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Home » The Cha-Ching Challenge: $4157.79 This Year and Share Your Savings!

The Cha-Ching Challenge: $4157.79 This Year and Share Your Savings!

September 11th, 2010 By Kaley
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Cha-Ching challenge

Welcome to the weekly Cha-Ching Challenge!

Did you find a HOT deal this week that you just want to share?  You’ve come to the right place!  Every week I post the Cha-Ching Challenge, sharing my savings for the week.    Add a link to your post detailing your savings for the week OR your favorite deal of the week. I’ll choose one participating blog to highlight next week right here on Cha-Ching on a Shoestring.

Add your links to Mr. Linky at any time.  In order to be considered for the Cha-Ching Challenge Highlight, just be sure to add your link no later than Tuesday at midnight EST.

Check out my savings for the week below:

We now live about a quarter mile from a grocery store.  I realized the other night that I had made a quick : “I-forgot-fill-in-the-blank” trip several nights in a row!  While I am grateful for proximity, running to the store for this or that is probably not the best way to stick to a budget.  Do any of you have the same issue?  How do you keep yourself from making kamikaze runs to the store right before dinner each evening?

Savings from coupons and store sales: $49.94

  • Spent $73.77 at Giant, Landis, and Aldi.
  • Saved $49.94.

TOTAL SAVINGS:$49.94

TOTAL SAVINGS THIS YEAR: $4157.79

Click below to check out my favorite find of the week:

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HOW DID YOU DO? Did you find any great deals? Leave a linky and let us know!  Be sure to link directly to your weekly savings or great deal post.

Feel free to copy and paste the button above into your post and link back here so that others can join in the fun!

Filed Under: Cha-Ching Challenge, Great Deals

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Comments

  1. Melody says

    September 13th, 2010 at 4:19 pm

    Thanks to the help and inspiration I have received from websites like this one I saved $127. 97 on my shopping trip to Safeway today ($30.45 in coupons)!

    The original total did not print on the receipt , but it was around $250 and the total after club card, coupons etc was $115.62.

    And fortunately the cashier was very nice and he was even impressed and didn’t grumble about all the coupons at all!

  2. Frugal Fritzie says

    September 12th, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    Thanks for the linky! 🙂

  3. Janet says

    September 11th, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    I use to live close to a Publixs and I would run almost everyday. It did not bother me because I would run after work or group with other errands like the bank and postoffice on saturday. Publixs offers so many coupon deals I found it easier to get some deals everyday. Now I live close to a hour from shopping. We menu plan to a t and if we run out we make due with what we have we go out two days per week. One for grocery and another for date day, if I forget something at the store I pick it up on date day after our date other than that we just eat what we have at home. Saves a ton on time and groceries (picking up extras / just because you happen to be at the store) Hope this helps. Give yourself some time to get settled and then set a schedule.

  4. Cheryl says

    September 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm

    Ah, we don’t live a quarter mile from anything, but my Mom. The closest thing is my CVS which is 7 minutes away–so we totally don’t make quick runs.

  5. meistercow says

    September 11th, 2010 at 8:18 am

    My husband & I started this coupon thingy in June of this year (2010) and are thrilled to be doing it – our latest CVS receipt as of 8/27
    YTD Savings 843.18
    Spent 65.38
    Remember since JUNE!

    We usually shop all the stores with the same vigor and are thrilled every time we get home, look at what we bought and what we paid and are just flabbergasted at why we waited so long lol
    Remember people it is never to late to start I am 55 hubby 57 but please start early!!
    Thanks

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