Mommin' It Up!

April 10, 2009

Ah, CVS I Missed You!

I went back to CVS today to get some good deals. Still nothing I jumped up and down about, but at least there were a couple freebies and a great diaper deal. Here’s what I got:

Skintimate shave gel $3.49
Colgate toothpaste $2.99
CVS paper towels $.99
Two Excedrin Migraine @$1.99 each – $3.98
Advil Liquigels $3.99
Two Schick Intuition refills B1G1 free $10.99
Total = $26.43

Coupons:
$5/$25 Rite Aid q (my CVS takes competitors q’s)
75 cents off Colgate q
Free CVS paper towels coupon
Two $2 off Excedrin manu q’s (adjusted down)
Two $4 off Schick Intuition manu q’s
Total = $7.71
Paid with 5 ECB and $3.12 cash and got back $5.49 ECB

Next transaction: diapers!!

Two packs of Huggies $20
Wipes $5
Total = $25

Coupons:
Rite Aid $5/$25 purchase
Two $3 off Huggies diapers printable q’s
One $5 off any Huggies Gentle Care product printable

Total = $9
Paid with 7.49 ECB and $1.86 cash and got back 10 ECB!

That’s all I got! I still have those 10 ECB so I hope to get some great deals next weeks. We shall see! To see how everyone else did this week, check out Shopping Superstars at the Thrifty Mama and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

April 10, 2009

Marching for Maddie

On Wednesday, Jenny posted about the loss of this beautiful little girl, Maddie, the daughter of Heather and Mike from The Spohrs are Multiplying.

As everyone does upon hearing news like this, we all felt a tremendous level of sadness and shock on Wednesday. But these feelings led many people to action, and immediately the Twitterverse was buzzing with people wanting to do something for the family. Because Maddie was a preemie, the family has strong ties to the March of Dimes organization. People started to donate in Maddie’s name, and in about 48 hours more than $21,000 has been raised.

Amazing.

And it’s not over yet. Teams all over the country are forming and participating in the March of Dimes walks – they’re marching for Maddie. Our good friend Amy has started a team for the Cincinnati walk; if you’d like to join or support the team, click here. If you’re not in the Cincinnati area but would like to walk, you can see the list of teams walking for Maddie here, on Sarcastic Mom’s site.

It’s so random, this life. So fragile. And so often, so unfair. But in the hardest of times, people – strangers, really – coming together in the way they have this week shines a light in the darkest of places.

Jenny and I would like to ask you all to keep Heather, Mike and their family in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you.

April 9, 2009April 9, 2009

Go Green with Kroger and Win a $25 Gift Card!

I am disturbed to say that after I started writing today’s post, I went to find last year’s post about this contest, and discovered that Jenny had used this very same title last year. I think we need to spend less time together.

In any case, Jenny and I are happy to partner with Kroger once again, as they promote reusable shopping bags. Between now and May 15, Kroger is inviting everyone to visit www.kroger.com/green where you can enter the Kroger Reusable Shopping Bag Contest. You can design your own reusable grocery bag with Kroger.com’s design tool.

Here’s the bag I made (and yes, you can order one of your very own and sport your Mommin It Up pride wherever you go, haha)

Prizes will be awarded to the top 10 bag designs – one lucky designer will win a $1,000 Kroger gift card, four finalists will receive $250 Kroger gift cards, and five runners-up will receive $100 Kroger gift cards. I am pretty sure my fantastic design is going to be the big winner, but if you want a shot at the big prize, click here to enter for yourself!

Kroger has generously provided us with two $25 gift cards to give away to our readers! To enter, go to www.kroger.com/green and design your bag. Once you’re done, click “Email to a Friend,” and send your design to us at green [at] momminitup [dot] com by midnight on Thursday, April 18. We’ll pick our five favorites, and then let our readers choose one winner. Everyone who emails us a bag will be entered to win the other gift card, and that winner will be chosen by using random.org.

Good luck!

Oh, and P.S. Our cartoon selves are at it again! Check us out here.