Spending/Saving Saturday June 27- July 3

Walgreens:
Item Total: $7.92
Spent: $0
Saved: $7.92

Gordon Food Service:
Grocery Total: $26.98
Spent: $26.98
Saved: $0

Rite Aid:
Item Total: $10.56
Spent: $0
Saved: $10.56

CVS:
Item Total: $49.32
Spent: $0
Saved: $49.32

Kroger:
Grocery Total: $37.56
Spent: $12.96
Saved: $24.60


In addition to the earlier this week's purchase:
Grocery Total so far this week: $126.47
Spent: $40.18
Saved: $86.29

This week's total: $258.81
Spent: $80.12
Saved: $178.69

***Since this week was split into two months, I'm dividing the total between months.

Spending/Saving Saturday June 20- June 26

Gordon Food Service:
Grocery Total: $2.99
Spent: $2.99
Saved: $0


Busch's:
Grocery Total: $4.97
Spent: $3.37
Saved: $1.60

CVS:
Grocery Total: $36.29
Spent: $0
Saved: $36.29

Walgreens::
Grocery Total: $21.76
Spent: $1.74
Saved: $20.02

Orchard & 10:
Grocery Total: $1.25
Spent: $1.25
Saved: $0


In addition to the earlier this week's purchase:
Grocery Total so far this week: $46.76
Spent: $20.22
Saved: $26.54

This week's total: $114.02
Spend: $29.57
Saved: $84.45

Spending/Saving: June 13- June 19

Meijer:
Grocery Total: $43.23
Spent: $17.96
Saved: $25.27

Gordon Food Service:
Grocery Total: $6.98

Kroger:
Grocery Total: $20.87
Spent: $2.96
Saved: $17.91


In addition to the earlier this week's purchase:
Grocery Total so far this week: $61.13
Spent: $30.73
Saved: $30.40

This week's total: $132.21
Spend: $58.63
Saved: $73.58

I'm NOT an "Average American!"

Dear Savvy Coupon Spenders,

Do you ever stop to think about what life used to be like before you began spending coupons? Remember how much you dreaded life in the checkout lane? Remember feeling guilty about how much money you dropped on food every single week?

I used to grocery shop twice a week (hey, I've always loved to grocery shop!) so I didn't feel like I was paying an arm AND a leg at the checkout. Silly, I know!

The nerd-a-licious side of me loves to keep a running tally on my spending- to keep my head in the game and money in our savings account! About a year ago, I read that the "average American" spends $50 a week, per person, just on food eaten/prepared (if brown bagging) at home! The $50 ONLY counted towards edibles, not tooth paste, shampoo, laundry detergent, and all of the other consumables that we savvily have learned to purchase for pennies on the dollar!

My running tally for my family of THREE, which includes not only our edibles, but also all of our consumables, just hit the $1,000 threshold for the year! BUT, if I were a typical American shopper, $1,000 would have only lasted my family for 6 weeks, not nearly 6 FULL MONTHS! Crazy, huh?

So, in light of the $50 per person/week American standard, how are YOU doing these days?

Spending/Saving Saturday June 6- June 12

No pictures, long (hot) week!

Meijer: (I heart 10/10 + 11th FREE and Lysol week!!!)
Grocery Total: $70.97
Spent: $11.10
Saved: $59.87

Busch's: (I heart $.99 gallons of milk Wednesday's)
Grocery Total: $2.49
Spent: $.99
Saved: $1.50

Walgreens:
Grocery Total: $31.30
Spent: $0
Saved: $31.30


In addition to the earlier this week's purchase:
Weekly Total:
Spent: $36.16
Saved: $99.24

This week's total: $240.16
Spend: $48.25
Saved: $191.91

Spending/Saving Saturday June 1- June 5

Local Mom & Pop Shop:
Grocery Total: $8.61

Farmer's Market:
Grocery Total: $3


Kroger:
Grocery Total: $10.79
Spent: $4.63
Saved: $6.16
*I spent $2 in store rewards

Rite Aid:
Grocery Total: $71.58
Spent: $.32
Saved: $71.26

CVS:
Grocery Total: $45.16
Spent: $0
Saved: $45.16

Walgreens:
Grocery Total: $9.98
Spent: $0
Saved: $9.98

Busch's:
Grocery Total: $2.49
Spent: $.99
Saved: $1.50

Target:
Grocery Total: $15.04
Spent: $5.04
Saved: $10


In addition to the earlier this week's purchase:
Weekly Total:
Spent: $11.55
Saved: $19.06

