Lessons Learned

I haven't been doing that great on finding Really Good Deals. I did run to Albertson's yesterday ... Lessons I Learned:
#1 DO NOT take your children with you to try to get some good deals ... they are very distracting and I could not think around their whinning!
#2 Have a back up plan ... what are you going to buy when what you wanted wasn't in stock ... just don't buy anything and don't take your kids!
I did end up getting a pretty good deal on the Mac n Cheese : it cost me $4.80 plus tax with coupons, the South Beach Diet Bars ended up being FREE, and the McKormick Grill Mate was 75 cents. (I used my double coupons from Albertson's this week ... this was the first time I have tried those. The checker would not let me use all 5 I had. He would only let me use 3 ... I should have put the other stuff back, but oh well ... I did get the $5.00 off for buying 10 items. Total I spent $38.00 and Saved about the same amount with coupons, the Epic Sale coupons, and Preferered Savings. My new goal is try to spend less than $10.00 and get some great things cheap or free!!