Yesterday was a HUGELY productive day in our house. I got 6 loads of laundry + rugs and bed linens washed and hung to dry- saving MAJOR energy! We are really working on that now. Our dryer uses a huge amount of electricity as well as our COMPUTER. So… I am shutting down and only using the laptop unless I am proofing. Our electric bills are getting out of hand and we are trying really hard to reign in the finances.

In the middle of the day we cleaned out the stockpile room! OH MY have I accumulated a lot of stuff for free or cheap. I roughly added in my head and I have barely spent $100 on my stockpile room (with the exception of the diaper deal) and I am totally impressed with it!.
THEN… I had to get dressed (painted hands and all) and run a baby shower gift to our little cousin, Erin, who is having a baby SOON! She is entirely cute and does not even LOOK pregnant! Its just ridiculous how cute she is! I hope to get to take some maternity pics of her in the next week or two before she has the baby! BUT.. I whipped up with DIAPER CAKE and gift basket out of my stockpile in about 30 minutes. Pretty Proud of that too!

THEN, last night, even after spending the entire day ( I am talking 7 am-7 pm) painting and finishing our new kitchen / dining room, Troy and I were determined to make it out to our date night. It had been two weeks since we last went and no matter HOW broke we are we have made the decision to invest in our relationship and do it even if we do nothing but share a coke and fries at McD’s!!!

So… I was craving Red Robin and its right by the Kroger that usually will give me overage so we went to both. I am not a fan of Red Robin’s burgers so I just east fries but I am in LOVE with their ranch! mmm….

At Kroger we needed to round up our Green Giant deal before it went off sale so at 10 pm we rolled out of the store with:

22 packs of Green Giant Vegetables – 10/$10 sale – $1/2 coupons = $0.50 each
10 Banquet Kids meals (for when we are in a rush for lunch during the week) $1 each
1 2 liter of Dr. Pepper – FREE (coupon from an Anonymous blog reader!!!!!!! THANK YOU!)
1 2 liter of Big Red – FREE (coupon leftover – buy 2 eggs and get free big red)
2 dozen eggs
1 jar of PACE picante – FREE ($4 off coupon- this did not work for overage for me but I have so enjoyed cooking with PACE recently that the free jar was good enough for me!)

Our total started out at more than $76 and came down to $27. If my overage would have worked it would have been $25… sigh. That was my goal!

THEN… today, on the way home from church, we like to stop at Wags on the other side of town. They are WAY less picky about the coupons there and already “know” me.

At Wags I got:
6 Scrubbing Bubbles Action Scrubbers – $2/7 – $1 RR – (2) $2.75 IP coupons - $0.25 each. That makes up for the fact that CVS was totally out from DAY ONE of their promotion!
1 Bottle of Dawn – $0.99 with ad coupon – $0.25 PG Coupon = $0.75 (did I tell you how much dawn we use? That little bitty bottle will last us about a week!… yikes)
3 boxes of Velveeta Shells and Cheese -3/$5 in ad coupon
2 packs of leftover Easter Peeps
4 Disney pen things (treats for kids- needed them as filler!)

My out of pocket was : $1.76 + $0.83 + $0.83 = $3.42 and I got $3 back in RR… pretty successful haul if you ask me!

THEN I cooked lunch, salibury steaks, garlic smashed potatoes, mac n cheese, broccoli and biscuits… and now everyone is happy, full and sleeping.

Are you tired yet? I am!

But wait… there’s more… well really this is LAST week’s more! LOL This is part my Walgreens from last week(or maybe even the week before..) but I forgot to post it.

This picture is the combo of CVS and WAGS. At CVS I got:
(2) Raisin Bran -2/$4 – (2) $1/1 MFR Coupons = $1/ box
(1) Softsoap – $3.29 – $3.29 ECBS= FREE
(4) FREE Colgate toothbrushes – $3.99 each – $3.99 in ECBS

At Walgreens I got:
(2) Scunci Hair ties packs – $1.99 each – $1.99 RR = FREE
(1) Edge Shave Gel – $3.29 – $3.29 in RR = FREE (monthly deal on until 4/25)
(3) Colgate Toothbrushes – $3.50 each – $3.50 in RR – $1 /1 MFR coupons = $1 MONEYMAKER EACH = $3 moneymaker total!!!
(3) Kleenex boxes – (forget the math but they came out to $0.79 / box) – Good for us considering every member of our family is currently sick!
(4) Bottle of Excedrin – BOGO- (2) boxes for $4.99 – (2) $2/1 coupons = $0.99 for TWO = $0.49 each!!!
(6) 8×11 Bubble Mailers – $0.69 each- used those for filler to use up my RR and it was a good price PLUS we always need them!

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