Coupons are great!

I have been learning where to find coupons and how to use coupons lately. Remember my first post about saving money on grocery more than 6 months ago, I said that I didn’t think using coupons saves too much money. I was wrong! It reminded me of a post on Early Retirement Extreme: Are pro-bloggers like professors? not long ago, among the three types of bloggers he categorized, I consider myself the third type, a student, who has learned a little and is still learning on the subject I have chosen to blog. There has been ups and downs since I started blogging, and in my down time or when I was very busy and trying to keep my posting regularly at the same time, the thought that maybe I should focus on becoming a ‘professor’ on the subject of financial freedom before I blog came across my mind a few times. But after all, blogging does help me to learn. So just keep going, just keep going.

Shopping at Walmart

I didn’t shop at Walmart for grocery until recently I discovered two great blogs that offer a lot of money saving tips: Money Saving Mom and The “Cent”sible Sawyer. After reading their posts on Walmart deals for this week, I printed out some online coupons from their links, and headed there to shop.

What I bought:

1 bag of cat food: $4.18 minus $4 coupon=$0.18

1 pack of 500 sheet HP paper $3.97 minus $3 coupon=$0.97

2 containers of Huggies wipes: $2.38*2 minus $3 newspaper coupon for 2=$1.76 for two

1 box of cereal: $3.14 minus $2 coupon=$1.14

Kids bubble bath: $1.74 no coupon

2 Johnson’s buddies soaps: $0.94 each minus $2 coupon for two. But after I left the store I realized one coupon did not go through, my guess was the coupon for the soaps.

So I used 5 coupons but 1 did not go through. I’m very thrilled. Coupon work! I saved $12 by using coupons.

This was the first time that I used more than 2 coupons, and according to Walmart’s coupon policy, you can use up to 40 coupons without approval by their manager. 40 coupons! Oh, my! I’m still too new as a coupon user.