Wednesday, November 11, 2009

$.99 Santa Potato Head


Another deal! I stumbled upon Coupon Cravings yesterday and found a great Christmas gift deal. Santa Claus Potato Heads for $.99! Go to coupons.com and click on Toys & Games and clip the Mr. Potato Head Spud Buds coupon for $5.00 off 1. The Santa potato head is a Spud Bud and can be found in the Christmas section of Target for $5.99. I bought two today for Max and Will and I'm thinking about going back to get them for my nieces too.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Walgreens Update

Total Cost: $16.40
Total Cost w/out coupons: $116.62
Savings: $100.22 or 86%
Earned: $20.00 RR

Saturday, November 7, 2009

A follower of Sarah

Ok, I'm no Sarah, but for my first ever attempt at getting things really cheap and using register rewards at Walgreens, I'm really excited about my haul. I got six bottles of lotion, six cans of tomato sauce, five mascaras, three foundations, two eyeshadows, a bag of cough drops and a nail scissors all for $16.49 (or less). I say less because I don't think the cashier gave me a receipt for one transaction and I think the cost was $3 something, but for the purpose of adding tonight, I just put it at $4.00. If I show you each transaction, I may be able to figure out what the charge was. So:

Transaction 1
1 Almay Foundation $9.99
1 Almay Mascara - Free (BOGO Almay products)
- $4.00 mascara coupon
Total OOP (out of pocket) = $6.65
Register Reward: $10

Transaction 2
3 Lubriderm $11.37
3 Hunts Tomato Sauce - Wag's coupon 3 for $1 + MFC $1 off 3 (FREE!)
Use $10.00 RR
Total OOP = $2.17
Register Reward: $8.00

Transaction 3 (this is the missing receipt)
Almay Eyeshadow - $7.49
Almay Mascara - Free
Almay Foundation - $9.99
Almay Mascara - Free
- $8.00 mascara coupon
3 Hunts Tomato Sauce - Wag's coupon 3 for $1 + MFC $1 off 3 (FREE!)
nail scissors - $.76 (used this as filler, but not sure I needed it, wish i had the receipt!)
Use $8.00 RR
Total OOP = Between $3-4 I think, depends on what is or isn't taxed
Register Reward: $10.00 + $5.00

Transaction 4
3 Lubriderm $11.37
- $3.00 Lubriderm coupon (Finally found the Lubriderm coupon at this store)
Cough Drops $1.69
Use $10.00 RR
Total OOP = $.97
Register Reward: $8.00

Transaction 5
Almay Eyeshadow - $7.49
Almay Mascara - Free
Almay Foundation - $9.99
Almay Mascara - Free
- $8.00 mascara coupon
Use $8.00 RR
Total OOP = $2.70
Register Reward: $10.00 + $5.00

TOTAL OOP = $16.49 or less
Total Register Rewards still to use: $20
"profit" = $3.51

Many, many, thanks to Sarah (aka Sam) for walking me through my first Walgreens shopping spree and answering my texts and getting me hooked. I'll be looking forward to the next great deals!

Scare Taylor

My boys keep asking me to replay this video of Ellen scaring Taylor Swift. It is pretty hilarious. Good luck on SNL tonight, Taylor!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Note to Self



Reminder to myself: Taylor Swift is on SNL this Saturday. Yay!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Hooray!

As much as it would have been fun to visit Luke & Sara if they had moved to Wisconsin Dells, I'm way more excited that when she told her employers about her other offer that they promoted her, gave her a raise, and other benefits so that they are staying in Iowa. After all, as beautiful as Wisconsin is, we all know that Iowa is a far superior state.

And I'm leaving in less than 12 hours for Wisconsin....oh well. :)

Monday, October 26, 2009

Iowa Pine


Mrs. Meyer really knows her stuff and creates great smelling and biodegradable cleaning products. Today when I was in Target I noticed that they had the holiday scent set out so I opened the dish soap, sniffed, loved the christmas tree smell and decided to buy the countertop spray and dish soap for the holidays. At only $2.99 and $3.99 for these green products, it seems like a steal. Anyway, it wasn't until I got home that I realized the name of this Holiday's scent is Iowa Pine. *sigh*

Can't wait to go home for Christmas! I *heart* Iowa