80% in savings. I haven't called my mom yet, but I know she will be proud.
We spent some stressful time this afternoon clipping coupons and planning exactly how to group them together for maximum savings. In my best trip I bought $56.66 of groceries for $5.75. It could have been even better, but the lady at checkout convinced me to buy a disfigured 2-lb. block of sharp cheese for $3.00 instead of $10 because the bagger boy was too lazy to take it back to the cheese aisle. Minus the cheese I had $53.66 in groceries and I paid $2.75 (95% savings!!!-some of my coupons were doubled).
Saving money like this is kind of addicting. It was stressful because I can't think as fast with numbers these days(hopefully just due to lack of sleep and not a brain aneurysm). The deals go until Tuesday. We might sneak over on Monday and do some more.
In all I went through the line 5 times today. Whew, it was a work out. Megan and I each had our own carts. She would get a cart ready with $30-worth of food that we planned out ahead of time and then I would check out and take it to the car. By the time I came back she had another cart full. At the end of my 5 trips I had bought $273.82 of groceries for $51.26. That's over 80% in savings. I haven't called my mom yet, but I know she will be proud.
We spent some stressful time this afternoon clipping coupons and planning exactly how to group them together for maximum savings. In my best trip I bought $56.66 of groceries for $5.75. It could have been even better, but the lady at checkout convinced me to buy a disfigured 2-lb. block of sharp cheese for $3.00 instead of $10 because the bagger boy was too lazy to take it back to the cheese aisle. Minus the cheese I had $53.66 in groceries and I paid $2.75 (95% savings!!!-some of my coupons were doubled).
Saving money like this is kind of addicting. It was stressful because I can't think as fast with numbers these days(hopefully just due to lack of sleep and not a brain aneurysm). The deals go until Tuesday. We might sneak over on Monday and do some more.
