Once again, I am cutting this blog pretty close. Today I had a pretty good reason. I was planning and shopping for most of the day. I grabbed my coupons put them in the organizer, took my 11 year old daughter to help out and get her away from the boys for a bit and put some ice in the cooler. Yes I took a cooler with me today. Nothing says you are ready to tear it up like taking a cooler with you to shop :)

I went to 4 different stores today and had a very positive response from all. Anyone who coupons seriously knows that any day you coupon and do not run into a rude cashier is a good trip! I think today was the best experience I have had to date with cashiers and managers.

Walgreens - Stopped here to see if they had French's infusers but they did not. While I was there I bought my 6 papers. Went through almost all on the rack until I found 6 that had all 3 inserts. I can not stress enough how important it is to check for all inserts before buying the paper!!!
Total spent here: 12.72
Saved: 0

Winn Dixie - 4 packs of pork chops, cubed steak, 8 bags of Dole salad (B1G1 @ 3.79 -1.50/1 for each bag), 2 lbs green seedless grapes (@ .99 a lb)., 6 VO5 Shampoo (@ 1.49 each - 1.00/1) Egg noodles 1.50
Total Spent here: 28.60
Saved: 60.97

Walmart - 12 Ore ida single serve (@1.00 - .50/2), 14 Yakisoba (@1.00 -.50/2), 1 Lance crackers 8 pack (@2.50 - 2.78/1)
Total Spent here:9.64
Total saved: 15.78

Dollar Tree - 11 Brut deodorant (@1.00 each - 1/1), 1 Efferdent (@1.00 - 1/1), 2 Shredded Wheat cereal (@1.00 each - 1/1), 1 Creamy peanut butter 1.00
Total Spent here: 1.72
Total Saved: 14.18

Publix - This was by far my favorite stop of the day! I got a cashier who was a..... wait for it.... wait for it..... A COUPONER!!!!!!!!!! I was so excited when she smiled at me and told me she too was a couponer. This had not happend to me before. I wanted to do a cartwheel :) She was SUPER sweet! I will be looking for her next time I go in. Shout out to Michelle!!!! You ROCK!!!!!!! There was a very nice bagger who was just as nice as she was. She had to call the manager over to do an over ride and she was just as sweet as could be too. This was a great trip! When we were done and she gave me the total, ( I WAS PAID TO TAKE EVERYTHING OUT OF THE STORE TODAY!!!!) the manager, bagger, and cashier all shared in excitement! LOL I have never had a better time! I am going to make sure to tell someone up high about this team!!!! Even the meat guy who I had him special package 14 different packages of meat into 1/2 lb packages, I had expected him to not be very happy about it, I was SO wrong! He smiled said not a problem went and promptly packaged it all for me and then put them all in my cart neatly and asked if I needed anything else. I joked and so no thank you I will leave you alone now, he smiled again and said, "Nonsense, we are here to help the customers in what ever they need dear." OMG! I could not have had a better time shopping than today!
This is what I got here: 14 jars ragu sauce, 14 1/2 lb packages burger, 4 big cup noodles, 4 whiskas cat treats
Total spent here: 0 THEY PAID ME 1.20 to leave with all of the above! including the 7 lbs total of hamburger!!!
Total saved: 74.47

Total spent today- 52.68  - overage from today and other overage I had from previous shopping Total spent = 47.48

Total saved today = 165.40

GOOD DAY!