All You Magazine........

I love the All You Magazine. Once I finally found it! =)  Awhile back some coupons were out for it and I searched our Walmart every time we went in and couldn't find one =/  Finally the coupons expired =(  We went to Walmart and look what was there All You magazines! Love the coupons and recipes. 

 I just ordered it delievered to our house for $12 for the year!! I was so excited because you know the coupons will make up that price easily! And it's exciting thinking about all the new recipes too! =)

I'm not sure how long it will be around but here is where I ordered mine! All You Subscription  I'm so excited now I don't have to worry about if the store has it or not! Yay!! =)

Poor coupon blog.......

I have this poor neglected coupon blog.  I started it before our Facebook page.  But for some reason I forget to use the poor blog =/  I will have to remember to use it more but the same with our poor jewelry blog too it's been sitting neglected too =/ 

I'm amazed at some of the big bloggers fan base!  Not envious at all. I can't imagine even trying to keep up with all that! =)  I want to help others by giving the coupons I don't use, as it is the postage gets a bit expensive.  =/  But it's fun and nice to be able to send to others.  I'm discovering that there are places to trade them too! =) 

A picture of our shopping trip last night.  1 little stop at CVS(had to pick up my moms medication anyway), then Safeway and a small stop at Frys'.  And all these stores are right around us I'm not traveling all over the countryside to get the deals! =)

Not the best buys but not the worst either! =) 3 stores (Safeway, CVS and Fry's) Total OOP $31.49 total saved $48.33 =) saved more than we spent which is always a good thing! =) I also seen a mother in the store trying to match cereal with coupons, had 2 of the $4 off 4 coupons so I gave her one =) I didn't really need 8 cereals! =)


I'll try to get in the habit of using our blog more! =)  Need to get back into the jewelry too!  =) 

Learning curve.......

There is so much to learning to coupon!  Sometimes I think I finally have it then something makes me say hmm nope still need to work on it! =)

I've made some decent shopping trips off and on.  I LOVE CVS for couponing I do fairly well shopping there!  Target is pretty good for some things as well.

I can say I'm so thankful for finally getting it to a certain degree though as the gas goes up every little bit saved helps!.

My biggest tip as I go is to Work with one store first!  Get to know how it works fairly well then you won't feel overwhelmed!  Walgreens still somewhat confuses me it's not as easy for me as CVS yet I know some love Walgreens more!  I do venture there from time to time.......

We continue to try to pay it forward by passing on coupons we don't use or won't use. On occasion a sale pops up that I wish I had kept a coupon for but for the most part the ones I pass on are ones we don't really use but someone else may.  And IF they don't then hopefully they pass it on to someone else that may use it.  Or like I've started doing and I've found a few the same way leave them by the product in the grocery store! =)

Lesson learned or still learning

ALWAYS, always check your reciepts and watch as they ring everthing up including the coupons.  Today a $1 coupon wasn't rung up and I didn't catch it =/ 

Also watch the "brand" name for example nature made and nature bounty or something =/  I made the mistake at CVS this past week confused the 2 brands and paid more for a vitamin than I planned because I thought I bought the B1G1 free vitamin.  I went back in the store today and she pointed out MY mistake =/ 

It's all a learning process and can get a bit overwhelming from time to time.  But for the most part I'm not doing to bad, I think =)

Albertson's deal!

Well our Albertson's deal this week was toilet paper!  Really good deal on it.  Albertson's had 12 roll pack on sale(2 ply or 3 ply)  Paseo brand for $3.99 and coupon.com had a $1.00 off coupon.  So price was $2.99 really good deal.  So stocked up a little for our family plus helped a couple other families out this time! =)  Which is part of our goal with learning the coupon way! =)  Learn to stretch our dollar and help friends that need it!  The sale was for 8 pack paper towels too but we went to 2 stores and couldn't get any paper towels =(

Just realized the sale ended today so good thing I made myself go pick up a couple more today even though I didn't feel like it. 

