Total Spend on April = -$77.50
Publix $21.34
CVS $8.78
Walgreens $28
Albertsons $2.22
Total = $60.39
Yard sales from free stuffs that I got from coupon shopping :
1. Neighbor who sold for me $72
2. I sold a bag of Charcoal $4
Total profit on yard sales = $76
I have on hand
$21 RR from Walgreens
$15 ECB from CVS
$25.89 rebate from Walgreens (I must be having senior moment, instead of doing rebate towards my gift card, for some reason I click check, I only got the March rebate check yesterday)
Making April spending = $60.39 – $76 – $36 – $25.89 = – $77.50
So this month I earn $77.50 out of my grocery shopping, great !
Frugal Challenge 2009
Total Spending on April = -$77.50
Running Total = $588.81-77.50 = $511.31; Total left to spend = $511.31
I am very happy that I finally able to make money on my grocery.
Wow! I am very impressed! How often and when do you go shopping?
I go when I am off, this is my schedule
1. Tue/Wed/Fri are 3 days I will go to publix (not all 3 days, depend on my work schedule)
These are days JJ goes to school. So after I drop him off, I will drive to publix. Evey other week, I work on Tue night, so I won’t be able to shop on Wed and likewise I won’t be able to shop on Tues if I work Mon night and so goes with Friday if I work on Thurs night. But, when I am off in one of these days, I will do publix shopping after I drop off JJ to school.
2. Sun morning is when I buy stuffs from CVS or Walgreens when I work Sat night cos I find out that it is the best time to shop when there are free stuffs.
However, if I do not work on Sunday then I will buy stuffs from CVS/Walgreens after I pick up JJ and then we will go to the park next to CVS/Walgreens.
There are a lot of good deals in Targets/Kmart at times but I just could not make it cos we only have so many hours a day. I am ok with that.
I find it is the planning that takes more time. I read a lot of web sites to get the best deals. I do not depend on one site.
But, I am not sure if I can do it again this month, cos on April the $10 rebate publix gift cards helped a lot, also I got a lot of $5off$25 from CVS, am not sure I will get as many this month or not, we will see.
Let me know if you know of any $5 off $25 from other shop, ok.
Jamy