Our first outing with coupons

Well, I am new to this but feel like it is important to put this past weekends adventure on the worldwide web!  My sister Tammy and I were both inspired by the t.v. show "Extreme Couponing".  We decided that we would give it a shot and quickly got to work grabbing up coupon inserts from several local papers......we also went online and printed some coupons for items we wanted to purchase.  We studied the Winn Dixie ad like we were studying for a college final!  After making three list, yes three, one for each of our families and one with the items we would purchase jointly we headed out with our coupons lined up in envelopes like little paper soldiers. We spent an hour in our local Winn-Dixie(who double coupons up to .50 cents every day) and about 15 minutes in the check out.  Clerks were super, giving us tips on how to save the most with our customer rewards cards.  The total for our three orders was $435.14 and after our coupons we paid $218.16, we were elated and with the coupons they printed us at check out we were able to purchase 2 gallons of milk for .28 cents each!  Tammy has a sharper mind than me and grabbed up that deal for us!  We loaded the trailblazer and headed home with our loot!  We unloaded all of the items and just giggled over how well we did.  Saturday morning we headed out to CVS armed with coupons, customer reward cards, sales papers and husbands!  Remember this is our first time trying this together, at CVS we purchased $123.40 in cleaning, health and beauty products and spent $49.09 after coupons, customer rewards and ecb's(extra care bucks), we were thrilled.  This morning we jumped up armed with a pocket full of change and went out to purchase Sunday Papers, coming home we started clipping and organizing our "new" coupons.  Tammy ever the brains of this duo noticed a great deal at CVS starting today so we headed back to our local store, the clerks at CVS were super nice too, our trip today was just as amazing, $135.23 in products (name brands that we usually wouldn't buy because store brands are cheaper) for $44.21! Cheaper than store brands!  We may never rank as extreme couponer's but we are reality couponer's!  It is not hard to save money and it does not take days, come back and read more of the deals and savings we find!