Below are all the amounts and pictures of the items that I got. If you are looking for the descriptions of the beginning of the month, they can be found here. All of the prices and pictures are shown below. The descriptions are included for all of the trips after the first half of the month.
Giant $0.16
Target $0
Harris Teeter $14.61
Harris Teeter $22.08
Aldi $6.71
Harris Teeter $21.07
Harris Teeter $0.42
Harris Teeter $0.37
Harris Teeter $1.96
Trader Joes and Aldi (I think those are the only places) $0
Purchased by my dad when he was visiting.
Harris Teeter $17.67-$5.00= $12.67
Harris Teeter $0.10
Harris Teeter $10.82- $1.03= $9.79
Harris Teeter $4.47
Harris Teeter $0.03
Harris Teeter $2.50- $3.00 cash back= -$0.50
Harris Teeter $4.13
Harris Teeter $0.67
Aldi $4.52
I sent my husband to the store to get milk and eggs to fill what we were out of. He decided that we needed pretzels and wheat crackers which we served at the birthday party.
Safeway $2.53
I went to get brown paper bags because my son's birthday party was the next day and we totally needed them for the goody bags to send home the cookies, minecraft blocks, minecraft scrolls, minecraft masks and other goodies. I decided to bend to my son's wishes and grab white cake mix and frosting because we were down to the wire for finishing the birthday party as it was and he didn't want chocolate which was all I had at home. After I made them, he said chocolate would have been fine!! Cupcakes were amazing! We really like box cake mix and I wish that I could get homemade stuff to be as light and fluffy!!
Safeway $1.51
I ran back literally on the way to the party to get icing for the decorate your own cookies because I used yesterday's icing on the cupcakes. I ended up in three different registers trying to check out so I was sweating by the time that I got back to the car but with icing in hand.
Aldi $9.28
We were running low on a few more things including rice, stick margarine and vegetable shortening. Being totally out of turkey for my husband's lunch was a surprise because he didn't tell me he used up the last of the other turkey so I had to go since he had a homemade lunchable with crackers, pepperoni and cheese one day and soup the other day.
Target $6.80
I went to the store to use up the rest of my gift card to get a few things and for my son to get a video game with his birthday money and gift cards. I was going to order the vitamins online so that I could pay with pay pal but I thought that I had more money on the gift card then I did and I really didn't want to keep the gift card any longer. Rookie mistake not checking before I went :( We ended up buying a birthday gift anyway so I would have used it up on that regardless.
Giant $1.21
I went to get the freebies that I had just added to my card including the Lara Bar, Sabara Snack Cup and Campbell's Maxx Soup before they expired. I added the two boxes of Kellogg's Corn Pops because I had an electronic coupon and printed coupon to use so that they would be cheaper plus in case there was overage from the freebies, I would have it covered. Lucky I did because the total order ended up making the cereal $0.50 a box plus tax.
Harris Teeter $9.84
I went to Harris Teeter to get the weekend freebies which included another Lara Bar and the Light and Fit Yogurt. I got the Honey Nut Cheerios and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for $0.52 per box. The Pringles were on sale but rang up funny so I went to customer service and they credited back some money and gave me one free for the price ringing up wrong. I had a coupon for the Old El Paso and I thought that we needed one for the coming menu plan so $0.15 seemed like a good enough deal but when I looked at home, we had one that came in a kit in a white bag that I scribbled that it was Old El Paso taco seasoning at the top so I could have been more patient. The Cran Grape was $1.99 per bottle so I grabbed four more since we were very close to out of them.