This week's total: $197.66
Spend: $34.14
Saved: $163.52

Spending/Saving Saturday May 23- May 29

Meijer:
Grocery Total: $87.44
Spent: $7.90
Saved: $79.54

Costco:
Grocery Total: $7.18
Spent: $7.18
Saved: $0

CVS:
Grocery Total: $95.99
Spent: $0
Saved: $95.99

Walgreens:
Grocery Total: $29.96
Spent: $0
Saved: $29.96

Kroger:
Grocery Total: $12.73
Spent: $5.65
Saved: $6.58


In addition to the earlier this week's purchase:
Spent: $47.91
Saved: $58.97

This week's total: $338.76
Spend: $68.64
Saved: $270.12

Spending/Saving Saturday May 16- May 22

Meijer:
Grocery Total: $43.20
Spent: $4.63
Saved: $38.57
Earned: $4.25 in rewards

Meijer (again):
Grocery Total: $22.86
Spent: $0
Saved: $22.86

CVS:
Grocery Total: $16.32
Spent: $0
Saved: $16.32

Target:
Grocery Total: $19.76
Spent: $3.76
Saved: $16.00

Hartland:
Grocery Total: $2.99
Spent: $2.99


In addition to the earlier this week's purchase:
Spent: $35.63
Saved: $177.95

This week's total: $318.71
Spend: $47.01
Saved: $271.70

Spending/Saving Saturday May 9- May 15

Meijer:
Grocery Total: $47.93
Spent: $24.63
Saved: $23.30
*I spend $6 in rewards from the Nabisco 100 calorie packs.

Walmart:
Grocery Total: $3.14
Spent: $3.14
Saved: $0

Target:
Grocery Total: $27.27
Spent: $1.55
Saved: $25.72

CVS:
Grocery Total: $23.89
Spent: $0 (GC & ECB's)
Saved: $23.89

Bottle return: (-5.60)

This week's total: $102.23
Spend: $23.72
Saved: $78.51

Spending/Saving Saturday May 2- May 8

Kroger:
Grocery Total: $15.57
Spent: $11.64
Saved: $3.93

Rite Aid:
Grocery Total: $154.60
Spent: $0 (GC and lots of awesome coupons!)
Saved: $154.60

Walmart:
Grocery Total: $6.68
Spent: $6.18
Saved: $.50

Target:
Grocery Total: $8.52
Spent: $.56
Saved: $7.96


In addition to the earlier this week's purchase:
Grocery Total: $78.42
Spent: $30.59
Saved: $47.83

This week's total: $263.79
Spend: $48.97
Saved: $214.82

Spending/Saving Saturday April 25- May 1

Kroger:
Grocery Total: $23.76
Spent: $13.17
Saved: $10.59

SUPER Kroger: (located in Howell, MI doubles coupons up to $1)
Grocery Total: $44.85
Spent: $4.01
Saved: $40.84


Target:
Item Total: $7.61
Spent: $1.49
Saved: $6.12

CVS:
Item Total: $34.38
Spent: $0 (GC)
Saved: $34.38

Busch's:
Grocery Total: $5.98
Spent: $0*
Saved: $5.98
*Buy one get one FREE sale with a FREE item coupon!

Orchard 10:
Grocery Total: $7.51
Spent: $3.72
Saved: $3.79

Walgreens:
Item Total: $61.76
Spent: $0 (GC)
Saved: $61.76

In addition to the earlier this week's purchase:

Grocery Total: $101.00
Spent: $12.92
Saved: $88.08

This week's total: $286.85
Spend: $35.31
Saved: $251.54

Spending/Saving Saturday April 18-24

Sick toddler = no pics... sorry!

Meijer: (two day sale)

Grocery Total: $88.44
Spent: $6.20
Saved: $82.24
Store Rewards Spent: $5
Store Rewards Earned: $6

Local Grocery Store: (Dave shopped... YIKES!)
Me: "Where is the receipt honey?"
Dave: "The what?"
Me: Honey, we track our spending!"
Dave: "It was like $5 or something..."
Me: "Eggs & OJ (We already had OJ!!!)?"
Dave: "Yup!"

