The Coupon Mom

I recently got the book The Coupon Mom so I can learn how to save more money by using coupons and how to plan my grocery shopping trip to hit sales with coupons etc... I have always used coupons but I know I could do better. I am in the category of a "Rookie" shopper. I take some time to cut out coupons and I try to save but I could do better. My goal is to become a "Varsity" shopper. On her website there is a video on how she takes someone shopping to show them how to save money. On one shopping trip her bill came to $96.00 and she only spent .25 cents! I still don't know how you can do that. On another trip her total bill came to just over $10.00 after coupons and store savings.

Today hubby went to Walgreens. Hubby started off buying my Tresseme hairspray 3 for $12.00 then he received a $5.00 rewards, so he used it for the rest of the items he purchased. This is what he purchased, he used coupons and purchased sale items. We got all this stuff for $28.52. We saved $44.34!

Then I went to VONS and my goal was to save 50% on my grocery bill by following the coupon mom (couponmom.com). I tried to put ecoupons on my Vons card, but they did not come off so that was $2.00 off I should have saved. I am not sure about ecoupons.
My bill came to $89.69 and I paid $46.03, a 49% savings! If I would have received the $2.00 off from ecoupons I would have been at 50%. That was a good start. I will see how it goes.