Shopping Trips Recently

Lookie, another week as gone by without any post about my shopping! Last week, I was at my Dad's until Tuesday night and did a very quick shop later on in the week. That resulted in this haul from GiantPA:

Basically it was bare necessities plus any freebie stuff I could acquire. According to the receipt, the above collection had a shelf value of $22.47, and my OOP was $10.44 -- a savings rate of 54% The Coffee-mate was completely free after a manufacturer's coupon, the eggs were on sale for $2.75/doz and I had a 75-cent/1 coupon that doubled and made the carton $1.25, which is the best egg price in town right now.

Then yesterday (about 3 days after the above shop), I went out for my traditional Sunday grocery trip, again to GiantPA, where I got all of this:

The shelf value, according to the receipt, was $61.00, and my OOP was $32.55 -- a savings rate of 47%. Not so hot, but I had been without lettuce for my lunch salads, and I also ran out of $1/1 coupons for Sorrento cheese sticks and had to "punt" without any coupons (ack!). The Cracker Barrel cheese was on sale for $3 each and I had a $1/2 coupon that doubled. The Freschetta was free because I complained about a different "flavor" of their pizzas that I really didn't like, and received a freebie coupon in return. And the Diet Coke was "on sale" for $11/4 this week, which unfortunately was the best price in town :P

How did everyone else do??

I may have some pretty big news coming up, all sort of culminating from my various dealings with Dad, his mental decline, and all the people in his life. Stay tuned.