Tip of the day!

If you don't already know, Grocery Smarts website has a wonderful tool. It's called the Alphabetical coupon index. It's located on the home page, at the top. When you click on it, it will display all the coupons that you have in your possession (or soon will have if you've just started), and their locations. Of course we don't want to use coupons unless the item is on sale, but realistically we don't always have that luxury. So if your child is coughing like crazy and you have to go get him some cough syrup, check the coupon index to see if you have a coupon for it! Also, when I shop at Target or K-Mart, or other stores that are not listed on Grocery Smarts I'll match their adds myself with the alphabetical coupon index. I've saved a lot of money with this awesome tool! Try it out!

Another shopping trip well done!

I love to show your trips and your success. Please email me pictures and your savings and I'll post it here for everyone to admire! Here's Kim Kershaw's trip and her savings.

$ 132.12 Total Value of Purchase

$ 85.62 Total Saved
$ 46.50 Total Spent

64% Total Savings Percentage!

Preview Albertsons sale for tomorrow 3/15

Click HERE to preview Albertsons sale tomorrow.  I find that it's not as good as this week, but it's nice to take a breather between good sales!

Just FYI, tomorrow 3/15 is the last day you can get the Albies gift card deal.  Buy a $300 gift card and they add $30 to it!  That's an extra 10% savings!!! 

Target shopping

Did you know that you can shop at Target the same way you can at our Grocery Smarts stores? I went to Target to buy Easter stuff and saved a bunch! I wanted to buy a Leapster for my daughters birthday next month and took advantage of their sale and my coupon. Target posted a sale on Leapsters for $34. When I got there it was actually $29. With my $10 off manufacturers coupon I bought it for $19!!! What a steal! I had lots of coupons for leapster games (which is the item next to leapster with a glare), DVD's and pretty much everything you see here. To find out more on how to shop at Target and other stores and many more ways to save, hostess a Grocery Smarts class with at least 12 or more Moms, and you and a friend will be invited to one of my Advanced Coupon Classes! Learn more HERE about them.

Here is my breakdown for my target trip...

$199.10 - Total Value
$109.23 - Total saved
$ 89.87 - Total spent
54% overall savings!

No Coupon Inserts this Sunday

Don't be alarmed when you don't get any coupons in this Sunday's paper. Because of the Easter Holiday they won't be there. They usually make up for it the week before or the week after. In our case it was last Sunday when we got 5 different inserts! This will happen on National Holidays. Check the insert schedule HERE for what coupons come each Sunday.

HAPPY EASTER!!!

More savings proof!

My friend Alana sent me a pic of her receipt yesterday. She went into do a quick buy taking advantage of the $25 transaction with $10 of free meat. It was so easy for her to take advantage of a quick save! She spent $15.85 and saved $44.55! This is a 74% savings! Send me your receipts so we can all admire what you saved!

Remember, buy a ham or turkey and $40.00 of Unilver items, you can get a rebate of $20.00. This is an extra 50% off those items. The Unilever rebates go throughout the whole month of April. Before May 7th mail in your rebate form with all your receipts highlighting your Unilver items and they will mail you back a check. This rebate is in your Unilver insert on 4/5. Go HERE for more info about the rebate. It is worth the little bit of effort! What are the Unilever items? On your Grocerysmarts list look for the U in the coupon location box. Add up the sale prices to calculate your $40.00!

Let's organize our pantry's!

So with all this stocking up we've been doing the last few weeks, I thought we could concentrate on organizing our pantry's. I thought I'd show you a picture of my pantry...NOT! I wish mine could look like this! I am a firm believer that if you know where all your food is and constantly keep it rotated, that it will save you money. Haven't we all had to run to the store at the last minute to buy an ingredient for our meal, swearing that we had that item in our pantry? Then two weeks later we find where we stashed it, but it's too late. We already spent time and money on gas and buying the item at regular price! What a sin! I hate it when that happens. So I wanted to share one of my favorite websites for organizing, organizedhome.com. Below are some links to great learning! They even have downloads for Freezer and Pantry lists. I love the freezer list. Anything I put in my freezer is logged in with a date. I also date the item with a sharpie. Then when I go to take it out I log it out. It is a great way to rotate items, thus saving money. I keep my freezer list right on my outside freezer with pen and sharpie right there. It's easy!

De-Clutter your Kitchen

Organize Your Pantry

Free Downloads for Inventory