Super Savings Saturday!

You know you've been blessed when the cashier says "Look at this! She's only paying $5.80 for all this!" At least I did-- My response? "It's a fun hobby!" (I am terrible at quick comebacks. No really, you have no idea.)

All this happened at Albertsons. My weekly story is that after getting sooo much groceries at Safeway for their Savings Rally, we didn't really need anything. So I just twiddled my thumbs and watched the ads. Out of my budget, I still had $50 left at the end of the week! (My budget is $100/week, but this is for everything I need to buy, not just groceries.)

Here are some of my best finds this week.

Albertsons is having a "Buy $10 get $3 off" sale. I found some items I knew I had coupons for in the 5/$10 section, and off I went. For the first "$10" group, I bought two boxes Honey Bunches of Oats Chocolate Clusters (Not in the picture because Gabe put them away for me and I can't reach them now1) and three jars Dole Fruit, and the second group I had one jar Dole Fruit, one Daisy Sour Cream, and three 12 count eggs. Total oop after coupons and $6 off? $5.80 Oh, yea, I already told you that! :-)

Safeway is having a "Buy $30 of participating products and get 2 free movie tickets" deal through March, because apparently, March is frozen food month. Apparently. So, after looking over the list online here, I talked to my grandpa and found out what I could buy for him (they eat alot of TV dinners) I went and spent $23 for him and $7 for my family, and should get a call soon because they didn't have any tickets.... of course :-) It actually worked out pretty good because he was suprised I got all that I did for $23. And for us I found the little boxes of Totino's Pizza Rolls, the cheese kind, were on sale for .99, and I had three .40 coupons! That is an easy quick pinch lunch for the girls and I, for .60! To really make the deal, I was able to use my last $20 coupon from the savings rally!

I went to Walmart for a few things, specifically a greenhouse tray and some sugar snap pea seeds. I found the the seed cart, and we were scanning, finding what we wanted... and the very nice gentleman next to me said "those on the end (picture a rectangle display, the small ends) are only $.10 and $.30- can't beat that!" Compared to $1+ that is a great deal. So Melia got to pick out some flowers, and I got some green beans because I know that is what I need to start soon, but I had to buy the $.97 packet to get the sugar snap peas. Ah well! I was more than happy with this week's shopping.

God has been so good to bless me in my pursuit of saving more and spending less. Gabe's comment to me one night was that he appreciates that I see this as a game, not as a burden. I had never considered that, but I know that some wives would see a budget as hindering and binding, while I have been enjoying it! It's so nice to know that I won't spend more than I earn, and never having to check the account to "make sure we have enough." Thank you Lord, for giving me joy in this area of our lives! I pray that my deals will be encouraging for others, that a budget is freeing and not binding. Amen!

My joys.