Stormy is today’s featured shopper. She is showing us her great shop at Safeway! If you are a new couponer, make sure you read Stormy’s story.
From Stormy:
Hi Shannon!
I love your blog, and visit it several times a day, I’m not a “hardcore” couponer yet, I’ve been at this for about 10 months, and have a pretty nice stockpile even though I do not subscribe to more than one newspaper, and I still sneak in need-based shopping now and again.I know that when I first started this coupon journey, I would get very discouraged thinking I had to have multiple newspaper subscriptions to get anywhere close to a *HOT* deal. While they DO help, and would’ve shaved even more off my OOP expense in this particular shopping trip, I wanted to show some of the maybe-discouraged readers out there that it is definitely possible to make a significant dent in your shopping expenses before you reach “hardcore” status, and without running all over town to different stores, since I know that seems to deter beginners who think they don’t have enough time. This took about an hour, all at one store.
This has been a long 10 months, with some frustration especially early on, but I save every time I shop now, I never pay full retail price for anything, my out of pocket expenses keep dropping, I have an outrageous stockpile, and I could NEVER have done it without the help of your blog, and all the hard work you put into helping us understand all things coupon … so a MASSIVE thank you to you!
SAFEWAY weekend Feb 6-7
(6) Avocados 2/$1
=$3.00
(10) Mission Tortillas 10 ct. $0.99
Use (1) $0.75
=$9.15
(1) Pistachios 16oz $2.99
use (1) $1.00
=$1.99
(3) Red Baron 14.76-22.63 oz $2.99
use (2) $1.00
=$6.97
(4) Safeway Chunk Tuna 2/$1
=$2.00
(4) Safeway Buttertop Bread $0.99
=$3.69
(3) Oscar Mayer Meat Wieners 16oz $0.99
=$2.97
(1) Potatoes 10lb. bag $1.78
=$1.78
(2) Wheat Thins $2.00
use (2) $1.00
use (1) $1.00 (simple affordable meals book in-store)
=$1.00
(2) Pillsbury Grands Biscuits $1.99
use (1) $1/2 (simple affordable meals book)
=$1.49 ea (+ ecoupons)
(2) La Victoria 16oz 2/$4
use $4/2 (printable)
=Free
(1) Generic Stewed Tomatoes $1.00
=$1.00
(1) Lucerne Cheese $2.49
=$2.49
(2) Safeway Lasagna Noodles $1.69
=$3.38
(2) Spice Islands Spices $2.39 (+ $2.94)
use $1/2
=$4.33
(1) Tuna/veggie strainer $2.99
=$2.99
(2) Ragu $1.25
use (1) $0.30
use (1) $1/2 (simple affordable meals book)
=$1.50
(2) Yellow Onions
=$1.16
(4) Hothouse Tomatoes
=$6.84
(1) Grapefruit 5lb bag $2.99
=$2.99SAFEWAY FREEBIES:
Tombstone Original Pizza
Fritos 7.75-9.25oz
Hillshire Farm Li’l SmokiesBag Credit =$0.12
Grand Total =$139.14
Total Savings (including club card + ecoupons) =$77.30
TOTAL OOP =$61.84
Thank you Stormy — Stormy is so right guys, this is not a race, no one will win a medal for the most saved. The most important thing is that you are taking the time to save even $1.00.
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Wow that is a pretty cool. I try to save as much as possible with coupons and sometimes I feel like its almost too much work, but with posts like this it makes it alot easier to keep on savin! Thanks
Thanks Stormy! We’re not hardcore here at our house either. If it’s too complicated of a deal, it’s just not worth it to us. I try to save so that we can purchase convienence foods for our busy family.
Thanks for posting this! I sometimes get discouraged because I can’t quite seem to match the sales yet to the best of the best and get $80 worth of groceries for like $10! However, I have learned saving anything at all is a huge accomplishment. I have a $150 budget for 2 weeks. I say 2 weeks because it works for us- sometimes I only spend $30 one week and the rest the next and sometimes I spend all of it in one week, so it works for us but at any rate- I went to Walmart and Weis and between the two I’ve saved around $78! And I’m still under budget yet so I have roughly $20 to get me milk and such next week! Had I not saved all that money I would have been WAY over budget already and I have enough food for 2 weeks (including fresh fruits and veggies)!! Thanks for posting this!! I really appreciate it!!