Item total: $5
Spent: $5
Saved: $0

Busch's:
Item total: $6.23
Spent: $5.24
Saved: $.99

Walgreens:
Item total: $55.75
Spent: $1.38
Saved: $54.37

Target:
Item total: $9.11
Spent: $1.09 (+ a little bit of GC)
Saved: $8.02

CVS:
Item total: $28.93
Spent: $0 (GC)
Saved: $28.93
*Return: $-7.24
***I purchased Huggies two weeks ago thinking that they were included in the 'purchase $25 in baby items, receive $10 in ECB's... so I purchased diapers and wipes with GC and ECB's, but the Huggies weren't included. (I hate finding out the hard way!) When I returned the diapers (because I am unwilling to pay full price without gaining rewards- even when the full price is paid by store rewards and prescription transfer gift cards) I was given the GC money back on a gift card and ECB's back in cash... weird. Anyone else ever have this happen?

Here are this week's previous purchases.
Spent: $26.55
Saved: $58.14

Weekly Total: $262.13
Spent: $38.22
Saved $239.93

Spending/Saving Saturday April 11-17

Kroger

Grocery Total: $8.17
Spent: $2.44
Saved: $5.73
Store Rewards Spent: $0
Store Rewards Earned: $6

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Banquest (home mailer coupon), Betty Crocker (IP)

Meijer

Grocery Total: $39.09
Spent: $4.78
Saved: $34.31
Store Rewards Spent: $9
Store Rewards Earned: $12

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, MBC= Meijer Mealbox coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Green Valley Steamers (IP's), Ziploc (MFC)

Costco
Lettuce (in picture above), $3.49

Target
Item total: $9.48
Spent: $0 (GC)
Saved: $9.48

Rite Aid
Item total: $13.97
Spent: $0 (GC)
Saved: $13.97

Here are this week's previous purchases.

Weekly Total: $233.06
Spent: $57.50 (over by $7.50)
Saved $175.56

Spending/Saving Saturday April 4-10

Kroger: (a sans coupon purchase!)

Grocery Total: $8.43
Spent: $7.13
Saved: $1.30

Dave returned a stash of old, old, old bottles and cans hidden in the garage, $12.20 back in my pocket!

So, with my 'earlier this week' purchases, here are my new totals:

Grocery/household item total: $224.22
Spent: $12.31
Saved: $211.91

Spending/Saving Saturday March 28-April 3

Aldi:
Spent: $4.61
***I haven't been to Aldi in years, and I've only been twice before. I was pretty surprised by the prices- but not enough to give up shopping name brands!

Rite Aid:
Spent: $0 (gift card from prescription transfer)
Saved: $21.93

Target:
Spent: $0 (earned gift card from previous savvy spending)
Saved: $1.77

Previous purchases this week:
Spent: $45.08
Saved: $120.91

Total for this week:
Spent: $50.52
Saved: $144.61

When I decided to track my weekly spending for this year, I didn't think about weeks containing two months in them... so I decided to split my spending for the week (up to March 31st) evenly between the two months and then anything purchased after 4.1.10 is allocated to April's spending!

Spending/Saving Saturday March 21-27

Meijer

Grocery Total: $33.12
Spent: $24.12
Saved: $9.00
Store Rewards Spent: $0

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, MBC= Meijer Mealbox coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Dannon (MFC), Ziploc (MFC)


Meijer (*and I shopped Meijer again, since I forgot to pick up the winners gift card)

Grocery Total: $10.74
Spent: $1.76
Saved: $8.98
Store Rewards Spent: $0

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, MBC= Meijer Mealbox coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Dial soap (IP & rain check), Sour cream (MFC)

Kroger:

Grocery Total: $(-4.20)
Spent: $0 (due to returning bottles)
Saved: $4.38
Store Rewards Spent: $0

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Betty Crocker (IP's), Frank's (MFC)

Walgreens:
Item Total: $9.42
Spent: $.84
Saved: $8.58

And my earlier this week grocery post: Meijer
Grocery Total: $31.47
Spent: $17.27
Saved: $14.20
Store Rewards Spent: $0

Weekly Total: $109.05 worth of groceries/household items purchased
Spent: $39.79
Saved: $69.26

Spending/Saving Saturday March 13-20

Meijer

Grocery Total: $44.10
Spent: $2.00
Saved: $42.10
Store Rewards Spent: $13 ($10 from Walgreens for purchasing Benedryl & $3 from Kroger for purchasing Oscar Mayer bacon)


Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, MBC= Meijer Mealbox coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Campbells (MFC & MBC)

Kroger (Dave put the groceries away for me before I could snap a picture, he's such a thoughtful guy)

Grocery Total: $47.73
Spent: $15.57
Saved: $32.16
Store Rewards Spent: $0

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, MBC= Meijer Mealbox coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Oscar Mayer bacon (IP), Snickers (MFC), and I purchased a few other items to make food for a shower!

