I'm so excited!

So one of my New Years Resolutions is to spend the same amount of grocery money but get a lot more stuff to build up the food storage. Using coupons can be very overwhelming and kind of scary. My friend Jana is awesome and is doing it with me! We live in a mostly hispanic neighborhood and for some reason we get a spanish newspaper with all the coupons...FOR FREE (the Sunday paper is $5). We clipped coupons last week and today. Then, we went to Walgreens for our first try at this whole thing. I don't have batteries for my camera, but here's what I got:


Transaction 1:
1 thermal care neck warmer
2 Bic soleil razors (4 ct/ea)
2 boxes Kotex tampons
1 box Kotex liners
1 Colgate toothpaste
Total Spent: $15.22
Total Saved: $14.60
Register Rewards (money that can only be used at Walgreens): $8.50
Transaction 2:
2 Lysol cleaning wipes
1 Package cleaning gloves
1 box Honey Bunches of Oats
1 box Cocoa Pebbles
2 Sally Hanses nail polishes
Total Spent: $1.11
Total Saved: $27.02
Register Rewards leftover: $2.00

I have to admit we spent almost two hours at Walgreens but it was our first time. It was a fun time though since Jana and I got to hang out and we saved tons of moolah.

Total Spent: $16.33
Total Saved: $41.62

Then, I went to Kroger and spent $63.98 but saved $29.42. If I hadn't bought Winston's dog food (I usually put that on another tab) I would have still been under my $65 budget for the week. I only spent $15 on groceries last week so I'm doing awesome if i do say so myself.
We'll see how I do next week...