We had the most amazingly beautiful Saturday! For February, anyway. Actually, I don’t care what month it is, it was stinkin’ gorgeous here in Oregon! Bright and sunny and warm. Crazy. The boys wore shorts and sweatshirts. It was THAT kind of weather. Don’t be jealous. It rains here, too!

So, we had basketball practice this morning, then cleaned up around the house, then headed out to watch a cousin’s b-ball game, THEN took a walk around a wildlife refuge, AND went wine tasting, AND went out to dinner. I’m feeling blessed! Just an awesome day with my little family!!

After dinner (which we paid for with my grocery envelope surplus), we swung by Safeway to take advantage of the weekend-only sales. They were decent. Not write-home-about-it-crazy-good, but decent. I picked up some necessities as well.

Oooh yes. I don’t mean to brag . . . but I’m totally gonna brag here. Forgive me. You all know and love me and will forgive me later, right? Here we go:

The carrots (Cole’s favorite snack) and spinach were on sale for .99¢ each. Spinach is the only kind of “salad” my boys will eat. They are “cooked veggie” types, but they’ll happily eat spinach! I won’t tell them how healthy it is!!

They RAISED the price of milk!! Good grief. SO irritating. However, notice that the total after coupons (there were coupons on the butter) is $10.74, AND YET I paid only $10.07 on the entire trip. Hmmmm . . . how is that possible?

Because I bought this:

And, as you can see, I got it all for FREE!! How?

Manufacturer’s coupons from the Sunday paper (Smartsource, Rudplum, etc.)
AND
Internet Printable coupons that were linked up for me to print from my favorite coupon blogs
AND
Safeway store coupons (from the Make It Tonight coupon booklet found all over the store, but always at the meat counter - expires 2/28)
AND
e-coupons loaded onto my Safeway card (many stores with club cards have these - just go to the corporate website)
AND
Safeway doublers (found in the weekly ad in Oregon).

Just stack-’em and go! Hee, hee! Obviously, I had some “overage”, which is why my final total was lower than the price of the milk, butter, spinach and carrots.

Don’t ya just love it? I do!

So, if you add this trip to the two grocery store trips earlier this (monetary) week, I have spent a grand total of $16.36 on groceries . . . which is why we bought a bottle of wine and went out to Mexican food! I get cocky. I know. But, honestly, unless there are some really great stock-up sales next week (I’m needing some cans of green beans, so cross your fingers for me!), I don’t really need anything. Probably because I went so crazy buying meat a couple of weeks ago.

Oh, wait, I need toilet paper. I sure HOPE there is fancy toilet paper on major sale!!

FYI - this trip took me about 15 minutes to prepare for thanks to Frugal Living NW - my favorite local coupon blog.

Other blogs I’m loving lately:

Krazy Coupon Lady

Money Saving Mom

Fistful of Coupons

Interested in this stuff? Check out the 10 Days to Become a Krazy Coupon Lady series!

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