The Big Splurge

Above is my slideshow of my grocery shopping this weekend. Scroll over the pictures to see prices and deals and the final tally for the weekend! I almost doubled my money. I think for the most part the big splurge is out of my system. Now my goal is to get lots of stuff for pennies, you know and then fresh items. But my stockpile is beefy. That's the key to cutting down the grocery budget, getting a stockpile in your pantry. Finding the good deal...i.e. Kotex and boxed potatoes...and stocking up with multiple coupons! Also the trick to Wal-greens is their Easysaver catalog, rolling over the Register Rewards and they have some monthly rebates that I'm going to try to learn about also. And don't let any disgruntled, know it all cashiers stop you. Merely smile and ask them to try the coupon. Or speak to the manager if necessary. Both happened on my Wal-green trip in Portage. The cashier and manager at the Wal-green in TR were awesome :) I'm actually going to write in a letter about them.

So anyhoo - I promise I'll get back to logging about my Cinderellas, but I'm going to keep in the grocery tips too as I find them. After all - it's for the family's sake that I'm doing this!

@Kate: Thanks for the blog template tip! I found one and stayed up entirely too late last night working on it...and also - I'm putting in a couple of days of overtime by helping out in the Glen Oak's library on Monday and Thursdays - then I come in and do my 8 hours in the Distance Learning Center. Probably only for September, until they hire their new morning person. I figure the OT can be my Christmas budget :)

@Elisabeth: Kotex must be running a massive campaign because I am finding coupons for them everywhere! If you have both Internet Explorer and Firefox, you can download two coupon printers and print Kotex coupons off of coupons.com and smartsource.com - you can print all coupons from these sites twice until they cut you off. Plus there has been the same coupons in the inserts in the Sunday paper. Find the package of Kotex from Wal-Mart that are $1.00 and stock up. You can use multiple coupons in 1 transaction as long as you have a coupon for each thing. i.e. 10 packages of Kotex + 10 1.00 coupons = pads for life! ha ha!