Saved 62% This Week

I'm over budget for the week, but have plenty of money in my splurge fund to cover the overage. The flu really threw me for a loop this week. I feel lucky to have gotten to the store at all, and come even close to my budget.

Schnucks

This is why I "cherry pick". There wasn't too much at Schnucks that I wanted to buy, but I saved a ton of money on the items I did buy. When I'm only picking up four or five different items, I can get in and out of the store in about 10 minutes. It is well worth my 10 minutes when I can save this much money.

Before sales & coupons: $30.74
Total spent: $2.78
Total saved: $27.96 for 91%

Dierbergs

Percentagewise, I didn't save any great shakes at Deirbergs, but I picked up 18 pounds of meat. I bought one of the whole pork loin roasts and had the butcher cut it into 1" chops. My husband would have had me leave it as the full loin and put on the grill whole.

Before sales & coupons: $99.91
Total spent: $42.05
Total saved: $57.86 for 58%

Target

Before sales & coupons: $14.32
Total spent: $7.08
Total saved: $7.24 for 51%

Aldi

Comparable Schnucks price: $9.24
Total spent: $6.34
Total saved: $2.90 for 31%

Weekly Totals
Before sales & coupons: $154.21
Total spent: $58.25
Total saved: 95.96 for 62%

Year to Date Totals
Spent: $546.43 ($42 weekly average)
Saved: $1843.56 ($141 weekly average)

Splurge Funds: $103.57

For those who don't read my blog on a regular basis, my splurge funds are the difference between what I've actually spent and my $50 budget. They are for those items I never find on sale or that I don't have coupons for.