Savings update!

Already I have another update on savings. Today's entry is an example of several different money saving strategies:

Sign-up bonuses
Coupons
AND
comparison shopping

With a new (ridiculously adorable) baby in the house, I have a ton of pictures that I have been meaning to get prints of and way too many empty frames around the house to ignore any longer!

Store: Shutterfly.com
Quest: 11 4x6, 2 8x10, 1 16x20, and 1 20x30 prints

Purchases:
All my prints needed plus 39 more 4x6 prints!!!

Savings:
If I had purchased my items through Shutterfly.com at cost, 11 4x6 prints at $0.15 each plus 2 8x10 at $3.99 each plus 1 16x20 at 17.99 plus 1 20x30 at 22.99 plus shipping plus tax would have been $60.34.

By signing up a new account, shutterfly gave me 50 free prints - so instead of 11 4x6 prints, I got all 50 for free! Then, I had a coupon card for $20 off a $20 or more purchase. This would have brought my total to $38.69.

BUT... walmart.com's photo lab sells the larger prints for much less. I removed the 8x10's and 16x20 from my order and placed the order through walmart.com (I had to leave the 20x30 because I needed a $20 minimum order to use my coupon).

My final orders were:
Shutterfly.com $11.88 for 50 4x6 prints and 1 20x30 print
Walmart.com $18.02 for 2 8x10's and 1 16x20
... bringing my total to $29.90

TOTAL SAVINGS: $30.44

GRAND TOTAL SAVINGS TO DATE: $237.65

Progress: 23.8%

Almost a quarter of the way there! :)

More savings to pile up...

I have a couple savings to get caught up on!

Clint got a haircut last week and used a coupon to cut the savings in half!

Store: Great Clips
Quest: trim my hubby's locks

Purchase: $14 haircut plus tip

Savings: $7 off coupon

Then, we did another Whataburger "end of the receipt" coupon:

Store: Whataburger
Quest: Lunch

Purchases:
Whataburger - free!

Savings:
$2.64 + tax = $2.86

Remember a while back when I bought a package of reusable/washable breast pads to get free shipping? Well, using them has already saved me 1 box of disposables!

Store: Walmart/ Amazon.com
Quest: not make embarrassing messes as a side-effect of giving my little girl the best nutrition possible

Purchases:
1 box of breast pads (essentially for free since I would have spent the money anyway on shipping) to replace disposable breast pads

Savings:
$5.97 + tax = $6.46

TOTAL SAVINGS: $16.32

GRAND TOTAL SAVINGS TO DATE: $207.21

Progress: 20.7%

YAY! Hit the 1/5 mark in less than a month! This is completely doable!