I went shopping today, and was almost paid to walk out of the store with a car full of groceries!!
First thing first: I pre-paid for 20 of these.
I had special ordered them, but the warehouse was out, so they let me pay for them anyway. Now, they'll keep ordering them until they come in, I'll keep my receipts, and when they arrive, they'll give me a call, and I'll go pick them up. It's basically a rain check on crack :).
I purchased them in sets of 4. I used 4 $1/1 coupons and 3 doubles, saving $7.00 per transaction. They were originally $4.29 each, on sale for $2.00, and I saved $7, so I paid $1.00 plus tax for 4 boxes. THEN out shot a beautiful $4 catalina, good off my next purchase of $4 or more. So, total for all 20 boxes, I spent $5.00, and received $20 in catalinas, for a profit of $15!!
Then, I had also pre-ordered 30 cans of pineapple. I had the bee with me, and she was getting hungry, so I purchased the bananas too.
Pineapple Original Price: $2.39 each, on sale for $1. I had 10 $1/3 coupons, so I rang them up in sets of 9. When you bought 4, you got a $1 catalina. So, I doubled 3 $1/3 coupons, saving $6. In the first transaction, I had the bananas, so I was able to use a $4 catalina from the TGI Fridays meals, and got 7 Bananas, 9 cans of pineapple for $.50 (the bananas were $1.50).
Then I repeated it with no bananas, and had a $3 bill, used my 2 $1 cats from the first pineapple transaction, and one I had previously. So, it was all free (well, tax)!
I repeated it again, doing the same thing. It was free again!
Then I got creative! I had 3 more cans of pineapple to buy, and I needed milk, and batteries. So for
3 cans of Pineapple
1 gallon D Milk
1 package Oreos
and 1 8 pack batteries,
I used 3 $1 coupons (on each for the milk/oreos, batteries, and 3 cans of pineapple), doubled them all, and used 2 $4 cats from the TGI Fridays. I paid $.17!!!
Then, because my honey doesn't like catalinas sitting around (because more often than not I forget to use them) I went shopping again! I had one set of doublers left, 2 $1 catalinas and 2 $4 catalinas. I bought another gallon of milk, another package of oreos, and 5 packages of Turkey Sausage, on clearance for $1.99 (from $5.49). I doubled my $1 catalinas and another $1/1 milk and cookies and saved $6, then used my 2 remaining $4 catalinas, and ended up owing $1.13.
So, for $204.60 worth of groceries/batteries, I paid: $6.80. The milk alone was $5.87, so basically, I paid for Milk and bananas!!! Every thing else was free!!! YAHOOOO!!! A savings of 97%!!!
