K-Mart Triple Coupons This Week and A $5 Coupon Link

To see if your city is offering triple coupons this week April 19-25, 2009), click HERE. (Tampa, Florida, is participating, Oregon is NOT.)

Here's a link for a $5 off if you spend $50. HERE (You must have a printer on your computer.)

Yes, if you have dollars-off coupons, there are grand deals to be had this week in many states across the USA! But, it's almost a do-it-yourself check-out process to get the most accurate savings as the cashiers seem to be totally lost as to how to 'do' the coupons, so I'm offering a few helpful hints in this article.

In Columbus, Ohio, the lines were long, long, long and slow, slow, slow. My friend, Buffy and her husband waiting in line almost an hour Sunday morning. I had to duck a flying grocery cart full of food when an irate customer lost her patience and gave her cart a hefty shove past all the check-out lines. There were only two lines open on an extremely busy Sunday afternoon for the entire store, and the computer for her lane crashed. Apparently, she too had been waiting for 'a very long time'.

But for us, the wait (and time spent organizing all the coupons) was worth the savings. I spent $22 and saved $110.00! Later, I went back with some extra coupons and did even better percentage-wise. We stocked up everything I had good coupons for, but beware of prices that they jacked up before we got there! Like, Dove body wash was almost $9 a bottle! On the other hand, I think there's a good deal on Huggies, and and most anything that is on sale. I found a discount cart with several items I had coupons for too!

Please note that the Sunday paper (April 19, 2006) and the Smart Source and Red Plus coupon booklets that included $2.50 off for Finish dishwashing soap and $4 off Natural Instincts hair coloring. There's pet food coupons and lots of food item coupons also.

If you don't get the paper or want more coupons, (Smart Source or Red Plum coupon booklets), you can click HERE get them mailed to you each week. I haven't done it, but the website tells you how to request it.

Unlike most stores that take coupons, K-Mart has this strange coupon system where, when they scan your coupon, the cashier has to select the item you purchased from a list of all the items in that category. For instance, I got some Purina dog treats that should have been 'free' with my coupon, but she selected a lesser cost brand and I only got coupon credit for the lesser cost. It's almost impossible to tell the cashier which item you got one at a time, so I'm sure I lost a few dollars because of that.

Later, I only had a few items and when the cashier said, "I have no idea what I'm doing,", I offered to help her by telling her what item on her screen to select. Finally, I paid exactly what I expected to. Hey, does that mean I could work as a cashier now?

Even though I thought I understood the strange coupon credit for K-mart today, I still got confused at first. Here's how it works in our town.

Any coupon up to 75 cents is tripled. (A 75 cent coupon is worth $2.25 off.) Any other coupon is worth double up to $8. That means a $1 coupon will double to $2. A $2 will double to $4. A $4 coupon will double to $8. If the coupon says "Do Not Double", they won't double!!!! We could only get 4 items of the same product with coupons. Also, they say you can't use more than 25 coupons in one day, but there's no way they can keep track of how many times to go through the check-out line.

Or, this is how my blogger friend at http://becentsable.blogspot.com/ put it. " KMart is once again doubling coupons.... Thanks, Kim from STL Mommy for gathering this information:
Kmart will triple any coupon up to $0.75. The maximum discount is $2.25. Kmart will double any coupon from $0.76 to $4.00 which means the discount will range from $1.52 - $8.00 They will not allow you to go over the price of the product, but you can receive the item for free. There is a limit of 25 coupons per person per day. Some stores will be accepting internet printable coupons."

About that 25 coupons per person per day, it's a joke. I went back three times and no one noticed!

So, good luck and happy hunting with triple coupons. But, watch you back and your cashier.

Take Care on the Journey,
~Linda

Getting Started With Coupons - The Easy Way

(For those who get this by email - This is a new post on my coupon blog at http://goldencoupons.blogspot.com) I wrote this article for an English assignment at Bohecker College.)

Free Meals and Good Deals Every Day!

This morning I stopped at the store and accidentally left my purse in the car. As I sheepishly returned to the car, my husband said, “Oh I thought you got everything free with your coupons now.” It’s almost that good! Since I started collecting and shopping with coupons, we have such a big stockpile of food and paper goods that we’ve had to put extra shelves in the garage, and our grocery bill has gone down at least 50 percent!

