Couponing Queen!

As previously mentioned, I am a self-taught couponer! I guess this would be the time to introduce another part of my life that is in the early stages. Another lady at my church and myself are starting a food pantry at our church which operates off of donations and coupons! We use coupons to make big trips and donate it all to our food pantry, The Storehouse. We are very excited to get the pantry up and running so we can help people in our community. Now, I have been promising pictures from recent shopping trips so here we go.. Brace yourselves people, you are about to witness coupon MAGIC :)

My first big haul (Kroger shopping trip): 

37 boxes of pasta (free)

8 BBQ sauces (4 cents each)

8 bags of rice (free)

4 D.O (B1G1 @ about 1 each)

6 3-pks of soap (free)

2 bodywashes (free)

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Before Coupons: $107.97

Out Of Pocket (After Coupons): $2.85

Total Savings: $105.12 (98% savings)

Another small Kroger shopping trip:

14 boxes of pasta (50 cents each)

4 D.O ( 6 cents each)

Bayer ( 99 cents)

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Before Coupons: $54.71

Out of Pocket: $8.24

Total Savings: $46.47 (85%) 

Walmart Trip:

6 Suave D.O (46 cents ea.)

10 Degree D.O (22 cents ea.)

10 Ramen noodles (16 cents ea.)

5 Hormel Meals (68 cents ea.)

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Before Coupons: $25.52

Out of Pocket: $9.96

Total Savings: $15.52 (61%)

Small CVS Trip: I was so excited about this trip! Pharmacy stores can be tricky, but once you figure out how to use their store rewards in addition to your coupons, you can rack up! P.S-I told Cash he was gonna be famous--he gave me his permission to put his picture on the internet!

1 Schick Hydro 5 Razor-not disposable, a real razor! 

1 4-pk Schick refill cartridge

3 Mitchum D.O
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Before Coupons: $21.79

Out of Pocket: $4.39

Total Savings: $17.40 (80%)

Couponing is something you can do! It does take time to learn, but once you get it down you just get better and better at it. We will be hosting a coupon seminar soon to raise money for The Storehouse--more details to come!

Until my next post.....