March Recap

Where Dreams Come True

I am so sorry that this report is late!  I am still catching up from vacation last week.  Yes, we took the kids to Florida as we had Disney Park passes to use.  Now that my oldest is 16 (YIKES!), we figured it was the last year we could get him to go to Disney.  It was the first time my 9 year old visited the Magic Kingdom and he said it was his favorite park.  We did it all - Animal Kingdom, Epcot (My FAVE!), Magic Kingdom, Blizzard Beach & Typhoon Lagoon.

Same old, same old - I use a spreadsheet to track all of my grocery purchases. Yes, I actually enter each & every receipt.  I continue to make my profitable drugstore runs to offset my grocery spending in addition to the AWESOME NBPR beer rebates.  I only made 30 trips to the store last month and 30% were profitable trips @ mostly Rite Aid.

I finally got my Pyramid Ale Fall rebates!!!

This is my grocery spending breakdown for March. 

Merchandise Monthly Total = $1,027.63
Coupons Used = $647.24
Rewards Used (ECBs, RRs, +Ups) = $262.99
Rewards Earned = $278.77
SavingStar = $5.30 (I don't always remember to track this)
Beer/Misc. Rebates = $157.50 
Actual Cost = NEGATIVE $29.27
Number of items purchased = 391

Number of FREE items = 201

I was paid $29.27 this month to feed my family of four!

51% of the items purchased were free!

These are my rebates received for the month of March:

*some rebates were done in multiples as there were multiple offer #s       

$2 Coors Light/Cheez Its
$4 Bud/Pizza
$4 Shock Top/Produce
$4 Stella/Gourmet Cheese
$6 Pabst/Pizza
$10 Pyramid MIRs
$10 P&G Prepaid Card (PC)
$12.50 Miller Lite/Grocery
 
YTD Report (Jan-Mar)
Merchandise Yearly Total = $2,842.99
Coupons Used = $1,801.58
Rewards Used (ECBs, RRs, +Ups) = $743.55
Rewards Earned = $839.73
SavingStar = $20.54
Beer/Misc. Rebates = $373.00
Actual Cost = NEGATIVE $113.28
Number of items purchased = 1,162
Number of FREE items = 666

57% of the items I purchased this year were FREE!