Make Me Smile

Today I would like to share a video I took of Miss Tempe.  She loves to dance and will go stand at the cabinet under where I have the radio and start dancing as to say "Mommy, music so I can dance please".  Lol!! 

I have also been doing some coupon shopping this week!!  This is my trip I made out in the snow today!



RV $64.65, OOP (after RR used) $12.13 after tax, Savings $54.80, RR Earned $7



I was pretty happy.  This week I have not sit down and made any list or looked anything up online I just made two quick trips to Rite Aid.  I am hopefully going to make my list tonight or tomorrow.  I have been focusing on cleaning and organizing my home.  I am really going to try and keep it this way!!  I have been taking out at least 4 bags of trash a day!  We finally bought a file cabinet to keep paperwork in so that is helping.  And I am loving my new washer and dryer because I am keeping clothes washed and put away.  My towels come out so soft and fluffy now! :)  Tomorrow I am going to try to tackle the new playroom.  I am still working on a theme for it.  I need to paint in there but am dreading it.  The room is open to our house so I am afraid for it to look too much like a classroom.  I will post pics of it tomorrow.  Uploader isn't working well tonight.  I hope you all have a wonderful night!!

Sunday Coupon Trip

Today was my first coupon trip to CVS and Walgreens.  CVS was planned but Walgreens was not.  I did pretty well I think.  You can find my list I made for the Rite Aid and CVS trip here .  At CVS I stuck to it but at Rite Aid I found a few Christmas items 75% off so I went ahead and picked them up. 

Rite Aid:  Retail Price $93.68
OOP (this total will always be after RR from last trip used) $12.97
RR Earned: $5

CVS: Retail Price $44.44
OOP (first trip to CVS so no RR to spend) $26.87
RR Earned $17

Last minute Walgreens trip: Retail Price $16.47
OOP $4.53
RR Earned: $4.50

I am already planning my end of week trips!  I missed several deals today that I would like to try and get on Friday.  I have gotten used to Rite Aid and am moving on to CVS.  I can not wait to see how much I save this month!

Now, on to one of my other loves...Miss Tempe!  I have not updated about her in a while.  She is doing wonderful.  Growing way too fast.  She has started running everywhere.  Today she ran circles giggling the whole time.  She loves pocket books and pot holders.  She got a kitchen set for Christmas and loves playing with it and her Tag Jr. reader.  She cracks us up by getting her shoes and walking to the door saying "bye bye"!  She is always trying to put my shoes on her feet.  I love that girl so much that my heart almost aches from joy.

I have also been cleaning out EVERYTHING!  I am wanting to redo just about every room in my house and have been trying to clean and get ideas.  I have started with my laundry room mainly because we had to get a new washer and dryer so I want to make sure it looks nice.  Plus that is where I am keeping all of my craft things and would love to want to go in there and work. I really want to find a desk to go in there that I could work at.  We have never really bought furniture so I am not sure what I want.  I picked out our dining room suit and Josh picked out the sofa's in the living room but the rest has been given to us.

Everyone have a wonderful week!!!

New Year New Life

Hi bloggers!!  I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Years!!  This is a new year and I am going to have a new life.  Not going to share details but I am excited to start it off.  I look forward this year to new experinces, new friends, growing with old friends, growing as a person, and being the best wife, mother, and woman that I can be!!!

Tomorrow I will be heading off shopping for my weekly coupon shopping trip and here is my shopping list:

CVS
3 jugs of Wisk               $9.00 after 2.00 off coupons
1 Angel Soft                  $1 after .50 off coupon
2 Revlon Nail Clippers  $6.00
TOTAL                        $16.00
RR Earn                       $17

Rite Aid
2 Kashi GoLean            $3 after 1.00 coupon
2 Scunci no damage      $3
Vickis Humidifier          $29.99 after 5.00 coupon
2 Wet's Ones               $ 1.98 after 1.00 coupon
TOTAL                       $37.97
RR Earn                       $15

Hopefully this will all work out!  My goal for the first quater of the year is to get 50% off retail prices.  After that it will be 70%!  Last month at Rite Aid I saved 77%!  I am working on stocking up so I am still buying a lot of things we don't need now but will need for this year.  I can't wait to watch it grow.  I am so excited to see how much I save by June.

