Happy anniversary, honey. I love you more than ever.
A Friend In Deed. And in Coupon.
Last night I made a much-needed grocery run to Kroger. I did pretty well, nothing phenomenal, but I saved about 50% which I was pleased with! On the way there I made a couple drugstore stops. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but I do all the drugstore shopping for my BFF Luanne. I have sole possession of her CVS Extra Care card and ECBs. Lest you think I am a total saint, she does give me free Mary Kay in return, as she is my Consultant, or Dealer as I like to call her. 🙂 Anyhoo, so I am telling you this to tell you that I am not one of those creepy coupon people who has 700 Extra Care accounts. I shop for my household and for Luanne’s on separate cards and that’s it! She gives me cash when I need it, and also Mary Kay product. So here’s what I got for HER last night!
As I mentioned in my previous post, there is a Schick/Playtex deal going on this week, buy $20 get 10 ECB. Since Luanne and her girls love Schick Intuition razors and her hubs loves the Quattro, I did the Schick products deal for them.
Schick Quattro Titanium razor $9.99
Schick Intuition razor $9.99
Skintimate shave gel $2.99
CVS heat patches (these were for me – for my aching back!) Clearance $1.65
OB tampons clearance $1.95 (for the Hitchcock Center in Cleveland)
total= $26.57
coupons:
$4 off Schick Quattro from this past Sunday’s inserts
$2 off Schick Intution from this past Sunday’s inserts
$1 off OB from older insert
$.75 off Skintimate from this past Sunday’s inserts
total = $18.82. I paid with Luanne’s 13 ECB she had and paid $5.82 + tax for a total of $7.65 and got back 10 ECB for the Schick.
Don’t you wish I was YOUR BFF? 🙂
Next, I went to Rite Aid to fight the ETERNAL BATTLE my family has with keeping enough batteries around. Even though I JUST bought 3 packs a couple weeks ago at Rite Aid they are magically gone. SO.
5 packs of Duracell AA batteries $4.99 each = $24.95
Crest Sensitive Shield toothpaste $2.99 (this I get for Luanne’s MOTHER. See, I told you I am a good friend!)
Veet Clearance $4.24
Total =$32.18
coupons: $5/$25 Rite Aid video values coupon (new ones for July are out!)
-$3 Veet Rite Aid in-ad coupon
-$3 Veet Rite Aid video values coupon (from last month)
-$.50 Crest coupon from recent P&G insert
-$7 in +UP rewards from last visit
total =$13.86, with tax I paid $15.34 and I will get back$12.99 in Single Check Rebates, $10 for the Duracell and $2.99 for the toothpaste. So, bringing my out-of-pocket to 87 cents + tax.
AND NOW WE HAVE BATTERIES!! Yaaaay!
We Couldn’t Have Imagined.
According to Jenny, depository of all obscure dates in history, last Tuesday was our third blogiversary.
Can you believe it’s been three years? I know. I can’t either. So many of you have been here since the beginning, and I can’t tell you how much that means to us.
Thinking about our blogiversary got me to thinking about how this whole debacle started, and how many cool things have come of it.
Three years ago, I suggested we start a blog for two reasons. 1) We cracked ourselves up, and 2) I wanted to get Jenny off my back about the book I knew we’d never have time to get around to writing.
Back then, we had no idea what we were doing.
(And we totally do now, in case you were wondering. Yep, we really have our act together. Or something.)
We barely knew what a blog was, let alone what possibilities lay ahead.
We couldn’t have imagined the opportunities that would come our way. The trips we would take, the people we would meet, the friends we would make (too many to link, but you know who you are), the fun we would have.
It still kind of amazes me, to be honest.
Three years ago, we couldn’t have imagined using this blog to welcome Sammy into the world, and we certainly couldn’t have imagined that Jenny would blog her way through her third pregnancy.
We couldn’t have imagined that this blog would bring us closer to each other – we would have said it was impossible. We couldn’t have imagined that it would connect us to friends and family all over the country.
But perhaps most importantly, we couldn’t have imagined how incredible it would be to have a record of our lives. The good times and the bad, the fun-filled days and the sleepless nights. The funny things our kids said and our most embarrassing moments, the potty-training trials and the first days of school.
We couldn’t have imagined any of it. But I’m so thankful for it all.
Happy blogiversary, Cousin! I can’t imagine anyone I’d rather make fun of write a blog with. Love you!