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08-03-2008, 01:56 PM #1Registered User
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Little grocery shopping victory...
I just wanted to share about my grocery shopping trip yesterday. I am a Costco shopper normally because our local grocery store is super-expensive, but sometimes certain items in the sale flier catch my eye. Normally I would go in for the sale items and pick up other things just because and end up with no real savings at all.
Yesterday I went with a strategy, and I think I did really well. Saw some good coupons for produce - a whole watermelon for $2.50, a head of iceberg lettuce for .50, and a 2# bag of whole shrimp for $3.99. On top of that boneless skinless chicken breasts were selling for $1.99lb, and there was a coupon for "get $10 off of minimum purchase of $50." I checked Costco prices for BS chicken breasts, and they are $2.30lb, so I thought I could stock up on the sale chicken. I added my purchases up as I went so I wouldn't go way over $50, and I walked out of the store with six value packs of chicken, my sale produce plus onions and grapes, some sale pasta, half and half for my coffee, hamburger buns, and 2 containers of ice cream (BOGO), and my end bill was $52.71, down from the original amount of about $104.
When the checker told me I had saved $51.64, I had to really restrain myself from doing a happy dance right then and there.
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08-03-2008, 02:00 PM #2Registered User
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Way to go!
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Oh that was a great shopping trip! I like hearing how much I have saved!Sometimes even the clerks are surprised!
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That's really, really, REALLY a great trip!
I want some of those prices!!!!
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08-03-2008, 03:36 PM #5Registered User
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Ooooh! Great job! Enjoy the food!
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08-03-2008, 09:43 PM #6Registered User
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Great job!! Planning and strategizing really goes a long way.
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08-03-2008, 09:50 PM #7Registered User
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You did good!
That's quite a bit of food for only $52.00.
I so would have started dancing in the aisle!!!
Congrats!!Michelle in middle Tennessee!
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woo hoo !! i would have wanted to dance too ... good job!!
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08-03-2008, 11:46 PM #9Registered User
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Thank you!
I was so giddy when I got home that I told my husband all about it and today showed my mom my receipt and my freezer. LOL I was telling my hubby that now it's getting fun to figure out ways to beat the system.
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Wow! Congratulations!!
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08-04-2008, 12:17 AM #11Registered User
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Just wanted to add my 2 cents here to tell you that was an EXCELLENT shopping trip! You realize of course that you saved just a few pennies short of 50%. That's a "dream come true" for most of us! WTG!!!!
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08-04-2008, 02:53 AM #12Spendthrift Guru aka KarlaBob
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Way to go!!
You did great...I'd love some of those prices as well.
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Great shopping! Gotta love a savings of more than 50%
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