I am SO excited!! Giddy! I LOVE Quaker Life Cereal. Love it. The only time I ever got it growing up was when I went to my Grandma’s house. They just bought cereal that they liked, rather than buying what was the cheapest. I ate a TON at their house. Fond memories of Life Cereal!! {sigh!}

Safeway is having a HUGE, HUGE, HUGE cereal sale with major stock up prices (including my precious Life Cereal!!). You can see some specifics at The Krazy Coupon Lady and Frugal Living NW. I am so thankful that these ladies have done all of the hard work of finding the coupons (many of them Internet Printables) and linking them up and giving me scenarios to follow, etc. They make life SO much easier for the coupon crazy ladies!!

Anyway, ever since I read The Krazy Coupon Lady’s book, Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey, I have been wanting to try to “buy” coupons off ebay or another coupon clipping site. Keep in mind that this is perfectly legal because I am not actually buying the coupon, but I am paying the sweet lady who clipped the coupon for her time and effort. This major stock-up sale was the perfect opportunity. SO, I bought (20) $3/5 (twenty $3 off of 5 boxes coupons) for Quaker products. I paid approximately .28¢ per coupon (when you factor in the stamp to mail the coupons). That averages out to about 5¢ per box. I am SO okay with that. I don’t really NEED 20 coupons, so I put a message out on Facebook and my friends snapped up the rest of the coupons! Gotta love Facebook!

My ebay coupons have not arrived yet (just bought them yesterday), but I did have a few coupons in my binder already, so I was just ITCHING to get to Safeway to stock up!!

Here is my first score:

I paid $7.80.

I did this in two transactions to maximize the doubler savings and because I just wanted to brag about this:

I bought 6 boxes of Life cereal and two boxes of Cheerios for $2.50. That is .31¢ a box!!

How? Remember when I did the free/cheap instant oatmeal deal? Well, many of my True Delights boxes had strips of coupons in them for $1/2 Life Cereal!! AND, they double.

For this deal, you HAVE to buy in increments of 4 boxes of cereal. Notice that I bought 8 boxes in this single transaction, but I’m just breaking it out for you so you can see my thought process.

Buy 4 boxes of Life ($1 each when you buy 4)
Use (2) $1/2 Life Cereal MC
Use 2 doublers (-$1)
Pay $1

Buy 2 boxes of Life ($1 each)
Buy 2 boxes of Cheerios (in the yellow box - $1.50 each WYB 4)
Use $1/2 Life
Use $1/2 Cheerios IP (yellow box)
Use $1/2 Cheerios ecoupon (yellow box)
Use 1 doubler (-.50)
Pay $1.50

Wahooo!

For my second transaction, I bought the Kashi cereal for $2 each WYB 4. I had (3) $1.50/1 coupons, which could be doubled, Plus a “Free Box” coupon - all from a Vocalpoint mailer. All of the Kashi was completely FREE, plus I made a little money with the free box coupon!

4 boxes of Kashi
1 International Delight Creamer (I used a $1/1 pint coupon, which doubled. 50¢ for the creamer.)
bananas
2 gallons of milk
1 dozen eggs
I paid $5.30

Oh, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!! Just wait until those ebay coupons arrive!! This is cereal stock-up time!!

I know, so many of you are going to say . . .

“Won’t it go bad?” Well, I suppose that it could, but I seriously doubt it. I have about 10 boxes of cereal in my pantry right now, and most of them expire in late 2010 and 2011.

“Do you really need that much cereal?” My family doesn’t eat much ice cream, so the cereal is both breakfast and dessert. And, sometimes I eat it for lunch, too. Does my family NEED it? Probably not, however it won’t go to waste!! And, when I have a HUGE stockpile of cereal, I don’t hesitate to donate some of it. I know that many church nurseries would love my donation of Cheerios!

“Where do you keep it?” Have you seen my pantry? I still have room on top of the toilet paper, behind the door, and on the floor. I know that I’m not going to need to store my food anywhere except in my pantry (since it is wonderfully large), however it is quite popular with coupon ladies to find more creative places to store their stockpile: Tops of bedroom closets, under beds, inside the linen closet, shelves in the garage, etc. When you think about how much money you are saving by having a stockpile to shop from rather than running to the store, you get very creative finding places to put it!

Are any of you going to take advantage of the Safeway Cereal Stock-Up? Where will you store your stockpile?

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