Good Gravy, What a Week!!!

This was supposed to be my Monday post about my Sunday shopping, but this has just been the week from Hell at home and at work, so I haven't had a spare moment. My new duties at work (as of late October) seemed to ramp up to the beyond-ridiculous range this week for no apparent reason, and at home... well, let's just say that my ex isn't the only man in my life who's blindsided me this year. For those of you who follow my blog, that basically leaves my son or my father. We'll go with the latter on this, which is a surprise since it's usually the former :)

ANYWAY, on to shopping. When I did my usual round-robin of stores on Sunday, here's what I ended up with. First up GiantPA where I picked up all of this (as usual, not including the kitties):

The worth of the above items according to my receipt was $45.22. After e-coupons, deals, and doubled manufacturer's coupons, my OOP was $16.14 -- a savings rate of 64%. Not too shabby, especially since it includes a good stock-up on kitty food.

Then I stopped at Target where there are no more "glitch"-priced eggs for 79-cents a carton, but their dozen large eggs price of $1.19 still beats out every other store in the area, plus I got a 5-cent bag credit and used a 55-cent/2 facebook egg coupon, so my OOP on these was $1.78 or 89-cents/doz, pretty good price for eggs these days.

Then I hit up Weis, which was the store in town with the best Diet Coke prices this week, 4 12-packs for $11 or $2.75/12-pack. Eh. The 20-oz bottle of Diet Coke (because all this shopping made me thirsty) was free after using a mfr coupon from MyCokeRewards.com

And finally, I stopped very briefly at Rite Aid where this week you can get a FREE 1-ltr bottle of Dasani water. It's priced at $1 and there is a $1/1 video value coupon. I had to look around a bit to find this -- it wasn't on the shelf where all the other bottled water was located, but I found it on the bottom shelf of one of the soda refrigeration cabinets.

In other shopping-related news, I did a stupid thing that I do occasionally and went ahead with a purchase because I liked the item, not because it was particularly essential. In this case, it was a nifty top from HolyClothing.com (the Tesha top, specifically). I received my top, washed it per the instructions, and ... well, let's just say I looked extremely lopsided. But the company made good on their "you must be satisfied" guarantee and has offered me a full refund upon seeing photos I sent them of how the top was noticeably longer on one side than the other (and it's not supposed to be). So good on them for excellent customer service.