It started almost three months ago when I was working as a home nurse for a small child. The child’s mother was collecting an arsenal of shampoo, baby food, paper products, laundry detergent, and various household supplies that she proposed to have gotten free – or almost free - by using coupons while shopping.

After observing her for a while, I was convinced it could be a profitable experience for me if I could give it the commitment to time and detail required with such an undertaking

Finding coupons is a challenge, but not the mystery it seems to be once you know all the places to look. (I haven’t learned them all.) Most people have heard about the “Sunday paper coupons”, but do not understand how they work. The coupons are not actually printed in the Sunday paper. There are three popular coupon circulars inserted into the newspaper. These small booklets are chocked full of money-saving coupons. They are called Red Plum (RP), Smart Source (SS), and Proctor and Gamble (PG), but all three are not always in every week’s paper. (You can get a schedule list online at http://www.southernsavers.com/2008/12/2009-coupon-inserts-schedule/.) April 5, 2009 is schedule to have five booklets - the only time all year this will happen!

One of the easiest ways to first start collecting manufacturer's coupons is to scout the grocery isles for the small boxes attached to the shelves called “blinkies”. Some have blinking red lights. Help yourself to every coupon box and collect several of the free coupons to use when that item is actually on sale. (There may be a 20-second delay on the boxes.)

Most serious couponers buy or subscribe to more than one Sunday paper so they get more than one coupon booklet. (Drug Mart in Columbus, Ohio, has the Sunday paper on sale for 99 cents every Sunday.)

You can also go online and google for sites that let you download and print individual coupons for free. For instance, yesterday I google-searched for Angel Soft TP because I discovered it was on sale for 99-cents, and I had no coupons on file. I quickly printed out two coupons and got two 4-packs for free just hours before the sale ended! (Go 'back" two or three times after the first coupon prints in order to get a second printout.)

In the Columbus, Ohio, area another way to collect the coupon booklets is on Saturday – Monday when the clear plastic bags with the weekly Kroger ads and coupon circulars are distributed locally. You may already get this delivered on or near your mailbox every week and not know its worth! Treat them like gold! They often contain the coupon booklets, but sometimes not.

Lastly, you can actually purchase the specific coupon booklets online for 45 cents each at www.couponsthingsbydede.com/register.asp. This site also 'sells' extra coupons for other items. (They can charge only for handling and postage). (You must register with them first.)

One of the greatest coupon secrets is to collect several of the same coupons for items you use. (That’s why you need to get more than one coupon booklet each week.) For example, a wise coupon shopper will collect a bunch of 50-cent coupons for Campbell’s soup (from the coupon circulars, blinkies, or printing the coupons online). Use the coupons (one for each item) at grocery stores that double each coupon, (Kroger and Giant Eagle in Columbus), and only when it is on sale! (Watch the weekly fliers). The usual cost of that soup has now gone down from $1.67 a can to 25 cents a can!

For me, saving money continues to expand. At first I was glad when I saved a couple dollars, but now I’m pressing toward saving 75-90 percent on anything I buy. I do this by coordinating the coupons I have on file with whatever is on sale that week at Walgreens, CVS and the major grocery stores. Today I spent $26 on groceries at Kroger and saved $32 by studying the weekly sales and using my coupons. (I almost missed the 5 half-gallons of free milk and juice, Buffy.)

Much of my coupon continuing education comes from reading blogs written by people who do coupons full time! I have found several good Internet blogs that list weekly sales and matching coupons, helpful tips and advice, and new coupon information.

Some of the good blogs are: www.couponmom.com, www.afullcup.com, http://survivingthestores.blogspot.com (no www on that site), and www.beingfrugalisfabulous.com. You can also do a google search for “Walgreens coupons” and “CVS coupons” for more sites and exciting information on how to get free products and free money at drug stores

I’m still learning new things about how to save with coupons, but I know that I’ll never again have to pay a penny for things like paper towels, toilet paper, toothpaste, body wash, shampoo, snack foods, cereal, Tylenol and Excedrin, razors, first-aid supplies, and much more if I’m willing to organize and wait for sales. (Then I stock up like mad!)

Because I’m such an Internet bug, I have several personal blogs. Thanks to my coupon success, I’ve started one for my coupon experiences called, Good Deals and Free Meals. (http://goldencoupons.blogspot.com). (Where I'll post this article.)

