Have you ever wondered how all those folks out there save a ton of money at the grocery store using coupons?

You are just dieing to know their secret, or what crystal ball they look into that tells them the best sales to go to. Have you ever watched an old episode of I Dream Of Jeanie? Just imagine Barbara Eden putting her hands together and with a nod to her head, granting our wishes of where to go to find the best deals using our coupons. Now wouldn’t that be great!  I think someone let the Jeanie out of the bottle, and she is already at the store buying all the good stuff hehe ; D

Anywho, I think part of the secret for those great deals is double or triple coupons.

There is a store called Albertson’s and they do double coupons, but instead of just doubling up to a dollar, they will double coupons over a dollar. Take this for example; you have a $1.10 coupon off of two packages of Pillsbury cookie dough and the coupon doubles to $2.20. The cookie dough is on sale for 2 for 4 dollars. With the double coupon you get both of them for $1.80 or .90 cents a piece. Pretty good uh?  Too bad there is not an Alberson’s in Missouri. It just might become my favorite store.

You might be wondering where I am going with this. Well, this week at our local Schnucks stores, they are having triple coupons. I would love to be able to take in a $1.10 coupon in and have them triple it. But, it does not work out that way. The rules are triple coupons up to .50 cents, only 3 like coupons and they will triple 15 coupons each day per household. Golly gee willikers…..I hope I can remember all those rules.

Last night, I decided to go try it out. It was late when I left, I was a little tired, and I guess I could not count either.

This is what I managed to buy:

3  boxes bandaids

2 red velvet cake mixes

3 chex mix

2 bottles salsa

2 boxes fruit cups

3 packages of frozen seasoned steamer vegetables

The receipt says I paid $9.98 for all of that. Now before you start cheering, you may also be wondering why is there 3 dollar bills laying besides the receipt. Well…..it seems I forgot to give them two coupons for .50 cent each. When they tripled them and gave me a refund they gave me $3.00. So when you take off the $3.00 off the $9.98, I really only paid $6.98 for everything. Making my savings $33.56.

Whew…..it might be easier to find a jeanie in a bottle to help with this!

I did not give up that easy though!

Today, before school and after school, I made three short shopping trips. Below is what I managed to buy altogether.

12 boxes of cereal

2 band aid

3 seasoned steamer vegetables

2 boxes of cocoa

2 red velvet cake mixes

1 can of tuna

2 chex mix

6 packages of toilet paper

         

After adding up all my three receipts (two from Gerbes and one from Schnucks) I spent a total of $12.45 for everything.

Just call me Jeanie…..I just wish I could be granted her figure….with my figure, I would get stuck in her bottle.

Happy Couponing and don’t give up!

Becky