Buying More To Spend Less; Alternately Titled: The Magic Of Coupons

I think one of the hardest lessons for me to *grasp* when I started to coupon was that many times if you buy MORE items at the store you can spend LESS money. I know--it seems like the strangest kind of logic! Crazy even! Let me show you how I bought more items in order to get what I *really* needed for nearly free!

I bought some RedPlum inserts earlier in the week online (b/c of the amazing coupons!). I paid $5 for 5 inserts--I actually had money in my PayPal account from *selling* coupons I didn't need for Formula (p.s. you can't actually sell coupons but you can sell your time to cut and list them on ebay =) so these were technically *free*. 

So I went to Rite Aid today because I needed tissues 

(my husband has SEVERE allergies at the moment--poor lamb!). 

Here's my transaction:

5 Nivea Body Wash $3.50 (said $3.99 on sticker but came up cheaper!)

2 Lysol Wipes Bogo $3.49

4 Covergirl Makeup BOGO (used my leftover BOGO coupons so = 0)

4 Kleenex tissue boxes

= $25 ish

-$5/$25 printable

-5 $4/1 Nivea 5/2 RP

-2 $1/1 Lysol 4/25 SS

=.51

That's *51* precious little cents for all that jazz when all I *really* needed to get my hands on were some tissues!

It was so good I sent my husband back for more =) I supposed you could say the *need* in this scenario is the chocolate. 'cause I needs it to survive!! =) also, dark chocolate makes for some amazing chocolate chunk cookies...mmm.......sorry. sidetracked. =)

He bought:

5 Nivea Men @ super secret $3.50 sale price

2 Lysol Wipes BOGO $3.49

2 Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Bars 2/$3

=$25 ish

-$5/$25

-5 $3/1 Nivea Men

-2 $1/1 Lysol 4/25 SS

-$1/2 Ghirardelli

=.99 cents (plux tax)

So do some investigating, buy extra coupons if you have extra money to invest and get the things you need and some fun extras for next-to-nearly-nothing. =)