March receipt totals in and GIVEAWAY!

I have had a few people ask me how much I save in a given month using coupons with sales. I usually have my set budget and try to stay under that, so I haven't really paid attention to how much I was saving, just how much I was spending. I decided to add up all my receipts just for fun to see where my totals were, and to see how much my time was worth doing this.

Total I would have spent paying full prices? Are you ready for it?

$605.34

Total I spent out of pocket

$128.14

That's a savings of 78%!
or $477.20

These are ALL my receipt totals, including produce, milk, eggs, cheese, meat, cereal, bread, diapers, deodorant, shampoo, printer paper etc. I also had $20 of two receipts from Smiths that I sent in for beer rebates- I saved at least 70% on those receipts, but I can't remember exactly so I'm not including those totals here.
The rest of my budget included a doctors visit and prescription for my little boy's ear infection, a car knob repair, eating out three times and a few other things like that so my total budget out of pocket this month was $200

I don't know about you, but $477.20 is definitely motivation for me to keep spending time on this. Even if I spent 4 hours a week planning my lists and going to stores that is 16 hours a month- which translates to 29.82 an hour! I definitely don't know of a part time job I can make $29 an hour that I can spend time doing it whenever I want and as much or as little as I want.

I spend more than 4 hours a week finding deals, but that is because I want to tell you about all the great deals I find too! I get so excited about getting a deal and telling others about it, and this is the best way to get the word out.

I love hearing from you guys and would love to reward you for this too, so I'm doing a GIVEAWAY!!! Hooray for more free things!

I am giving away 10 baseball card sheet protectors to start your own coupon binder and organize your loose coupons in, OR if you don't want that I can give you 10 high value coupons you could use with a sale to get some super cheap or free things. (I think the not knowing what the coupons will be for makes it more exciting! But I promise they will be good.)
Cool huh? Your coupons will fit so organizedly in these 10 pages.

Or 10 of these babies to score you some cheap stuff!


To get an entry into this coupon crazy drawing you need to leave a comment here about how something on this site has helped you get a steal of a deal!

If you want another entry into this drawing tell others about A Steal of a Deal on your own blog, and then leave a comment telling me about it. (Make sure your name matches up to your blog, I am excited to read about it!) Sometimes people just don't know there are resources like this to help them make the most of their money. Or if you don't have a blog, tell others about it on Facebook or some other technological way, and let me know how you're spreading the stealing a deal love!

And finally if you want one more entry, leave a separate comment telling me something you would like me to talk about in a future post, or some other thing you would like to tell me about the site itself to help the general ease of use, or feel of it. (such as- you use exclamation points way! too! much!! I know I do, but that is something I can't stop, they just come out of me because I'm so excited about deals! even when I try to use a period!)

I will choose a winner at random on Monday morning April 6th.

This kind of takes a long time for me to get the word out about all my deals, and all in all I just want to know if my time, energy and efforts are really useful to people. Even if you don't want the prize, let me know how you have been affected by these deals and then if you win give your prize to your sister. Thanks!