I’m always delighted to teach others how to exchange little pieces of paper for hundreds of products we use everyday! I love to answer questions, give out extra coupons, update my friends on new specials and websites, and help others learn how to shop wisely and save money.

My hope is that more people will want to learn from my experience. Many are skeptical about the time it takes to ‘do” coupons. I agree that it’s not for everyone, but those who have learned the art of couponing say they will never go back to paying full price for anything again. I’ve discovered a new world of ‘couponers’. We are united in believing we can save money, and we are united in the new age of the Internet!

Take Care on the Journey,

~Linda

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Shopping For Seven Sisters

(As posted on my blogsite http://goldencoupons.blogspot.com)

I did something yesterday that made me very nervous, so much so that I enlisted the assistance of Gopher Jim who was enjoying a sunny afternoon nap at the entrance to the burrow.

But, being the nice, helpful, Hubby Gopher that he is, we quickly set out on an adventure in the great metropolis city called Meijer Super Store.

You all know how excited I am when those Golden Coupons provide us with FREE groceries for our burrow. Already we've had to add an extension tunnel for all the extra goodies obtained by exchanging a tiny piece of paper for 'taxable goods'.

Sometimes coupons 'expire' before the sale price makes the item worth my time and effort. Like a dozen .50-cents off on Cottonelle TP coupons that I had on hand for that perfect Kroger .99-cent sale. (Doubled here made them FREE.) I guess Kroger got wise to all the FREE TP they were exchanging for these coupons, so they removed the sale tags and never put them back. Alas, I searched all the Kroger's within a 5-mile radius and no .50-cent TP were to be found. So those coupons expired yesterday and the death was noted with some displeasure at having wasted .80-cents on them at my online coupon store (here). I refused to take .50-cents off of a non-sale product that now costs 3.49!

Back to the city excursion of yesterday. Another stash of coupons being held back for a good sale price was 14 coupons for those sweet, tasty, Warm Delights by Betty Crocker. Made to serve one person by adding two tablespoons of water and 30-seconds in the microwave, these have fast become an occasional afternoon delight when the sun refuses to shine on our family habitat, and the chill winds continue to blow across the Midwest territory.

Oh the joy when I discovered that Meijer was conducting such a good sale price on the Warm Delights to make them FREE when the coupon was doubled. Oh the challenge when I realized that Meijer only doubles the first TWO coupons of the same product. The rest are at face value.

My solution (and I always think of one!) was to make seven transactions for the 14 coupons.

One more imposition is that when two Warm Delights are purchased with doubled coupons, this creates a override or nagative balance, (where they owe ME money), and Meijer Store does not like that either.

So I spent an hour or so the night before last, reviewing ALL the other sales at Meijer to combine with coupons stashed away in my big fat coupon holder to determine what else I could purchase with each of the seven transactions and not create a override balance.

Ready at last, I roused the napping Gopher and we set off for the city with Sheba happily settled in the back seat of the car.

"What am I suppose to do," queried sleepy Gopher.

"Just do whatever I ask you to," was my nervous reply.

In the end, I did make seven transactions at the self check-out counter using one grocery item with two Warm Delights and three coupons for each transaction. And every time I tried to scan the second coupon, the red light above my post would go off calling for a cashier to come over and 'authorize' the coupon(s).

At one point, the long-suffering but patient cashier asked why I was making so many separate transactions.

"She's shopping for her seven sisters," my quick-thinking Gopher replied.

I'm so proud of my 14 FREE Warm Delights (although not quite sure what to do with the stash), and the fact that I figured out how to get it done the "golden coupon" way! (I've already given some to our son John...He's still out of work!)

Oh by the way, I discovered Lysol toilet bowel cleaner is on sale this week for half-price at 1.17 a bottle, and with the .50-cent coupon that was in Sunday's paper, I got two bottles for .17-cents each.

A GREAT DEAL for anyone living in the Columbus, Ohio, area who lives near a Meijer store.

For a FREE Warm Delight, click HERE.

Happy Coupon Sales!

Take Care on the Journey,
~Linda

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E-Mail: bestnurse@usa.com

Free Dog Food and a Dog Fight Over TinFoil

Because we love and feed a family dog, I'm always on the lookout for good deals (and free meals!) for Sheba too.

A couple weeks ago, the coupon booklet that comes with the Sunday newspaper had a coupon for a free can of dog food. (I posted about that already.)

