Shopping July 21

I had some time to kill today between dropping Chris off at work and taking C to the dentist, and I had $63 in Target gift cards burning a hole in my pocket. I decided to spend the time seeing how far I could stretch that $63. I don’t expect to be shopping this weekend - though naturally plans can change - so I’ll put the week and month totals at the bottom of this post.

Cascade Complete, 16ct pods, $3.99 - $.50 Target coupon - $.50 coupon = $2.99
4 pkgs Hanes kids’ socks, $3.79 each on sale - 2 $1 Target coupons (now I wish I had printed 2 more) - 4 $.50 coupons on packages = $11.16
Market Pantry fruit snacks, 50ct, $5.69 on sale = $5.69
Charmin Sensitive, 18 big rolls, $11.79 - $1.50 Target coupon - $.25 coupon = $10.04
Purina Beggin’ Strips, $2.59 on sale - $1.00 Target coupon - $1.00 coupon = $.59
Purina Busy Bones, $2.84 - buy Beggin’ Strips get Busy Bones free, except it rang it backwards so - $2.59 = $.25
4 cans Alpo, $.67 each - b2g2 coupon from Recycle Bank, except the free ones rang $.79 each so - $1.58 = $1.10
Alpo, 12ct case, $7.74 = $7.74
Visine Max. Redness, $6.49 - $1.00 coupon = $5.49, with $6.49 rebate
Pilot pens, 2ct, $1.69 - $1.00 = $.69
4 Crayola crayons, 24ct, $.25 each on sale = $1.00
2 Post-it cubes, $2.24 each on sale - $1.00 coupon that should have been 2 but either one didn’t scan or I forgot it in the stack = $3.48
Post-it sturdy tabs, $2.54 on sale - $1.00 coupon = $1.54
Post-it wall-mount dispenser, $4.24 on sale - $1.00 coupon = $3.24
Post-it pop-ups refills, 3ct, $4.24 on sale = $4.24
Post-it label roll, $3.81 on sale - $1.00 coupon = $2.81
Monopoly Championship edition, $6.98 on clearance - $5.00 coupon from Hasbro card games = $1.98
Venus cartridges, 4ct, $12.99 - $2.00 coupon = $10.99
Fusion razor, $7.04 on sale - $4.00 coupon = $3.04
2 Bic pens, 10ct, $.60 each on sale - $1.00 Target coupon - $.60 coupon that should have been $1.00 but rang short = $.40 overage
$5.00 off Gillette Fusion or Venus razor + cartridge Target coupon
$2.00 off $10.00 Post-it purchase coupon
$5.00 off $25.00 school supplies purchase Target coupon
$8.06 remaining on gift card from MyPoints last week
$50.00 gift card from another redemption
$5.00 gift card from a previous purchase

I paid $2.60 plus tax out of pocket. I’m not counting the gummy snacks as food for budgetary purposes because they will go into the kids’ prize bin, wherein they will buy them with allowance and chore money should they choose. At $.25 for 2 I’ll actually make $.56 in the end. The Monopoly game and some of the crayons are also going there.

Total for today:

Regular price: $133.26

Sale price: $109.18

Paid: $2.60 plus tax

1.95%

Total for the month:

Regular price: $1542.89

Sale price: $1306.71

Paid: $807.79 plus tax

52.4%

$2/day challenge data:

$0 of today’s cost is qualifying food.