Me Likey Coupon

I had the usual fun at CVS this week. One thing I forgot to mention last time was that one of my fave cashiers asked me to get her started couponing! I was ever-so-flattered! So now when I come in she tells me about her deals. One day this week she was like “I’ve got like 6 razors now!” Rock on, girlfriend!

So here’s some of what I got:

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Pert plus BOGO at $3.79
2 Crest $4.98
1 Colgate $2.99
1 Infant’s Advil $5.79
Total = $17.55
Coupons used:
CVS $3/$15 ( I also found out this week my CVS takes these for 30 days after expiration!)
$3 off Pert manu q
$2 off Pert manu q
$1 off Crest manu q
Two $1 off Crest Walgreens ES catalog q’s
75 cents off Crest manu q
$1 off Colgate manu q
$1 off Children’s advil manu q

Total = $3.80 – well it should have been, but she missed one of my Crest #1 off Wags coupons. But I do not complain if it’s a small amount, cause these people are very good to me! I paid with 3 ECB and about $2 cash (with tax) and got back $5.79 ECB for the Advil, $3 for the Crest and $2 for the Colgate. HOLLA!

Next up:

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Cover Girl foundation $5.49
Cover Girl powder $0 (BOGO with the foundation)
Infant’s Advil $5.79
Energy shots $4.99
total = $16.27

Coupons: CVS $3/$15
Cover girl BOGO free $-5.49
$1 off Infant’s Advil q
Total = $6.78
I paid with $7 in ECB (adjusted down to $6.78) and 22 cents cash and got $4.99 ECB for the energy shots and $5.79 for the Advil. Yee-ha!!

And here’s my favorite transaction of the week:

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Mmkay so it’s been established on this here blog that I have a *BIT* of a problem with Mountain Dew. Well, I only had three 12-packs left so I was gettin’ a little twitchy, but happily CVS had them on sale 5 for $12 this week and there was a Walgreens in-ad coupon for buy 3, get one “limited edition” Mountain Dew 12-pack free. HOLLA! So…

5 12-pks of Dew $12
1 Crest $2.49
1 Colgate total $2.99
Total = $17.48

Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
$1 Crest manu q
$1 Crest Walgreens ES catalog q
$1 Colgate manu q
$2 Colgate CRT
One FREE 12-pack Walgreens in-ad q -$3
total:$6.48
I paid with 5 ECB and $1.51 on a CVS gift card (got because Joshua had to have a prescription this week – more on that Monday!)
Got back 3.50 ECB, 1.50 for the Crest and 2 for the COlgate. Wohhoo! That’s how I like to buy my DEW!

I also did a smidge of Walgreensing this week, even though their RR deals make me nervous (because half the time they DON’T WORK!!) Since Kellogg’s had that FAB $10 rebate in the paper, though, I could not resist! For the Kellogg’s rebate, you had to buy 10 items in one transaction. SO I got this:

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I used 2 $1/2 Special K coupons and 2 $1/2 Pop Tarts coupons and a $5 RR from last week’s diaper deal, and paid $13. I should have gotten back TWO $5 Register Rewards (one for the cheez-its/pop tarts and one for the Special K) but if course I only got one. However, there was no point in arguing since the WAGS people are clueless about their promotions and in my experience AT BEST will give you a form to fill out that you can mail to get your RR. With two cranky kids in the cart, it wasn’t worth it, especially since I am getting back the $10 Kellogg’s rebate, I will still profit $2 overall from buying this stuff. ANYWAYS!! I then bought this stuff:

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2 bottles of much-needed Shout at $2.50 each
Pert Plus $3.79
Wyler’s $1
Pens 9 cents per 10-pack (with Walgreens in-ad coupon)

I used a $2 off Pert Plus q, two 75 cents of f Shout q’s, and my $5 register reward from the Kellogg’s deal. I paid $2.17 and will get back a little over $4 rebate for the Pert Plus and $2.20 for the Shout. So that was also a nice profit!

We didn’t need many groceries this week, I just got a few necessities and spend $7.79 thanks to my couponing STOCKPILE!! Yay!!

That’s it for me this week! How did YOU do!? To see how the rest of the frugal blogosphere did, check out The Centsible Sawyer and Money Saving Mom.

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It’s Official…I’m Blissful!

I’ve just signed on to write about Beauty and Style for the fabulous online magazine, Blissfully Domestic, the brainchild of the Fabulous Mrs. Fussypants. Today my first article was published!! It’s about my new favorite thing in the whole world, please do me a favor and check it out here! And while you are there, look at all the great info on fashion, family, homemaking, cooking, and decorating (and much more!) that Blissfully Domestic has to offer! You can always find a link to what’s new on Blissfully Domestic thanks to the nifty little widget down on my sidebar in the “links” section.

Now, go build up my self-esteem for me! Thanks! 🙂

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Pre-school Procrastination

Over the past year, I have been asked the question, “So, what are you doing for Joshua for preschool?” many, many times. I have had two standard answers to this question: The very intelligent “uhh…..” and the very nervously delivered, “I don’t really want to think about that yet.”

Joshua will be five in February, so he definitely won’t be going to kindergarten until a year from now (I am having cold sweats, breaking out in hives, and trying not to puke as I type that! Ugh!) But since he has known all his letters since before he was 2, can write his name, and now read quite well, I really wasn’t going to send him to preschool. To be brutally honest, this is basically because I didn’t want to deal with it and/or pay for it. He gets plenty of social interaction at Sunday school and Awana, and as I said, “academically” he is fine.

But I felt a bit guilty about that, since that is what moms do.

Then my BFF Luanne came up with a brilliant idea. She suggested I put Joshua in her homeschool co-op. (She homeschools her 14-year-old daughter.) The co-op has class the first three Thursdays of the month from 10-2 and a field trip the last Friday of every month. There is a class for just hte pre-K kids. I would be with him, there is a nursery for Sophie, and the cost is less than $100 per year for one child.

It has the added benefit of getting my lazy butt out of the house!

I haven’t decided whether or not I will homeschool. I am leaning towards not, but who knows, the other co-op moms may fore me to drink the homeschool kool-aid!

So, I mailed the application and check today. Soon my little guy will be a bona fide preschooler! I’m hoping we will both make some new friends, have fun, and learn a lot.

But I am curious, how did those of you who have gone before make your preschool decisions?

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