Free is good! - latest shopping trip

New year, trying to get back into the swing of couponing every shopping trip. 

What motivates me most to get back on the bandwagon?.. Free stuff! (That and watching a whole bunch of extreme couponing shows)

So today.. I put together a good little bundle of stuff that was totally free and actually "paid" me to leave the store with it!

I utilized three different coupons, one price matching deal, and some novice cashiers to get all this for free. I printed as many of the coupons as I could, which ended up being 4 toothpaste ones, 2 cat food ones and 5 VH ones. Luckily two were through SmartSource, which is a coupon printing portal that also shows up on other couponing blogs as a sorta sub-portal (allowing you to print the same coupons again). I made sure all of my coupons had different "PIN numbers" and codes and then scoped out where the deals were on my Flipp app. 

VH coupons were any one packet for $1 and Real Canadian Superatore had them on for $1. I went to Freshco where they priced matched for a penny lower, and then confused the heck out of the cashier as I was holding $5 for a purchase of $4.95. We added a plastic bag and she rang it all through with a penny owing. 

I checked here for the other two deals but they didn't have the same items for the other deals. 

Perfect portions cat food were a totally free. I ended up going to Zehrs for the toothpaste deal and they had the cat food too. Totally free + a novice cashier meant she rang in the deals and removed the tax too. 

The toothpaste is a deal we can usually always get - it's one of those never pay for items! The coupon is buy 2 Crest products and save $2, and Zehrs had them on for $1 a piece. Again, the newbie cashier rang through the items and removed the tax too. I had to split this deal into 2 so that I could get around the "max 6" rule they had. This coupon usually comes with an exclusion line of "cavity protection" ones, but these coupons didn't.. Yay! 

Proud of my accomplishment, I brought everything home and took the top most picture. Then on top of everything, I always check the cash-back apps. Another Yay! The perfect portions cat food was on TWO of the apps! I ended up making $3.19 back through these apps. Checkout 51 for $2 and Save.ca for $1.19. 

It's no extreme couponing but it's a start to get me back in the game!