Coupon Slow-down

There's been some exciting news for the Johnson household!  We're buying a house!  At the end of February we will close and we'll be completely out of the apartment by the middle of March.  And that means it's time to start going through our stockpile of food, so that we have less to move.

There's 5 boxes of unopened cereal along with tons of soup cans, Rotel, baking goods, and my big jar of peanut butter.

Somehow, I ended up buying three big boxes of popcorn.  Each time I got one I genuinely believed that we needed some.  And now all three are sitting up in our cupboard, along with chips, crackers, oatmeal, more baking stuff, and cooking liquids.  Then there's all of Josh's spices/sauces and my cookie/cake decorating stuff.

And our fridge.  It's a small fridge, but it's packed full.  Notice that 2-liters of Coke.  We've had those for a long time, but they're free with deals at Winn Dixie.  Also, there's 2 boxes of opened cereal on the top of the fridge and a lot of bourbon and beer.  I think we've both slowed down a lot on our drinking since marriage.  :)

We've got all this stuff...but I still did a little shopping before the Super Bowl last weekend.  I had some +Up Rewards that I needed to use.  Sorry for the lack of picture, but here's what I got:

Rite Aid

What I got:

2 cans of Pringles

2 small packages Chex Mix

1 Ocean Spray Cranberry juice

1 V-8 juice

2 large Gatorades

1 package small Dixie plates

Price before coupons and sales: 27.21

Total after coupons and sales: 3.99

Savings: 23.22 or 85%

Used:

10 +Up Rewards from previous purchase

1.00 off Video Value/Winter Reward coupon

1.00 off V-8 juice coupon

.50 off 2 cans of Pringles 

.50 off 2 packages Check Mix (store coupon - Video Values)

Coupon savings: 13.00

Store sale savings: 14.21

Earned:

8 bucks in +Up Rewards

I'm going to try to use those earned rewards only on things that we really need, but it's so tempting to find things that we will use and will give us even more Rewards.  We'll see how things go, and I'll keep things updated on here if I do end up buying more.  :)