Great Sat Trip at CVS (pictures below)

Hi there everyone. I had a busy week and weekend. I had to finish up a site clean up that was so tedious - took forever!!! I also had a look see appt with my doctor - he says everything looks fine and I was able to talk him into letting me do the first of the 3 treatments right then so only 2 more trips up north!!

And then I got ready for my yard sale on Sat - which turned out really good, although it was soooo humid in the morning while I was doing the last minute setup stuff. Yuck!!! Then I had people stopping in all day. I had gone by Michelle's the night before and picked up a couple bags of clothes and a box or two of stuff that she cleaned out of the house in preparation for the baby (soon now - just 3 months or so now!!) and with both our stuff I did pretty good but the big news of the day was that I took a trip to CVS cas I had gotten the great 5/30 coupon (that was only good on Sat) in my email (they take $5 off a $30 purchase - that's before your coupons folks!!)

So anyways I thought that I'd share the pictures from the trip and the receipt cas no one seems to understand that you can really buy this stuff for next to nothing as long as you have the coupons - so let me say it again: Let Me Have Your Coupons If You're Not Gonna Use Them!!!! Stop me and give them to me - if you live in town, I'll drop by your house and pick them up! and if you don't - Please mail them to me! I'll even tell you how to do this so that you can save yourself some money.

So they say a picture is worth a thousand words (and seeing is believing - at least that's what it took for Tom to believe!! :-) )


Yes, you are seeing correctly - the first trip was 13 items for $1.60!!! and then my 2nd transaction was 17 items for $1.66 and then my 3rd which was not planned so it "cost" more - 2 items for $1.05!! This is the picture of all the stuff - now do you believe???

Praise the process not the product....

I found that on a blog that was praising a childrens author Mimi ... ummm something, talking about raising children - anyways I loved the quote so I'm sharing!

I found another great blog today: http://fussypants.typepad.com - she's really funny, a really good read.

I just found another couple sites that I use to read and are super fun: http://unsinkablekristen.blogspot.com
http://colormeuntypical.blogspot.com/

I changed up the site a bit - just didn't like the layout before and it's coming along a little better. I'm adding some of my fav pix too. In a slide show from photobucket.

We were suppose to have our book club meeting tonight at my house this month but we all agreed to postpone it for a couple weeks as no one had read the bookyet. I just finished it tonite. The Observations. It was pretty good. Not my usual cup of tea so to speak but an alright book to waste an afternoon or two with. We've had some good books, I may have to share a few in the days, weeks to come.

I have 2 "Best Of Life" coupons to give away

I got them in some Cheerios boxes and thought that someone out there might like them. I don't have any use for them. It's a Free 2 month membership to Bob Greene's The Best Life program (Oprah's personal trainer - "oh wow"). So anyways the first person to ask for them in a comment can have them & I'll mail them off to you. Of course if you'd like to send me a coupon or two in return - I can't say that I'd turn that down!! :-) But really nothing is needed for you to get them - just ask.

I've been sleeping - or should I say not sleeping well, so I'm off for a nap! Yes, they are not good for insomniacs but I can't handle life on just 2 hours of sleep. I can't read anything without reading it ten times to understand it - I'm just hoping this post makes sense.... haha.

...edit for misspelling haha - live for life.... oh I'm tired....

They are doing it on purpose!!

I had another two cashiers try to "miss" one of my coupons!! For big dollar amounts... I think that the local stores managers must be telling the cashiers to see if they can "accidentally on purpose" forget to put in a coupon or two and see if the customers even see the mistakes!! I don't know if I should call corporate or not - I've made a few calls to complain in the last month or so and I know that they have a list of what your previous calls were about... I don't want to be the one that is always complaining but this is unbelievable that they are doing this!!

On a lighter note, so my blogs aren't always about shopping, I love reading and thought you might enjoy seeing what I've been reading!!

I found a really neat blog today - lots of fun and she's a good writer:
http://suburbanmatron.blogspot.com/ Lots of fun!!

I have a few others that I really enjoy that aren't part of the saving money deal that my blog is starting to go towards.

Here's another one: http://katemcdonald.wordpress.com She hasn't blogged in awhile but she's a great writer (& her husbands a great singer!)

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Some one else that is having the same "missing" coupons and she has an interesting page! http://twistedlisa.blogspot.com/

Watch the cashiers

I know to watch the cashiers and to make sure that I get credit for each coupon but somehow I didn't get credit for one of my $3 coupons! Boy that makes me mad cas cvs will get that money double - makes me not feel bad for them in the least for the awesome deals I get!! I can't go back and say "Hey you didn't take off my $3 dollar coupon." They won't believe me but I know what coupons I had and as I look back over my receipt (I knew at the time it was costing too much - why didn't I question it then?!?) I found the problem. I wish that their system put the coupons in the receipt better (so you could tell what each coupon was for exactly).

Oh well lesson learned. I'm off today to try to make up for it. Got 4 different transactions planned and hopefully they don't give me grief about the 3/15 coupon and they have all the product that I want and need!!

Got tons of stuff last nite at CVS

Sorry no pix but I got last nite for the end of the July 6th-12th week:
4 Dawn's
3 Olay's
1 Gillette Wash
1 Toothpaste
1 pantyliner
1 suncare aloe
2 Pert shampoos
1 suncare lotion
1 small box Honey Oats bars
1 cleanser wipes
1 Purina beggin strips bag (I think the cashier didn't use my $1 off on this - it was in my bag when I got home but I used the CVS email one for $2 off)

all for 5.03 oop - I should have gotten a $10 Olay ECB but it didn't print out. I've noticed that a lot of people have been commenting around the net that the ECB's and their cards are not matching up! Be on the look out for that! Check your bucks before you leave and call CVS if you didn't get your bucks or you got/ get the wrong persons bucks!! or CRT!

I'll definitely be calling to get my Olay bucks - I did notice that there was a weird dollar amount on my Olay products (that I shouldn't have had) that happened between 9pm and 9:30pm last nite - between two transactions. Hopefully they get their computers figured out!!

Need Coupons!

I've got family that lives in California and one sister sent me some coupons about a month ago - she's had a big month in between but I sure wish some of my other siblings or relatives would send me some of those really good coupons that they have out in the LA area!!! We get the sucky ones here - I even get the paper from Indianapolis and they still don't have as good of q's as the CA papers!!

So if any of my family reads this - this is your reminder to drop the coupon flyers in the mail to me... you don't use them anyways - you're just gonna throw them away. Send them to me - I could use them!! :-))