Just a quick post today to give you another trick I use. If there are great sales on at several different grocery stores, and if you have a Walmart in your area, they will match the sales prices. When I'm making my grocery list I'll go through all the fliers. Recently I found a great deal on Ranch Style Beans at another grocery store (0.39 a can), found Goldfish at Target for 1.33, and Keebler cookies at a drug store for $2. I wrote out my list and put these items on the bottom of the list with the prices and what store had them on sale. When I checked out at Walmart I put all the items that needed "price adjustments" at the end of the groceries - kind of separated them from the others. Before the clerk got to those items I told her that those needed price adjustments. I've done this twice now and haven't had any problems. I just told her how much they were at X place and she adjusted the price. I brought all my circulars just in case she wanted to see, but I wasn't asked for them. They have to be advertised deals. The last time I had a big Walmart trip, by doing this and using coupons, I lowered my bill from $200 to $150. That's a pretty good savings if you ask me. I know other people who are even better at it, maybe someday I'll get there.
Since I've been couponing, I've found I buy most of our toiletries and a lot of our cleaning products at CVS or Walgreens. It's hard to pass up free. They're usually only free after you consider the bucks they give you back at the end of your register receipt.
Another thing... There are a lot of printable coupons out there available. I'm trying to figure out how to put the links in the sidebar, but I'm not that hip on computer stuff. There are also sites that let you sign up for free things. There is a big warning I would like to give you about those deals. One of my friends reminded me of this yesterday. If you want to take advantage of these offers, it is imperative you set up another email account. Most of the offers require an email address. If you give them your regular email, your inbox will be bombarded. Sign up for a free email with hotmail or some other free service. You can use that address to sign up for the freebies. Then you only have to periodically check it to clean it out and decide if anything in there is worth keeping.
The kids and I went to the YMCA today to swim. It is scorching hot here - in the 100's. It's nice to have a place we can go and splash around and still stay cool without sunscreen:)
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