My total was $215 - I paid just 89.92 for groceries, and although I put over $16 worth of non-food items in my cart, that only came to $3.46! That's less than just the bath tissue alone!
The register printed out 2 receipts which confused Chris, the cashier. He gave us 1 of the 2, but gave me the wrong one. This one doesn't show all the coupons redeemed for each item, just a long list at the end. I'll try to figure out how I saved so much.
1st: My Safeway card gave me all the sale prices for stuff in the weekly flier.
2nd: The Safeway card then credits my balance with all the pre-loaded 3-coupons I put on the card.
3rd: I handed Chris the Safeway flier coupons - they read that you get that price "with card AND coupon".
4th: I handed Chris the manufacturer coupons - both paper ones from Sunday's inserts as well as ones I had printed out. 3 of the dozens I used wouldn't work because it printed in draft and the ink was too light, it couldn't be read by the scanner at checkout. My FREE pasta ended up costing me .79/lb. , which is still a good price, and I only bought 2 boxes. Also 1 of the 2 Pillsbury coupons didn't go through, but a $3 was still 1.99. I wouldn't have bought it normally, but I was okay with it. It was 9:00 at night, I was tired, and didn't care. The kids will enjoy them.
First the weekly ad deals - looks like they totaled: about $56 roughly.
The e-coupons totaled: about $10 or so
I also got $5 off instantly because Safeway's special was to spend $15 in frozen foods, get $5 off.
At this point, my balance went from $215.75 down to $135.80. I don't know exactly where or how, but that means on just e-coupons & weekly sale items, my total dropped by $79.95! There's another $9 or so in savings somewhere, not sure where, maybe just in produce sale prices or something.
Now the paper coupons from the weekly ad I clipped, about $18 of them:
My balance went from $135.80 down to $125.53. Only about a $10 savings there, but remember, this was an additional $10 off after I already got the sale price on stuff.
Example: Bath tissue, normally $8, on sale for $6 if you have their shopping card. I already got the $2 off for the weekly sale, but the store flier coupon dropped it further down to $4.88.
Next, manufacturer coupons brought it down from $125.53 to just $105.67. Another $20 saved.
I also noticed a coupon I got credited with I had no idea I was getting and not sure how it works. It seems to say on the receipt that I got $10 for spending $75. That brought it down to just $95.67.
The non-food items I kept separately, I love to track everything, and what should've been well over $18 (at sale prices, mind you), totaled just $3.46. Less than just the bath tissue - so I must've actually had cash back from a few items that was put towards this balance.
Now to figure out to the best of my knowledge, with the wrong receipt, what I ended up paying for what items - I know some were free and many ended up being under $1.
Oh yeah, I also a gas reward for .10/gallon off too!
