The Coupon Junkie*

yea its been a month! ive been slacking! my back has been killing me so i havent been abl eto sit here and slave over my blog!! Dave remin ded me last night that ON was havin g a costu me party for the kids! So we went this AM -- it start ed @ 11am. ON costu mes are $5 and Hallo ween TShir ts are $1. 00 The kids also get a bag w/a tatto o in it as well as a peel coupo n -- you can get anywh ere from $5. 00, $50, $150 or free purch ase! Cours e we only got $5 off but that paid for the costu me we bough t for Braed en next year! Also if your kid is dress ed up they will give you a coupo n for a FREE graph ic tee up to $14. 50! Our total would a been $106. 00 TOTAL OOP: $ 42. 15 We saved : $63. 85!!

So you all know about my computer problems from a few weeks ago. Well they fixed what was wrong which was the motherboard and the fan, they also fixed my speakers that werent working. BUT they never replaced my battery which we didnt know was a problem cause my computer wouldnt turn on after it died...but once they got it up and running shouldnt they have checked to make sure the laptop ran on both battery power and ac power? Well anyway we ordered a new one which luckly was covered! The other day i went to pick my computer up from the side of my bed and i grabbed it the wrong way...when i grabbed it my finger slipped into a slot, so i was like ummm thats never happend before...so i look and realize my DVD remote that slides in the side of the laptop is missing!! So noticing that made me notice that they never screwed the corner back down when they took the top of my computer off...they also cracked side. Then i start using the laptop and realized my right mouse botton wont work!! Okay...

Okay Brooke gave me the idea to do this...i think ive written about SS before but i cant find it on here. Okay so my favorite Grocery Store is Stop and Shop. Mainly cause their prices are pretty reasonable and they take all kinds of competitors coupons! For coupons they will double any coupon up to .99...so if you have a .50 off coupon your going to get pretty much $1.00 off instead -- Big-Y DOES NOT do this! Although sometimes Big-Y will have Triple Coupons on the bottom of their AD [they just did this a coupon weeks ago so prob. wont happen again for a while] but you could also use the big-y triples @ s&s! If your from this area and get a Value Pak once a month there is a coupon in that pack for Fresh Acres which is owned by Big-Y...you can use that coupon 2 big-y or stop and shop! A few times big-y has questioned the coupon but the manager always makes it work and its legit, not like im trying to scam them! S&S also takes catalina coupons from any store -- Shaws, Big-Y, WAG...

Rite Aid: Huggies Diapers are 3/$33 but end up being 3/$23 after $10.00 rebate and i had a $1.50 coupon so 3 packs ended up being $21.50! Fructis Shampoo was 2/$6 w/a $3.00 rebate and i had a 2 $1.00 coupons so they ended up being 2/$1!! Scott Paper Towel 15 pack is $13.99 w/a $2.00 rebate and a $1.00 coupon making them $10.99 CVS: Windex $2.99 - $1.00 coupon making it $1.99 Shick Quatro razors/refills were bogo. I already have a razor so i got 2 packs of refills + a $4.00 off coupon 2/$6.49 orig. $10.49 a piece! Speed Stick you get 2 ECB's

During my little hiatus CVS had a crazy sale on their summer stuff! 90% off! Included was was Huggies Little Swimmers! Orig. $8.49. The total after discount was .89!! Between me and my mom we bought $15 packs!! If you had Huggie coupons you could use those too! These will def. come in handy next summer!!

Ahhh its been a while eh? My laptop broke @ the end of august and ive been using my slow ass Desktop...so i was only really going online to check my mail etc. so i didn't get to update this at all=( BUT....IM BACKKKK!!! So yesterday was the last day to use my free Halloween soap coupon on BBW. I had two coupons for the soap and another coupon from the fall preview book for a free sig. collection item with ANY purchase! So Dave made 2 purchases. For the free sig. collection item he bought a $3.00 foam soap and the free thing was a $14.50 tub of cuc. melon body butter! His other purchase was a big tube of cuc. melon body lotion. That was $10.50 and we got the cute pumpkin anti bacterial soap for free -- a $10.00 value! My purchase was 2 body sprays that were BOGO and i also got another pumpkin soap which i gave to my mom cause im a good daughter;-) Total amount of stuff we bought was: $69.00 We spent: $24.00 Saved: $45.00!!

So i did that wonderful sugar test yesterday. The hour went by quick, the drink wasn't too bad, and the blood work was pretty painless. Well my Dr. office called me today...they said my sugar levels were a little high, so now i have to go for a 3 hour GTT [glucose tolerance test] ahhh. That sucks. I made it threw the one hour just fine but the 3 hour im not so sure of. For yesterdays test they wouldnt let me leave the lab waiting area! It was seriously a room w/2 rows of chairs against each wall and a loud ass TV playing the Democratic Convention ahhhhhhh i was ready to shoot ppl. Also the big ass thing of water was sitting rite next to me and i couldnt drink, eat or smoke anything When i went in to drink my yummy drink the lab tech said "you came at a good time, we've been mobbed all day!" Well no sooner do i go sit back down in the waiting room do the ppl start rolling in! They would come in shifts it seemed! 1st shift wasnt too bad, 2nd got a little more annoying ...

