mommy's reviews

This week we again experienced some fantastic savings at our local Tops Friendly Markets. We really don't have a lot of grocery stores from which to choose and so I am grateful that they have really good buys each week. This week, between our coupons and store sales we saved $67.40 total, which is great! We eat LOADS of yogurt so I am always on the lookout for yogurt coupons and this week, Yoplait was on sale for 10 for $10! I will show you how I used coupons for that deal. Here is a quick photo of some of my favorite buys. Fresh Express Salad : On sale for 2/$5 Fresh Deli Rolls: BOGO Celentano Frozen Ravioli: BOGO Thomas Bagels:  BOGO Yoplait Whips Yogurt: 20 for $10: I had a coupon for $.40 (which was doubled to $.80) off 6 so I purchased 6 for $.38 each. Yoplait GoGurt: On sale for 5/$10. I had three Yoplait coupons (two for $.75 off...doubled to $1.50 off two and one for $1.00 off) that brought my price down to just $2 total for three boxes of Gogurt!! Hamburger H...

Well, as you all know I recently reviewed a book by Christi the Coupon Coach and let me tell you...I am having a BLAST using my coupons. My grocery store has loads of great sales and we are really enjoying the savings that we are experiencing. I now purchase 4 Sunday papers and thought I would feel really silly about it. But, I don't. What we do is buy one paper on the way to church and I review the coupons in the afternoon. If there are valuable coupons in that paper than we buy three more papers when we go on our shopping trip later in the day. This has worked SO well. I do my clipping and organizing after the children go to bed so I am not distracted and it takes about an hour to sort, clip and organize the coupons. NOT BAD! When I first heard about couponing, I was afraid that I would waste hours upon hours trying to get my coupons. After this weeks shopping trip, I am so sad that I never clipped and used coupons before now. Lesson learned...I am now a dedicated coupon clipper...