School shopping for Tyler clothes..

This year, Tyler felt he wanted to have specific jeans. O'Course, I gave in to him since this is his high school years. I thought I would be paying around $50 for all to get the free shipping. What do you know, after looking for about an hour, we couldn't find the jeans he had before. However, he did find another pair that he likes, so I placed the order and ended up spending $39.98 and that even had free shipping.. Hot Dog!!! Now, we get to wait for it to show up and find out if they will actually fit him. This is why I hate to order clothes off the internet because sometime clothes does not fit right. Now, we play the waiting game of 6 to 8 days to ship to find out if they actually fit or if I have to send them back. Picking was slim and we got what we can. Now, I just need to worry about some shirts for him and a few more school items. However, I get to finish school shopping after school has started September 6th. Can the days count down faster.

Shopping trips at Dollar General, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree Deals

I had a notion today to go school shopping.  haha.. That did not happen. However, I didn't do to bad when I did go shopping. My first stop was Family Dollar. Family Dollar only has the Faygo that my son likes for $1, so I picked up 4 and I ended up clearing the shelve with those 4, and before I cleared the shelf, I asked to find out if they had more. He told me, no they do not have anymore until Thursday night. Okay, thanks and he told me to go ahead and take the last 4. I would have spent $31.93 and I saved $10.25 leaving me to pay out of the pocket of $21.68. Also, I found the Keri Lotion that everyone has been talking about for $3.00 and I used my $2.00 coupon and end up paying $1.00 each.
Dollar General was my next store. I walked in and picked up all my items and made it to the register. I had 3 coupons for B1/1F, well the first coupon went through not a problem. The other 2 were a issue. They wouldn't scan or take off $3.50 for the free items. The CS even called another CS to fix the problem and manage to not get a hold of the other CS. They had to do it differently then it was suppose to happen. However, I did get those free. I ended up doing a total of 3 transaction. The first transaction I spent $34.68 with a saving of $6.65 leaving me to pay $28.03. This was a bad choice that I made. However, my second transaction were the four Dove products that would not work in the previous transaction. For a total of $21.35, I saved $7.00 and paid $7.35 out of pocket. Then I realize that I forgot to pick up something else while I was there for my father. Well, I went back and picked up those 3 items. For a total of $10.25 of product and saving of $3.00 leaving me to pay $7.24 out of my pockets. That wasn't too bad this time.
Then I went to Dollar Tree Deals, I only purchased 9 items and had coupons. However, when I went to the register, I couldn't use internet printed coupons and I told the girl to take the 4 items off since I couldn't use those coupons. I ended up spending only $5.75 for all that I purchase. I had a saving of $1.50 leaving me to pay $4.25. However, I came home to look for the coupon policy for Dollar Tree and couldn't find it. I will have to do some more serious looking.

Complete total of items purchase $72.03 with saving of $28.40 and paying out of pocket of $43.63. Now I think I have cut into my budget for this week. And I still have to purchase those jeans for my son to use for school and I already know that will be $50.00 already but I will have free shipping by the time I am finish with that.

Farm Fresh Visit on August 17th

On August 17th was a very busy day. I babysitting for my sister while she was in court. I had plan to gather up my coupons while I was with the natives. However, that did not happen. However, when my sister got back from court, we both figured out our shopping list and coupons, so we could go shopping. My last post about Farm Fresh and receiving 6 $5 coupons and 1 $2 coupon from them the week before. I only had plan to use a few of them so I could use the others for this coming week purchase. I didn't take a picture of this purchase and wish I did. However, I walked in the store only planning to pay a little under $5 for all  my purchase. I manage to only pay $1.12 for $65.70 of food. That was a 100% saving. I did so awesome that day and my sister was waiting for me and was amaze that I only spent that much money for it all. I just wish I had more of those $5 coupons that I got from all that general mills items the week before. I also was short a couple of items and my sister gave me 4 things to put with my order and coupons. However, I thought I gave the lady all my coupons and when we both got home, I realize that I had one coupon that I didn't give the lady. If I would have gave the lady the coupon, I would have had to find a filler to end up paying ZERO for all my food. Since the coupon would have double from $1 to $2. So, I did great that week. Thanks sis for talking me into using those other coupons that I was planning to use this week. I had a great and awesome day then.

