Purrfectly Pleasant Unless Provoked

I did really good today with what little money I had. I wanted a total before coupons of about $50 to get a coupon for next week, and then after coupons I needed the total to be about $30.

Savings: Ad: $27.21, coupons: $23.86, Total Savings: $50.57
64 items, and I spent $30.19!!!! That is 47cents an item. *GRINS* And we got some expensive things like soda and Thomas Bagels. It helps that I had 2 coupons for $5 off. One was from last week and one was from the Entertainment book.

Anyone who is in Louisville that doesnt use these, could I please have your 50cents of 12 cans of Friskies cat food? Please? :) Thanks. I really dislike that the coupons in the Lexington paper are usually missing some. Maybe I should go to a newsstand and get a Louisville paper every week once I know if they have some good coupons.

Side note I am trying to start a coupon trading group here in Lexington. If anyone is interested please let me know. I have emailed 3 people on a list that I am on about starting it. I am still waiting to hear from them.

I am a very happy camper now.

We stopped at Kroger today on the way from getting Jeshua from work. They have a pretty good sale. I really dislike that they dont list ALOT of what they have on sale in their ads. The cashier forgot to take off my coupons. They took them to the customer service desk and she scanned them and gave me the money. That was nice. I saved $10.80 in coupons and $28.79 on the kroger plus card. After taking off the coupons from my total I spent $38.73, and a total savings of $39.59. :) We got some chips, canned cat food, milk, choc milk, quilted northern, and some soda. WE got a total of 57 items. :) And I was good I put blinders on going past the sticker machine!!

I stopped in at meijer to pick up a few things on sale that I wanted this week. I didnt go up and down every aisle like I usually do. Today I skipped 1/2 the food section of the store. Still it took me about a hour because I was going slow. Still dragging.

Ok, onto the savings. I wasnt sure if I would get up over $50 but with my splurge of the salad bar it did so I got to use one of the $5 off $50. That was before coupons. After coupons I spent $33.31, with ad savings of $22.18, and coupon savings of: $22.05, total savings: $44.23. I got 39 items (no cat food this time. :) For once the cashier took the time to enter all the coupons. That was the good news. The bad news was the bagger who decided to put one cold thing in every bag. *GRUMPS* I do feel bad that a coupon that got taken off was actually not for the right thing. I was trying to grab 2 of the swansons hungry man since they are on sale, but grabbed a swanson and a banquet, so the $1 off 2 swanson shouldnt have taken. *Shrugs* It did which was nice. He also punched in all 6 of the great starts that didnt go because of their computer system. I bought 8 greatstarts but only 2 of the coupons would scan right. One good deal I got was the post cereal on sale 1/2 price. I got 3 boxes for under $1 each!

Now I feel like taking a nap.

Once again I got a cashier who doesnt let me know when a coupon doesnt scan. She shorted me about $2 I think. *shrugs* No way to go back and get it fixed. I really need to watch the screen. I know I buy what I have coupons for. I think I have messed up once. And when that happened I apologized profusely.

Ok, onto the totals, 65 items, for $43.70 with a savings of ad and coupons of $50.74. Not too bad. It helps that I was buying 12 cans of cat food and they have lowered the price down to 29cents again. It ranges from 29-45 cents it seems. I also got some snacks for the marcon trip. I have one more week to get some good things on sale to take. Any requests polyanna? *grins*

Side note: I just wish I had purchased gas before going to meijers instead of after. In the 2 hours I was out the gas at this one station jumped 10cents. I knew it was going to go up, because all the other stations around have raised prices. I was just hoping it would be later. I know the station by our house is one of the last ones in the city to up their prices. I just waited too late.