My Frugal Adventures

A friend of ours recently got us into game of "coupon clipping". To explain what I mean by this; manufacturers will often advertise with coupons, offering a discount to encourage shoppers to purchase their products. So the game, is then to cut out coupons from the newspaper or print them from the internet and work them in such a way that you leverage an already good retail promotion, by working them both together. I've only been doing it for a week or so now, and here are today's purchases.

At Target, we spent $10.41 for all of the the products pictured below!

Here's how it all worked:

Target was running a store promotion where if you bought 4 Special K items, that you would get a $5 gift card. We also had two "Save $1 off 1 box of cereal" coupons and one "buy 2, get $1 off" cereal bars coupons, so the net result was

2 boxes of Special K Blueberry Cereal for $2.78

2 boxes of Special K breakfast bars for $3.78

Total: $6.56 

With the $5 gift card, we put it towards our ice-cream bargain extravaganza:

Target had a promotion where by if you bought 5 Edy's (aka Dreyer's) ice-cream tubs or Frozen fruit bars, you would get yes, another $5 Target gift card. To add to this, we also had five "$1 off" coupons for these products that are usually $3.99 but were on sale for $2.50.

It worked out as follows:

4 tubs of premium ice-cream @ $1.50 each

1 box of all natural frozen fruit bars @ $1.50

Total: $7.50, less the $5 gift card from the Special K promo =  net total of $2.50!!!!)

Then, we had a coupon for "save $4 off a participating Schick shaving product". Clayton happens to use the Schick Quattro razor (4 blades), and had been putting off buying refill blades due their expense. With this $4 off coupon, and the $5 Target gift card from the ice-cream transaction, we paid just 35 cents for a 4 pack of Titanium blades, a product that is usually $9.94!!!!

At Dominic's (aka Safeway), we bought the following for just $7.95 with $18.29 in total savings derived from manufacturer coupons and a great store promotion on cereal.

At K-Mart they were doubling coupons, so this meant that a $2 off coupon became a $4 saving! Here, the following products pictured below were purchased for just under $30. Doesn't sound quite as outrageous as my other purchases above, but actually, some of the items purchased are typically very expensive. Some highlights include: Jumbo pack of Huggies for $2.26, 3 FREE liquid hand soap pumps, and Scotch pop-up tape with dispenser for 19 cents.

Thank you LORD!!!