Tom Thumb Trip 12/4

She shoots, she scores! And the crowd goes wild.....

Okay, so maybe it was just me. I was begging for high fives at the grocery store when our total came up. Today, I saved the most percentage-wise than I have for any other grocery trip. Almost everything we got was already on sale. Then, most of those items had a J4U store coupon, and half of those I had manufacturer coupons to stack on top. We bought items like: $24.52 worth of meat, 2 Nature Valley granola bars, tin foil, eggs, shredded cheese, two boxes of dry pasta, clamshell of lettuce, two tomatoes, two pouches of Betty Crocker cookies, Bisquick pancake mix, 3 boxes of Lucky Charms, 2 boxes of Reese's Puffs, 2 bags of Doritos, taco hot sauce, taco kit, 2 bags of Green Giant Steamers, eggnog, Marie Callendar dinner, and 2 packages of Smithfield bacon, and some soda.

For all of that, the initial cost was $128.43. With the rewards card, J4U, and paper coupons, it was brought down to $59.43. I saved a total of 54%!

Thing is, we should have saved even more than that. My fiance accidentally got the wrong tin foil. It wasn't his fault, so I don't blame him, but it still bugs me that we spent over two times as much on tin foil than I planned on. I uploaded a $2.99 deal from J4U for a particular Reynolds foil, and I also had a 55 cent off paper coupon to make it $2.45. The one he got was a whopping $6.69, which is completely outrageous anyways. We did get a little over a dollar off on it though, so it came out to $5.44. Ugh, can't win them all. Also, after looking through the receipt to make sure everything came off, I realized that one of the coupons wasn't scanned for the Bisquick, which would have made it only 67 cents. So bummer on that. The receipt is a little confusing too because according to that piece of paper I got a little over four dollars off from the meat department, yet the 50% off coupon doesn't show with the item, nor does the price reflect it. Another grievance of mine is that we obviously spent well over $75 worth of items, yet we didn't get the $10 off coupon for our next shopping trip. It's possible that maybe we were disqualified for w/e reason because of the dairy items, but I could have sworn we were set to get one. Oh well, I would never create drama over something as minuscule as that. The bill would have been even lower if my fiance didn't deviate from the list like he ALWAYS does. I even went over it last night with him and he said the list sounds good. I said, "We're sticking to it" and he said "Ok". lol

If everything went as planned, our bill should have been under $50, which is great that we were able to just about reach that because I'm hoping to only spend $200 per month for the two of us when we're finally footing the bill. Saving money takes quite a bit of time, but it gets easier and easier and it's totally worth it.