Super Savings Saturday!

This weeks CVS finds!

I am not the best at doing "the CVS thing", but I don't do too bad in my opinion. Hopefully ,I get this right. I had a child screaming while I was checking out and my memory is a bit fuzzy as to how this all panned out.

First transaction:

3 Colgate Toothpaste - 2.99 each, used (2)$1 coupons and (1)1.50 coupon. Earned (3)2.99 ECB's. Free plus overage after ecb's!

2 Colgate Toothbrushes - 0.88 each, used (1)1.00 coupon and (1) 0.76 coupon - I don't understand this coupon on my receipt. I know I had another 1.00 coupon. Earned overage after coupons!

1 Clear Care Contact Solution - 7.99, used (1)2.00 coupon. Earned 3 ECB's.

2 Nabisco Cookie pkg (oops! not pictured) - 2/5.00. Earned 2 ECB's.

Then I used a $5/$15 CVS coupon. So I paid $12.43 for $32.39 worth of products. A savings of $19.96!

Second transaction:

1 Palmolive dish soap - 2.50 (part of a 2/$5 deal) Used a 0.40 coupon.

1 Dawn Ultra - 2.50 (part of a 2/$5 deal) Used a 0.50 coupon

1 Irish Spring 3-pk - 0.97. Used a 0.30 coupon.

Birthday card (not pictured - already given away!) - 0.99

Birthday card - 2.59

Birthday card - 3.69

CVS Vaporizer - 13.99

CVS Vapor Steam - 4.29

1 Huggies wipes - 3.49 Used a 1.00 coupon.

Then I used another 5/$15 CVS coupon. I then applied my above earned ECB's to this transaction since it was the costliest. I ended up with a total of 16.47 in CVS coupons to tack onto this. So I paid a total of 12.29 for $39.66 worth of products.

In all I spent 24.72 for $72.05 worth of product! A saving of $47.33!! This makes me happy. I am sure I could've done better, but I am still learning! And I still have a couple of ExtraCare Coupons for online and CVS brand items.

Note: the amount I list as $x.xx worth of products is the amount I would've spent without my CVS card. Get a card, it's worth it!!

What a difference in weather! I was finally able to hang diapers outside yesterday! It was a beautiful day - and guess what, today is cloudy and rainy. It's even supposed to snow tonight and tomorrow. Don't all you midwesterners just love how quickly our weather changes?

Baby has a cold and she is due for her shots. Still debating if I really want to bring her in for those tomorrow. This is the round of vacs that made her not feel good the last time. We use Dr. Sears alternative schedule to vac her. Anybody else do this also? The lady at the health dept. really gives me a hard time over this schedule. But, they only cost $8 there so that's why we go there for them.

This is what we woke up to yesterday. I guess old man winter is still trying to hang on. It did melt away fairly quickly. Today is yucky - windy, cloudy, rainy. Blah!

Little girl had her 6 month checkup today. She is off the charts for her height. Everything looks good for her development. Yay!

Today I am working on chicken. I boiled up a bunch of parts and then seperated the pieces from the stock. After that I refrigerated everything. Yesterday I skimmed the fat off the top of the stock. Then I ladled the jelled stock into containers to freeze. All together I have about 100 ounces of stock in the freezer. So today I will pull all the meat off the bones and bag it and freeze it for future meals. Sounds like alot of work, but I bought the chicken for $0.49/lb and to me that's worth it. It stretches the budget and makes for healthier stock and chicken.

Still waiting for Spring

I am eagerly awaiting for Spring to truly arrive so I can use my outdoor clothesline. There it sits, waiting for that perfect day to dry my laundry. It looks so lonely. The calendar says Spring, but the air does not. Sigh.