Harris Teeter $24.20
It was the first day of super doubles and I decided that I had to go and grab the deals. I knew that I didn't have that much left for the month so I added it up on the paper before checking out to make sure that I knew what I was going to add up under budget. I grabbed my free Texas Pete Hot Sauce and Finish (I thought it was going to be $1.29 so it was nice when I saw a sale that made them free). The pasta was $0.14 per box which was higher then the last sale but still a good enough deal for me to grab a bunch. The Edamame was $0.39 per bag. The Nathan's fries were the only ones left in the store so I got them for $0.74 per bag. The Tums were $1.99. The Mahatma Organic Rice was $1.49. The Newman's Salad Dressing which was $1.99 after coupon and I turned them in for $1 rebate from Ibotta so I paid $0.99 each after rebate. The Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet bowl cleaner was on clearance so I used a coupon and got it for $3.49 instead of $9.99. I thought that the Old El Paso Kit was going to be $0.74 but it was $0.99 but I didn't return it. I got The Cheez Its were $1.49 per box and the Town House Crackers were $0.99 per box. I turned it in for $0.25 Ibotta cracker rebate. I also got another $0.25 any item rebate.
Total Retail $948.60
Total Savings $789.99
Total OOP $158.61
I got $9.80 so far in my Saving Star account with who knows how much more coming because they are so slow. I got $13.00 in my Ibotta account and $10.60 in my Checkout 51 account. I turned in a bunch of receipts for Fetch but I am not sure that it is a super great rebate app because it is slow going to get one reward but I will keep at it.
Happy to be under the grocery budget to make up for the a little of the difference in price so only $4.86 over both budgets together. When I look back at the things that I bought, the only thing that I was sad about was the pizza so it will be awhile before we are buying that and I know that everything that I bought at the grocery store was an amazing savings although I know that I could have passed on some of the items like additional toilet paper or the frozen pizza.
How did your month go? Were you under budget or over budget?
I got $9.80 so far in my Saving Star account with who knows how much more coming because they are so slow. I got $13.00 in my Ibotta account and $10.60 in my Checkout 51 account. I turned in a bunch of receipts for Fetch but I am not sure that it is a super great rebate app because it is slow going to get one reward but I will keep at it.
Eating Out or Take Out
Our normal budget for a month for eating out is $40 and we try to fit everything into that except one week vacation in the summer which we might go above and beyond. We had saved all of our take out money for my son's birthday party because we knew that we were going to have pizza for the kids. We decided on 3 pepperoni and 3 cheese pizzas ordered from my son's favorite place, Little Caesars. Then more people RSVPed and we added another cheese pizza. My husband called in the order which they didn't tell him the total but we thought it was going to be $35 plus tax so we would totally be under our total. Well, Little Caesar's changed their menu and now they "normally" serve the higher priced pizza unless you ask for the Classic pizza. My husband didn't want to fight with the women because he pre-ordered and we ended up spending $46.25 which was over budget and not even planned. Sadly, we also had two extra pizzas when it was all said and done but better safe then sorry. Not too over budget but we had many long conversations of our disappointment with the new "policy" at Little Caesar's that put us there.Happy to be under the grocery budget to make up for the a little of the difference in price so only $4.86 over both budgets together. When I look back at the things that I bought, the only thing that I was sad about was the pizza so it will be awhile before we are buying that and I know that everything that I bought at the grocery store was an amazing savings although I know that I could have passed on some of the items like additional toilet paper or the frozen pizza.
How did your month go? Were you under budget or over budget?
As usual, bravo! Are you guys really using that much Excedrin? Is that for your migraines? I'm sorry you suffer from those too.
ReplyDeleteThe Little Caesar situation would have annoyed me too, it's so underhanded of them. I guess in the future always make sure to ask for a total before you hang up, that way you still have time to cancel your order if their prices have changed a lot. Our Little Caesar's is located inside of the K-mart that is closing so I wonder what is going to happen to Little Caesar's. It's too far away from our house so we never get our pizza there anyway but I always loved it when we lived closer and got it from there.
The Excedrin is for my headache. It is only 200 pills because they are the small boxes. The big bottle that we bought before was 200 so I probably will have enough for awhile but free is a much better price then $20. Sadly, I will use it!!
DeleteLittle Caesars never gives a total which is why I hate ordering over the phone but my husband is in charge of ordering because I can't under them...he said he could barely understand the lady on the phone. He waited until later to tell me about the pizza switch because he knew I would be super irritated. He said the normal prices were higher then they used to be so he calculate that we only spent $7 more then we would have but that was the $7 that would have put us under budget. UGH!! I know I should get over $7 but as a policy, it stinks!