My Shopping Day~ 04/27/2014

Our last shopping day of April.  Sniff, Sniff.  I cannot believe the year is flying by so fast.  It just can't be that we have been in Florida almost 8 months- say it isn't so:)  May will be here later this week.  Which means out oldest son, Chris will be the BIG 20 soon~ YIKES!!!!

This shopping trip was supposed to be an easy one.  4 stores.  That is all I had to do was go to 4 stores.  I went to Walmart and was looking around.  We needed to find rock salt for a science experiment.  One associate told us to look in the garden center.  Nope not there.  Another associate told us to look in the appliance section. Nope not here~ they don't even sell ice cream makers.  I was not having a good day.  Kevin and I had been up and down aisles over and over again.  Different associates leading us on a wild goose chase to find rock salt.  Finally, one nice and kind gentleman asked us to wait as he found out.  He came back and told us to check the baking aisle.  I told Kevin if it is not there, we are just going to get our groceries and leave.  We had been in the store for over 30 minutes looking for rock salt.

We get to the baking aisle and Viola, there is sat right with the regular salt. Why didn't I think of that first- grrr.  Ok, got that.  Not to see what else we need to get at Walmart.  Oh no~ Wait a minute~ Where is my shopping list????  Where are the coupons that we attached to my list?  Oh, this is not good.  Up and down the aisles we went again, looking under shelves.  Probably looking like 2 crazed lunatics:)  Now we have been in Walmart for over an hour.  My head is aching looking for this list.  My poor coupons gone- no free Crayola markers for me :(

We looked and looked and finally gave up-  My list was no where to be found.  We are not sure if my list some how blew away in Walmart or if someone snatched my coupons, which was attached to my list:)  Oh well.  Luckily, I remembered what I needed to get in BJ's and CVS.  I took all my Publix coupons into Publix with me hoping and praying I wasn't forgetting anything.  We then drove all the way back home to get my original chicken grocery scratch list, which had my Walmart list on it.  Back to Walmart we went.  It was a long and exhausting shopping day :(  But we are thankful that this happened on a short shopping trip and not my huge major beginning of the month trips- oh boy :)

So, after reading all about my rather lengthy Walmart fun, here are the shopping details:

CVS
$4.74- Oral B Cross Action Power toothbrush
$4.74- Oral B Cross Action Power toothbrush
$0.99- Junior Mints
$10.47
-3.00 Oral B Battery toothbrush cpn
-3.00 Oral B Battery toothbrush cpn
-0.30 Theater candy CVS cpn
-$0.99 ECB
-3.00 ECB
$0.75- Total with tax

BJ's
$2.78- Lettuce
$1.59- Bananas
$4.37

Publix
$3.79- Coffee Mate coffee creamer
$0.00- Coffee Mate coffee creamer
$3.79- Coffee Mate coffee creamer
$0.00- Coffee Mate coffee creamer
$1.20- Yoplait Greek 100 calorie
$1.20- Yoplait Greek 100 calorie
$3.69- Boca burger
$0.00- Boca burger
$2.89- New York Garlic Knots
-1.45- 50% off Promotion
$2.89- New York Breadsticks
-1.44- 50% off Promotion
$4.99- Emerald Cashews
$4.99- Emerald mix nuts
$1.59- Muellers Pot Size Spaghetti
$0.00- Muellers Pot Size Spaghetti
$1.59- Muellers TriColor Rotini
$0.00- Muellers TriColor Rotini
$1.59- Mueller Hidden Veggie pasta
$0.00- Mueller Hidden Veggie Pasta
$6.99- Cats Pride cat litter
$0.00- Cats Pride cat litter
$38.30
-1/2 Mueller Pasta
-1/2 Mueller Pasta
-0.75 Mueller Pot Size pasta
-0.75 Mueller Pot Size Pasta
-1.20 Yoplait Greek 100 Calorie printable cpn
-1.00 Coffee Mate printable cpn
-1.00 Coffee Mate printable cpn
-1/2 Coffee Mate Target printable cpn
-1/2 Coffee Mate Target printable cpn
-1.00 Boca printable cpn
-1.00 Boca printable cpn
-1.00 New York frozen bread printable cpn
-1.00 New York frozen bread printable cpn
-1.00 Emerald nuts printable cpn
-1.00 Emerald Nuts printable cpn
-2.00 Cats Pride Publix printable cpn
-1.00 Cats Pride printable cpn
-2.00 Cats Pride Publix printable cpn
-1.00 Cats Pride printable cpn
$18.02- Total after tax :)  According to my receipt, I saved $48.62- WOOHOO :)

Walmart
$6.39- Frozen veggies
$6.19- Whole Chicken
$1.28- Mild taco sauce
$0.98- Hot sauce
$0.88- Onion
$0.88- Oregano
$1.00- Bacon bits
$1.94- Pepperonis
$1.28- Lunchmeat
$0.98- Turkey hot dogs
$1.62- Tortilla Chips
$0.64- Orange
$24.06- Total

This shopping trip has been added to our April Monthly Spending post, where I keep track of what we spend for the month of April.  How did we do?  Did we bust our grocery budget or did we keep all in track.  Hop on over here to find out.