My second trip to Harris Teeters Triple Coupon Days!!

Last night I made my second run to Harris Teeters Triple Coupon Days. As you can see from the photo, it seemed to have been a pretty SWEET trip!! LOL. I didn't realize until I unloaded it how much sweet things that I picked up this time. I did get a pretty good variety of stuff too. From rice/pasta products, more heat and eat meals and individual fruit bowls just to name a few things. On this trip I knew I was picking up some things that were not free or even very close to free. They were about half price. Rick loves the string cheese snacks and his Pace Picante Sauce so I went on and got them for him. One or two things I picked up to give to some people who are jobless at the moment - something Triple coupons makes easily within all of our budgets!! Then of course you can see my soda and snack up on the arm of the bench - AGAIN! which was about $2.70 added to my purchase price.

Totals for this trip: Grand Total - $75.76

Minus Vic Sales- $ 8.08

Minus Coupons - $40.92

Amount Paid - $ 26.76

So far between these two trips this week I have spent $48.31 for $152.96 of groceries. A savings of $104.65. I am pleased with my purchases so far. It is exciting to know that I have quite a few of free or almost free items. Fun, fun, fun!!!

Triple Coupons at Harris Teeter!!

Well today I went to my FIRST EVER TRIPLE COUPON SALE!!! It was a fun challenge getting everything ready to go. Sorting through all of the coupons, checking with www.southernsavers.com and at coupon teachers (here on blogger) blogs. They write up all of the best deals that they are seeing and make it simple to coupon shop. Southern Savers even has where you can print your shopping list with all of the coupons marked!

Harris Teeter only triples coupons .99 and under. So first thing I did was to set all of my dollar and above coupons to the side for another day. My focus was on the higher priced (under a dollar) coupons I could triple that would give me the best price. I tried to only get things I needed too! Well Tamara wanted me to get milk and I grabbed a soda and some cashews to munch on as I drove home. So those three things alone made it about $5 higher. It was a good opportunity to try those uncrustable sandwiches which I thought that I would NEVER buy. However with the coupon it was a very reasonable price to try it. I thought that it would be a quick and easy snack or part of a meal for Mackenzie. I picked up one peanut butter and jelly and one cheese sandwich. I also stocked up on deodorant (4), shaving gel (2) and toothpaste (2) bandaides and hand lotion. Then some cleaning products and plastic cups. Some frozen vegetables and a heat up meal. Over all I am very pleased with how things went.

With no coupons or VIC sales the total would have been $77.20

minus VIC sales $6.45

minus coupons $49.20

Amount I did pay $21.55

So I am very pleased with how well this shopping trip came out!!! I will have to go back again before the Triple Days Sale is over. Any of you that have a Harris Teeter I highly suggest you give them a try. Go to some of the online sites for coupons and sale information too. Any questions that I can help you with, please feel free to ask them!! I'd love to hear about YOUR shopping experiences!!