March Stockpile Challenge - Week 1

I've joined a "live off your stockpile" challenge on HCW for March. The challenge is to use as much out of your stockpile and spend as little out of pocket as possible. After thinking about it more and seeing our February spending (which was a little over $400), I decided to up our goal spend from $200 to $350. I felt this was a more realistic goal.

Our first week has gone very well overall!

Total spent: $82.13
Total saved: $191.68 or 70%

Thanks to rules of the challenge allowing for deducting rebates & cash gifts in our total, our actual out-of-pocket spend was $29.28. I think that's a great start!

Here's a breakdown:

Kohl's
Total before sales and coupons: $40.00
Total spent: $0
Total saved: $40.00 or 100%

Thanks to an act of kindness by a faraway relative, we have two cute new outfits for Stellie to sport in the spring.

Walgreen's
Total before sales and coupons: $37.33
Total spent: $1.39
Total saved: $35.94 or 96%

Free Purex deal was wonderful! I'd go back out for more but it was such a hassle the first time, I think I'll just count myself lucky and leave it at this.

Harris Teeter
Total before sales and coupons: $17.27
Total spent: $2.08
Total saved $15.19 or 88%

Used lots of FREE coupons I had received in recent train envies.

Food Lion
Total before sales and coupons: $5.54
Total spent: $1.50
Total saved: 73%

Tried to score 6 free candies with B1G1 tearpads I had lucked into but it didn't work. Cashier rung these in at the half price they wound up ringing up for due to their B1G1 sale.

Kroger
Total before sales and coupons: $59.71
Total spent: $23.56
Total saved: $36.15 or 61%

Lots of produce and fresh fruit, as well as some drumsticks for tonight's dinner.

Lowe's Foods
Total before sales and coupons: $44.83
Total spent: $9.50
Total saved: $35.33 or 79%

Still stocking up on free Trident Layers after coupons.

Super Target
Total before sales and coupons: $69.13
Total spent: $44.10
Total saved: $25.03 or 36%

Maybe I need to steer clear of Target. Tried for some freebies but couldn't find lots of the corresponding items. I stuck with what we needed- Clif Bars (no coupons for these unfortunately) and various other grocery/household items.