All You Magazine

I made a purchase for a discount for the All You magazine. I have yet to received it and I think this is wrong. Even my sister place 2 orders for this and she has yet to receive it. However, I would like to know when is the magazine suppose to start being sent out. I have been waiting since June or July. So, I would like to know about this. In a way, I think this is wrong since I have order it and have yet to receive anything. I am thinking, I have better chances to just purchase the All You magazine from Wal-Mart then wait for it to be delivered in the mailbox. I wonder who else has have this issue of ordering and not receiving the magazine.

From my understanding, it takes 8 to 10 weeks to get the magazine to be sent out. I am thinking, that I should be getting this next month, which means, I will need to go and pick one up at Wal-Mart.

Farm Fresh Coupons from General Mills products

WOW! I was looking through my receipts from yesterday and looking at my coupons that I got from Farm Fresh yesterday when I went shopping. I got 6 $5 off coupons and 1 $2 off coupon. I made out like a bandit yesterday. I can save $32 on my next shopping trip and I get to split that in between for the next 2 weeks. I did not realize how many coupons I was going to get from General Mills products yesterday. I wasn't even looking at that part when I was making plan to shop. Not to shabby here. In addition to the coupons, I got 185 for box tops as well. Now, I just need to figure out if Tyler's school does the box tops since I have no idea about the high schools. I also have other box tops from previous purchases to give as well. 

How I did my binder,thoughts on budgets, stores and bloggers.....

After trial and error with my binder to do either the inserts or the cut out of coupons in the baseball cards, I manage to decide to do the cut out coupons in baseball cards. I had started out with this and was thinking there would be a easier way to get this. However, I had 2 binders with me when I walked in the stores. One binder was coupons that was already cut and in baseball sleeves and the other was just inserts in slides. After that, I had no clue what coupons I had in one binder when it came to matching up against the stores. There are times, that I use other bloggers to make my list, however, I do use the grocery stores sale ads to make my list. I have notice that some (not all) bloggers only post items that they believe are to be good to them and miss what might be important to another individual. Granted that I am one that does not like shopping and I only go out once a week to shop, I do not go to all the stores in the area because either I am short on funds or gas or they are about an 30 minute drive for me each week. Most of the time, I will look at the other stores and then base on what my shopping is going to be on Wednesday when the sale ad comes out for Farm Fresh and Food Lion, then I decide if I should go to what store. I am on a strict budget and I have to work within that budget. I have to think what is good for my family and my budget.

My Farm Fresh shopping Trip for August 12th

I took my son shopping like usual when I go to Farm Fresh and to make it even special, I have a Farm Fresh that does double coupons up to $1 each day instead of just on Wednesday. However, I did do good on my shopping trip, not one that I manage to save over 50% of my purchases. First trip that I had was my purchases. My complete purchases came out to be $65.18 with a saving of 49% that 18 coupons were double at $15.50 leaving me to pay $34.18. Not bad for this total to pay. My second trip, my complete purchase came out to be $62.71 with a saving of 46% that had 18 coupons that double at $14.25 leaving me to pay $34.21. With both purchases, I manage to spend $68.39 for a total of $127.87 worth of products. Having a total of 36 coupons that double taking off $29.75 off my complete order. Not bad still. I still like the time that I went shopping and only spent $.25 for some bounty paper towels. And the other trip when I went to Dollar General to get the Air Wicks that they had on sale for $4 and I purchase 4 of them at $4 making my total a little over $16. I ended up only paying the sale tax on all 4 of the air wicks. I believe the sale tax that I paid was under $1.