Suprise at the cash register

Lately, I've found that most of my cash register surprises have been of the negative variety. That is, somehow my purchases end up being significantly higher than I had expected. So, it's nice when every once in awhile they turn out to cost less than I expected.

Today I picked up a full bag of groceries for $10. OK, it helped that I had two free-item coupons: a free pint of Ben & Jerry's courtesy of my cell phone provider for a short phone survey and a free coupon for a Kashi product (in this case a box of cereal) for a survey I filled out on the Kashi website.

I also ended up with some unexpected sale items. The box of chik patties I bought ended up being on sale and was $2 less than I thought. The box of cookies I picked up to bring on my sales appointment must be entered wrong in the grocery store computer because with the discount of $1.49 that was automatically taken off at the register they came up to just 50 cents.

In addition to all these items, I bought a package of chocolate chip cookies (for me), a half gallon of milk, a tomato, a cucumber and some bananas. All told, I think I did pretty good for $10.