I like to be frugal... not to the point where I am an extreme couponer or one of those people who haggles everything. But I do like sales and coupons and using then effectively. I was looking at Susan's website Organic Deals where she posted about a facebook game you can play to win coupons for Home Depot. It's called Zombie Mulch and as you play you accumulate points. There are 3 levels and each level gives you a coupon. So I played and got to the point where I won the $5, $10 and $15 coupons. They e-mail them to you and you can print them out. They are for the garden center only in Home Depot but I figured I would get some pumpkins and such. So I bet you are wondering, how did I do? Well I did this in 3 transactions (not sure if you had to, but it was easier for me).
Transaction 1
Pie Pumpkin $2.28
Large Pumpkin $4.48 x 3 = $13.44
Tax $0.05
Total: $15.77
Applied $15.00 off coupon
Grand Total: $0.77
Transaction 2
4.5 Inch Bonsai Odesa $10.98
Tax $0.07
Total: $11.05
Applied $10.00 off coupon
Grand Total: $ 1.05
Transaction 3
4 Inch Deco Pot Houseplant $5.98
Tax $0.07
Total $6.05
Applied $5 off coupon
Grand Total: $1.05
So to put it all together my total would have been $32.87. I paid a total of $2.87 which is a 91% savings! I think that qualifies for fruitful and frugal.
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