Super Savings Saturday!!!

This week was kind of crazy for me. First of all, my camera was not cooperating on the day I did my Publix grocery shopping. Therefore, I did not get a picture of what I bought, and I am going to skip the details on Publix. I spent $47, and saved $54.05 total. It wasn't a great week. There wasn't much on sale, and I bought a lot of fresh vegetables for meals. But that's okay! I still scored some freebies and close-to-freebies (such as bagel bites, 3 glade candles, and glade plug-ins).

I did get a picture of my Walgreens trip...however, that trip quickly became a disaster! I went into Walgreens with my trip perfectly planned out, how I would roll the Register Rewards to pay as little as possible out of pocket in 3 transactions, etc. I will spare you the details of everything that happened, but basically I had a cashier who was not familiar with coupons or their coupon policy. Items were voided, the register messed up, my coupons kept beeping, I had way more coupons than items, I couldn't "roll" my register rewards, and so much more! haha! Sometimes this happens. It's the life of a couponer. What can you do? :)

Here's what I ended up getting (pictured above):

1 Thermacare heating pad
2 Tylenol Cold
1 Glade oil candle tin
1 Glade oil refill (3 pk)
1 Carefree pantiliners
1 Soleil diposable razors (4 pk)
2 Oral B indicator toothbrush
3 Febreze candles (on clearance)
2 Air Wick air freshener systems
2 Reese's pumpkins (only 1 pictured, ate the other! haha)
1 Chapstick and 3 caramel chews (fillers to have more items than coupons)

What I paid out of pocket: $15.11
Register Rewards amount received: $12.50 (and I didn't receive the ones for the Glade candle deal...at that point, I didn't want to argue it)
Total Savings (according to receipts): $67.75

***So, IF my transactions had worked the way I planned them, I would have only paid about $3 out of pocket. I would have rolled the $12.50 I got back to help balance out the $15. Since they didn't work out due to many problems, I ended up having to pay out of pocket $15. That's okay, though. I have a lot of Register Rewards to use for deals in the future.

Publix + Walgreens = $62.11 spent this week
*I am a little over my budget of $50, but we're still looking good for the month of September. The first two weeks of the month, we only spent $20 or $30, so we have some extra spending room remaining. It all balances out so that we're still under our $50 a week budget for the entire month! =)

Hopefully next week will be a little better...

What about you? How did you do this week? Share your deals and scenarios below!

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