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Nana's are Beautiful
I think this whole arrange your transactions to pay the least amt of money thing has finally "clicked" with me. Although I'm gonna tell you right here and now......that sure doesn't make it faster for me to do. But calculator in hand (a necessity if I hope to have the math right) I poured over my plan for walgreens tonight like I was planning a major battle, I swear. We're talking hours here folks.
But this is the plan..........IF they have all the products it will be awesome. If not, it's not really any skin off my nose as I don't need any of it, it's just getting added to the stock pile. I will use it, the need is just not urgent.
I plan to buy 125.26 worth of products (sale prices so it's really much higher) Out of pocket cost for the first 2 transactions will be a total of 30.46, which is darn good all by itself the 3rd transaction will be totally free paid for by register rewards from the first two transactions..........with 11.00 worth of RR left over for next week for a total savings including those RR is 83.80!! Don't ask me the percentage because I can't do those. lol
Now........I might just use that 11.00 on toilet paper as if you get the Cottonelle 12pk for 5.00 they have 1.00/1 cpn in their august booklet......and easy child swears we have a cpn for .75 cents off too, but I dunno. I think I'll save it for next week as it cuts down on out of pocket costs.
What stinks about this is..........before planning this one out, I spent 4 hrs working on what I *thought* was this weeks ad, but was actually last weeks ad (and omg that one would've been out of this world) so I had to start all over again. easy child said that just means I got more practice at it. I wanted to smack her. lol
And now that I know how to do it this way, even with the hours of work setting those transactions up so the pay off is higher and out of pocket is lower, I'm not going back to the just make a list and go for it thing I was doing before. I was saving a ton before, but not like this. This is the 3rd time I've set it up this way........if you count earlier this evening when it didn't count (I swear I nearly cried).
Before when I was getting the occasional 70-90 percent and above savings, while I was thrilled, it was not always intentional. This will be my 2nd or 3rd time planning it out before walking out the door and doing it intentionally.......figured down to the penny so I know what I'm going to spend before hand ect. So hopefully this will cut down on the moment of panic I sometimes get at the register when I see all the stuff in my cart.
I'll see tomorrow how it works out............
But this is the plan..........IF they have all the products it will be awesome. If not, it's not really any skin off my nose as I don't need any of it, it's just getting added to the stock pile. I will use it, the need is just not urgent.
I plan to buy 125.26 worth of products (sale prices so it's really much higher) Out of pocket cost for the first 2 transactions will be a total of 30.46, which is darn good all by itself the 3rd transaction will be totally free paid for by register rewards from the first two transactions..........with 11.00 worth of RR left over for next week for a total savings including those RR is 83.80!! Don't ask me the percentage because I can't do those. lol
Now........I might just use that 11.00 on toilet paper as if you get the Cottonelle 12pk for 5.00 they have 1.00/1 cpn in their august booklet......and easy child swears we have a cpn for .75 cents off too, but I dunno. I think I'll save it for next week as it cuts down on out of pocket costs.
What stinks about this is..........before planning this one out, I spent 4 hrs working on what I *thought* was this weeks ad, but was actually last weeks ad (and omg that one would've been out of this world) so I had to start all over again. easy child said that just means I got more practice at it. I wanted to smack her. lol
And now that I know how to do it this way, even with the hours of work setting those transactions up so the pay off is higher and out of pocket is lower, I'm not going back to the just make a list and go for it thing I was doing before. I was saving a ton before, but not like this. This is the 3rd time I've set it up this way........if you count earlier this evening when it didn't count (I swear I nearly cried).
Before when I was getting the occasional 70-90 percent and above savings, while I was thrilled, it was not always intentional. This will be my 2nd or 3rd time planning it out before walking out the door and doing it intentionally.......figured down to the penny so I know what I'm going to spend before hand ect. So hopefully this will cut down on the moment of panic I sometimes get at the register when I see all the stuff in my cart.
I'll see tomorrow how it works out............
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