Now seems like a good time to post my final 2005 Grocery savings / expenditure totals. Yes, it is nearly the end of March, why do you ask? I can neither confirm nor deny that until today there were 4 months worth of receipts sitting in my “receipt drawer”. I CAN NOT CONFIRM OR DENY THAT DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!!!
In any case, I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile, but, hypothetically speaking, cleaning out 4 months of receipts and entering them in the appropriate spreadsheets and stuff is very time-consuming. HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING! I have had one of my faithful readers asking me for these totals a few times, so Ramon, this post is for you.
2005 Final Grocery Totals:
Gross spending: $15,519.82
Coupons: $4,219.71
Doublage: $2,150.17
Mail-in rebates: $691.47
Catalinas: $906.40
Store savings / rainchecks: $5,973.97
Other (mostly fuel rewards): $815.00
Net price: $763.10
Savings: $14,756.72
Savings pct: 95.08%
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. A month by month breakdown of the totals
| DATE | GROSS | NET | SAV. PCT | SAVINGS |
| Dec-2005 | $440.41 | $125.01 | 71.62% | $315.40 |
| Nov-2005 | $755.39 | $1.60 | 99.79% | $753.79 |
| Oct-2005 | $1,581.43 | $116.08 | 92.66% | $1,465.35 |
| Sep-2005 | $1,523.53 | -$94.12 | 106.18% | $1,806.61 |
| Aug-2005 | $1,333.57 | $79.11 | 94.07% | $1,065.50 |
| Jul-2005 | $443.12 | $102.03 | 76.97% | $341.09 |
| Jun-2005 | $1,684.31 | $19.22 | 98.86% | $1,665.09 |
| May-2005 | $615.89 | $106.36 | 82.73% | $509.53 |
| Apr-2005 | $2,386.66 | $98.74 | 95.86% | $2,287.92 |
| Mar-2005 | $1,626.82 | -$220.76 | 113.57% | $1,847.58 |
| Feb-2005 | $2,009.26 | $221.31 | 88.99% | $1,787.95 |
| Jan-2005 | $1,119.43 | $208.52 | 81.37% | $910.91 |
The big months were March (Garnier / Borders / Ann Taylor gift card deal), September (Thank you Peachtree Accounting!) and April (nothing like “buying” over $2000 of groceries for under $100)
So far, 2006 has not been quite as lucrative – the past few months have not had very many good deals. January was 61% savings, and February only 37.64%. That all changed this week though, as Meijer has had one of the best deals in the history of couponing. More on that possibly tonight or tomorrow as I still have a trip or two left in me before the end of the week…