I'm still new to all this so not posting a ton of posts or anything just sharing the deals I've found so far! =)

Target

Target didn't purchase a lot and really didn't save as much as I would have liked =/  Still learning  here! =)

Spent $14.34 and saved $13.99

1-Centrum multi vitamin($5 off Target coupon if you buy 1 cenrum and pro-nutrients, 1-$5 manufacturer coupon)
1-Pro-nurients vitamin
1-Nature made vitamin but can't remember what it was now($3.00 manufacturer coupon)


We have room for improvement but we're working on it! =)

Second CVS Trip

Spent $18.21 but Saved $42.56 plus now have $10 EB =)


I wouldn't have spent as much but bought a couple clearance finger nail polish and couple little bags of chocolate.

Purchase
3 little bags of chocolate
2 clearance nail polish
5 loreal products( spend $30 get $10 EB back used 4-$2 coupons)
1 CVS brand ultra thin 28 count pads(CVS coupon for $1 off)

Only mistake on this one is could have saved a little by not buying the chocolate and nail polish!


We did do a couple little other transactions with this one or my daughter did!  All for the love of makeup hahaha  She used her grandma's CVS card for these transactions!

4- nivea lip stuff (2-$3 off coupons and $5 EB back)

Spent $4.91 saved $9.16 PLUS the $5 EB back

Her 2nd transaction she spent the $5 EB haha

1-Maybelline lip shine (50-75% off plus $1 coupon)
1-Maybelline Lip stick($1 off coupon)

Spent $6.71 saved $10.50

So not bad considering the name brand of makeup which we don't normally do..

CVS

CVS has some great deals right now!  Vitamins are buy one get one free!  Plus if you match it up with a coupon pretty good savings!  We made a couple trip to CVS today!  We have 2 not far from us and a 3rd just a bit further down the road.  We don't like to hold up the line with multiple transactions if possible because you know the people behind you get grumpy and the cashiers too sometimes =/  If we had to travel a ways then that would probably be different.

Anyway we saved $84.86 on our first transaction today.  Spent little over $59.   We recieved by scanning our card at the coupon thing $8.50 in EB.  We bought

4 Nivea lip care (2-manufacturer coupon $3 of 2 PLUS get $5 EB back)
1 charmin 18 pack(1-manufacturer coupon $1 of 1)
6 vitamins(buy 1 get 1 free PLUS manufacturer coupons, 2- $3 off  2 and 1-$2 off)
1 lipstick(marked down 75% plus coupon for $1 off)
1 eye liner(spend $15 get $5 EB back plus $1 coupon)
1 eye shadow(spend $15 get $5 EB back plus $1 coupon)
1 colgate tooth paste(on sale,get $1 EB back plus 75cent coupon)
1 colgate tooth brush(on sale,get $1 EB back plus 75cent coupon)
2 boxes skinny cow candy(bogo coupon, some were able to use two bogo coupons to get them both free, we weren't able too) 


Mistakes with my transaction, I thought I could use 2 BOGO coupons because others had and the skinny cow candy would have been free!  I should have put it back but I didn't!  Only reason I bought it is thought it was going to be free =/ 2nd mistake, I didn't catch that one of the vitamins didn't ring up buy 1 get 1 free.  So I paid to much =/  Hopefully tomorrow I'll get little over $10 back!  Unless they were in the wrong spot =(  Then I wouldn't have gotten them obviously "sigh"  So basically I spent about $16 more than I planned with the 2 mistakes on my part.  We're learning though! =) 1 I will hopefully be able to get back tomorrow though! =)

Whew!

I guess it has been awhile since I set up a new blog and trying to remember how to do it all! =)  Well this will be where we share our learning the coupon way! =) 

Really started trying the last few weeks.  Have had set backs.  such as buying papers and someone else had already helped themselves to the coupons =(  The of course there have been a couple weeks with no coupons.

So far there is two stores we do the best at!  CVS and Target!  I'm starting to really get the hang of it!  It's taking a little while.  And I still can't quite match up what some of the big bloggers do!  Don't know if it is different prices, sales and or coupons because of different areas.  Or still not doing something quite right!

But maybe you can help give us tips or learn along with us! =)