I'm back...

I can officially say I'm back.  I took some time off from finding and getting deals to get my coupons organized.   Today was the first day back out there shopping with coupons and boy did it feel good looking at the receipts and seeing how much I've saved.

Walgreen's has Right Guard Total Defense 5 deodorant on sale buy one get one free.  That in itself could be a good deal, but a certain scent is on clearance for 2.29.  The Walgreen's I went to only had three of the clearance deodorant's and a whole lot of the regular priced ones.  After doing some quick math I figured out that buying one non-clearance and three clearance was still a good deal.  Plus I had 2 $1 off 2 coupons I printed from Right Guard's facebook page.  Why did I buy 4?  Well if you buy 4 this week you get a $4 register rewards that prints out.

Walgreen's Shopping Trip
4 Deodorant's
1 Scotch Mailer

Total Cost Before Savings was $19.58
Total Out of Pocket Cost $5.50 Plus $4 RR to use towards a future purchase.  
Total Savings $14.08 which is a 72% savings

I was happy with that being my only shopping for the day, however when it was time to start dinner I realized we were out of barbecue sauce.  How I let us run out of barbecue sauce is beyond me, but I decided while I was running to Stop and Shop I should take my binder and pick up a few things.  I glanced at the meat and noticed quite a few packs of meat with the $2.00 off peelie.  Picked up some chop meat and 2 packs of ribs.  I admit I did do a little shopping as you will see from my totals.

Stop and Shop
14 items (3 family size packs of meats plus other things)

Total Cost Before Savings was $90.09
Total Out of Pocket Cost $63.15
Total Savings $26.94 which is a 30% savings.

Hmm...until I saw the percent saved at Stop and Shop, I was really happy with my deals.