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Yesterday my wise sage of a son, who is almost four years old, said to me after laying a ginormous deuce in the potty (as he gave me an affirming pat on the shoulder), “That was a big poop! But you’re not a pee-pee or a poop. You’re just my Mama.”
Thanks, kid! I am glad we cleared that up. I’ll keep that in mind next time my self-esteem takes a dive.
Happy Blog Hopping to my fellow Weekend Blog Hoppers!
I had a great week at Kroger, Rite-Aid and CVS this week! I have taken to calling CVS “FREE-VS”. It’s so great getting everything we need for next-to-nothing! I started out my week there. I went in to get diapers for a baby gift, and to see if my store would let me stack a $10 off $50 cash register tape (CRT) coupon that had printed at the bottom of my receipt last week with the $$ off CVS coupons. Well, they did, and this is what I ended up with:
3 Pampers Swaddlers size 1 (for a gift) $8.99 each
1 Cottonelle wipes tub $5.98
2 Glade Scented oil candles $6.99 each (Come on, now! I NEEDED another one to send the rebate in for my Grandma!)
2 mennen deodorants (FREE after ECBs!) $3.99 each
My total was $58 something.
I used $10/$50 coupon
$10/$50 coupon that printed on my receipt last time I was there
$5/$30
$4/$20
B1G1 Free mennen deodorant coupon (thanks Karen!)
B1G1 Free Glade candle coupon
$4 off Glade candle coupon
50 cents of cottonelle
3 $2 off Pampers coupons
Used $5 ECBs and paid $1.51 cash and I got $15.98 ECBs back!!
Unfortunately, this must’ve been the straw that broke the camel’s back, because the next time I went into this store, they would no longer let me stack $$ off CVS coupons! 🙁 So, I won’t be going there anymore unless I have a small transaction. It’s too bad because it is the one closest to my house. Oh well…there are still a couple of others that DO let me stack.
Next I was off to Rite-Aid for Freebies and Freebates! This week Rite-Aid had Lansinoh wipes for $3.99 but they had a $3.99 off coupon in their ad, making them FREE! They also had these DiaperMate diaper disposal bags free after rebate, and I love these things! Finally, this Citre Shine hair stuff was $3.99 and also free after rebate, and I had $1 off coupon, so they paid me to take this out the door!
I love Rite-Aid’s Single Check Rebate program because you can enter your receipts online – you don’t have to mail anything in or fill out any forms!
Next I hit up Kroger’s for our grocery shopping. On my first trip, I took advantage of two specials Kroger was running. One was a promotion to buy 9 items of Kraft/Pepsi products, and get $6 off your total order. So I bought 9 Kraft items that I had coupons for (total was $9.96 for these items) and that we will use, and got $6 off the rest of my order! I also got FREE MILK because Kroger’s other promotion was if you buy 3 General Mills Cereals (on sale for $2.49) you got a free gallon of milk. I bought 3 boxes, all of which I had $1 off coupons for, and got the free milk. Then after I paid for my order , I got a coupon on my receipt for $1.50 off 4 General Mills cereals. So I thought, “Hmm, I think I need to do this FREE MILK things again!” I came back to Kroger the next evening and got 4 of the sale General Mills cereals, used 4 coupons that were either $1 off or doubled to $1 off, got the FREE MILK and got an additoinal $1.50 off with that register receipt coupon! I also got 8 jars of Ragu pasta sauce on this order (on sale for $1 each, I had 4 $1 off 2 coupons) and paid a total of $8.85 for all of this!
I can’t wait for this week’s deals! To see what great deals other bloggers scored, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom! And if you haven’t purchased her Supermarket Savings 101 course, DO IT!! You will be so happy you did! You can check it out or purchase it here!
My office is an evil, evil place.
You see, each night about 25 college students come to work here in the basement. And what’s the only way to get college students to show up? Well, bribe them, of course. And since promoting keg-stands to student employees is somewhat of a no-no, we use pop and candy.
So this means that I am forced to work within one flight of stairs of unlimited pop and candy. I’m talking everything from Coca-Cola to Pepsi Jazz, Reese’s Cups to Laffy Taffy. It’s just not right. At times, the temptation overwhelms me.
This afternoon was one such occasion.
It was 4:50, almost time to leave, and I was SO hungry. I couldn’t help it; I ran downstairs and stuffed three Starbursts into my mouth. My sugar craving fulfilled, I headed back up the steps.
That’s when I came face-to-face with a student worker. She looked so cute in her pea coat and headband, and there I was hauling my pregnant arse upstairs, teeth glued together with sugar. I smiled at her as politely as I could, and she asked me if our graduate assistant was in her office. My mouth was still stuffed with the three said Starbursts and the best I could do was mumble “I habn’t seen ‘er toway” and continue waddling back to my cubicle.
The most embarrassing part? She surely knew what I was up to, being well aware of the abundant supply of calories to be found in the basement. I can practically hear her telling her anorexic sorority sisters the story of the huge pregnant lady with a mouth full of candy.
And then, not having found the person she was looking for, she came to my cubicle. “Um, excuse me, ma’am?”
Ma’am? Kick me while I’m down.