Weekly Savings

Now, before all of you who know my husband start to freak out, know that I had his approval to buy the Miller Lite...and it was only purchased in anticipation of a few cookouts and some upcoming visitors. Also, the sole reason it was purchased was because if you bought a case of Miller Lite for $12.99, then you got a package of Hillshire Farm sausage, buns, and yellow mustard for $0.01! (For those of you who don't know, Tom doesn't agree with Miller Lite's advertising techniques and statements, it's a long story). Anyways! Just Jewel and Aldi this week. Here's how we did!

Jewel

Spent $23.06
Saved $49.81
(Not bad considering we got a case of beer and a gallon of milk!)

Happy 5 Year Anniversary of.....

....having only 1 car!! Five years ago today we hopped in our friend Anne's jeep (that she was kind enough to lend us since we were carless) and drove to the Saturn dealership and stupidly leased a brand new Saturn Vue. We had just gotten married, returned from our honeymoon, and I had moved across the country. Tom sold his jeep right before he moved to Birmingham and we didn't think my 1996 Ford Contour would survive the drive from Philadelphia. Leasing a car was probably the dumbest financial move we have made as a couple, but fortunately we've learned and grown since then.

Last year we were able to buy our car when the lease was up and thankfully we have not needed to buy another vehicle. I feel like living 5 years with only one car is going to be one of those things that we tell our kids about whenever they complain that they don't have their own car. We've certainly been fortunate in the fact that our work locations and schedules coincide so having only one car is an option. It's a little bit more of a challenge now that I work in the suburbs 2 days a week but thank goodness for public transportation!

Thanks for hanging in there car....here's to another 5 years!!

Weekly Savings-ish

I did a mish-mash of shopping this week because there wasn't really anything we needed. Just hit a few sales and picked up a few essentials, so no pictures. Except for this one from CVS.



Spent $7.32
Saved $31.37
Received $9.99 in ECB's.

Weekly Savings: CVS and Dominick's

Woo! Another awesome week :) I forgot to scan my "Green Bag Tag" at CVS....after every 4 scans you earn $1 in ECB's. Bummer. The Dominick's trip would have been better but the 4 gallons of milk put us over the top. Whatever, milk was cheaper at Dom's this week than Aldi. Also, they charged me $1.99 each for the avocados when they were supposed to only be $1 :( Oh well, you can't win them all ;)

CVS

Spent $6.87($4.69 before tax!)
Saved $45.24
Received $11.50 in ECB's!!

Dominick's

Spent $29.52
Saved $31.46

Weekly Savings: Saved more than we spent even with beer!

Whenever we would buy beer at Publix I would take it out of the equation because it always messed up my savings ratio. However this week at Domick's we still managed to save more than we spent, even with a 6 pack of Sam Adam's and a 6 pack of Hamm's. Of course, the percentage would have been better without the beer, but oh well.

Dominick's

Spent: $37.70
Saved: $48.01

We also went to Aldi to stock up on milk and key lime waters. Not too bad of a week!

Weekly Savings: Jewel and CVS

This week we are finally back in the normal swing of things. We went to Jewel and CVS.

Jewel

Spent $19.43

Saved $25.85 Bought:

2 bottles Ranch dressing

12 Yoplait yogurt

1/2 pound deli cheese

1/2 pound salami

1 loaf wheat bread (this was free with the deli purchase)

1 bottle of soy sauce

1 dozen eggs

Asparagus

Whipping cream

6 Lunchables (these were free with coupons)

CVS

Spent $63.85 ($13.85 if you take away the Old Navy gift cards!)

Saved $16.71

Received $7.99 in ECB's

Bought:
6 four packs of Izze's
2 gallons of milk
2 stride gum
2 $25 Old Navy gift cards (You received $5 in ECB's wyb $50 worth of ON/BR/Gap gift cards)

Retail Therapy

When my friend came to visit a few weekends ago, the weather was miserable...so we decided to do a little shopping to cheer us up. We went to Banana Republic, which I love, but think most items are a tad overpriced. Fortunately, they were having an extra 40% off all sale items before 1pm. It was a close one considering we finally got through the giant line to the register at 12:55! I would have easily put everything back though if we wouldn't have gotten the extra 40% off, which I felt pretty good about.

I didn't buy much, but I did save a lot! I bought a nice gray shirt for work, a fun flowy sleeveless shirt for summer, and a 2nd pair (but different color) of gray pants for work (I have the same style but in navy blue and I love them!)

Spent $52.18
Retail $144