Target Trial Run

I took my first coupon trip to Target today. It's about 45 miles from my house so I just figured I'd stop in on my way back from getting my books at the college I go to (online) that's about 100 miles from home. I wouldn't have gone to Target just for this stuff, so since I was going right by, I got my coupons that had no exclusions on size and headed in to scope out their Trial Size section. At our tiny WalMart, we have a few things, but nothing special so I was hoping for the best with Target.

Target has an entire aisle filled with trial and sample size items. I didn't dare to use a 2.00 off any Dove Shampoo on a 97 cent item but I did use a bunch of good coupons and got this whole lot of stuff for super cheap!

All Small & Mighty (2 Load Size) - 2 @ 1.00 ea.
Degree Women Deodorant - 2 @ 1.00 ea.
Degree Men Deodorant - 2 @ 1.00 ea.
Gillette Series Shave Gel - 2 @ 1.00 ea.
Wet Ones Travel Pack - 1 @ .97
Durex Condoms 2 pack - 1 @ 1.00
Tide 2x (1 Load Size) - 4 @ 1.00 ea.
Tylenol Trial (8 count) - 2 @ 1.00 ea.
Advil Trial (10 Count) - 1 @ 1.00 ea.
Sunsilk Hair Creme - 1 @ 2.75 (Sale)

Coupons Used:
2 - 1.00/1 any All Small & Mighty
1 - 1.00/2 any Degree Women
1 - 1.00/2 any Degree Men
2 - 1.00/1 any Gillette Series Gel
1 - .75/1 any Wet Ones
1 - 2.00/1 any Durex Product
2 - 1.00/2 any Tide
2 - 1.00/1 any Tylenol
1 - 1.00/1 anyAdvil
1 - 1.50/1 any Sunsilk Hair Creme

Total Cost - 19.72
Total Coupons - 15.25
Total OOP - 4.47!!!

So I was super excited to use up some coupons that I'd never use on something else. The Tide wasn't really that great of a deal, but I wanted to use them and now I have 4 loads of laundry detergent in case I ever run out of my regular stuff. The Advil was actually supposed to be 1.97 but they gave it to me at 1.00 anyway because it was in the trial bin with the other Advil packets. I also got an overage of 1.00 on the Durex coupon! I had 5 more of them and had I known she was just going to hit enter on it, I would have gotten another 5 boxes. I don't use them and won't need to for a while, but with a 1.00 overage on all of the boxes, the rest of my stuff would have been free! I did buy a maternity shirt and a couple of shirts on clearance for the boys so my actual total was a little more, but I just threw the trial stuff in the cart to see how well it worked. From now on, I'm scanning the papers for trial coupons and saving them up for my shopping trips to Target! =)