Archives for February 2010

Snow in the South

So I’m probably the LAST person living in the south to blog about our snowfall but alas, better late than never!! Even Southern Savers.com and Hip2Save blogged about the snow instead of coupon savings that day.

So here we go:
The night the snow began….

My favorite snowman in the neighborhood:

Early the morning after:

On my way to CVS……snow has already melted in the driveway as baby girl sticks her head out to yell goodbye…..

Snow photos are not complete without icicles…..

The snowball…

The snowball fight….

The silly smile has begun….

Oh, I think his snowball is bigger…..

More scary smile photos….

At least she is wearing a coat. Her brother was in short sleeves.

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Posted: February 17, 2010 by Julie |Category: Our Family, Our Lives | Tags:

Couponing and CVSing

I love CVS. I admit it. Always have. Always will. But now that I coupon I love them even more.
Today I stopped in for some Valentine candy since I had some extra bucks and really didn’t feel like spending any money on Valentine candy for the kids. I’m a little like my Rocket Man and think Valentines is overrated. All that candy will be slashed to half price tomorrow.
But here’s what I got:

4 Tide Stain Release Tablet Packages (normally 3.99 or more each)
2 Packs of Orbit Gum (one was free)
2 Reese Cups
1 Nestle Crunch Heart
1 Dove Bliss Free + overage
2 Packages of 3 Musketeers
1 Lipstick (7.00 for 1.00)
1 TInkerbell candy pack for the girl in the family

I spent $5.34 and saved $39.50.
Can anyone give me a big ya-hoo!!!

A few things I love…

Well I do not like grocery shopping but ever since learning to coupon it’s become a challenge thing…
Kind of "Can I beat the system" or "How much can I save?"

What i do love is coming home with a receipt this long…..like a mile long…..

And folding it in half…..

Exactly in half……

The top half has everything that I purchased ON SALE

And the bottom half has nothing but coupons on it…..(reducing my original purchase price!!)

Then the total being 60.00 less than when I began scanning coupons….

Christmas even jumped up on the table to see what I was doing

Promise I’ll clean the table before you come home honey!!

The best deals of all?

Yogurt marked down to 1.00, .50 and .30 because it expires today. Did you know you can freeze yogurt?
Organic Coleman Chicken marked down to 7.00. I bought 5 packs.
Organic Harvest Farm Steaks marked down 1/2 price. I bought 3 packs for my 9 year olds upcoming birthday. He loves steak.
All of my yogurt that I bought I had dollar off coupons for so I made money on the yogurt.
And completely filled up the refrigerator downstairs with Welch’s Grape Juice because it was on sale and I had 1.00 off coupons for each bottle making it 2.50 a bottle.

So I’m set in the meat department for a while.

Did you girls know you can visit your grocery stores in the AM and meat with an expiration date of that day or the next is usually marked down 1/2 price?

It’s a great way to eat organic…..on a budget!!!!!

Happy Grocery Shopping…

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