Sooo Many Deals, So Little Time!

I was very excited by all the deals at CVS this week and I went many, many more times than is healthy. But I got some AWESOME deals!! Here we are for starters: I had to hit that Pampers deal ASAP! I did it in two transactions.
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Transaction #1:
1 Pampers $7.99
1 Listerine $3.49
2 CVS bandages $1.99 each
total= $15.46
Coupons I used:
CVS $5/$15
Pampers $1.50 off (from Cheerios box)
total = $8.96
I paid with $9 ECB, adjusted down to $8.96, paid 21 cents cash and got $7.47 ECB ($3.49 for the Listerine and $3.98 for the bandages).

Transaction # 2:
2 Pampers @ $7.99 ecah
Total – $15.98
Coupons I used:
$5/$15 CVS coupon and $2/2 Pampers coupon
total = $8.98
I paid with $8.99 in ECBs adjusted down to $8.98 and paid 14 cents cash and got 5 ECB back for buying the Pampers. YAY!!! I LOVE free diapers!!!

Later in the week, I went back to get some more deals:
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1 Huggies wash $3.49
Oral-B 2 pk toothbrush $6.99
CVS bandages $1.99
Brut deodorant $3.19
total = $15.66
I used CVS $5/$15 coupon
$1 off Brut coupon
$1 off Huggies wash coupon
total = $8.66
I paid with $8.58 in ECBs and 23 cents cash an got back $11.99 in ECBs, 2 for the Huggies wash, 3 for the Brut, and 6.99 for the toothbrushes!

Finally, I found that Charmin/Bounty deal too good to pass up, so I bought this:

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Two Charmin @ $4.96 each
Two Bounty @ $4.96 each
Total = $19.84
I used the CVS $5/$15 coupon
Two $1 off Charmin coupons I got in the mail awhile back
Two 25 cents off Bounty coupons
total = $12.44
I paid with 12 ECBs 54 cents cash and got back 10 ECBs

Allright, now that I’ve beat CVS to death, on to MEIJER!! They were having one of those fabulous 10 for 10 sales this week! Here’s a sampling of what I got:

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The 9 bags of chex mix and 4 boxes of pizza rolls were all FREE with doubled coupons!! The Betty Crocker potatoes were FREE because they were my 11th item, and the sale was 10 for 10 and get the 11th FREE! The Fiber One bars were 80 cents a box with doubled coupons, and the Green Giant veggies were 50 cents a bag with coupon. Sooo….I paid $3.40 for all this!! Isn’t that GREAT?? But it gets BETTER! Later in the week, I was able to get some more coupons, so I went back and got 5 more FREE boxes of pizza rolls (or FREEZA rolls as I like to call them now) and 4 more bags of FREE Chex Mix!! And just so you know, I am not a total glutton, I am taking all the Chex Mix on my family vacation this weekend with my 15 closest relatives, so I promise to share.

Well friends, that is it for me this week, so everyone jump on over to CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer to see more victims of OCD (Obsessive CVS Disorder) at work!! And for more amazing savings, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

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Please Join Me for My Pre-Vacation Freak Out!!

You are cordially invited to join me as I freak out the night before I leave for vacation. Which is now. Tomorrow night (well as I write this it’s almost midnight, so it’s practically tonight!) after Bobby gets off work, we are packing the kids up in the ol’ station wagon and heading off on a seven-hour drive to the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. Ok, actually we are only driving halfway there tomorrow night ’cause I Pricelined us a sweet deal on a 3-star hotel in Charleston, WV. But the real reason we are only driving halfway is because a) Sophie is a terrible traveller, and b) because my parents live on top of a mountain, 4 miles up a very winding road with absolutely no light whatsoever and driving there at night with a cranky 18-month-old is just not fun! Or good for my nerves.

Oh, did I mention we are going to my parents’ vacation home? Did I mention that I NEVER IN MY LIFE thought I’d ever use the phrases “my parents” and “vacation home” in the same sentence? Well, much to my surprise, my parents got crazy a couple of years ago and built a house on top of a mountain 7 hours from where we all live. This is the area where my dad grew up, and apparently you can take the boy out of the mountains, but you can’t take the mountains out of the boy, or something like that. ANYHOO, my parents’ FORTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY is this Sunday. Can you believe that?? FORTY YEARS!! AMAZING!! So my family, and my brothers and their families (8 grandkids in all!) are all going up tp the moutaintop for a big ol’ happy family celebration!!

I am really excited, but I am sooooo not ready to go! My bags aren’t packed, the laundry’s not done, and very few things on my huge list are crossed off. I made a last-minute trip to CVS and Target tonight to get random crap we need and now I’m just tired. Tired, tired, tired! Can I just click my heels together and be there please? With no long Sophie-screaming car ride and no sleepless night in a hotel with Sophie crawling all over me??? Please?? Beam me up, Scotty!!

Allright. I’ve got to get Joshua’s underwear out of the dryer. Somehow today I managed to do all the kids’ laundry EXCEPT Joshua’s underwear. I am a true TALENT, I tell ya what!! Good thing the college town at the bottom of the mountain in Virginia has a Wal-Mart in case I forget any essentials. And guess what ELSE they have?? A CVS!!!! And there’s another one in the next town over!! Woo-hoo!! Maybe my dad is right, and Virginia IS the Promised Land. I guess I’ll find out…if I ever get done packing!

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WFMW: Water Play

Today’s Works for Me Wednesday is the “Mom, I’m BORED!” edition. Thankfully, Joshua doesn’t know that word yet, but what he does say very often to mean “Mom, I’m BORED!” is “What can I do here?” That question drives me BONKERS. Although I often run down a laundry list of toys, games, and activities that he can do, the one that is always a sure cure-all for the boredsies is water play. Joshua loves to help “wash the dishes” (aka play with clean cups in the sink while I load the dishwasher), or float boats and anything else that will float in the bathroom sink. It wastes a little water from time to time, but he loves it and learns from it and it always gets him over the BORED hump. Plus, it’s something we can do together if I’m needing to spend some time in the kitchen. I realize this may not work for older kids, but right now it sure works for me! For other great ideas to keep your kids occupied, check out Rocks in My Dryer.

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