Last Thursday, a friend let me know that Food Lion (our only grocery store in town) had put out a gift. A coupon $5 off $5 purchase, this coupon was available from their website in a pdf file. So I took advantage of this and print some to use. The expiration date on the coupon was 12\/29\/2013, I realized that this was probably a mistake. After a day the company corrected the date to read 1\/1\/2013.\u00a0 I knew that it would take a few days for the company to stop excepting these. But also thought I will use as long as they let me, the gravy train stopped tonight.\u00a0 I am sad but not surprised. I have been able to treat the family with items like potato chips, cookies and ice cream over the past week.<\/p>\n
I\/We stopped a total of 10 times to use this coupon, spending a total of $9.23, saving 67.99 or 88%. I could qualify for extreme couponing\u00a0with this one!\u00a0 Most of the transactions ended up costing less than $1 except for the one I completed on Sunday afternoon. In the process of using these coupons, Catalina\u00a0have been printing at the end of each trip. I wanted to know if they would limit the number of these I could use so I tried. I purchased a roast $6.54(using a $1.50 off $6 meat purchase), a bag of shredded lettuce $1.99\u00a0and 3 tomatoes $1.48(using a $1 off $3 of produce), 4 2L\u00a0drinks of store brand $0.83 each(coupons for $0.75 off three, the fourth was to raise my total), 2L\u00a0Diet Coke$1.66 (Free with minimum $10 purchase). I had a $1.50 off $15 and the $5 off 5. My total came to $3.83. The current plan is to go for one more trip to Food Lion on Thursday, they are having their brand sale that basically gives you $0.25 off each of their brand items you buy. I will be stocking up on mustard and ketchup as well as using the rest of my Catalinas.<\/p>\n
On a very personal note, I have been able to do something with everyone of my 2013 goals today!<\/p>\n
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Last Thursday, a friend let me know that Food Lion (our only grocery store in town) had put out a gift. A coupon $5 off $5 purchase, this coupon was available from their website in a pdf file. So I … Continue reading