The Coupon Junkie*

I was just sitting here wondering when i started my blog... It was a year ago yesterday!! woohoo! Yesterday we got our KFC rainchecks in the mail!! yahhh!! they are good from 7-20/8-2! Cant wait for our 2 FREE meals=)

So I forgot I needed to buy a Birthday Present for one of my little cousins birthday partys this weekend, So i figured id go to target for his present. I also wanted to see if they had anymore of the Littlest Pet Shop Tail Waggin Pet Club. We were going to buy it last year for Kait for xmas but it was $50 then and i was almost done w/her shopping and wasnt spending another $50. Well now its on sale for $24.48! We looked in the LPS isle and there was a empty spot to i figured they were all gone. So i went down the clerance isle just to look and there were they were!!! There was 1 left after we took ours [this will be a bday or xmas present for K]. I also did the Gillette Deal while we were there. Fusion Razor for $7.99 -$4 mnf Q Gillette Body was $3.49 -$1 mnf Q Got a $5 Gift Card Used the GC towards the LPS toy so that made the toy $20! Saved $30 on that!

We finally plugged in all the electronic cords in our entertainment center into a power strip! So now when we want to watch TV/MOVIES/PLAY THE WII we can just turn the switch on the power strip on! Hopefully this will save us some $$$ too!! Also tonight i spent $25 @ Stop and Shop and Saved $60!!!

We got our electric bill on Saturday. It went down!! This month is $69.99! Last month it was $75. So it went down once again!! I hope we can get it down further next month. We're un plugging our Freezer in the basement to see what kind of savings we get next month!

Not sure how many of you know what Once Upon A Child is but they had there spring/summer clearance sale today! Each couple of hours was a certain percentage off then from 7-9pm all blue ticket items were $1.00! We waited till 7pm to go of course=) The place was mobbed!! The isles were packed! People were back to back! And lots of moms brought their strollers down the tiny isles so it was pretty hard to maneuver! We were able to find quite a few things of Brae. Best find was a Brand New pair of Dickies overalls [pin stripped conductor print]. The rest of the stuff we bought was mostly GAP and Gymbo. Kait got one shirt -- her section was impossible to get down, but she was happy with it! We paid OOP: $25 Total before Savings: $97 Total Savings: $71!!!

I dont usually go to Rite Aid, but i will if theres a good deal. Dave needed Shaving cream [one thing i cant seem to stock up on], so i figured i might as well make the trip worth it!! This is my trip: 1-Electrasol $3.49 - $2.00 Q + $1 SCR 1-BIC Soleil Razors $4.99 - $2.00 Q + $1 SCR 1-EDGE Shaving Cream $1.99 -$1.00 Q + .50 SCR 1-Playtex Sport [comes w/FREE Quatro Razor!] $3.99 - $1.00 Q + $3 SCR! 1-Drx Cndms - $4.99 -$3.00 in store Q + $2 Mailer Q i got a while ago 1-Pampers Jumbo Pack - $8.99 - $2.00 Q + $1 SCR *Also used the $5/$25 Rite Aid Q Total Before Savings - $28.44 Total OOP - $11.76 Will get back - $6.50 [No idea why the picture keeps loading sideways! It shows up horizontally in my picture folder...weird!]

yea yea yea i know its early but i need to start thinking about it... both my kids birthdays are in November 1 the 6th and the other the 23rd, so we spend alot of money between Nov & Dec. I want to start my shopping -- ive already bough the baby 2 things. I wanted peoples opinions on how you go about your birthday/xmas shopping. Do you set a $$ amount per kid? or do you say each kid is getting XX amount of presents? What do you do for your kids birthdays? I dont know why im stressing over this, but i am! haha HELP! *I think for the baby im going to focus on Bath Toys and Little People... he loves BathTime & So far he LOVES all his sisters little people! By Xmas he will be a year old and most of the little people sets say 1+ so that works! *

Today is our grocery day... ay ay ay! We dropped K off @ her last day of her first year of pre school then went to the gym [that killed me]. We then went to Big-Y and got some of the BOGO & BOG2 deals going on this week and used my 3 double Q's that they had in their flier this week. I cant even think of my deals rite now -- my brain is fried! We then went to DD to get our FREE Donuts w/our coffees! mmm! Then to S&S. Got 4 boxes of Huggies Wipes 2/$5 and used two $2 Q's. Also go 10 beech nut baby foods 10/$5 used $1.00 Q. I had a FREE sense and spray Q & a FREE Oscar Mayer Q from a mailer... i did self check out so the supervisor had to come do those Q's for me. She asked me how much they were, i told her 8.xx and i wasnt sure about the hotdogs, she said Okay and put in $10.50 and $4.50! woohoo scoreee! Next we went to Once Upon a Child to bring some of Brae's clothes and our bassenette... we got $55!!! Target was next and finaly on the list... We Got: 2 Deg

Today all i spent was $3.xx!! Rite Aid - I got 2 packs of titan replacement blades BOGO and used 2 $4.00 Manf. Q's = $3.xx! [they are orig. $11.xx] Wags - used 2 Cutter Q's from this weekends paper. Walgreens has the 1oz replants on sale for 2/$4 = FREE! [this was the first time i didn't have a problem getting something totally free from wags!!] Oh and these are a perfect size to keep in your purse, car, diaper bag etc! CVS - GO HERE and print out the $1/2 Campbells soup coupon! I think the limit is 2? CVS has Chic. Noodle and Tom Soup on sale this week 2/$1! I got 8 Cans [my mom gave me her 2 Q's]

Go HERE and make a new account [its separate from the normal CVS website]. If you register just your info you get 30 FREE prints, and if you register your CVS card number as well, you will get ANOTHER 20 FREE prints!! After you sign up wait for a email and you'll be all set!! I did it today w/no probs!