Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Shaws Scenarios

I did 5 transactions today at different stores. The first store I messed up and could kick myself! lol. But as I said below, when I only received 1 set of 15 I walked out to my car and tried to figure it out. Sure enough the bounty was $13.49 regular price not $13.99 like I had thought. The ONE time I don't double check the price tag! Figures! lol.

Total Before Savings: $224.86
Total OOP: $21.09
Total CATS Left: $60.00
Here is the breakdown:

Transaction #1:
2 Multigrain Cheerios
2 Total Whole Grain
4 BC 2x Blueberry Muffin Mix
2 Bounty 8 roll
1 Gallon Milk (we needed this)

Coupons Used:
(2) $0.75/1 Multigrain
(2) $0.75/1 Total
(4) $0.45/1 Muffin mix

Used $25 in CATS
Paid $4.49 OOP
- not sure why it was so high since he scanned them I should have gotten the tax credit.
Received $15 in CATS - I was supposed to get $30 like I said the bounty was 50 cents less than I thought! So if you do this just add in $1 item more to get to your $60 presale.

Transaction #2:
Prune Juice (for my 9 month old) $2.79
1 Multigrain Cheerios
4 Bisquick
4 Curves bars
3 Fiber One Toaster Pastries
2 Pampers Baby Dry
1 Gerber baby food (filler to get my baby items to $25)

Coupons Used:
(1) $0.75/1 Multigrain
(4) $0.75/1 Bisquick
(4) $0.75/1 Curves
(3) $0.75/1 Fiber One
(2) $1/1 Pampers

Used $25 in CATS
Paid $4.22 OOP
- cashier became wise to the tax credit when scanning so started entering them as competitor coupons.
Received $30 plus the $5 baby cat so $35

Transaction #3:
2 Total
2 Pampers baby dry
1 gerber baby food (filler to get my baby items to $25)

Coupons Used:
(2) $0.75/1 Total
(2) $1/1 Pampers

Used $15 in CATS
Paid $6.03 OOP
- same cashier as above so he put them in as competitor coupons and I did not get the tax credit.
Received $15 in cats and $5 in baby cats so $20 all together

Transaction #4:
2 Fiber One Honey Clusters
2 Pampers baby dry
1 gerber baby food (filler)
1 Healthy Ones sandwich meat $1.99 on sale

Coupons Used:
(2) $0.75/1 Fiber One
(2) $1/1 Pampers
(1) $0.75/1 healthy ones from this sundays inserts making lunch meant $0.49

Used $15 in CATS
Paid $2.92 OOP
Received $15 in CATS plus $5 in baby CAT so $20

Transaction #5:
2 Fiber One Honey Clusters
2 Pampers Baby Dry
1 gerber baby food (baby filler)
1 wise cheese puffs $2 on sale

Coupons Used:
(2) $0.75/1 Fiber One
(2) $1/1 Pampers
(1) $0.50/1 Wise chips printable making the chips $1.00

Used $15 in CATS
Paid $3.43 OOP
Received $15 in CATS plus the $5 in Baby CATS so $20

2 comments:

Debbie said...

I appreciate all that you post. It's a huge help!
I've awarded you. Please come by my blog to pick it up!

Unknown said...

YOU ARE THE QUEEN!! I bow down and aspire to be like you!! ;) I always have to take my kids with me to the store so trying to do multiple trips is crazy. Hoping the husband comes home at a decent time today so I can do another round of baby junk.

Thanks for letting me know about the Gerber Baby Food being part of the baby - that's cheaper than the Puffs and I can pawn it off on some little baby I know.