Things are finally slowing down!

The last couple weeks have been crazy over at our house.  Last week was Finals Week...very fun.  Then we had our son's birthday party on Saturday, and I have been trying to get laundry and other household things organized, all the while constructing our new house...whew! Anyway, I will now have more time to focus on the blog, couponing, and shopping! 

I attempted to go to Walmart today for a few deals.  I had all 3 of my daughters with me and apparently I thought that right before naptime was the perfect time to go.  Our 2-year-old was having mini-meltdowns and the 3-year-old (who is allowed to walk because the baby and the other one take up the basket) had to touch EVERYTHING! I managed to pick up the few things that I needed though.

Walmart 5/24

I bought:

1 Carefree panty-liner

1 4lb bag of Iams dog food

1 Lipton onion soup mix

1 bag of Goldfish

1 bottle of KY Jelly :p

1 travel size Secret Deoderant

1 mirror/brush combo thingy that my daughter wanted

   I used:

     1 Free Carefree

     $8/1 Iams dog food (This gave me $2.02 in overage)

     $3/1 KY Jelly (This gave me $0.33 in overage)

     $1/1 Secret Deoderant ($0.03 in overage)

The only things that I "paid" for were the Goldfish and the Lipton!

I paid $2.89 for everything. 

A few months ago if I was able to get all of this stuff for under $3 including tax, I would have been thrilled! I am very happy with what I did today, but now that I have been getting so much for so little...spending more than $2 at a store kind of freaks me out lol

I am so happy that I started couponing!! I love a challenge and now I always want to out-do myself!!!

This was a good opportunity to have Walmart "pay" me to shop...I almost wanted to wait and do it without kiddos.  I was going to leave out the Lipton and the other stuff I didn't have a coupon for, but I didn't want to have an issue with receiving money back.  I have their coupon policy handy of course, but I have ran into smaller issues than this before and didn't want to take the chance with crying kids.

CVS 5/11

I bought...

(2) Colgate Max @$2.77ea (Raincheck from last week) +$2.77 ECB each! free toothpaste, and I made $1.50 on both!

     Used (2) .75/1 Colgate Max

(2) Carefree @$0.99ea

     Used (2) FREE Carefree

(2) Covergirl Lip Stain @$6 ea + $3 ECB when you spend $10 on Covergirl

     Used (1) $2.50/2 Covergirl products

(3) Oral-B Advantage toothbrushes @$2.50ea

     Used (3) $1.50/1 Oral-B Manual TB

Used $5/$25 CVS purchase (emailed)

         $3/$10 makeup purchase (from the CVS coupon machine)

         $7.98 ECB (extra care bucks)

I paid $.54 before tax...$2.03 total!

And I received $14 ECB

I should have been given $5.54 ECB but the manager didn't feel like doing the math so he just gave me $6! And for every $50 you spend on beauty products you get $5 ECB and my purchase today put me up to my $50 total.

Walmart 5/10

First off, yesterday was Mexico's Mother's Day...Happy Mexican Mother's Day! I am so glad that I get 2 Mother's Days every year thanks to my beautiful babies ;)

I went to Walmart last night to take advantage of a couple freebies...I went in mainly for the Carefree liners.  I always walk down the laundry/dish aisle because let's face it...I am a dork and I love soap of any kind. I stumbled upon some travel size Cascade dishwasher tabs!! I just happened to have $1 ANY Cascade coupons that I had been saving for a sale. 

Here is what I bought:

(4) Carefree 20 ct liners @ $0.94 each

(4) Cascade Travel Dishwasher tabs @ $0.97 each

(1) Clorox GreenWorks dish soap @$2.57

The coupons I used:

(4) FREE Carefree liners up to $1 (from the 5/8 paper)

(4) $1/Any Cascade (P&G booklet)

(1) $1/Any Clorox GreenWorks dish (Peelie: a coupon that is attached to a product)

OOP (Out of Pocket) = $1.45+tax!

Not too bad! We needed the dish soap and that is the only reason I paid more than $1 for it, but at least I had a coupon! 

I would like to point out that without the dish soap, I would have only paid tax! Walmart also implemented a new coupon policy: If the coupon has a higher value than the purchased product, the remaining balance will be applied to the rest of the transaction...Fancy talk for: they will PAY you :) Since the Cascades were only .97, I had .03 extra for each one. This .12 was applied to my tax!

I will post my picture up later. Shopping trips and savings are way more exciting when pictures are involved :)

I am heading to CVS later and will post that trip/pic later on this evening as well.

HAPPY SHOPPING!