The Coupon Craze

Okay, so no one can deny that there is not a coupon craze going on.  I mean it's obviously become a popular past time of a lot of stay at home moms.  Kudos to all of them, seriously.  I've been seeing these extreme couponing shows on TLC and then in addition to that I've also seen a lot of people that I am friends with on facebook talking about coupons too! 

I wish I could coupon that heavily to be honest with you.  To be able to walk out of the store with $1000+ of stuff for practically nothing?!?! I mean that's pretty friggin' awesome.  Free stuff is the sh*t!  So I've been slowly starting to "clip" coupons and searching online for good deals etc. and today was my very first awesome buy and I thought I would share with all of you. 

I purchase this Crest Pro-Health Sensitive + Enamel Shield Toothpaste from Safeway
The regular price for this product was $4.49
It was on sale for Safeway member cardholders for $2.99
When I was online last night I found that you can add additional safeway coupons to your membership card by going online and selecting the products that you want the coupon for.  I added an additional $1.50 off coupon for this product
I also clipped a coupon earlier that week from the weekly circular for an additional $1.50 off this product

That left me paying -$0.01 for this toothpaste!!! Yay!!! 

 So its not like a HUGE savings in terms of my entire grocery store trip.  I think with in store and manufacturer coupons I saved a total of 21%.  But the fact that I got something for free, or the store actually paid me a cent to take it made me feel pretty awesome.  I'm going to keep putting a little more effort into couponing and maybe it will eventually really pay off! :)