Monthly Market Tally

Giant Eagle Tally:

12 month running totals

Fuelperks $1341.72

Foodperks 336.11

Weeklys 1481.21

Coupons 713.45

Couponmom.com

So, just today, I discovered the Couponmom.com website. WOW, I could have used this a couple months ago. So go check it out. You can look at the deals in your state and grocery store. So I'm in Ohio and shop at Giant Eagle. I think you can figure it out, but you click on the tab "grocery deals by state" and then put in your state and preferred grocery store and up pops all of the weekly sale items, along with what coupon matches that sale item. It shows the date of the coupon ran and from what publication, the dollar amount of the coupon. There are several different ways to sort the table, I choose to sort by highest percentile saved, highest to lowest.

Couponmom.com has a couple videos which completely explains everything in a super,duper way.

.... and it's FREE

and this is why you always ALWAYS carry your coupon binder

I don't use Veet, I'm an old razor and shaving cream type of gal, but hey, when it's discounted to $3 and I have a $2 coupon, you betcha I'm going to try it. Stumbled upon this deal in the discounted section of Giant Eagle. If I didn't have my binder with me, I would have lost out on this deal because it was the last one.

Kroger Deals & Disappointments

So normally I don't shop at Kroger. Giant Eagle FuelPerks and FoodPerk are just too good to pass up. But I went today, mainly because of a few great deals. But I also learned a lesson.

Deals:

Pineapples 10/$10, these are normally $2.99, my kids love them.

Quilted Northern bath tissue 12 double rolls $5.99, with two e-coupons at $2.00 off each. I had to do these in two separate transactions because customer service said it wouldn't work as one transaction. So toilet paper was $3.99 each.

Dial Soap - 2 packs 10/$10

Gatorade is 10/$10 plus 5 free.

Take 5 gum: BOGO

They had pork chops and roasts at BOGO.

Disappointment:

Gillette Mens Body Wash $3.49 on sale for $2.49 and a $2 e-coupon. I also had a manu. coupon for $2 thinking I would get an overage. Well, evidently Kroger does not allow stacking of coupons. But still $.49 for body wash was a great price, so I kept it.

I learned it pays to check coupon policy. I noticed Kroger's e-coupons are more than Giant Eagle and I was able to load two same type coupons on my card at one time, but like noted above, I had to do two separate transaction. That, coupled with the fact they don't stack, I don't like. I'll keep my shopping at Giant Eagle unless there are rock bottoms deals at Kroger.

All You Magazine ~ free samples

I really love the All You magazine. I did get the subscription for a year, but then realized if I picked it up at Walmart [$1.88] you actually get a ton of coupons. The subscriptions to my house did not contain all the coupons as the magazine sold in the store. Come to find out the Walmart has a special relationship with All You and they agreed to sell the magazine only if there were coupons!

Also, another benefit. You can sign up for daily free samples of items. Go here to sign up and every day check your email for the daily special. Sign up for the ones you like and just sit back and wait for the mail.

Monthly Market Tally

Total 12 month savings:

from fuelperks: $1430.82

from foodperks: $ 367.19

weekly specials: $1485.30

coupons: $ 553.10

just in coupons alone, I have saved over $145 last month alone.

Giant Eagle's Fuel Perks

I'm sure if you shop at Giant Eagle, you understand their fuelperks and foodperks. I'm going to explain it in case you haven't shop at Giant Eagle and you may be considering doing so. You use a reward card at Giant Eagle.

For every $50 you spend in the store, you receive a $.20 "fuelperk" credit. This amount just keeps adding up until you use it at the gas pumps. So today I went to the store, I spend just over $100, so I received $.40 cent off each gallon of gas. Now, I also purchased 6 Oscar Meyer products in this one transaction and received another $.20 off each gallon of gas. I am underlining the word each just so you're aware if you go to the pumps, scan your rewards card and it will show how much off you have per gallon. You can choose to use the amount off, or save it. Lots of times we'll save it and go back to fill up my SUV which can hold 25 gallons, and then we take gas cans to fill it up to 30 gallons because 30 gallons is the maximum you can get. I can't tell you how many times I have filled up my SUV, plus the gas cans for FREE. That can be over $80 in savings a time.

For every 10 gallons of gas you pump at Giant Eagle gas stations, you receive a 1% "foodperk" credit. So with 25 gallons of gas you would receive 2% foodperk, but that extra 5 gallons would stay as a per gallon amount on your rewards cards. So if you went another day and used 5 more gallons of gas, you will then earn 1% in foodperks. Now you can use your foodperks any time when you shop, but we feel its best when we're ready to do a huge run and buy lots of meat products and non-food essentials, paper products, detergent, personal care, etc. If we save enough percentages, we can use a maxium of 20% at one time on a maximum $300 order. Any extra will carry over. So we'll spend around $300 and receive $60 off with our foodperks.

According to our receipt, which is a running 12 month total, we have saved over $3,300 in rewards which includes:
fuelperks savings $1,310.82
foodperks savings 367.19
weekly specials 1,268.66
coupons 405.48

And I can honestly tell you half of that coupon savings has occurred just in these last few weeks when I really started watching weekly specials and somewhat extreme couponing.