Harris Teeter Shopping Trip 3/16

I decided after I got an e-mail from my mother in law that I had to go get the Gushers at Harris Teeter because they were on sale for $0.97 (limit 3 with evic registration and e-mail).  I looked at my e-coupons and I had two loaded on my card plus a paper coupon and the sale would make two of them free (actually a $0.06 overage) I figured that I would get something else to make sure I didn't have a negative total and have to make a quick decision at the check out lane which is always hard and more costly.  I found this one pound package of turkey on sale for $3.50 (normally $4.99) and I had a $0.55 coupon which made it $2.40.  Total OOP for my first transaction was $2.46.

My second transaction was two boxes of Gushers on my mother in laws card (and not to make it more confusing but I did try this one first but my coupon expired 3/15 and the customer service person wouldn't take it :( )  I put everything in the car from the first transaction and then decided to go back to check the price of the Country Crock margarine sticks because I had a coupon and I was running really low on them in the freezer but they were really expensive at the normal price over $3.  I walked back to the front of the store on the cleaning aisle (just a choice that I made to see what was on the aisle) and saw that they were out of Jet Dry and Finish tablets so I decided to go get a rain check.  The customer service person that I worked with was busy checking out people at a register and another woman came out of the office to help me.  YEAH!!!  I got the rain checks on the two items and then we talked about couponing because she had asked me about it previously.  She lost the websites that I gave her before so I gave them to her again and we talked about triples coming up starting March 21st.  As I was leaving, I asked about the one day expired coupon.  She said that the policy says that they don't take them but I could give it the cashier and they would do it today.  I told her that they wouldn't do it and I my stuff was actually still sitting on counter.  I grabbed it and she rang me out.  I paid $0.49 OOP for the other two boxes of Gushers.  Total cost OOP was $2.95 (total savings $14.17).  I love Harris Teeter!!!  What great customer service and great sales :) 

On an overall budget note, I have already gotten to $150.24 for the month and we are only half through the month with triples still to come!!  I am blaming the large Doritos influx and my son's ability to eat a sleeve of Ritz crackers in a sitting :) (but I am still really happy with my month to date numbers).  I am also going to go a little over last months budget of $160 depending on the deals at triples.  Hope your budget goals are on track for the month better than mine :)