{"id":8509,"date":"2013-12-06T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2013-12-06T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T20:33:59","slug":"not-ready-for-extreme-couponing-just-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=8509","title":{"rendered":"Not ready for extreme couponing just yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saving money is hard, and it&#8217;s sometimes stressful.  After figuring out exactly what to buy and what coupons to use at Walgreens to take advantage of the Register Rewards and maximize my savings, I was frustrated when I did everything right and the $10 coupon did not print out.  I had to have her call the manager, then wait for a manager, meanwhile feeling super awkward as other people looked at me wondering why I&#8217;m not checking out.  But when the manager finally came, she looked at my receipt and confirmed that I had indeed purchased the required amounts, (4 Pantene products and 2 Always products&#8211;the joy of having lots of girls) and it should have printed it out.  She printed out not only the $10 register reward, but also another $5 coupon.  So, it was like a $5 bonus.  Great!  I felt like my hard work paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I was off to our local grocery store.  I had counted out my coupons and written down exactly what I needed to purchase and which coupons to use. They currently have a special that if you buy four boxes of cereal, you get a free gallon of milk.  I&#8217;m all over that one, and I had coupon match ups as well.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rKvAmdl5y-8\/TIaA4EjFscI\/AAAAAAAADCE\/aB-J5_BhnIk\/s1600\/Honey+nut.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bought<br \/>\n10 Progresso soups<br \/>\n12 boxes of cereal<br \/>\n3 gallons of milk<br \/>\n2 little debbie snack cake<br \/>\n1 box of Capri sun<\/p>\n<p>I also picked up a can of mixed nuts for Ryan and a package of bird seed because I realized we were out of birdseed.<\/p>\n<p>With the $10 off when you spend $50 coupon that came in the mail, I spent $35.95<\/p>\n<p>SCORE!  I felt like I finally did it right!<br \/>\nNow, as long as we are ok eating cereal for every meal, we&#8217;re set for the next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saving money is hard, and it&#8217;s sometimes stressful. After figuring out exactly what to buy and what coupons to use at Walgreens to take advantage of the Register Rewards and maximize my savings, I was frustrated when I did everything right and the $10 coupon did not print out. I had to have her call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8512,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions\/8512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}