I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 28 years, disabled daughter, adult son, and my 84-year-old mother. We have paid off $250,000.00 worth of debt (if you include the interest) in the last fifteen years and as of 6/12/2020 are 100% DEBT FREE!!!!No, I didn't use some kind of magical couponing/rebating system. I had exactly one coupon for $1.50 off TP. DH and I simply used the $40 gift card he got to a local grocery store from his work for Christmas. But to make it stretch as far as possible, I waited until meat went on sale to use it. So we ended up with 4 beef pot roasts, 1 whole chicken, a 24 pack of Charmin toilet paper (son's allergies dictate this is about the only brand we can buy), six apples, six oranges, six bananas, 2 shampoos and a bodywash.
So now I have enough crockpot meat for the next five Sundays and enough fruit for a week.
We also signed up for their club card for greater discounts. It has the added benefit of giving you Alaska Airlines (the carrier he uses to go back and forth to work) miles for every $250 you spend. Now, I doubt very much we will be going back to that store any time in the near future because it is across the county and generally more expensive on a regular basis than the stores we normally shop. But if on the off chance we do go back there, his miles will build up.
We also picked up some milk on a rain check at our usual store. It was on sale Tuesday for $1.98 a gallon but they were sold out so DH got a rain check. We used it yesterday to get 2 gallons at $3.96. The price was back up to $3.29 a gallon, so it would have been $6.58 for the same amount, a savings of $2.62.
$46.06 Worth of Groceries for $6.06
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