We delighted over being able to use several of those coupons last week for free cans of dog food. Then, as I was browsing a place where you can order coupons online (the cost is only for P/H because the law says people can't "sell" coupons), I discovered Dede had those coupons for a free can of Purine One dog food for .35 each.. I ordered 15 coupons, and today I exchanged them at Kroger for 'free' cans of dog food. (Yes, they actually cost me .35 each.) I remember when we used to wait for less quality (Purina) dog food to be ON SALE for from .69 to .62 at our grocery store and think it was a good deal! Fifty-cents a can was a STEAL, and we stocked up!!!! LOL

Besides the great deal on canned dog food, I have a coupon for $4 off one bag of Purina dry food. I notice the price for a 5 lb bag is a little over $5. I could have gotten it for only $1, but decided to wait until it's ON SALE for 3.99. Then it will be free. I need to make sure I use the coupon before March 31 when it expires.

While I was ordering extra coupons from Dede, I got some extra coupons for things we use all the time such as Campbells soup and my favorite Quaker Oatmeal granola bars ( to save me time and trouble - ha ha). The soup coupons were for .40/2 (40 cents off of 2 cans) of Campbells soup. I read where Wal-Mart had soup on sale for .60 a can, but when I got there, our store didn't have it on sale. (GRRRR). But, at Kroger, some kinds were on sale for .64 a can, so I used them there (doubled) (That made each can cost .49 each which is a super great deal for Campbells soup and LESS than the store brand.) (Wal-Mart doesn't double anyway!)

From one of my coupons blogs, I learned that the Oatmeal sale at Kroger this week says it's for the BOX of oatmeal, but it WORKS for the box of individual packets of instant Oatmeal that Jim loves for breakfast. I tried it for one box because it costs almost $4 a box normally, but with the coupon it would be only .77 (cents) a box, and I didn't believe that could be true. Well, it was! Now I'll go back and use a few more of those coupons. That's even better than when Walgreens has it on sale, (but probably not as good as someone who's been using coupons a long time).

The Kraft cheese coupons are still doubled at Kroger, and Kroger has the best sale of all three grocery stores in our area. I gave John our last cheese, so I was able to get some more for .50 a package.

Milk had a Managers Special sticker for .89 a half-gallon, and that was a very good (unexpected) deal too.

I've been on a 'tin-foil' mission at Walgreens where I should have been able to get it free this week, but was forced to pay regular price for one in order to get two at no cost! It was one of those 'fighting events' where I didn't push it with the cashier, but I called the manager of the store when I got home.

I explained the situation of the store not accepting my coupon off because it created an override on the computer, and the clerk wouldn't/couldn't accept the coupon. HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A RED PLUM COUPON WAS!!!!!!! (You may not know, but he should because he's manager of a retail business that accepts LOTS of coupons.) I told him it was a 'coupon that was inserted into most every Sunday paper in the United States" and it was for $1 off on a roll of tin foil, and his store had it on sale for .89 and I wanted to know why they wouldn't take my coupon(s).

He said he would find out what to do for an 'overage' situation and call me back THE NEXT DAY. (I can't believe this hasn't happened before at that store.)

Surprise, surprise! I did get a call the next day. He said the store would enter the coupon for .89 (instead of $1), and that he would make sure all the cashiers got that information.

(Jim ahd a good laugh over that story.) I'm going back there in a few minutes and find out if the promised "inservice' was done. A smarter action on my part would have been to purchase several products where I actually had to pay the store for something. ha ha

So, the lesson(s) learned here are to always know the regular prices of things you use, and to know when it's really on sale. (Sometimes the sale price is higher than the regular price. No kidding!) Understand the coupon policy where you shop. Use your cents-off coupons and stock up when it's at the best sale price. (If you don't want to check out with a load of the same thing, come back several times while it's still on sale.)

I'm doing that with toilet paper. I know most stores don't double coupons, but because our stores do, I've ordered coupons for Cottonelle toilet paper from e-Bay that, when used at Kroger, will make the 4-pack rolls of TP at no extra cost to me. The coupons cost me .12 each, but the (4-pack) TP is free at the store!

So, this morning my groceries cost me $21 and the register receipt says I saved $36.00!!

Happy Shopping to you - and may you always get Good Deals and Free Meals!

