Artsy Chaos

I'm a couponer, yes.  I just can't quite get "Extreme" with it.... yet.  Of course, I am referring to TLC's Extreme Couponing where the people buy 400 million dollars of groceries for 2.5 cents.  Maybe I just don't need 2500 sticks of deodorant?  All joking aside, couponing is a way of life and today was no exception. My most recent shopping trip resulted in getting just over $100 of groceries for $30-something.  Not spectacular, but not bad.  Everyone likes to see my receipt when I arrive home from the grocery store but today I heard "not your best trip, Mom".. ha!!  I got 47 items for $32.81 which calculates out to .70 per item and this included a family pack of chicken breasts, family pack of ground beef, and a bottle of laundry detergent.  I'll give myself a pat on the back and keep counting my pennies!

$1.08 (13 CENTS before tax!!).  Yep, that's the grand total for 8 items including full price toilet paper and hubby's favorite deodorant!  Of which we sadly needed both .  Do ignore the Gillette body washes on the receipt, they weren't ringing up correctly and I didn't feel like bringing it to the attention of this particular cashier so I had them removed. We did one transaction previous to this one for the Walgreen's Excedrin promo (buy $20 get $10 register receipt).  We had 2 free product coupons, 2 $2.50 coupons and 1 $1.00 coupon and paid $8.97 pre-tax for 5 bottles of Excedrin (price before coupons and tax $23.95). Total pre-tax for both transactions was $9.10 for 13 items = .70 each.  Not bad! I'm always getting in on the end of the sales weeks though.  I would have liked to have gotten more of the Renuzit Crystals for .99 but, alas, they only had one package left. We would also like to invite you to join the *brand new* Lower Your Alexa Blog Hop...

Many people ask me how to find coupons on the internet.  Below are the coupon sites that I use for restaurants, retail stores, grocery, drug stores, etc. along with great sites for grocery store coupon match-ups and weekly sales.  Also linked below are some coupon databases if you are looking for a specific product coupon. Enjoy!! Mommy Saves Big Tons of links to printable coupons for restaurants, pizza parlors, grocery and retail stores. WOW Coupons More printable restaurant, retail and grocery coupons. Coupon Cabin Great site for online coupon codes. Coupons.com Printable grocery coupons. CoolSavings Printable coupons and coupon codes. Red Plum Printable grocery coupons. Smart Source Printable grocery coupons. Cellfire Add electronic coupons to your Kroger shopping card. Savvy Shopper Deals Shopping Wizard to plan your shopping trip. LiveFabuLESS Blogger with tons of coupon match-ups for many, many grocery stores. Deal Seeking Mom Coupon database of curre...