Wow. That feels so good to get off of my chest. :) I have been dabbling in the art of couponing since January. In January Target sent out a mailer with a coupon for a free bag of chips - no additional purchase needed. Well, There was a big stack of these mailers in our mail room so I took them then I may or may not have gone to the other mail room to scope it out for more. Yes, I went back several times and that was the first sign that this might become a problem...
This picture is just a snapshot of SOME of our treasure.
When all was said and done we had 67 BAGS of chips with a value of $186.93 and we paid $0. Now a sane person would ask "what are you going to do with THAT MANY CHIPS?" The answer is - We went to a Super Bowl party and you guessed it - we brought the chips. We brought enough chips to eat while at the party AND send everyone home with a party favor. That barely put a dent in our stash that we had o
rganized in our pantry by exp date. We ate a lot of taco soup, nachos, and sandwiches with chips.
We had lots of chips for Stephen's Seinfield themed birthday party in February- they went nicely with the double-dip dip. Anytime a friend came over we would load them up with chips. We still had chips in March for Sam's birthday party. By April we were no longer eating chips at all - and FINALLY in June we finished off our stockpile of chips when we went to the lake with my family and we were asked to bring CHIPS!!!
While the CHIP EXTRAVAGANZA was going on I also scored DelMonte canned veggies for .25 a can. We bought $60.00 worth and are still eating on our stock pile of veggies 6 months later.
After all of this craziness I backed off the couponing, but I am BACK! I went and bought all of this using some creative couponing- for $3.47
So i am really going to stay on top of this blog and write about all of my adventures. I am really having so much fun with my shopping trips - it is like a game - beat the register. LOL.
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