Have a great year bloggers!! (one of my goals is to update every few days this year!)

Rite Aid

Today was a day of shopping and money saving!!  Target, Wal-Mart and Rite Aid.  I am so proud of my Rite Aid trip.  Here is what I got:

4 Boxes of Pot of Gold candy
2 bags of Hershey's Kisses
1 bag Mars Ast Minis
2 bags Reese's Minis
2 bags Hershey's Minis
3 bags Snicker's Minis
2 tubes of Colgate toothpaste
8 Wet and Wild nail polishes
1 Tide
1 Shave Gel
1 Liners

My total before coupons was $68.13.  That was with sale prices.  I saved $19.50 in coupons and then got $26.00 back in + up rewards to spend next time.  So I spent $22.63 and saved a total of $45.50.  Not 

bad if I do say so myself!! 

Rite Aid

This was my trip to Walgreen's today

6 stocking stuffer size Snickers and a candy cane for $.58  They had the candy on sale 3/$1 and I had a coupon for $2/3.  I had to get 6 in order to make it the $2 limit but they gave me the chance to get more!!  I only had to pay $.58 for the candy cane!

Tomorrow I am making my first trip to Rite Aid for a true shopping trip.  I have been going through all of my coupons and ad papers tonight and making my list.  It will not normally take this long but I am redoing my binder and had not clipped any coupons for a few weeks so that is taking a while.  I was happy to read another lady say when she first started it would take her a while to do this but now it takes her no time on a Sunday to make her list.  I am so excited about this.  I ordered my book today.  I could have gotten it at B&N but I like to shop local when I can.  I will be sure to post about how my trip tomorrow goes.  My goal is going to be to save at least 50% this time.  Once I get good I will go for 75%!!

Free Free Free!!!

I will be the first to tell you I am all about some free stuff!  And I have been getting lots free lately.  Today we went to a free Snacks with Santa.  Tempe's school readiness program puts it on every year.  Local businesses set up at the fair grounds with crafts for the kids to do.  She got to make all kinds of ornaments and then had cookies and juice for snack.

Then we went to a donations only brunch with Santa that is put on by my MOPS group.  That was a lot of fun and Tempe sat on Santa's lap!

The next thing I am excited about is that I have gotten some stocking stuffers for free!!  Rite Aid had the men's Gillette gift pack that includes a battery powered razor, shave gel, face scrub, and lotion on sale for $9.  I had a P&G coupon for $4 off and then Rite Aid also gave you $5 + rewards.  So in the long run it was FREE!!

I told you I was going to get into couponing!  Just wait until you see what is up my sleeve soon.  It is a total mind set that you have to train yourself to do but it is well worth it once you do!

Sickness

Hi there!!!  I have been a way for a little while.  Sadly Tempe and I have both been sick.  We have only been doing things that we needed to do.  But thank God we are both on the mends and feeling better.  We have been able to do a few fun things here and there between the sickness.  Like her first birthday!  I am going to do another post tomorrow about that.  We also saw Santa,

and we also went on the Jingle Bell Express,

and I have to admit I am getting into some coupon shopping.  I know that I have always done it but I found a new book that I will share after I read and from what I read in reviews I am going full force come Jan. 1!  Just look at all of this I got for $2.75 including tax at Rite Aid!!!

I am not going to tell much until after I get things all settled with the book and everything.  I don't want to give misleading info but I will say this I am SUPER excited!!!  I am also excited about Christmas this year.  I was just now able to get the tree up because of the sickness but as I sit here now by the glow of it's lights I can't help but think of the true reason we celebrate this season.  I am looking forward to sharing all of our exciting happenings for this month now that we are all getting better.