Weekly Spending Report: 01/01-01/07/2012!

After two weeks filled with holidays, visiting with family, eating tasty food, finishing my transcription final, and taking a break from couponing and blogging, it is GREAT to be back in the game!  Here's our spending totals for this week...

• Sunday's Rite-Aid Trip: $8.39 oop, Earned $6 SCR and $2 UP+Rewards
• Sunday's CVS Trip: $5.73 oop, Earned $8.50 ECB's
• Sunday's Walgreen's Trip: $11.16 oop, Earned $7 RR's
• Sunday's Shopper's Trip (no post, just donuts and eggs): $4.38 oop
• Thursday's ALDI Trip (no post, restocked our baking and snack cupboards): $19.87 oop
• Thursday's Ollie's Trip (no post, stocked up on trash bags and Crystal light for AWESOME prices!): $14.66 oop
• Friday's Amish Market Trip (no post, bought 19.08 lbs of Raw Sugar at $1.29/lb and an apple dumpling): $27.56 oop
• Saturday's Rite-Aid Trip (no post, just newspapers): $3.40 oop
• I also received a rebate check from the museum for cooking over Christmas, which I will add into our budget, for $47.60!

Total OOP: $95.15 - $71.10 Earned Rewards/Rebates = Net OOP: $24.05, Savings of 75%!!!!

First Walgreen's Trip of 2012!

Our last stop on Sunday was Walgreen's.  Here is what we picked up...

2-10 ct Advil Congestion Relief (I was so excited to get these, they work wonderful!) $7.99 ea - $2.99 ea Sale - $2/1 MC (newspaper) x 2 - $3 RR wyb $10 = 2/$3!

1 EOS Lip Balm $3.49 - $0.50 Sale - $2 RR = $0.99

1 Smart Protein Bar $1.99 - $2 RR = FREE!

+ $0.18 Tax

Total OOP: $11.16 (had no RR's to use to pay) - $7 Earned RR's = Net oop: $4.16!!!

First Rite-Aid Trip of 2012!

Sunday, Joe and I also stopped into Rite-Aid, not really much going on in the way of deals at any of the drug stores, but I did find some chicken bouillon that seems to be more natural than what's at the grocery store, so I was very excited about that!  Here's what we ended up with...

2 boxes Chicken Bouillon pkts $1.29 ea - $0.26 ea card discount = $1.03 ea or 2/$2.06*

2 Carmex Chap-sticks $2.99 ea - $0.60 ea card discount - $1/2 MC (newspaper) - $2 UP+Rewards wyb 2 = 2/$1.78

2 Oral B Power Toothbrushes (bought in two transactions, for two SCR accounts) $7.99 ea - $2 ea Sale - $3/1 MC (newspaper) x 2 - $3 SCR x 2 = 2 FREE!

1-4 pk Rite-Aid TP $1 - $0.20 card discount = $0.80

+ $0.77 Tax

- $5 UP+Rewards used to Pay

Total OOP: $8.39 - $8 Earned Rewards/Rebates = Net oop: $0.39!  Savings of 95%!

First CVS Trip of 2012!

Sunday Joe and I stopped into CVS to pick up the deals for the week, and it felt so good to be back to deal shopping after a nice vacation!  Here's what we ended up with...

3 boxes Special K Cereal $3.99 ea - $1.97 Sale - $1/3 MC (newspaper) - $4 ECB's = 3/$5

2 boxes Betty Crocker Brownies (1 box not pictured) $1 ea = 2/$2

1 Bath Set (Christmas present for 2012) $9.99 - $5 clearance = $4.99

+ $0.24 Tax

- $10.50 ECB's used to Pay

Total OOP: $5.73, Earned $1 ECB Green Bag Tag, $4 ECB Kellogg's, and $3.50 ECB Quarterly Spending!  Net OOP, all FREE + $2.77 Money-maker!