Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Coupon Craziness!

PREFACE: Part of getting out of debt is spending less. Some people have made an artform out of using coupons to not only save money, but sometimes make money. Reference: http://www.thegrocerygame.com/

Well, my wife decided to subscribe to the local newspaper which usually means a pile of yellow bags stacked in our driveway waiting to be thrown out with the next week's trash. So, to make some use of the whole mess, I grabbed the Sunday paper and decided to clip coupons. What the woman in the above website does is: she compares her coupons to advertised sales for local stores. That way she not only gets the coupon savings, but also the store savings. Well, my wife works for Walgreens, so she gets 15% off of everything anyway. Add to that the fact that this week, Walgreens had sales on a lot of the items that also had coupons this week. So, we went to Walgreens with several piles of coupons and made out pretty well.

This first picture is from the receipt of our first transaction.
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The first line shows her employee discount. The second is regular savings from Walgreens. The third is from regular coupons. This also doesn't show the $10 we'll be getting back as a rebate. This is a grand total of $29.98 in savings. The grand total before the rebate...$23.46!
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This next receipt was the big purchase:
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Same lines as the first receipt, this time with no rebate. But, as you can see, we saved $146.12! The grand total for this order...$95.39! We saved more than we spent!
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My wife admitted it was actually fun so maybe she'll let me play again. And, the Walgreens person didn't hate us too terribly.

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