CVS
Spent: $0 (gift card from transferring a prescription)
Saved: $8.93

Rite Aid
Spent: $0 (gift card from transferring a prescription)
Saved: $26.49
***I purchased 4 deodorants, a gallon of milk and a 12 pack of Pepsi throwback using the overage on the deodorant and the $3/$15! Dave was thrilled!


Walgreens
Spent: $2.43
Saved: $32.16
***I made two transactions spending $4.40 on a rebate gift card, and made a partial payment on a Walgreens gift card.

And these additional purchases this week,
Spent: $35.93
Saved: $92.67

Weekly Total: $292.51 worth of groceries/household items purchased
Spent: $55.93*
Saved: $236.51

*My sister and I will be sharing the grocery expense for the shower, so I'll be removing $20 from my total.

Spending/Saving Saturday March 7-March 13

*** I forgot to add the 10 Snickers bars into this picture... oops!

Meijer:
Grocery Total: $41.85
Spent: $9.68
Saved: $32.17
Store Rewards Spent: $0

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, MBC= Meijer Mealbox coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Barilla pasta, (MFC), Snickers (MFC)

Mom & Pop Grocery store:
Spent: $1.99

Walgreens:
Item total: $24.37
Spent: $1.97
Saved: $22.40

Rite Aid:
Item total: $77.18
Spent: $0 (used gift card)
Saved: $77.18

CVS:
Item total: $14.82
Spent: $0 (used gift card)
Saved: $14.82

Plus earlier this week's grocery trip
Grocery Total: $87.00
Spent: $24.31
Saved: $62.69
Store Rewards Spent: $5 (RR's) and a $7 store credit

Weekly Total: $247.89
Spent: $37.95
Saved: $209.94

Spending/Saving Saturday February 28-March 6

SUPER Kroger:
Grocery Total: $48.99
Spent: $6.51
Saved: $42.48
Store Rewards Spent: $0

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, MBC= Meijer Mealbox coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Costco: (again? I know!!!!)
Grocery Total: $16.17

Walgreens:
Item total: $11.18
Spent: $2.18
Saved: $9.00
Store Rewards Spent: $5

Meijer produce run: tomatoes and bananas, $2.20

And my additional shopping earlier this week, where I had spent $33.99 & saved $10.70.

Weekly Total:
Spent: $61.05
Saved: $62.18

February's Grand Finale

I had the opportunity to shop at SUPER Kroger* today... and I am pretty pleased with my purchases! Man, its been forever since I've shopped SK!

Grocery Total: $138.47
Spent: $19.82 ($3.50 was for the box of Thin Mints... did ya see them?)
Saved: $118.65
Rewards spent: $5 gift card from corporate for leaky milk.

Items purchased with coupons:
KEY: MFC= Manufacturer's coupon, KC= Kroger coupon, IP= Internet printable coupon.

Hefty zip top bags (MFC + rain check), Bounty (MFC), Minute Maid juice (MFC), Welch's juice (IP), Oreo's (Home mailer coupon), Oreo Cakesters (FREE item coupon when you purchase Oreos, from Meijer tearpad), Betty Crocker cake mix (FREE KC), Manwich (home mailer coupon), Cheese its (coupon booklet from Meijer), Reynolds oven bags (MFC), Rubbermaid containers (MFC), Driscoll's strawberries (IP), Cuties (IP), Wholly Guacamolly (MFC), Hormel pepperoni (MFC), Johnson's Buddies (catalina coupon), Colgate (CVS coupon booklet coupon), Disney gummy vitamins (MFC), Lady Speed Stick (CVS coupon booklet coupon), Reach toothbrushes (MFC), and I spent a $2/$10 KC for produce! Wowzers!

*"SUPER Kroger" is the name dubbed for certain Kroger locations (Howell and more north) that double manufacturer coupons up to and including $1! If you would like more info if you are planning to shop at a SUPER Kroger location, visit 1-2-3 Save for the most recent list of weekly FREEBIES!

I also ran to Walgreens tonight, but I paid with a gift card!
Spent: $0
Saved: $40.83
*Dave is super excited to have a couple of Frappachino's in the house again!

February totals update:
Spent: $164.93
Saved: $582.98