Take Care on the Journey,

~Linda

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E-Mail: bestnurse@usa.com

Take the Tea and Give My Penny Back

They say that those of us who are serious about couponing get real testy over every penny, and I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I'm being so penny-serious that I'll make a fuss at any cash register, fast-food window, or customer service over almost nothing! And, I'm learning when a sale is a sale and when it's a gimmic!

This morning as I drove hubby to work, we pulled through McDonalds for his breakfast. After placing his usual #12, no drink, I noticed the cost was for a MEAL with a drink.

"Are you the usual order-taker?", I asked without thinking. I mean, we've been through there at 6:55 a.m. so many times, I just expect her to recognise my voice and automatically place our usual order. (LOL)

"What?" she responded somewhat confused.

"Just add hot tea", my husband said.

"Okay. A #12 with hot tea," I replied.

"That will be $4.06."

"What? We've never paid $4.06!" I hissed to hubby.

"Never mind. Just take it," he said.

"But we have 12 boxes of tea bags at home. This is going to cost us a dollar!" I fussed as I pulled through to the window.

"It's below-zero cold, and we are not at home. Just take the hot tea," hubby said firmly but quietly.

At the window, I gave the smiling robot a glare as she handed me an ICE COLD DRINK.

"What is THIS?" I asked, still upset over it costing a dollar when I could have made a potful of hot tea at home before we left.

"Just take the tea", my hubby said sweetly but evenly.

Serves me right. We got orange DRINK (not even orange juice) in a cup full of ice. Hubby didn't get any hot tea, and we paid almost a buck-fifty more than we should have.

Later, I stopped at Kroger to use my store coupons that I had picked out. It's easier for me to watch what's going on if I don't buy other items when I'm using lots of coupons. So, everything I bought this morning was FREE after the coupons except for a container of biscuits for .49.

At checkout, the total was almost $25 until she started running the coupons, but when she said the final bill was $2.43, I questioned why I had to pay that much when everything I got was free with the coupons except for the biscuits. Only $2.43 sounds silly to quibble over, but I didn't want to pay $2.43 for 49-cents worth of biscuits! After reviewing the ticket, the cashier admitted she missed a $1.49 coupon. We laughed and I thanked her for taking time to get it right.

I was very happy with my two big bags of 'free' groceries and, I got my "pennies' back!

By the way, I may be stingy with the penny, but does anybody need paper towels, toilet paper, toothpaste, shampoo, body wash, Kelloggs cereal, hot tea, cheese, fruit juice, and MORE?

Come and get it! Our home overfloweth with it!

As I was writing this, I heard loud laughter coming from the kitchen. Those of you who know my hubby will recall that he doesn't give a good belly laugh very often. He came into the computer room and said, "Never in my life have I been able to afford more than one box of tea for myself. I just turned and looked on the shelf and counted 14 boxes of tea."

I couldn't help myself. I had coupons for $1.00 off of his favorite Celeste tea (usually almost $4 a box) and they were on sale for $1.59. My final cost was 59-cents! I got one of every flavor!

Jim says if he could give me an award for making our grocery money go so far, he would give it to me. He is just amazed at what I've done with coupons and how full our cupboards are in these bad financial times.

Did I say we had hot tea? Stop by and warm yourself anytime.

Take Care on the Journey,

~Linda

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Share Your Coupons

I've been very busy with a new quarter at nursing school and different classmates due to a reassignment for clinical assignments. (More will be posted about that on my Linda's Notebook blog.

Due to my change in schedule and having to adjust to many things, I've missed some good deals this week, but still have some GREAT ones to report!

At Meijers and Giant Eagle they have juices on sale this week. I've been saving my Juicy Juice coupons ($1 off) (I actually ordered these online for .07 each). I can get 64 oz. of fruit juice for $1.50 instead of about $3 each.

Frozen Orange juice is also on sale for .99 each which is really a great deal around here! I would have gotten more, but my freezer is FULL of frozen vegetables and other 'almost free' products! We're thinking of buying a small freezer to put in the garage so when food is on sale and combined with coupons making it up to 90 percent off, we can stock up.

