Marsh Madness

I had to pick up a few "loss leaders" at our local Marsh grocery store yesterday. I went in to get their HUGE boxes of Cinnamon Toast crunch cereal that was on sale 3 for 10 - but they were gone. :( So instead I picked up:

4 boxes of Reeses Puffs cereal

2 boxes of Raisin Bran

4 boxes of Pizza Rolls

2 SoBe Life waters

1 ctn of sour cream

2 loaves of bread

3 bananas

1 container of Easter Cookies

My total after all sales and coupons came to...................................................... $ 16.64

the bread, cookies and bananas were not on my list- if I had

not of purchased those my total would have been............................................ $ 11.79

I strayed away from my list and it cost me EXTRA $$$-- WHAT was I thinking? Oh yeah, I was thinking... do I want to run all the way across town to pick up 2 loaves of bread while I'm right here... Nick said he wanted some fruit, I'll just pick up a few banana's and... oh-- these Easter cookies are cute- Alex and Michael can have a cookie snack today AND their marked down to .99.......

RULE number : Stick to the list.

All in all though-- not bad, it was like paying the full 3.96 for 5 boxes of cereal and getting the rest for FREE! There wasn't much else at Marsh on sale, so I'm hoping that come tonight when the new ad comes out, I can pick up some more "loss leaders" for my pantry.

Now if someone would put cans of Tomato Juice on sale.......