Last week (or whenever Halloween was) Walgreens offered Free 8x10 Collage photos. I made one of our train ride and trip to the mountains last week (or, a couple weeks ago, whatever). My sister sent one of my niece/s up here to J's account.
The candy was marked down to 33¢ and 37¢.
JCPenney had sent out flyers in the mail with a $10 off $10 purchase coupon - which means you can get something that costs $10.00 for Free (excluding tax).
There was also a $10 off $25 purchase coupon, but it had expired before I got down there, and anyway I usually don't use those kind of coupons too much, I usually just use the *Free* coupon, but I think I'm going to have to start paying more attention to the other coupons, too. I could have used it on this order, and still have gotten another $10 worth free.
I don't really know why but whenever I get a coupon that makes items free at JCPenney or Kohls, I generally always look at the Men's Department Clearance racks. Not women's, or housewares, or shoes, or.... Just men's. And this time was no different.
Ryan had just mentioned the other day wanting to go to the Mall to look for some jeans (at which I freaked out because he has more jeans than the rest of us combined, and they are in good condition and was cheap at Goodwill, and if he wanted more jeans, why not shop at Goodwill, where he could get like 5 or 6 pair of jeans for the price of 1 at the Mall?). Anyway, he said all the jeans he has are light (blue) and he wants dark ones.
So I ran across these dark blue Arizona jeans in his size, marked down from $35.00 to $14.00. Even though my coupon was only $10.00 off, I was willing to pay the $4.00 for them.
I don't know why, but instead of going and checking out right then, for some reason I started wandering around like I was lost. Because I wasn't looking for anything else, so I don't know....
At any rate, I happened to walk by a Check the Price machine, and for no particular reason I checked the price. I didn't have reason to believe it wasn't the correct price, but turned out the scanned at $7.97 instead of $14.00.
So then I needed to find something for a couple dollars more in order to bring the total up to $10 (or more) to be able to use my coupon.
Ryan's been saying he needed a new wallet, and they had this Levi's one marked down from $28 to $15, but when I price checked it it rang up $7.97 also.
In case it didn't ring up as cheaply as I wanted, I was also carrying the underwear in J's size to see if they rang up cheaper than $15 (marked down from $26). Well they also rang up $7.97, which was just toooo good of a price to pass up on these drawers.
My total, including tax, was $24.something, so after the $10 off coupon, I got all this for less than $15.00.
I'll be wrapping them up for Christmas prezzies.
I also visited the Goodwill, still looking for Christmas sweaters and...whatever else I was looking for.
Ryan (again) along the same time he mentioned wanting new (dark) jeans, he mentioned wanting to look for...I can't remember exactly how he said it, but it wasn't "zip up hooded jacket". Last year (or maybe the year before) I had gotten some $10 off $10 Kohl's coupons and he went with me shopping one day and we ended up getting him a couple of zip-up hooded jackets for free or cheap. He loaned his Grannie one in the nursing home and it got gone, and I don't know what happened to the other one. No telling, he probably gave it to someone else.
Anyway I found this practically brand new zip-up hooded jacket at Goodwill for $5.95. These go for around $20 I think, so good price.
Still not a lot of luck finding Christmas Sweaters. There were long-sleeve turtleneck shirts, and sweatshirts, but not Sweaters. I managed to find a Sweater-vest I think my son's fiance' can wear with a red shirt underneath.
I found a red men's sweater - half price - that I thought I could just decorate up for Christmas myself.
I have a long-sleeve t-shirt my nephew gave me last year that I love wearing, and wanted to be able to find some more. Other than it, and my collection of hoodies, I only have 2 other long-sleeve shirts. They are allright, but just not as comfortable as the t-shirt shirt.
I didn't find exactly what I was looking for, but I found the blue sweater.... What first caught my attention was how soft it was. And then I saw it had a Red tag. The half-price color of the day was Red. Sweet.
I don't know if it's my size but for half price, it's soft enough I can use it for some projects I saw on Pinterest like making mittens or toboggans out of sweaters, or the one I really like, making a blanket from sweaters.
After that, I quit looking at every shirt on the rack, and started looking for Red tags. I found me another sweater, three shirts, and two skirts, all half price, or about $2.47 each.
And I coupon shopped at Publix. I got all this for $43.51 including tax. Now if you're like me, you're probably not too impressed by that amount....that's really about all this is worth, not on sale, and not using coupons.
But by shopping the sale and using coupons, I saved $139.86. So that means, all this stuff, buying it regular price and not using coupons, would have cost nearly $200 smack-a-roos. Shewwww, that's reedonkuless.
For those of you that look at this stuff and think it's kind of a strange grocery shop, this is what's called "Stockpile Shopping". I only buy the things I can get by combining a sale with coupons, and I stock up on those things at their rock-bottom price so I don't have to go later and pay full price for an item.
For instance, the Welch's grape jelly is on sale for Buy-One-Get-One-Free at $2.59, or as it works out, $1.30 each. I had coupons for 50¢ off, and my grocery store doubles coupons up to 50¢, so it made those coupons $1.00 off. Meaning, I paid 30¢ each.
Regular price for these are $2.59 each at Publix, $1.98 at Walmart, so stocking up when I can get them at 30¢ instead is much better.
Otherwise, I usually buy my milk, eggs, bread, and produce at Aldi, where it's cheapest, and I buy meat where ever I can find it on sale.
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