Coupon Karma BiLo, Food Lion

I beleive in coupon Karma. If I see someone that is in line ahead or behind me and I see they are purchasing something I have a coupon for and probably won't use I give them the coupon. Sometimes I just hand it to the cashier and say "Here they want to use the coupon." and so far they have been very appreciative.


Today I went to get my Oil changed in my van and since I was over in that area I decided to fix the errors from the day before. I went to customer service at BiLo and show them my receipt and showed them how the coupons didn't double to the full amount. After the manager looked at them after a good several minutes and making me explain every coupon I had used and what it was for, she decided that YES I did deserve my $1.10 back that they should have credited me for.


I wondered around the store finding items that were super cheap or free. I would have gotten more Green Giant Steamers but they only had Mixed veggies left, I wanted anything but them.


I settled on
1 Kelloggs Cereal ($1Q) sale Bogo $3.39/2
1 Air Wick Lumin Air fake candle ($5Q) clearance $5.25

Total Saved $12.90
Total $1.24 on my gift card


I went to Food Lion to get my purchase from the other day fixed. He gave me $2.15 back in cash after I explained why I had a $2 off your $5 produce coupon (and yes the answer was "because I purchased $5 worth of produce and I printed the coupon off YOUR Food Lion site.")
and then I purchased-

15 Glade Candle Holders ($2Q) clearance $2
1.41 lbs Grapes ($2 off $5 produce)
.3lb 1 banana (I was hungry and needed $5 worth of produce)
4 Reese Whips ($1/2) Bogo $.89/2
2 Extra Gum (Bogo Q) Bogo sale
.07lb grapes (I WAS $.02 SHORT, I ended up just taking from what I had purchased to get $.02!)
2 Air Wick Mini ($5Q) close out $5.25
1 Altiods Mini ($1Q) close out $1.24

Total savings coupons and specials-$88.28
Total paid $4.47 ($3.40 was sales TAX!!!)

While I was getting waited on at Food Lion the lady behind me put her stuff on the belt. She definately had a lot of produce, more than $5 worth, so I gave her one of my $2 off $5 Flip. She thanked me up and down. Then while we were bagging up my candle holders and she asked what they were. I put one in her cart and said "You can have one." And she smiled and said that she couldn't do that. I told her that it was ok, they were free and really I am not that generous since I didn't really pay for it (other than the $.14 in tax). She was still very happy.

My goal the rest of this month is to not take out my grocery allowance of $1.50 (yes I lowered it $100 a month). I want to use only my funds listed below.

Total spent $177.47
Total saved $647.17 (coupons+gift cards used)
Total spent buying coupons $21.98 (Extra papers + coupons from ebay)

Gift card/store credit/no minimum purchases required coupons totals-
Wags $5.87
Rite Aid-$30.36
BiLo-$8.55
CVS-$28.54
CVS ECB -$16.57
Dilworth Coffee $30.00
Lowes Home Improvement $63.55
Old Navy $10
Amazon.com $10.00
Staples $15.00
Total $226.10