I explain the saving in just a second but first my newspaper drama that continues to make life interesting. I live in a rural area, this is no secret. In fact the “local” newspaper does not offer a Sunday edition. Coupon inserts are with the Saturday paper and they do not offer a “Saturday” only subscription.\u00a0 The bright side is that I do have the option of two different city newspapers that both are delivered. I have been attempting to get regular deliver of at least one of these papers for several years.\u00a0 It is usually a 75% chance that I get the paper at all. I have spoken to both of the paper on many occasions and currently am boycotting the Greensboro News and Record due to the fact that after paying for 6 months I received a paper 1 out of 8 weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 The other paper is supposed to arrive prior to 8am on Sunday morning. I spoke with someone about 3 weeks ago on a Monday after not receiving a paper, I was promised that if I would contact on Sunday prior to noon they would make the carrier bring a paper. The problem I usually have is that we go to church around 8:30 and don’t get home before noon. Today, was different since we are taking a skip day. I called the paper office about 9:30 and did the usually leave a message. I had already talked about ‘needing” several coupons from this weeks insert for my CVS trip, so Matt volunteer to go purchase a paper. After returning home around 11am we noticed the paper person in our driveway. I am not sure why but instead of one paper they left 2. I was super excited because this allowed me to stock up on deodorant for Matt!\u00a0 So I was able to use coupons for all three of the insert this week.<\/p>\n
I am still participating in the January Money Diet, one of the major things I am realizing is that I often buy food for the sake of convenience or because I know we will need it before long instead of waiting til I can find it on sale or we actually need it. One of the things I have been doing this month is making a list of items that we are low on as well as things we are in need to purchase. Matt is down to one stick of deodorant and one bottle of body wash so I placed these on the list and decide unless he ran out, I was going to wait for a sale. The sale happened this week!<\/p>\n
It was Kendall’s turn to help me shop this week. I ended up completing 3 transactions, one on my card and two on Matt’s card. Total spent $12.52, total saved $41.70 or 77%.<\/p>\n
Transaction #1- Matt’s card
\n2 bottle of Pantene shampoo\u00a0 2 for $8.00
\nCoupon from 12\/27 $3 off 2
\n5 ECB from last week
\nPaid $.56 ( tax) and received 4 ECB<\/p>\n
Transaction #2- Matt’s Card
\n2 bottles of Irish spring body wash 2 for $7.00
\n2 coupons from today’s insert $1.00
\n2 sticks of Right Gear deodorant 2 for $7
\nBOGO coupon from today (subtracted 3.50)
\n4 ECB from first transaction and $.75 ECB from last week
\nPaid $4.73 and received 6 ECB<\/p>\n
Transaction #3- My card
\n4 sticks of Right Gear Deodorant 2 for $7
\n2 BOGO coupons from today’s insert
\n$0.75 ECB from last week
\nPaid $7.23 and received 6 ECB<\/p>\n
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I count it a success any time I leave with more ECB than\u00a0actual money I spent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I explain the saving in just a second but first my newspaper drama that continues to make life interesting. I live in a rural area, this is no secret. In fact the “local” newspaper does not offer a Sunday edition. … Continue reading