{ Homeland Deals }

Today was my first trip to Homeland. I recently found out that they double coupons, so I quickly organized my q's and was off!

These are the best deals from the trip!




Mini Spooners-- $.50 each
2 boxes of Pasta Roni--FREE
Lance crackers 8pk--$.50 each
2 Johnson's Shampoo--FREE
2 Revlon nail clippers--FREE
Pickles--$.66
2 Ken's Salad Dressing--$.50 each
Wheat Crisp Crackers--$1.49
Huggies Wash Cloths--$.61
2 Pop Tarts--$.66 each
Veg All--$.12 each

I think this was a good trip. Not that I will be shopping there for all our groceries (the prices were HIGH), but I'll be happy to run in once a week and remove the good deals from their shelves!

{ Legal Theft }

Is it wrong to love a store? Can you legally marry a store? Truly this is one of the best relationships in my life. CVS keeps giving and giving and asks very little in return. It doesn't whine or leave underwear on the floor. I heart CVS.

Here's how the deal went down today. The total above was a bit over $77. After coupons I paid $1.28, got $9.50 back in ECB and after it was all done I noticed that one of my ECB's didn't print so they gave me $4.00 in cash. LET'S RECAP--I gave them $1.28 in cash, they gave me $4.00 in cash. I LOVE CVS!!!

My total savings for this year is $3,551.73 (no that is not a typo) and I have spent $51.84 (and that was with free gift cards).

This September I will be teaching a class at church on Wed. nights. There are so many people who could be reaping the benefits of this amazing program. If you live in the area, you should come!

{ Last trip 4 the week }

It's easy to say that this is my last trip for the week because I bought out all that they had of what I wanted! There's no more Garnier, Nivea or cereal! Go me!

I'm still waiting for more Huggies baby wash (you know I got dirrty babies), and toothbrushes.

What about a CVS 101 here at my house? Anyone game? Don't you want tons of crap clogging up every closet you have? Honestly, I love having the extras around so when gas prices are $10 a gallon, I'll still have cereal, a clean shaven husband and children hopped up on sugar!

{Free Stuff from WM this month}

I love what I can "buy" for free from WM! The Poweraid was $.75 and I had 3 $.75 coupons, Kotex was $1.00 w/$1.00 coupons, Gold Bond and Old Spice Deod, same thing. The ham was $1.98 and I had 2/$2 coupons. Yippee for free ham! The Coffee Mate came from a free coupon that I got in the mail.

There were also some great deals on bacon, cereal, & Kashi waffles.

My subtotal was $115.93 after coupons : $77.00.
Not as good as some of the serious Frugal Hacks, but dang good for little ole me.

{ My mom would be in a Coma }

I don't know if you can tell by the picture, but I ended up with 104 FREE candy bars tonight!

Along with 2 boxes of Cheerios, 2 Razors, 2 blade refills, 5 Nivea shaving cremes, 2 mouth washes, 1 Johnson buddies bar of soap, 1trial size Dove body wash, and a Contour meter.

I rolled ecb's and made some serious ecb's ($15 and counting!) off the candy.

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Here's how the candy deal went down. There is a coupon spitter-outter-thingy in the candy section that is $1 off Hershey candy. The Hershey bars in the picture are 2/$1. PLUS they are running a ECB deal where when you buy $10 of candy you get $5 back in ECB. ROCK ON! Lucky for me one of the nicest cashiers was working and thinks that getting deals is fun.

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I took all three kids with me tonight, so I told them (not Bizi) to stand in front of the coupon machine and pull out anything that comes out. (child labor is a beautiful thing!)

THEY ACTUALLY MINDED ME! We ended up with tons of coupons and a pile that I brought home! And I got to shop one isle over in peace! I even handed out some of the coupons to the people in line as I was leaving. I felt like Willy Wonka on crack!

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I took a bag of the candy to Davis' baseball game tonight, and for the first time all season THEY WON!! GO COLTS!!! I treated all the boys to chocolate!! One of the parents said the chocolate was lucky, so now I have to bring it to all the games. There are only 4 more games and about 11 boys on the team, so I should have plenty to hand out to the siblings as well.

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Really hope they have a sale on diet pills, seriously.