1st of all why am i getting stretch marks on my calf? like rite under the back of my knee & only on the left leg! Why my F'n leg?! do i have a baby growing down there?! I hope they fade after or I'm never wearing shorts again=( So far ive only gained 3 more additional strectch marks on my belly, hopefully it stays like that [yea rite...i still have alot of growing to do]. Oh yea thats another thing i don't get...why does everything think im so "small" baby wise...i don't feel like my belly is small but everyone says i don't look 7m pregnant! hmmm... Next topic...yesterday there were 2 Huggie coupons in smart source [i think] so i went house to house collecting everyones coupons! hahah well not really. My friend Sara had already sent me 2, i got 2 in my flyers, dave got 6 from work, got my moms 2, Daves moms 2 and my parents neighbors 2, then i found 1 extra i had!! So i have 17 Huggie coupons!!! So today we will go to Toys R US and i will get a free p...

Monday - Dr. Apt and Errands - CHECK Rugs Cleaned, Daves Dr., Swimming Lessons -CHECK Daves friend came to get the stove, Guy came to repair the washer/dryer - Check So far everything has gone off w/o a hitch! Tomorrow the Fridge and Stove get delivered. The Dishwasher is on back order till next week. They are supposed to be here between 8-12! After that we need grocery's to stock our pretty new fridge!! Where are the deals this week? Tomorrow starts the new sales...anyone have the inside scoop? Its either Stop and Shop, Big-Y or Shaws... So the problem w/the washer was apparently the fact that we use too much detergent?...i use about half a cap, dave uses a little more. The guy said we should use about a tablespoon! wow haha that doesn't even sound like enough to wash a pair of underwear!!! The dryer just sucks...he said our type of w/d combo has a hard time venting, so the lent gets clogged everywhere in the dryer, but he cleaned it all out and put new cardboard in the door ...

it has been 5 days since my last drug store trip. I dont know what has come over me! usually i run rite out and get the deals, but not this week! hmm when will i go? i have no idea!!! Rite now i have $34.xx in Rite Aid Rebates waiting to be sent to me but i think i want to wait till the last sunday of the month after i see what the rebates are so i can get the most money back!! I know @ WAGS i want to get the Bertolli Meals that are on sale...i have 3 $1.25 coupons and if youbuy 2 you get $5 in Register Rewards...so ill go get that then go back later w/my mom and do the rest of my shopping and use my RR's! okay this post is totally useless but i had nothing else to do! Ohhh and i want to know WHO reads my blog!!! i want to add new ppl on here, so let me know=) **12 WEEKS TO GO!!!!**

I guess ill write a bit about my pregnancy so far... The baby is doing good! I go for my 7 Month check up tomorrow! & hopefully my glucose test...if they didn't lie to me!! Also im getting a RX for new vitamins. My current ones are making me sick [well feel sick anyway]. They gave me samples the other day so im going to ask for one of those. BUT if my blood test comes back negative for anemia then i can just take Flintstone vitamins, other wise i have to grin and bare the gross pukie feeling! uhgg! I also have to ask tomorrow about my clean catch pee test i had to take the other day... The Dr. asked the nurse how my test came out and the nurse said there were some traces of White and a Trace of red [blood cells]...but then we started talking about my vitamins so i got side tracked and forgot to ask her, so ill ask the dr. im seeing tomorrow what that means...do any of you know? I never had to do a clean catch w/kaitlyn [almost 4 years ago] i guess its new well to the office any...

i cant find the persons blog who sent me the coupons [sorry]!! I got them the other day!! Thanks so much...i already used some!! Also Thanks Amanda i got the Kellogg's/Kebler rebate thing Thursday!! Anyone else has coupons they want to send me let me know=)

Well the original plan was that when the delivery guys came to bring our new stuff they would take all the old stuff which is free But then i was thinking...why should we just throw away teh stove? theres nothing wrong w/it!! We were going to post it on masslive.com but dave found someone @ work that wants it!! Dave told him $100 and the guy said he will be here Tuesday AM to pick it up!!! Yea we will be w/o a stove for a few days but oh well!! Not a bad deal seeing as this stove came w/the house -- extra $$ for us!!! Cept we're putting it on my Credit Card -- yea im on this credit card kick! Ive always just made my monthy payment but seems like thats getting know where so anything extra we get is going rite on the card!!! Daves also going to sell his class ring tomorrow...they give you about $100 for 14k gold class rings!! His is really heavy so i dunno if he would get more or if $100 is max

This week i sold all 3 things i had listed last week!! 5 underjams coupons i just put for for the cost of a stamp and they thats what they sold for .43 Season 2 of The Hills for $15.50 + $4.02 fo S&H. S&H ended up only being $2.xx so i made a like 2 more dollars. Laugh and Learn Bunny $7.50 - $8.00 S&H...not sure how much s&h will really be yet so we'll see!

