Combining Coupons with Clearance Prices

I went to Walmart tonight to finish up my Christmas shopping, picking up small items to fill my children's stockings. $184.00. Gulp. That was my total before coupons.  My daughter Katie looked at me, alarmed.  "Look what you did, adding your purchase to mine!" I joked with her. (she was going to pay me back her $5 at home) Then I handed the coupons to the cashier, and she started scanning them. Final total: $32.01, and $11.38 of that was the tax on my order.

How did I do it?  By combining the $7.00 clearance price on these boxes of Centrum Omega-3 supplements with my $7.00 coupons. 

Since the coupons expire on Christmas I used them all in one transaction, which caused the register to lock up and require a CSM key.  This is no problem in the larger Walmarts I frequent, but it kind of freaked out the CSM when she arrived at the register, and she ended up scrutinizing both the coupons and the supplements for a very long time before she used her key in the register, sighing while she did so. I'm not sure who the sigh was meant for; the cashier who called her or me, the transgressor.  Either way, when I do my couponing workshop here in Manchester in February, I am going to have to warn attendees that they may face some minor opposition and annoyed expressions when they use large amounts of coupons in our local stores. I will also teach them to always check clearance aisles for deals like this.

Hmmm, wonder what my adult children would think of one of these boxes in their stocking?