RIP Dominicks

One of my favorite grocery stores, Dominick's, went out of business this winter. While I was super bummed, I was able to stock up on ALOT of 50% off merchandise. And - it was 50% off on top of the sale price and any coupons you had, so my husband and I both had a lot of fun shopping! I didn't keep all my receipts, but I think we calculated that we spent $600-$700, and had about 60% savings. Here are my scores:

These diapers came out to about 9 cents a diaper!
And I thought 18 cents on Amazon was good!

 

                                     

My First Great Deal!

I recently started couponing. I have been saving coupon inserts by week from the Chicago Tribune. Whenever I am ready to go to the grocery store, I search coupon database sites such as www.couponmom.com or read a local blog to find out what is on sale, and where I can find the coupons to match with the sales.

I have been saving a little bit of money, but nothing crazy. I kept reading that when something is on sale, and you have a coupon, you should stock up on it. I hadn’t come across anything great, until Monday. The blog I read informed me that Dominick’s had Goldfish crackers on sale buy 2 get 2 free. I also remembered that on my Dominick’s fresh values card I had a Just for U coupon for a free bag of Goldfish, and a special price of $1.63 whenever I bough Goldfish.



I figured, I could get 4 bags for $1.63. This is a great deal, since normally they are over $2 a bag, and I eat them almost every day for lunch. When I got to the store, I noticed an end cap with Cheddar Goldfish. The bags had a peelie for $.75 off when you buy one cheddar and one flavor goldfish. I wasn’t sure how much this would save me, but I knew it would be a really good deal if I bought 8 bags. The way I figured it:



Dominicks Receipt

8 bags at $2.39 is   $19.20

4 bags free (B2G2) -$9.56

1 bag free (J4U)     -$2.39

J4U my price          -$2.28

4 MFR coupons     -$3.00

                         =  $1.97



If you look at my receipt, there are three lines of goldfish, that add up to $2.00. I am not sure how the computer calculated it, but for some reason it came out 3 cents above what I thought it should be. I will not complain over 3 cents!

This is the first time I have been able to use my coupon “skills” to stock up on something, I am very happy with myself that I got 8 bags of goldfish for less than the cost of 1 regular priced bag! I now have enough goldfish for a few months, and hopefully they will be on sale again by then.



My Stockpile of Goldfish!