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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Weekly Round-Up #2 - January 11-17, 2012

This was a good week for milk and cereal at Giant - things we use a lot of. I ended up with 5 catalinas worth $3.75 each on a gallon of milk AND a catalina good for $7 on my next shopping trip!




Here are the results for this week:

Purchases

Gift Cards
Subway $25 gift card - I received a free 6" sub sandwich for buying it.

Food
- 1 loaf of sandwich bread
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal (5 boxes)
- Multi-grain Cheerios (11 boxes)
- Beechnut stage 2 baby food (12 jars)
- Quaker Chewy granola bars (3 boxes)
- Pepsi 20-can multipack (2)
- UP2U gum (4 packs)
- 3 chocolate covered cherries (Rite Aid fillers)
- 2 candy canes filled with M&M's (Walgreens clearance - .24 each)
- 1 jumbo sized candy cane (Walgreen's clearance - .24)

Health and Beauty
- Ben Gay (4)
- Visine (2)
- Theraflu Warming Caplets (3)
- Ricola cough drops (4)

 Household
- 1 Zippo candle lighter
- 1 4 lb. bag of Kibbles & Bits dog food
- 1 scented pencil (clearanced at Walgreens for .24)
- 3 Hallmark greeting cards (CVS)

Other:
- 4 FREE Medium Hot Chocolates at Dunkin Donuts
- 2 FREE Oatmeals at McDonalds (with coupons I received from  Living Social)
- 2 lunches at Subway during my daughter's volleyball tournament with gift card

Refunds:
Theraflu  -  $5.00 gift card
Rite Aid  SCR #25 - $5.00

Expenditures
CVS - $1.32
Rite Aid - $13.27
Walgreens - $1.24
Giant - $27.29
Subway - $25.00
Total: $68.12

Okay, I went 18.12 over budget this week, but I don't mind because I did so well last week.
Also, I still have about $20 left on my Subway gift card!

We had plenty of good meals this week from my stockpile and freezer, so even though I didn't buy anything except for dog food, cereal, milk, soda, and candy we didn't starve! The baby food will be donated.

I did have to spring for a loaf of bread with no coupons - I hated doing that, but my kids pack sandwiches for their school lunches every day, and I didn't have enough drugstore rewards to get a free loaf this week, which is my usual strategy.

Total for January to date:  $79.92

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