Can't Stop Laughing at Myself Brag

[Judyhill]

Last night my daughter and I were shopping at Walmart; well, I took her shopping and I was just looking for some deals. Well she went about getting her things (not interested in couponing) and I made my first stop to see if there were any Zantac. Sure enough, there were lots. I grabbed 11 and was thinking ok, now my overage is going to be about 5.00 or so, what should I get? Now, I could have went with the getting the cash back but I wanted to find more stuff to use my coupons on hoping to make it all free.

I looked everywhere and could not find anything I wanted that was on sale and that I had a coupon for. That Walmart has no dairy, cooler or freezers in it making food unavailable to me. I probably would have went with milk but could not do that.

I see my daughter and she is finished and ready to go. I glanced through her cart to see if there was anything I had coupons for. Then I heard myself saying to her "I am not going to pay full price for anything even if I am getting it free!!!". I said I wanted her to take the Zantac and the coupons and she looked at me funny. I just said told her that it would take 5.00 or so off her order and she was happy with that.

Then today, I was thinking of Tinmacks brag and thinking what I must have looked like scouring around that store with 5.00 overage and almost in a panick as to what to do with it. lol. Now I was happy to help my daughter out with the overage but I would rather give away a 5.00 bill than 5.00 overage. lol And then, the "not gonna pay full price for anything even when I could get it free", lol.

I can't stop laughing at myself. Is anyone out there like that too?

[Bronwen]

Haha great story!! I am *totally* like that.

One time I was at No Frills (first time in like 6 months as I think NF is the devil lol) and they had Wheat Thins for $0.97. I had a $1.50 coupon and they said they wouldn't give me the overage so I took my coupons back and just bought them for $0.97 each. No Frills ugh they literally steal from your pocket with that crap. I hate NF lol.

Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed your brag!!

[oscarandme]

JudyHill!

That's funny. Thanks for sharing.

[walkonby]

JudyHill, how aggravating that your WM has no refrigerated section. I am glad your DD was there to use up that overage, I am a bit of a stickler when it comes to making good use of my overage, my pet peeve is it has to be food so I waste no money on tax, lol.

[scbpooh]

Kinda had the same thing happen today. Went to Wm this morning and the first thing i went for was Zantac. Hubby looked at me and said, "really do we need more" I looked at him and said, "really we dont need free money!!"

[Judyhill]

The zantac are a huge deal for me because I need to take about 3 every day and have been needing them for the last 15 years or so. I used to have to fork over about 10.00 a week on them and now to get them for free and get the bonus overage is a double whammy for me.

[torontogal12]

Kinda had the same thing happen today. Went to Wm this morning and the first thing i went for was Zantac. Hubby looked at me and said, "really do we need more" I looked at him and said, "really we dont need free money!!"

Whenever I get an overage,my DH doesn't care if they pay us to take it away. One time I made something like $25 in overage from a rebate. When I came home, he whined about how I bought more stuff we don't need, even though I told him they paid me to take it away. You can guess who is the one that organizes the donations at our house....not him.

OP I never get Walmart overage but I am like that when I spend SDM points. I won't pay full price, even it is free bahahahaha

[cinpow]

Haha great story!! I am *totally* like that.

One time I was at No Frills (first time in like 6 months as I think NF is the devil lol) and they had Wheat Thins for $0.97. I had a $1.50 coupon and they said they wouldn't give me the overage so I took my coupons back and just bought them for $0.97 each. No Frills ugh they literally steal from your pocket with that crap. I hate NF lol.

Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed your brag!!

yes, it happen to me at my NF too! they said no overage, so they lowered the coupon to $.97.....i m like, o well, free is free, so I m fine, and there was no tax too, which was good.

[Bronwen]

The zantac are a huge deal for me because I need to take about 3 every day and have been needing them for the last 15 years or so. I used to have to fork over about 10.00 a week on them and now to get them for free and get the bonus overage is a double whammy for me.

Your should try Nexium. Ask your Dr. about it. This is my life (well, DH's life but I know it first hand).

[avoncallingu]

I hope your dd gets the idea that coupons ARE worth using - ha, ha! I know what you mean about trying to get the best value out of "free" money.

[walkinglady]

Great brag Judyhill! I love overages and I do not like to pay full price for anything. Sometimes it is not possible otherwise but get an item for full price...
Your daughter got a taste of overages and maybe she will convert to using coupons. Thank you for sharing.

[Binky5]

Judyhill you made me laugh! I am totally like that! I like to use my overage to get cheep things even cheeper. I often PM things at walmart and get tons of stuff free even if I only have a few zantac to add to my order lol. Last summer I price matched minute maid frozen juice for .59, my daughters staff discount brought each can down to .54 and the minute maid coupon brought it down to .04....but I was very happy when I found a few zantac to add making about 100 cans of minute maid free! Then I went back to walmart later in the week with a few more minute maid coupons but there were no zantac... I had to think twice before I could make myself pay that .04 a can lol! This happens to me all the time. Luckily, our walmart has milk, so I can always fall back on that.

[Nomerr]

Great brag! - "Full Price"; That is the F word in our house lol