Total spent: .48 cents – .45 for the actual groceries, .03 for breast cancer research
Total before coupons: $50.06
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I also earned another 125 miles in the United Airlines GroceryMiles program that I wrote about recently.
I Got:
1 dozen cage-free eggs
1 8 oz bag of cheese
.39 pounds of organic, fair trade coffee
4 bags of Wacky Mac – on sale for .99 cents, used a .50/1 coupon from the 6/22 inserts. Free after doubles!
1 packet of Ramen
2 packets of trial sized Airborne – on sale for $2.19, used two $2 coupon from the 9/7 SmartSource newspaper inserts. Free plus .31 cents overage after doubles!
6 bottles of Bayer aspirin – on sale for $1, used a $1/1 coupon from the 7/27 Red Plum inserts. Free plus .50 cents overage after doubles!
2 packages of TP
4 Glade Plug-ins – used two “Buy One, Get One Free” coupons from the 9/28 Smart Source inserts.
The Plug-Ins are $5.79 at Safeway, so for the first transaction, I used a $4 catalina from the last Glade deal that I did in conjunction with overage from the Bayer, in order to offset the cost of the plug-in. I had it worked out that I would owe .05 cents, but after I handed over all my coupons, the register ended up showing negative .95 cents. I was puzzled, and the cashier said that she would just balance me out to zero. You’ll see on the receipt that there is .95 cents in “general merchandise” – that’s why. So I looked over my receipt after the transaction was through, and saw that only 3 Bayer aspirins were listed on the receipt, even though I had purchased four; one of them didn’t ring up. So I went back to the cashier and showed her what had happened. If the fourth Bayer had been rung up, the register would have showed me owing .05 cents, instead of the negative .95 that came up. The cashier then opted to just do a “general merchandise” sale for .05 cents, and I handed her the nickel that I owed. She didn’t give me a receipt for that transaction, otherwise I would have scanned that as well.
At any rate, I got $8 in catalinas back for purchasing the two Plug-Ins, so I went through the line once more, purchasing two more Glades and using overage from the Bayer and Airborne along with one of the $4 catalinas to bring the total down to .17 cents – .20 cents after I “rounded up” for breast cancer!
I got another $8 in catalinas back, and I proceeded to go through the line one last time, using $12 worth of my catalinas to pay for a few things that I needed – like coffee!! I still have a $4 catalina left, which I will use towards more Glade warmers next time.
