The Best shopping trip to date!

So I now get emails from General Mills about what sales are coming up at Albertson's. On Sunday they let me know another great Catalina deal was coming. Buy 10 products get $10 back! As soon as the ads came out yesterday I began planning, printing, clipping and organizing.

I got my shopping trip organized into 8 transactions and my coupons sorted into 8 little bundles.

Let me tell you Logan is CRAZY with couponers so I knew I had to be organized so I could get the items on my list when the store opened at 6am. I have gone the first day of the sale at noon and gotten nothing. :( I have even checked back almost daily only to find that the Logan store "was written out" of sale items on their order.

I was STOKED about the $ I was going to save.

Well last night Brandon tells me instead of going to the airport at 8am which I had been planning on he has a flight planned at 7am. :( There is no way for me to go at 6am and be back in time. But no worries. It is always foggy or snowing. He's only flown a handful of times since the 1st of December. Chances are I can still go. So I went to bed with coupon shopping dreams. I know it's become an illness.

We both wake at promptly 5am and guess what? The weather is beautiful. :( 6:30 comes and Brandon leaves. I start getting ready praying that there will still be something left for me as soon as I get there. I get Christian off to school and the other 2 up and dressed and we head out the door.

As I am heading down the mountain Brandon calls. He is going to miss his CFI (Certified Flight Instructor) meeting to come help me at the store with the kids! He felt so bad. He had watched me planning an preparing all night for this sale.

We pull into the parking lot at the same time. We race in and grab 2 carts. I send him to the CS counter for an ad as I never actually got a paper one and I race back to the Pilsbury section knowing this is the first thing that always runs out.

Guess what? EVERYTHING on my list was still there! I almost starting crying right there in the chip aisle. The .97 chips were the last thing on my list for the very last transaction. How could this be? Week after week of living up here I have been totally shut out of some of the best deals by women who get up much earlier than I on the first day of all the good sales.

SO after checking out twice with 4 transactions each time I managed to procure

$285.35 worth of groceries for my family

for only $35.10!

That's a savings of $250.25 or

88% off my bill!

or

39.8 Cents average per item (I bought 88 things total)

Even Brandon was shocked.

One transaction had such a big overage I had to add a loaf of bread making it FREE and allowing me to use all my coupons.

Several transactions were less than $2 total.

Lots of things were technically free -

milk

bread

Chex Mix

Cherrios Mix

several cans of soup

It was a great morning! Talk about a natural high!

Oh and we were in and out in 40 minutes!