Okay so seeing as pretty much every appliance we own has crapped out on us, we decided to go and pick new stuff out today!!! First our freezer stopped freezing, then our dishwasher stopped cleaning, then our washer stopped washing!! Originally we were planning on just buying a few fridge and be done w/it. Well when all this stuff started dying we figured we might as well buy it all! Come to find out, we still have 2 more years left on our warranty for the w/d so we didn't have to buy a new one of those, the guys will just come out and fix it or replace it -- ohh the joys of extended warrentys!! So we go in and start looking around...we had a few Q's about some of the refrigerators, but course the one and only time we have a question we aren't getting bombarded by sales guys! So we just stood there waiting...all the sudden about of know where we here HEYYY HOW YOU DOIN!? It was the OWNER!! Im thinking he saw us from his office looking to get help and no one was helping us......

Why is it that i should be on time to ALLLL my dr. apts? Even tho im usually always on time or always early this still bugs me!! When i went for my 19 week u/s to see what the baby was, i had to do teh wonderful task of loading up my bladder before hand, well soon as i walked in the office i was just starting to feel like i had to pee, so i figured id be good till they called me in and took the pix they needed w/my full bladder...soo as the time went on and my bladder got fuller, i started getting aggravated! I got there 10 minutes early, and when i started to really have to pee i had been sitting there for 45 minutes!!! No one ever said they were running behind or they would be w/you in this amount of time etc etc. Okay, so i dealt w/it...and the tech did apologize for the wait. So today i had to go in for a i guess you could call it a emergency apt -- i was having pains low in my stomach that my OB wanted to check out [its not baby related...but we're also not sure what it IS rel...

Well up till today i was a virgin...a Shaws Virgin! Amanda filled me in w/some good deals soo it was a perfect week to start!! We did the 10/$25 deal on Kellogg's/Kebler stuff + the $5.00 coupon that was on the add + i had a coupon for each thing k/k thing i bought & Amanda's sending me the rebate this week as well!! NICE!! I also had 5 coupons for FREE mighty dog can food [the ones i tried to use @ WAGS yest.] and they went threw noooo problem [funny how that works!!] Ohh and i got my FREE Lemon hahah not that we even eat lemons or have anything w/lemon besides Corona...ohh man i want a corona sooo baddddddly! Dave also got the Sweet Italian Sausages that were on sale BOGO w/a $1 coupon making them 2/$3.55!! When all was said and done our bill came to.... Total=$87.46 Preferred Savings=$42.64 MFG Coupons=$21.10 Store Coupons=$14.10 SAVINGS=$77.84!!!!

Today we went back to Wags so i could get more Soliel refills. I had 3 $3.00 off coupons and 3 $2.00 off Soliel Wags coupons from the Easy Savor making the refills .99 a piece So we bring the basket up to the counter and put it there [usually they start taking your items out of the basket--no biggie]. This chick w/her electric blue eye liner looks in the basket and just stands there like she was highly insulted we didnt take the stuff out of the basket! Then she picks up my coupons i laid on the counter...she starts shuffling threw them w/this disgusted look on her face, but she never said anything. Then she scans all the razors and looks at the coupons again and says "your going to use all these coupons on these razors?" i looked at her and said "YEP!" -- thats totally "legal" cause it was a Manf. & a Store coupon so whats the big deal?! So she just kept scanning. Then she gets to our Might Dog dog food...we had 5 coupons for 1 free can of dog food u...

Well today i saved $41.91!!! I bought: Cover Girl BOGO w/$1 Manf. Gortons Seafood BOGO w/.75 Manf. Glade scented oil candle $2.99 after rebate w/$2 manf. =.99! Glade scented oil fan $2.99 after rebate w/$2 manf. =.99! Glade wisp Flameless candle 2x $3.99 w/$3 manf. =.99 ALSO!!! Scotch tape BOGO Soleil razor refills $3.99 after rebate + $2 coupon in the easy saver [that i for got to use, but will go back cause that would be a money maker] + a $3 off coupon i had! Scott TP $1.99 w/$1 manf. TOTAL OOP:$35.90 you do the math on how much im getting back...i dont feel like it rite now! ha

1st of all today is our 1 year wedding anniversary!!! yaaaay=) ...anyway, today was my apt w/the surgeon for my "hernia" for those of you that dont know about my stupid bump [not the baby bump] last sunday i did some research on what my bump could possibley be. I went on WebMD and 1st words i see are hernia...so i click it. Seeing as how i had a umbiblical hernia w/Kaitlyn i figured it wouldnt be too far off for me to start looking there... So there was like 4-5 different types you can get...1st one was a incisional hernia, which means a hernia is caused from a pervious surgery, which makes since cause i had a fundiplication surgery when i was 16, and one of the laproscopic holes is rite on top of the buldge i have!! So me finding that set my mind at ease so i could stop freaking out thinking it was some massave tumor or something wonderful like that! So i called the next day and made a apt. w/the surgeon who did my last hernia. It only took me a week to get in!!! Which is a ...