Shopping This Week

Shopping this week was pretty great!!


I got 30 gain dryer sheets at Dollar General and Family Dollar for FREE! There is a $3.00 Gain coupon and these dollar stores sell a 60pk for $3 bucks! Awesome! And I found the tide stain release on clearance for $1each and I had the $1/1 coupon making them FREE!
Then I went to Walgreen and got 20 Dove Deodorants for FREE! They were on sale for $1.99 and there is a $2.00 dove coupon!
So between the two trips I spent $0.00!!!! Nothing! Not even tax!
Saved $151.00!!!


Then Target this week was pretty cool!


The motrin med is $3.17ea and I have a $6/2 coupon making them just $0.17 each! But I had a little money left on my gift card so I spent zero on the med and saved $43.96!!!

CVS was pretty great too!

I just went in for the Dr. Pepper deal, but when I scanned my card the magic coupon machine spit out a $5RR for making $50 in beauty purchases! Yay!
So with that I split everything up into 4 transaction and rolled the RR from each deal! The lotion and body wash were on clearance!
Spent $10.83 (I paid only for the soda)
Saved $76.67!!

Then today I ran to Walgreens really quick

I finally got my Purex coupons in the mail and today is the last day of the sale so it all worked out! The Purex is on sale B1G1 free then you can use 2 $3 off coupons making them just $0.99each! Some of the gum was on clearance for $0.37each! And I had a $1/2 coupon so I made a profit of $2.37 for buying the gum on clearance! Which went towards the other packs of gum I got! The cream of wheat is $1 and you can use the $1/1 coupon making them free! Yay!
I still had $4RR from last week and a little over a dollar on my gift card so I Spent $5.85
Saved $73.54!!

And I have one online deal to share!!

LLBean was offering free shipping and 30% off their clearance over Presidents Day weekend! So I got this Jacket (originally $80 bucks!) for $16.09 shipped to my door! It will need to be tailored a bit, but it will keep me warm next winter!

That's all I got for now!
-Leah

HUGE FAILURE!

So over the weekend I decided to try and make Dinosaur Cakepops. HUGE FAILURE! I just had to laugh at how awful they turned out. Then I took pictures so you could laugh at me as well.



Let's see...there was a boogie man, a alien(sort of), a ninja turtle, but no dinosaur.

Then this guy just fell off the stick right after I frosted him!

I think I just made the cakepops too big and the chocolate wasn't cooperating at all.

But the kids still liked them!




I guess we will have to stick with a dinosaur cake for their birthday.

Shopping This Week

So this weeks shopping was a little more difficult than usual thanks to a certain thief making fraudulent charges to our bank account. Good thing I had lots of gift cards and RR saved up!!

First, Walgreens


10 toothbrushes (free)
12 bags of chips ($0.50ea)
2 boxes of cereal ($1.50ea)
2 dozen eggs ($1ea)
3 hershey treats (used as fillers)
5 quaker oats (actually made a $0.50 profit from buying them!)

Spent $0.00
Saved $103.85!!
And I walked out of the store with $4RR! Yay!
The highlight of this trip was the $0.50 Kettle Chips! We LOVE chips in this house!


Next CVS

6 Emeralds Almonds (B1G1 free)
6 Tide (I actually realized the coupon wasn't good for the pkg I got. Oopsie!)
2 Listerine (free)
2 Colgate (free)
Clorox bleach ($0.88ea)
2 Loreal makeup (on clearance and free thanks to a manu coupon)
2 HE products (I don't remember)
Spent $0.00
Saved $114.41!! I actually used all my RR, but I was able to stock up on a lot of things!

Then Target


The Finish Dish soap was on sale for $2.50 and there is a $2.25 coupon making them just $0.25! No, we don't have a dishwasher, but at this price I just couldn't resist!
Spent $0.00 (thanks to my gift card)
Saved $30.15!!

So I was able to get $248.41 worth of groceries for nothing out of pocket! Awesome!
Stay tuned for more GREAT online and store deals!
-Leah

Valentine's Day Treats!

I saw the cutest idea for Valentine's day treats on a coupon blog earlier this month. Basically you take a picture of your kiddo holding out their hand like they have a lolipop. Then you get the pics printed, cut a hole a the top and bottom of the had, insert a lolipop and voila! So cute! Here are some pics of Jakers making his! I was able to get the 25 prints for free and the suckers cost me $1! So we made 20 Valentine's day treats for 1 dollar! Jakers passed them out to all his buddies at church.
Jake and Steven also got a surprise pkg from Grandma and Grandpa yesterday! Here is a video.



And here is last weeks shopping! I got all this at CVS for $0.36 OFP

Then I got 8 more boxes of the $0.25 cereal at Target!

Shopping Trips and the Not So Fun Weekend

Man Alive!! This weekend was anything but dull! In a nutshell, Dave went to the ER (he is fine now), I did about 50 errands with the kiddos (which made me wish "I" was in the hospital), Sox got sick (which meant cat poo all over the garage floor. At that point I was ready to shoot myself in the foot just so I could go to the hospital. At least there they don't make you clean cat poo) and I STILL have dishes from 4 days ago in my sink! The only thing I have managed to do was conquer the mountain of dirty laundry was ever growing.

Anyways, enough about drama. Let's talk about shopping!

I needed to do a lot of errands and since I knew I was going to have my kiddos with my I brought their favorite treat. Gummy Bears! Those boys can and will eat an entire bag in one sitting. Sheesh.