This afternoon on the way home from school, I stopped by CVS to use coupons and get Extra Buck dollars, but they didn't have those sale items I wanted. (Good deals go quickly!). So, I stopped by Walgreens as it's right on the way home and found an unexpected gift! Hair coloring (I won't say if was for me or hubby) was on "last chance" price to less than $5. I had a coupon for $5 off two, but the cashier (very sweet, helpful, and friendly) ran both items with my two $5 coupons, so I got $10 off items that I was actually paying $8 for. (Simply put, I 'made' $2 on the sale.) She gave me some free store samples too. (It works both ways. I gave her some extra coupons the other day for customers who might not have any coupons.)

Back at CVS, on Sunday I went after Scott paper towels thet were on sale AND I also had manufactures coupons to add to the sale price. Too bad, they didn't have Scott paper towels even though the sale was only a few hours old. But, the cashier informed the manager that he 'better do something because they are on sale in the flyer". The manager knows me by now (because he always has to come up front and override the computer when it won't accept a coupon), so he offered me ANY brand of paper towels for .50 each because that's the price my Scott towels would have been. I don't think he realizes that some paper towels are BIGGER and cost MORE. I'm not greedy. I took three rolls of his VERY EXPENSIVE paper towels and said many thank-yous! On top of that, he gave me a rain check for more paper towels at .50-each even though the add says, 'no rain checks".

The coupons in the newspaper last week included a coupon for a FREE can of Purina One dog food that usually costs 1.49 each. (We never pay that price!). Thankfully, I got extra coupons from the mailbox area of our apartments, and Buffy gave me some, so I'm going out soon and collect all my FREE cans of dog food.

(By the way, Billy and Colleen, there's always good cat food coupons too. I can end up getting it FREE most of the time.)

Last week we needed something that CVS sells but I didn't have a coupon for it. Instead, I bought two tubes of Colgate Total toothpaste for 2.99 and got 2.99 in Extra Bucks to spend in the store. (Yes, the toothpaste was FREE in the end.) Actually what happened was, as the (same) manager was trying to override the computer (because the computer was not spitting out the $2 bucks), he gave me $2 off for EACH tube of toothpaste making it DOUBLE the extra bucks I expected. I made the purchase we originally wanted and added two containers for laundry soap for with the Extra Bucks.

If you got confused on that last paragraph, I spent $5.98 of my own money and got a total of $22.98 from the store.

Happy Shopping!

Thanks for the coupons Sandy. You know I'll use them!

Take Care on the Journey,

~Linda

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E-Mail: bestnurse@usa.com

Free Gas and Cheap Wet Wipes

At Giant Eagle we get credit for gas with groceries and new prescriptions. This week hubby got new med prescriptions for his back pain (sorry Chiropractor Prenger) which, when presented to Giant Eagle with our grocery store card and special coupons wqual $1 off for each prescription that gave us $2 a gallon off on gasoline (up to 30 gallons). Gasoline is 1.95 right now, so I sent a SOS call to son John.

(Funny thing. Hubby probably won't take any of the pills, but the prescriptions equal free gas!!!)

In exchange for lifting the 7-gallon containers of gas and filling our other vehicle, he gets to fill up his car too. Between filling up my car and the gas containers, we got our 30-gallons of FREE gas.

As some of you know, John lost his job a few weeks ago. I've been using my coupons to stock up on the best deals each week to help them out. Today they enjoyed several bags of food including at least four boxes of Cheerios! Dry cereal is a big item the last couple weeks. All the grocery stores seem to be in competition to offer the best deal on cereal!

I've been watching for an opportunity to use my Wet Ones (wipes for cleaning). This week Giant Eagle offered Buy One/Get One Free (BOG1). Although the shelf lists the Wet Ones for $2.38 (I think) each, if you buy four and use four .75 coupons (and they are doubled up to $1 at Giant Eagle), it comes out to .44 for each one. (Jim says that grocery coupon math is almost as bad as his numbers at work.)

Anyway, my total at GE came to about $3.25 for everything I bought including breakfast items, butter, the four containers of Wet Wipes, and juice. The cashier said, "wow!" and praised my excellent shopping skills.

Back at Meijers, I was trying to decide how many containers of Betty Crocker frosting to get because I had four coupons for four FREE containers. My thought was that neither John or me needed all that frosting but it was hard to pass up something that cost me nothing. Just then a woman came up with a little child who was begging for everything. (ha ha. My kids are grown!) I asked her if she had coupons for the frosting and she said no, so I gave her two of mine and felt a whole lot better. She gushed thank-yous for the coupons all the way down the isle.

Happy Coupon Shopping!
~Linda