Dollar General Run.....

So tonight I hit the Dollar General in Puckett. Don't judge! I have become quiet fond of the Dollar General. So fond that I went there earlier in the week to pick of the few grocery items that we needed for the rest of the week. I cant handle wal-mart anymore. I'm getting to old!

Before I went I checked our inventory to see what we needed & then I looked over my coupons to see what I had. I so felt like my great grandmother. Bless her little ole heart, I have a few childhood memories of going to the grocery store with her. She had this coupon organizer envelop and wouldn't buy an item if she didn't have a coupon for it. Seriously! One day she kept getting her coupons mixed up for items she already had in her buggy versus the coupons for items that she still needed to put in her buggy. She would take a couple of steps & stop, take a couple of steps & stop. With every stop she kept getting more & more frustrated! I finally asked if I took the coupons from her for the items that she already had in her basket and she yelled "NO, I will hold them" and snatched them out of my hand. Yes, she SNATCHED them out of my hand. She was a little pistol! Anyway, I got WAY of course there, but I planned the items out that I was going to get to help save time when I got in the store. It did help that I went ALONE so I didn't have to constantly say "No Raylee, Sit down, Please don't throw that out of the buggy"....etc..... I followed in the steps of my great grandmother and every item that I purchased I had a coupon for. If yall come over to my house and see little things wrapped up in paper towels & rubber bands please stage an intervention and FAST!!!!!

These are the items that I got.

It doesn't look like much until you start adding up what the regular prices are!

I had (2) $5 off a $25 purchase coupons that I had gotten from an earlier purchase in the week. To use both coupons I split the items up into 2 transactions so that each one totaled at leasat $25 .

Transaction #1

Crest Toothpaste $3.25 $1.00 coupon
Huggies Wipes $2.50 .75 coupon
Huggies Diapers $10.00 $3.00 coupon
Angel Soft Toilet Paper $6.50 .50 coupon
Frebreze Fabric Freshener $5.00 .75 coupon

$5.00 off $25 purchase

Total in products: $27.25

Total in coupons: $11.00

Total out of pocket: $16.25


Transaction #2

Clorox Wipes $2.50 .35 coupon
Clorox Toilet Cleaner $2.00 $1.50 coupon
Febreeze Spray $2.75 $1.00 coupon
Glad Trash Bags $5.00 .75 coupon
Tide w/Febreeze $6.00 $2.00 coupon
Cover Girl Eyeliner $3.50 $1.00 coupon
Cover Girl Mascara $4.75 $1.00 coupon

Total in products: $26.50

Total Amount in Coupons: $12.60

Total out of pocket: $13.90


Grand Total out of pocket: $30.15

Grand Total Saved: $23.60 That is a 44% SAVINGS!!!!!!

CVS Deal!

ok, first of all I made me up a little notebook that I organize and keep all of my coupons in. I cant tell you how many odd looks & stares I get from people in the stores, not to mention the jokes and laughs I get from my brother & husband, when they see me with my book. It is the only way I have found to keep them organized and not look like a fumbling idiot with coupons flying everywhere while in the store.

Billy use to make SO much fun of me until he realized how much money we were actually saving by doing it. He wasn't laughing last time I went grocery shopping & saved $40 off of my grocery bill and he sure wasn't laughing last night when I got TWO packs of pull ups & TWO packs of wipes for FREE!!! It takes time & patience, which most of the time I am short on, but in the end it pays off!!! In a weird kind of way it is like a game to me & finding the best deal & the lower price is like putting a puzzle together. Yeah I know, I'm weird!!!

Anyway, this is my binder

Yes folks, that is a calculator and it quiet handy!!

I went to hobby lobby & bought a huge pack of baseball trading cards to file my coupons in. I separated them & filed them according to different categories such as, frozen stuff, baby stuff, house hold items, hygiene items...etc. It is much easier to flip to the section of my book when I am in that section in the store to see what coupons I have.

This are my transactions that I did in the CVS:

Transaction #1

1 pack of Pull ups, on sale for $9.49

1 tub of wipes, $3.49

1 purchase for a Christmas present $14.99

Total: $29.93 (w/tax)

-$5 off $25 purchase CVS coupon (from scanning my CVS card in the front of the store)

-$3 off Huggies diapers CVS coupon that was mailed to me

-1.50 off Huggies wipes CVS coupon that was mailed to me

-$2.50 off Huggies diapers manufacture coupon I got off of the Internet

-$1.50 off Huggies wipes manufacture coupon I got off of the Internet

New total is: $14.47 + tax = $16.08 out of pocket

Savings of:$13.85

which means that the pull ups & wipes were FREE!!!!! All I had to pay for was the Christmas present, which I was going to have to buy anyway and it was on sale for $5 cheaper than walmart!!!!

I ended up doing the same thing for transaction #2. I got a CVS card in Billy's name so I get double the coupons.... Shhhh don't tell ;)

All in all I had a total savings of $27.70!!!

I wish I could afford to put all of the money that I save by price matching & using coupons in a separate banking account for a full year just to see how much I saved. Who knows, Maybe that will be my "new years resolution" and I can start it in January. We will have to see......

Halloween 2010

This year for Halloween we met Natalie, Steven and Abby in town to trick or treat. In the past couple of years we have been disappointed because a lot of people in neighborhoods do not participate in trick or treating but this year we finally found one that did!!!! I was so excited because as a child I always loved going from house to house and seeing all of the decorations and I was afraid that trick or treating was being faded out.

I was kind of worried about taking Raylee because she had not had a nap and we would be away from home, but she LOVED it!!! She had so much fun! She was telling the people trick or treat & thank you & even yelled "GO STATE" to a few. She really made mama proud!!!! Hopefully next year we will have just as much fun!!!

1st stop....Auntie A & Uncle Kyle's house!!!!!

Look at those pretty girls :)

Daddy's Lamb

Mommy FINALLY gets a picture with the princess

They must have been talking about me......

On the way to eat dinner and oh so tired! So tired that she sat there the ENTIRE meal with NO

meltdowns....... A MIRACLE.......

Leaving out of the neighborhood waving and screaming "HEY" to fellow trick or treaters like she is

Ms America......

Sweet Abby

Sooooo stinking cute!

Abby is normally shy but she and Raylee just clicked and

were instant BFF's

Mommies & their girls......

Barley making it but to independent to be held. She was almost

dragging her pumpkin and I asked several times if I could

hold it and she yelled, "NO"! Then Natalie asked and she let

her. Go figure....

Family picture! Supporting out Maroon & White!

Oh & one of the house we went to the people were watching the

STATE game & Raylee saw it & yelled "GO STATE"!

Getting "canny"

Two peas in a pod