First, I dragged them to the mall. Jake was probably racking his brain trying to figure out why his mom was dishing him this special torture. What had he done to deserve a trip to the dreaded Bath and Body Works?!?


I will say for the most part they behaved. At least they didn't break anything while we were there. I mostly distracted them by smelling all the soaps with me and asking their opinions lol. The soaps were on sale 6 for $20 and the cashmere lotion (which is my ALL TIME FAVORITE) was on sale for $6each!
Total $33.82
-$10 off $30 coupon for taking a survey
-$20 rebate check form Olay
=$3.82 Out of Pocket! Yay!
Saved $46.18!!

Then it was off the Target. I actually got to go by myself while Steven was taking a nap!

The blanket was on clearance for $2.50!
The Maalox was FREE + overage
The cereal was $0.25 a box! AWESOME price! I sure hope we like it lol.
Saved $35.54!!

Then yesterday while we were waiting for the truck to get an oil change I took the boys over to Target with the stroller. I Love that stroller. Anything that confines my wild children to a small space is my friend. Is that bad?

The Vaseline lotions were $0.69ea after store and manu coupons and sale price!
The Wonka suckers were $1 each!
The Johnson baby wash with bonus bubble bath were on price cut for $1.97ea and I had the $1/1 manu coupon making the just $0.97each! Woo Hoo!
Saved $16.78!

Then I got these yummy treats at Walgreens!

These treats were on sale for $2.50 each then there is a $2/2 in the Feb wags booklet and there is also a $2/2 from the Sunday's paper making them just $0.50ea!
Spent $5.04!
Saved $34.09!

Now for some online deals!
I got these Gummie Vit C from Soap.com for $6.07! (I had some credit from this company since they messed up my last order)

Saved $27.88!

Then I got these wipes from Amazon.com for FREE!

If you get your hands on a $10 off any Baby Amazon purchase coupon you could score some free wipes too! 502 wipes shipped to my door for nothin'.

And last but not least, I got a pkg from Panda Express with lots of coupons!

35 Free Kids Meal coupons to be exact. Obviously, we wont be using all these by the expiration date (I will be lucky if I can drag Dave to Brownsville just once). So if any of yall would like some of these just let me know! I would be happy to share!

-Leah

Jake-isms (because he is ALWAYS good for a laugh)

Jake: Mommy, can me, bubba, myself, I, my brother and Steven go outside and play?

Jake: Mommy, do you think I will live to see snow???

Jake: Look mom, I gave the pizza a smiley face because he is happy we are going to eat him!

Me: Jake! Did you seriously just write your name on my bed with PEN?!?!
Jake: Wow mom, you sure look pretty today!

Jake: Hey guys, let's play dinosaurs! Ok, Mommy, you are a T-Rex and Daddy you are the giant Spinosaurus!
And just in case you aren't very familiar with these particular dinosaurs, Here are some visual aids.


This is the Spinosaurus AKA Daddy


And this, this is me. The woman that brought him into this world.

Now if only he can continue to be this fearful of us through his teen years lol. Just kidding. Sort of.


Jake makes me laugh every single day. Just like his daddy.

Steven on the other hand....well he just give me wrinkles. But I will admit he gives the occasional laugh. Like just the other day when he came to me with a lolipop stuck in his hair.

What a silly kiddo.


-Leah

More Shopping!!

Ok, before I tell you about the deals to be had this week, I have to show you THIS!



I went to HEB for some milk and just happened to walk by the clearance table! Good thing I did too! This make was on clearance for $2-2.50ea and I just happened to have the $5/2 loreal coupon! Which means I was able to get almost $100 dollars worth of make up for FREE! Not only free, but I made a $4 profit! Awesome!

So back to this weeks shopping.

First, Walgreens




I got all these butterfinger candies for FREE thanks to the $1/2 coupon that is available online right now! I also used the overage towards the lolipops so I paid a total of $1.36! Notice the little hand swiping the suckers before I could finish taking the picture! Sheesh!
Saved $13.62

Then I went to CVS



I decided it was time to stock up on paper towels! I had a lot of good coupons and credit at CVS so I paid a total of $8.88!! Not too bad for 32 rolls of my favorite paper towels! The toilet paper and dish soap were free!
Saved $41.28!

The I went to Target with Jakers and I remembered why I don't take my kiddos with me!



He tried very hard to be good, it just takes a long time for mommy to shop. I had to get the employees to go the the back room and find the mustard with a later expiration date. The mustard they had on the shelves was expiring in March so I didn't want to get 10 if we couldn't use them all by the expiration. Lucky for me they were able to find more in the back room.
All this was FREE thanks to the $0.11 overage on each mustard coupon and a gift card!
Saved $49.59!!

Now for some online deals!

I got this olive oil from Amazon for $3.09!

Saved $16.99

Then soap.com had their kids vits B1G1 FREE!

Spent $9.68 (which I usually spend over $12 for one bottle of their vits)
Saved $24.27!

Then I got these nature valley bars from Amazon

Spent for $4.30 (for 72 bars!)
Saved $16.00!

I was able to get 45 rolls of TP from Amazon for FREE!


Between gift cards, subscribe and save, and my free shipping I was able to stock up big time on TP! I now have 89 rolls of TP and 40 rolls of paper towels! This is the first time I've had an actual stockpile of both! Yay!

Well that's all I got for now! It's supposed to be 29 degrees tonight so I'm gonna go get extra blankets out and get the hot chocolate from the food storage! Yay it's finally cold enought for hot cocoa!