Sunday Trip to CVS

Sunday morning seemed to come as a surprise to me.  I went to CVS without a plan to try to get a few things that were on my list with different deals for this week.  I only had $1 ECB to my name and not a clue on how I was going to start.  I didn't have any coupons cut or any plans written down.  That is nothing like my normal weekend but I have had a sick family for two months and I caught the sickness after fighting it off forever so I was lucky to be upright.

There was a Buy $30 P&G products and get $10 ECBs and Buy $15 of John Freida and get $5 ECBs which I couldn't miss.  I did the first transaction with three Pampers diapers and one Pampers wipes and after coupons it was $26.  I got my $10 ECB back which paid for the second transaction of  one John Frieda color foam, one John Frieda Conditioner, 2 bags of M&Ms, a loaf of bread, newspaper, and 2 boxes of Puffs tissues.  The total was $1.53 with tax after all my great coupons including a free hair color.  The great thing is that I also got $6 to spend next week (or whenever the sales are good again).  Hope that you found some good deals at the stores this weekend too :)

Trip to Giant for lunchmeat

I went to Giant this morning to check to see if they had any local papers left with coupons because my husband went earlier in the week and didn't find any.  I decided to look to see if they had any lunchmeat since my husband said that he would really like a ham and cheese sandwich on Monday. 

I was going to pick up 4 pacakages since I had a coupon for $0.75/4.  The Buddig ham was on sale for $0.49 instead of the new price of $0.99 so I went for it and got 8 packages.  After the $0.05 bag credit and two coupons, the total was $0.93.  The cashier said that it was a good deal and I was amazed on how well it worked out!  I wished that I had a few more of those coupons but I used them all up :(  It might be a great sale even without the coupons but check out the receipt below... I saved $7.05!!!

Last Day of the Year Shopping Trip

I was waiting all day to go to Bloom and Harris Teeter to pick up the deals.  Harris Teeter had a Saturday only special with Cheez-Its on sale for $1.77 and Kelloggs Cereal is $1.77 all week.  I stopped there first and got my few items and ran back out the door to the next stop.  My total was $9.89 which was way more then I would normally spend on this but individually they seemed like a good deal.

Today only was super doubles at Bloom so I couldn't let that pass by especially with Tyson's chicken on sale.  My son only wants the "dinosaur bones" to eat now so I picked up three bags and a few others for the rest of the family that were on clearance.  If you have never had chicken parm with the chicken patties, it is the easiest dish on the nights when you are exhusted and it tastes like you slaved all day (okay, not really but at least as hard as that rice krispy treat commerical).  The total was $16.47 for all that and it should last us a little bit.

The monthly budget was blown with my bad planning this month but we came out at $213.33 so it wasn't as bad as other months.  More in another post about the New Years resolution on the budget!  Happy last day of the year!!!!

Black Friday Ads

I don't know if any of you out there shop like my family on Black Friday (and now on Thanksgiving) but http://bfads.net/ has a bunch of the ads already up there to see some of the deals.  I hope that you find some great deals for your family.