…in which my dim bulb shines a bit brighter!
Change the way you shop. Do it now! You have no idea how much money you can save until you just do it!
I’ll admit, my first few trips to Wag’s (that’s super-cool coupon shopper lingo for Walgreen’s, you’re not allowed to call it Wag’s until you have saved $50 just by shopping there.) (ok, I made up the rule.) and CVS actually did not save me any money. That was before I started to understand how it works.
I might be a special case. I am a slow learner. Really slow. I am a kinesthetic/visual/stubborn/slow learner. So I have to see it, touch it, and try it out several times, making some mistakes as I go, before it all begins to gel.
But last evening Hubby and I went to our third Walgreen’s in two days (they’re everywhere around here, and we’re scouting for a favorite) and it all started to make sense to me. I feel like I am coming out of a fog.
I’m not really with-it enough to lay out the deals the way Deal Seeking Mom does, she really makes it simple, but here are some photos of my haul.
My bottom line for yesterday’s Wag’s run is really impressive. I spent $2.05 and came home with items totaling a retail value of $78.25. That included a gallon of milk and a couple loaves of bread, and those had no coupon. I am certainly getting paid to bring stuff home. Weird, huh?
I know that looks like a ton of vitamins and shampoo, but, we won’t have to pay full price for vitamins or shampoo, ever again. We’ll just use this stock-pile until they go on super-duper deal again, then we’ll buy another stock-pile. That’s part of the program that took me so long to figure out. You don’t go shop for what you are out of. You shop for what’s on special now. And you buy enough to last until that item goes on special again. Really different from how I used to shop.
There were a million coupons in this last Sunday paper, so I chose the right time to (re)start.
I, now, fully understand why some chicks go on and on about this and why there are so many blogs devoted to helping us learn how to do this.
If you have a Walgreen’s or 2 near you, check out From Wags to Riches. Such a cute name for a blog, and deals for Wag’s laid out in a way that I understand ‘em. So, you know it’s plain talk.
The Michael’s deal cost much more money than the Wags deal, but their sale and coupons saved me a big wad of dough, even so. I got a cart full of yarn all at 50% off, a set of 3 pairs of knitting needles for 40% off, and a set of 5 crochet hooks also at 40% off. Hubby was with me, so we each used one 40% off coupon.
He’s been buying my yarn for a long time, so he really appreciated the savings.
Boy-o-boy does coupon shopping work for me!
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