Friday, July 17, 2009

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Yard sale Saturday morning

The morning started off slow, but I'm happy with the final tally!

I scored: 15" flat-screen monitor for $15, Shark hand-vac for $3, 2 Junie B. Jones books for $.50 each, clothes for $.50 each - Gap jeans, 2 Old Navy pants, Limited Too top, and pajama bottoms - all for Emma. Boots for $1 for Emma. Total spent $22.50.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Moooooooo!

Friday was Chic-fil-A "Cow Appreciation Day". If you dressed head-to-toe in a cow costume, you would be given a FREE meal! But if you had any type of cow accessory, you could get a FREE entree! So, with very little time to throw a full cow gig together, we made some silly masks with paper plates and black marker! *thanks, Jen* The kids all got FREE kids meals, and I got free chicken, only paying for fries & a drink. That would be $3.18 for three of us to eat!



Emma had to make her own mask....



The rest of the "herd"!

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Vacation's over!

I took a longer break from money saving and blogging than I had planned. But I didn't get all crazy or anything with my spending!

Today was a fun trip to CVS! I had been stressing about how to spend my $30 ECB from the Aveeno deal for a few weeks now. Being that it expires on 7/15, I decided to just get it spent this week. Here's the run down.
  • (3) 10-count pencils .99 x 3 = $2.97
  • (2) Trail Mix Cruch 3.34 x 2 = $6.68
  • (1) Fruity Pebbles $3.33
  • (2) Dawn Dish Soap 1.00 x 2 = $2
  • (2) Planters Mixed Nuts 3.00 x 2 = $6.00
  • (2) Febreez Noticables 6.50 x 2 = $13.00
  • (2) Lays Chips 3.99 BoGoF = $3.99
  • (1) CVS Pantyliners $.89
  • (2) Mars candy .67 x 2 = $1.34
  • (2) Hair clips (dollar spot) $2.00
Subtotal: $42.19 (non-sale price $62.31)

Coupons used:
  • -$4.00 Febreez Noticables
  • -$2.00 Trail Mix Crunch
  • -$2.00 Trail Mix Crunch
  • -$1.50 Planters
  • -$.89 Mars candy
  • -$.89 Mars candy
  • -$.25 Dawn
  • -$.20 Dawn
Total after coupons = $30.46
Used my $30 ECB and paid $.85 oop (tax)

Received: $5 ECB for Febreze, $.89 ECB for pantiliners, $5 ECB for Post Cereal, $1 ECB for Dawn and $2.97 ECB for pencils! Rougly $15 in ECB received today!

Plus, I still have $9 in ECB from previous weeks, and was rewarded $5.50 ECB from my first quarter spending and prescription fills. I'm loooooaded. :D