Monday, January 24, 2011

Organizing

So as I posted before this year I am working on organizing just about every aspect of my life. One thing I have really gotten into is couponing. I am learning that I can save an INSANE amount of $ by using coupons and coupon match ups. I didn't even know such a thing exsisted ..and they are awesome..so I will be tracking my grocery trips on here.
Here is my LONG term goal. Get food/household product bill down to 600 per month
Usually on average we spend about 800 per month on grocery and household products. ( This is actually down since we used to spend like 900-1100)
So this whole couponing /stockpiling ( but def not HOARDING) thing is roughly new to me. I have been doing couponing a bit more hard core for a few months now and am ready to jump into the stockpiling. It is said it takes a good 2 months to build a good stockpile. So this month I am probably going to still max out at around my 800 or a bit less. By next month I am hoping to get it down to 700 and by the end of March I want my food bill to be at around 600 or less.
How am I doing this?
1) Buying about 3 Sunday newspapers
2)UNCLIPPING my coupons- All I do is skim the papers for coupons I will use that NEVER go on sale that I buy anyway. I then just date it n put it in my coupon folder.
3) Go to my publix coupon match up site n match the sales with my coupons
4) Go to my coupon folder with dates n coupons n then clip knowing exactly where everything is.
5) Then go shopping and save a bunch...
So here is my list of shopping trips so far....

date store Spent Saved
1-5-11 publix 10.88 14.76
1-5-11 sweetbay 19.94 10.00
1-6-11 publix 55.36 105.00
1-8-11 wg 17.13 17.05
1-8-11 wg 7.96 21.97
1-9-11 wg 9.85 8.00
1-9-11 wg 11.37 26.97
1-9-11 wg 8.07 33.19
1-12-11 publix 28.30 62.86
1-13-11 publix 24.00 72.00
1-15-11 publix 41.39 86.08
1-18-11 sweetbay 206.13 27.56
1-19-11 wg 7.01 10.00
1-22-11 publix 49.91 67.83
1-23-11 wg 16.43 23.81
1-23-11 wg 15.69 5.48
1-25-11 publix 29.10 3.91(hubby did this trip...uh-oh)lol
1-26-11 publix 6.89 22.60
1-27-11 publix 45.11 102.29
1-29-11 sweetbay 143.20 49.91
1-29-11 wg 19.21 20.05

Shopping month over!!! Total in new blog

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