a few days ago, extreme couponing was on tv. seeing how much those women saved at the supermarket wanted me to sort through coupons, too. though i don't plan on going to the extreme, i, too, want to save money and haven't really thought about coupons. the next day i sorted through all the advertisements and junk mail. i cut out all the relevant coupons from papers and then proceeded to organize it in excel. yesterday i checked to see if all the stores in the area have their weekly ads on their website and they did. it just made bargain shopping a lot easier. today i decided to go to walmart with a small list of things i wanted to buy. turns out walmart is the low price leader in a lot of things. i did find one thing that they were selling a bit higher than one of their competitors so i ended up getting a price match for it at the register. (walmart and target do price matching). other things i had coupons for but wal mart did not have the selection i wanted.
after i got home, i decided it would be nice to see my savings in a graphic way so i created the above display on my daytum page. the numbers in the parentheses indicate the amount of money that was saved. i can't explain what daytum is that well but a visit to their site will. daytum is quite addicting :) i can't wait to see what it will look like after a couple of months.
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