Shopping, Shopping and more Shopping on 1/28

My son and I were spending the teacher workday together with a quick trip to the foot doctor for me followed by a long day at the Play N Learn location in Chantilly (for those of you around NOVA and MD, well worth the trip to check it out).  This is what it looks like there:

This is the first time that my son has wanted to try out the trampolines and he had a blast.  He didn't want to get off them but he did go back and forth from one to another.  We were there for over 2 hours.  I normally let him stay at least 3 hours but we had to do some other stuff after and I knew that he was exhausted.  I was kind of afraid to put him in the car at all because I thought that he was going to fall asleep and I wasn't going to get anything done.  Luckily, we made it through everything!!! Here are the spoils:

First stop was the new Aldi's!!!!  I checked my wallet before getting out of the car to see how much cash I had and I saw that I had $31.  I drove past it on the way to the play place and I didn't think that it was open yet but I thought that we would drop in and check it out because even if it wasn't open yet, it might have a sign on when it was going to be open.  Ummm,  I was super excited because it was open.  I grabbed my bags and headed in. 

We got chips, saltine crackers, and pretzels which were all very important per my son.  Then,  I checked the next aisle with flour and baking goods but nothing tempted me enough to pick it up.  I did make note of a few prices and I know that I am going to be going back there to get some stuff soon.  After that aisle, something drew me into the meat section at the end of the store even though I had already walked past it.  They still had the chicken from the Wednesday meat special!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Goodness!!!!  I grabbed three packages and we headed to the check out because I knew that I couldn't carry any more.  Lucky that I did because my total was $29.85 so I wouldn't have had enough to get much more and I walked out with only $1.15 in my pocket.  I did drive past my bank in the parking lot.  I really should have pulled in and gotten out money to buy the rest of the chicken in the store but I wasn't thinking clearly because there were so many other things to get.  We started eating the pretzels as soon as we got in the cars.  (pictured on the left)

Total OOP $29.85

Next stop on the list was Wegman's.  I was planning on buying Saltine crackers which I just got at Aldi's so I needed to get the Wegman's Mac and Cheese and the Gerber purple bananas for my son.  We checked on the Gerber aisle and they only had 7 purple bananas and my coupon was for 8, plus they had a higher price than Walmart so I didn't get any.  We compromised by getting 8 boxes of mac and cheese instead. 

I also wanted to check to see if the flour was still on sale.  I didn't make it there in time for the $0.99 flour which I should have gone there immediately and bought everything that had because it was a great deal and my stock up price.  I go through almost 5 pounds in a month of regular flour and we are very low but they were $1.99 so I didn't get any.

On the way out, my little man decided that he needed frozen pancakes too so we stopped and got those too.  I tried to get him to go with the cinnamon toast waffles (because they were cheaper) but he really wanted the pancakes.  Little did I remember that we still don't have a microwave to cook them so we had to put them in the toaster oven.  They ended up being okay, thank goodness. (pictured on right)

Total OOP $5.55

Total Savings $1.28

Last stop was at Walmart to get the Gerber purple bananas and turkey lunch meat.  I forgot about the lunch meat until we got in the store and I realized that I left the coupon in the car.  They only had 6 purple bananas there so we took what they had and checked out.  I also looked for the South Beach bars since I had two coupons and I couldn't find them so I gave up. (pictured in center)

Total OOP $6.03

We put the purple bananas in the car and grabbed our reusable bags and turkey coupon.  Back into the store again to grab turkey lunch meat.  On my way there, I passed a few coupons for pizza so I decided that was my message to buy a Red Baron pizza with the coupon.  We went to the cash register to pay for the two items with our two coupons. (pictured in center)

Total OOP $5.13

It was a long day but our many stops were well worth it.  It shot my monthly total up a lot but I got a bunch of things that I needed for the month.  Now, I just have lots of chicken to cut up for the freezer.