My 1st post!

I used to clip coupons a long time ago, but honestly got sick of shuffling through them in the store and having to cut all of them out. It was just such a pain! Recently I realized just how much we could save by using coupons, so I figured we'd better start again! My sil had a great idea of getting a 3 ring binder and getting the baseball card holders (plastic sleeves) and using that to put the coupons in. I LOVE IT! It makes it so much simpler and a breeze to go shopping!
I've told quite a few people about my money saving recently, and thought I'd start a blog to show how my savings add up. There are times that I save a LOT of money when I go, and sometimes just a few dollars, but those few dollars add up quick. It's been my mission lately to see how many groceries I can get for as little as possible. A few weeks ago, the grocery store paid ME to go shopping! I "bought" about $50 in groceries, and got almost $8 back in cash!
There are 2 websites that I think everyone should sign up on and those are www.shortcuts.com and www.pgesaver.com They will put electronic coupons onto your dillons card and you can combine those "electronic" coupons with paper coupons! All you do is select which coupons you want to be added to your card, then when you buy those items, it automatically comes off your total. If it's from shortcuts.com it'll say Scuts and if it's pgesaver it'll say pgesaver on your receipt. :)
I shop at Walmart, Dillons, Kmart, Walgreens, ummm anywhere that I can find a good deal!
Tonight I went shopping at Dillons & Walmart and here's how the shopping went (it wasn't a HUGE savings, but quite a bit of free stuff nonetheless!)

Dillons shopping:

**Sara Lee Whole Grain Wheat Buy 1 Get 1 (made it pd..$1.62 each)
**Kroger Shredded Cheese (33% off, was on sale for paid..$3.79)
**Cottonelle 4 pk toilet paper 2 pkgs (on sale for 98cents,had 2 shortcuts.com cpns for 50 cents off) .....paid 48 cents a pkg!!
**Betty Crocker Frosting (sale $1.69, had ppr 50 cents off cpn, dbld to $1 plus had shortcuts cpn for 50 cents off) ...... Paid 19 cents!
**MMs holiday candy...$1.68
**2 31 oz. cans Refried Beans..$1 each
Total pd 13.39, but saved $9.97!!

Wal-Mart Shopping:
**Glade Wisp Flameless Candle (took in Walgreens ad for price match) $3.99 & used $3 off cpn...Paid 99 cents!! (These are normally $9.99, so it was a savings of $9!!)
**Glade Scented Oil Candle Holder ($2.77, but had 2 coupons for buy 1 get 1 free, I bought 4 total, so I paid $1.38 each!)
**Glade Scented oil Candle Refills ($2 each, had cpn for buy 2, get 1 free, so I paid $1.33 each)
**Gillette Body Wash ($2 each, had 3 cpns for $2/1...so I got 3 bottles for FREE!!)
**Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers Vegetables ($1 each, had 7 cpns for $1/1, so got 7 bags of veggies FREE!)
**Tide travel packs ($1 each, had 3 cpns for $1/1, so got 3 of them for FREE!!)

Just in this 1 shopping trip alone to Walmart, I saved....$33.54!! and total paid was $24.23 (I also had to buy wetones, and some other household items that I didn't have cpns for, but had to get anyways!)

I'm definitely not a pro at this, but I enjoy doing it. I'm up for any suggestions! Feel free to ask any ?'s or make any comments.