Coupons are the New BLACK!

This week was full of couponing joy for me! After a couple weeks off from Walgreens, I found that my rebate gift card had been recharged so I eagerly scurried there to get some rebate items! Here’s what I got:

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I got all this lovely merchandise using the following coupons:
Windex B1G1 FREE and 40 cents off any Windex
Oust B1G1 FREE and $2 off any Oust
$1 off any Garnier styler
$.75 off any Colgate toothpaste

I paid $9.02 including tax and I will get back $12.10 in rebates! Oot Oot!

Speaking of rebates, I did the happy dance this week when I got my Sambucol rebate in the mail! I bought it at CVS in January for $12.99 Using ECBs of course), got 10 ECBs, and now a money order (which I thought was weird) for $12.99. Oot Oot AGAIN!

At Kroger, where I went tag-team grocery shopping with my friend Luanne, I got all these wonderful groceries for $31.54!

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My total came up to 56-something before my coupons! YAY for COUPONS! The six boxes Honey Bunches of Oats and the Propel were FREE and the Cheerios were only 50 cents a box. The Uncle Ben’s rice was 9 cents a box! After I paid, the cashier was most impressed and asked my for tips on how to coupon. I told her go to Money Saving Mom, of course!

Finally, my favorite as always, CVS. Once agan I went to CVS many times this week! I gots lotsa stuff I needed and didn’t pay REAL MONEY for, including cat food, paper towels, and milk! I also got a bunch of coupon boxes for the girls in my MOPS group – all for practically nothing out of pocket! Here is one of the transactions I did:

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I used the CVS 5/15 coupon- and bonus! – the cashier scanned the CVS BRAND 2/10 coupon they have in a pamphlet at the pharmacy. I guess she was just feeling generous or something cause nothing I bought was CVS brand! I also used a 75 cents off/2 coupon for the chicken broth (which was B1G1 free), a 75 cents off Colgate coupon, a $3 off peelie coupon for the Schick razor, and a B1G1 Free coupon and a $1/2 coupon for the Dove. I used 2 ECBs and paid 67 cents cash and got back 2.99 ECBs for the Colgate and 2 ECBs for the Dove! PLUS there was a rebate form for the razor in last Sunday’s inserts so I will get $7.99 CASH BACK for that!! I love paying with ECBS and getting CASH back! Can I get a “what what?”

Allright, I am pooped, after Em’s & my IKEA adventure, which Em will post about Monday…we survived but that is all I’ll reveal! For more Super Savings Saturday coupon fun, head over to Money Saving Mom!

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Poop, Thy Name is Glorious!

Every day my silly son does something to make me crack up. Usually I try to make a mental note to share these anecdotes with my husband when he gets home from work. Every Sunday night I attend a Bible Study, and when I get home Bobby invariably has an anecdote or two about our hooligans of his own to share with me. This past Sunday, the subject was, unsurprisingly, Joshua and his poop.

Joshua had to take a poop, and as usual, he wanted an audience, so Bobby stayed in the restroom with him, and the product of Joshua’s bowels prompted the following conversation:

Joshua’s poops: Plop, Plop!

Joshua: Did you hear that?

Bobby: I sure did. Are you all done?

Joshua: Yeah. (He gets off the potty.) Daddy, I want to show you how glorious my poops are!

Bobby: WHAT??

Joshua: My poops! Look how glorious they are!

Bobby: WHAT???

Bobby then tries to get Joshua to tell him where he learned the word glorious. (We don’t exactly use it in every day conversation!) But he couldn’t get a straight answer. After Bobby recounted the tale of the Glorious Poops, I also tried to get Joshua to tell me where he’d learned such a grandiose adjective. Here’s what I got:

Me: Joshua, where did you learn the word glorious?

Joshua: My poops!

Me: Daddy told me your poops were glorious, but where did you hear that word?

Joshua: MY POOPS!

Me: Joshua WHERE DID YOU LEARN THE WORD GLORIOUS???

Joshua: I don’t KNOW!

That’s all I got. So we still don’t know…but according to Bobby, it was an accurate description of the poops in question! So maybe it just popped into his little noggin spontaneously. He pooped for me the next day and it must’ve been ho-hum cause it didn’t even get a “Look Mommy!” Ah well, a Poop by any other name just doesn’t smell as sweet.

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