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The accidental frugalist

June 28th, 2009 at 04:32 am

Sometimes you go with the best of intentions, and things don't work out. Then other times you aren't even trying, and things just fall into place.

The above was certainly the case tonight. I went to the local Safeway with the plan of getting the 10 bottles for 80 cents each sale (the store is less than a mile away, so I can go just for sales). I had two buy one, get one free coupons, so I figured... 8 X 80 cents is $6.40 + tax (for 10). Not great, but I wasn't in the best mood, and just wanted to spend a little on something I thought I would like.

When I got there I found four bottles of Propel that had coupons on them, so I picked them up as part of my purchase. At the register the on bottle coupons doubled, and the lady used the original price for the amount off of my BOGOF coupons (instead of the sale price). At the end I paid $1.04 (4 Sobe, 4 Propel, 2 Fuze). The lady at the register said "wow" four times. I was afraid she was going to redo everything because I was paying too little. Its weird how these things work sometimes.

4 Responses to “The accidental frugalist”

  1. lizajane Says:
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    Wow! Smile (couldn't resist)

    Sometimes they are really happy for you when you score good deals, other times it makes them mad.

  2. Petunia Says:
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    Amazing work with the coupons!

  3. Ms. Pearl Says:
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    Things like that never happen to me. I envy u.

  4. Broken Arrow Says:
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    Haha, great opening line.

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