Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Best Shopping Trip Ever

We just got back from Albertsons. We have been getting down our last box of cereal and have been waiting for a store to have a good sale on cereal so we could restock. They had a sale today where if you bought 4 boxes of cereal, each box was only $1.50. We have tried Albertsons sales in the past and if you don't get there on the first day, all that they have sale is gone. The ad came out today so we immediately drove over there.

We ended up getting 57 boxes of cereal. After the first 32 boxes, we had 5 coupons for 2 dollars each and one coupon for 1.50. So we went back in and got 25 more boxes and used those coupons. Plus, we got 2 coupons for a free gallon of milk each. All in all, in the end we spent 80 dollars, got 57 boxes of cereal, and two free gallons of chocolate milk. We also have 3 more coupons for a free gallon of milk each. We saved a total of 200 dollars on this shopping trip.

But, wait, it gets better. When we got home, we found out that some of the cereal boxes had gift cards in them. Going through all the boxes, we found 20 dollars worth of gift cards. So we only spent 60 dollars in the end. I love shopping trips where you end up saving more than you spend. And we saved a lot. Plus, we have enough cereal to last us at least for a few months if not a year.

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