Heard of eCoupons??

I took another trip to Smiths last night to hit the sale with my coupons. A friend from dispatch (Amber Barker) came too. My coupon Jedi is April - but I stress out at the thought of multiple transactions and having to be OCD-organized.

Smiths is chill - you do only one transaction, boop your Fresh Values card and hand over your wad of coupons (I had 76 to give...) and the checker does the rest. Sure I'm not saving percent off retail that April does, but I'm not as stressed and tedious as her transactions are....

I recently found this cool blog - Slave to Save - and she had links on there from a few eCoupon sites. I had never heard of eCoupons before I read her blog. You can go to a few different sites, click on some coupons you want, and the site loads it on to your Smiths card. (The only store in the St George area that allows ecoupons is Smiths....so far!) I'm totally loving it. So, on one item, I can use an eCoupon AND a regular cut out coupon. THAT RULES!

Barker spent $77 out of pocket. With her coupons, Fresh Values card, and Smith's Daytona 500 deal, she saved 47% off the retail price - GO BARKER!!

• I got 96 items.
• Retail Price was $247.13
• Coupon savings was $36.85
• Fresh Values Savings was a whopping $98.52
• Total Savings was $135.37..... 55%
• Out of Pocket $111.76

I only paid an average of $1.16 per item and I got TONS of cereal (Trix, Honey Nut Cheerios, Kix Frosted Cheerios), Hamburger Helper, Oscar Meyer hot dogs, Totino's Pizzas and Pizza Rolls, Bryers Ice Cream, Cheese, and fruit snacks like Fruit by the Foot and Gushers.

It was like shopping at a DOLLAR STORE!!! Thank you Smiths!!

Jealous yet??

Smiths Coupon Shopping Trip

My receipt was over 4 feet long!!!

Smiths was "doubling" coupons - any coupon worth less than $1 they turned into a $1 off coupon. So my .25cent, .35cent, .40cent coupons all became $1 off. While I was cutting my coupons out, I got tired of it but realized I was really cutting out "dollars" and that kept me going at 2am. HA!

They also had a $4 off 4 items Proctor & Gamble deal. So, that helped a lot too.

84 items purchased at Smith's. Saved $125 with coupons. Paid $132. Not bad but could have done better :-)

2 Skippy Peanut Butter

2 Trix Yogurt 6packs

2 GoGurt 8 packs

3 String Cheese

2 French's Mustard

2 Hunt's Ketchup

6 Kraft Salad Dressing

6 Pam spray

4 C&H Brown Sugar

6 Steamfresh frozen veggies ($1)

3 Suddenly Salad (FREE)

6 Flipz chocolate coated pretzels (Free)

6 Gold N Soft butter

2 Country Crock butter

3 Egglands Best dozen eggs ($1)

3 C&H Granulated Sugar

6 Rold Gold pretzels

6 Bounce Dryer Sheets

12 Dawn Hand Renewal soaps (out of pocket .49cents each)

1 Reese's Dark Chocolate PB Cups (FREE)

Some things I had coupons for, I didn't actually buy just because it wasn't a good enough deal and/or I wouldn't really use the item to make it worth it.

I'm so glad for my friend April for helping me understand the lingo and the process. I have her on speed dial for any crazy couponing questions.

I'm hoping to hit Rite Aid in the next few days and get diapers for $4 a pack!!

Super Savings Gal

Thanks to April I have now become coupon-conscious and deal savvy. Well, I'm trying anyway. April told me that Smiths was having a pretty good deal on a few things. I decided to check it out. I got all this for about $39.00 - that's right THIRTY-NINE DOLLARS. And according to the receipt, I saved about $55.00, so I'm pretty happy with that.

8 2L of soda
4 jugs apple juice
4 jugs Sunny D
4 Irish Spring 4-pack soaps
4 chick deodorants
4 dude deodorants
4 kitchen handsoaps
and a bajillion bags of pasta (since Ryan eats that almost every meal)

Thanks to April and her silly blog post of way back when, I had to take a picture of MY deal. I'd post more detail but I have a couple of toddlers pulling at my shirt and saying "Mama, hold you."