Accomplishing the (almost) Impossible

Today I felt accomplished while grocery shopping. My stores double up to .99 cents instead of $1 which would be a whole nother playing field if they did. I mean, just think of all the things we could get free if our stores doubled up to $1 instead of just .99 cents. When they say they double up to .99 cents what they're really saying is .75 cents as I've personally never seen a coupon for .99 cents.........until today that is. Yes, that is my accomplishment, and I felt like a giddy young child the entire shopping trip, heck I'm still smiling about it. Here is how the transaction went down:

I had a coupon that stated buy 2 easy mac cups and get the third one free. Easy mac cups at my store are .99 cents. Thus, my coupon value is .99 cents. Because of this value it will automatically double. This means I'm really buying 1 cup and getting 2 free, or spending a total of .33 cents for each easy mac cup. I started to use these coupons at Walmart since their price is .88 cents, but figured what could it hurt to look at the prices in the grocery store? I'm glad I waited, and I've also already ordered more of these coupons. Although the price was $3 for 15 coupons it was worth it to me. Sadly, these coupons state there is a limit of 1 per transaction. I always do at least 2 transactions at each store, so that is 4 coupons each shopping trip. Depending on the crowd I may go through self checkout and do more transactions if I only need 2 transactions that day as it gets closer to the expiration date. I'm happy with the price, and my kids are happy we now have easy mac stocked once again.

This has got me to thinking about all the bogo coupons I've wasted at Walmart because their prices are cheaper and this item is not, or rarely goes on sale. Things like gum, of course those coupons would double, and most of them will be nearly free if not completely. How much money have I thrown down the drain this way? Oh well, I will not be doing that anymore for sure. All it takes is a quick second to look at the prices either while I'm doing my online "shopping", or while Im in the store myself.

I still ended up going to Wal-Mart as planned. I planned on checking their marked down meat since this is where I get the majority of my ground turkey from, but also to get some boxes of jello. My son could live on Jell-O if you let him. For the past few months there have been coupons that offer me a great deal on Jell-O. The coupon states you'll save $1.25 off the purchase of 3 of the items listed. There is Jell-O Philidephia cream cheese and something else. Since I just used my last coupon Im not really sure what it was. I don't need any of the other products, but Jell-O is always on my needs list since he goes through so much. The price of single boxes of Jell-O at Wal-Mart is .50 cents a box. So, for 3 boxes the before coupon total is $1.50. After the coupon the price is .25 cents for 3 boxes. I got 60 boxes for a little over $5. I will most likely go back and get 60 more boxes. I would love to get 120 more, but I need to put these up to see how much room they actually take up before ordering more coupons.

Below is are pictures of my bounty for the day along with totals.