My version of "Extreme couponing"

While living in Utah I had the opportunity to experience what it was like shopping with coupons.  I had done it in the pass with not a lot of success but after finding out that you could save up to %50 of your grocery bill I decided to try it out.  I did save lots of money but found that it took way too long to match the adds with the coupons and I had to pay $5.00 a month to get access to a website that would tell me exactly what coupons to use and when... I missed out on a lot of deals because I didn't always get the Sunday paper.  After moving to Texas I found a better way to shop for me that worked just fin (dollar stores/Walmart and Kroger).  Now with the new show that came up I decided to try it up again but this time I am not willing to sacrifice all of my time to work on coupons so I am concentrating on two stores mainly and it worked great this week.  I had close to $100.00 worth of free products and brand names which was a plus.  Here are my best deals and I got them at Walgreens and CVS of all places :)  Even Dan made a trip to the Dollar General store with me and saw me in action.  I feel good about my savings and the thing is that on top of all the savings I got extra coupons to use on my next purchases, $13.00 all together which will get me free paper towels and some much needed razor refills.
Here are my best buys:

*The Nivea body washes (2 for Dan and 1 for me) are like $5 or $6 but they were on sale for $3.88 and I had 3 coupons for $3.00 off so I got them for $0.88 at CVS and then I got one more at Walgreens for $0.78
*Aquafresh toothpaste for kids was $2.99,  two coupons combined for $2.00 off and I got it for $0.99
*The Head and Shoulders was on sale buy one get one 50% off so I got two sets because I had two coupons to buy one and get one free which meant all 4 where $5.49 instead of paying $21.96 for all four.
*By getting the 4 hair products on the bottom (which I use all the time) for $14.00, they gave me a coupon for a future purchase of $4.00 which I later used to get my razor refills for $1.25 instead of $12.00 (those things sure are expensive)
*The razor was on sale for $8.99 and I had a coupon for it so I was able to get it for $4.99 instead of $12.00

 *409 cleaner is usually $2.99, I had an in store coupon for $1.00 off and a regular coupon for $1.00 off so I paid $0.99
*The Ajax and the gloves were both 2 for $1.00 (Walgreens coupon)
*The can goods were pretty much either two for $.50 or $.25 each and the Jello two for $.50 too.

This was at Dollar General, they had the Lysol products 3 for $5.00 ($1.66 per product) and then I had 6 different coupons for each item that were $2.00 off on one set and $2.50 off on the other set so each item was like $0.90  or a little under that, that was for the Clorox wipes too.  The tooth brushes where awesome, a two pack that sells for $2.00 and I had two coupons that gave me $2.50 off on a purchase of two and two coupons for a $1.00 off when you buy one.  I got 6 sets and instead of paying $12.00 I paid $5.00, it was not free but a good deal non the less.
The diapers were on sale for $9.00 instead of $11.00 and I had a coupon for $2.00 off, so I got them for $7.00, not bad either.
I still need to go and get my free paper towels since they were out of them but seriously it was a good day for me.  I wont have to buy a lot of cleaning products or shampoo for a while, probably the next 6 months.  I don't feel the need to go and buy hundreds of items like the crazy people in the show but every once in a while it feels good to save over 50% or more of your purchases.