If you are friends with me on Facebook, you may have noticed the discussion I was having yesterday about coupon shopping, and how I don't really plan on doing it very often any more. I've come a long way from when I first started couponing and I bought EVERY "deal" I found, but even now, buying only things we'll for sure use eventually, I still spend more on stocking up and end up going over budget because I have things on my list that we need now.
I'm still going to grab my free inserts when I come upon them, although I'm giving the big coupon box a rest, and switching to the file-by-insert method, so I can just clip the few coupons I know I'll use (diapers, wipes, and cereal), and find any others if I need them for freebie deals that are posted. It's just not worth the time or money to me to sit and clip them all at this stage of my life. And what used to be a fun thing to do with Jonah, where he would take the extra clippings and "beep" them like he was doing his own coupons, turned into Jonah and Matthew dumping bucketfuls of expired coupons all over the living room. That pretty much cemented the fact that we were done.
That being said, the stars aligned for me today: Cub's daily deal was for cereal, which we ran out of this morning. My pregnancy craving was for chips, which I had expired coupons for (so only good at Cub), and they had a deal on Powerades, which Jesse likes to drink. Plus, we needed to get milk with one of our WIC vouchers since we were almost out of that too. So I went.
Here's the breakdown:
- Cap'n Crunch and Life Cereals: $1.49 each with $10 purchase. Used $1/2 Quaker items (All You October) = paid $0.99 each (my target price for cereal).
- 2 Lays chips: $4.29 each. Used two $3/1 printables (from a Facebook promo last month) = $1.29 each. (The chips that were on sale for 2/$5 were too small of a size. Disappointing!)
- 10 Powerades: $0.69 each (booklet coupon)
- Total spent: $11.97*
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