It's hard being an Elf

So I will be taking a temporary leave of the couponing world.....ok maybe not totally because they go with me everywhere just in case. However there will be no hard core planned couponing trips. It is that time of the year where I have teamed up with Santa to make Christmas magical!! So I will be unavailable for a couple weeks. I am however going to be showing Santa some couponing tips and tricks to better stretch his dollar this Christmas season. So I hope all of you have a great Christmas and that you are on the nice list!!

See ya next year!!

New Week, New Savings

Hello savers!! Last week I did some shopping at CVS I purchased a Box of pampers, contact solution, 4bottles of dawn dish det, downy unstopables, and a lysol auto pump hand soap dispenser. I spent for these items a total of $31.50 a retail value of around $60. So this is how i did it....my first purchase consisted of the 4bottles of dawn and the lysol pump. The dawn was on sale for $.99 and I had 2 coupons for $.50 and 2 coupons for $.25 the lysol pump was on sale for $10 with $5 extra bucks back and I had a $3 coupon. My second purchase was the box of pampers which had been reduced to $18 and I had a $2 coupon I then used my $5 extra bucks earned from the lysol pump and I had also earned $1 extra buck from using my green bag tag. Third purchase was the contact solution for $9 and you earned $8.99 in extra bucks so essentially you got it for FREE!! The fourth and final purchase was the downy unstopables, which if you ever have used in your laundry you become addicted because they are WONDERFUL!!! Anyways the downy retails for $8 and I had a $2 coupon and I used my $8.99 extra bucks....I then HAD to purchase some candy to make up for the difference and the candy was buy 2 get 1. I ended up paying $.63 for the candy and the downy....WHOOHOO. So here is the kicker after this we were on our way to pick up some chinese food and waaa waaa waaa...we got a flat tire.....BOOOO. BUT at least we got our downy for free!!

I haven't scooped out the savings for this week yet, I have been too busy working on Christmas gifts. It's hard helping Santa!!

Have a great week with lots of savings!!

I'm Not There Yet.....

So i have been super saving it up this past week.....it is such a rush when you can save on the things that you are actually needing. Now I am no Extremer but one day I too may have 70 separate transactions with 4 hours in checkout paying only $.50 for my whole order.....OK probably not.

So my super saving adventure started this past sat at Walgreens and CVS..........

OK so that is a post that I started mid October and then went on vaca for a couple of weeks and didn't get to finish it. However it would of been a good one....oh well. If you are still checking my blog thank you I know that I have not been as good at posting but just keep checking.

I went last week to Harris Teeter to do some heavy grocery shopping since we had been gone for so long and we had no food. They had a lot of good deals and I had good bunch of coupons, anyway I ended up saving $101 and spent $150. It was a good haul I am hoping to go again either today or tomorrow for some more good deals. I don't know if you checked your sale flyers this week for CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, etc. but they have some good deals going on pre black friday. Hope you have a good week of saving and for those black friday shoppers GOOD LUCK!!!!!

Thanks for checking in

Happy Saving

Guilty

Ok so it has been awhile since my last post....so sorry!! I have been laying low in the coupon world. The last couponing I did was at Harris Teeter for triple coupons a couple weeks ago. It wasn't major savings but it was good enough.

So I just watched last weeks extreme couponing on TLC and it still blows my mind. I think I am just not as dedicated as these extremers. I LOVE to save money BUT to dedicate multiple multiple hours preparing and then shopping and then don't get me started on checkout time, it's just not in the cards for me. I also have a small child that goes shopping with me and if I spent that much time in the store it would get ugly. So I am looking forward to tonights extreme couponing episode the DVR is set and I am ready.

This past weeks newspaper was stacked full of coupons I love the first Sunday paper of the month it always has good coupons!! So I have been preparing for my next shopping trip I am hoping for big savings and cupboards full of food.

Have a great week of saving and thank you for continuing to check out this tiny lil blog of mine!!

Match It!!

We have all seen the Wal-Mart commercials where they will match the price Without the ad and it just looks so easy.....Sure!! So I went with NO ads but had looked up online different ads to test this out. Walgreens had there new Huggies slip on diapers for $8.99 and Harris Teeter had there campbell soup for $1 a can. With my vast knowledge and some coupons in hand I headed up to the register I held back those specific items till the end to let them know that they needed to be Price Matched. So I let her (the cashier) .know of the prices and where and she asked if I had the flyers...of course I didn't because HELLO the commercials said you don't need them. So she had to go on a hunt to find the flyers to make sure that my prices were accurate.....hum I don't recall that happening on TV. Anyways after the long search she indeed found that I was correct.DUH. The plus side of this is I got the diapers for $3.99 a pack because I had them match a price and I had $5 in coupons to use for each pack. So they will match BUT it is not as easy as they make it look on the commercials.

So IT'S BACK......Extreme Coupons on TLC. It premiers tonight I can't wait to see what antics these crazy ladies pull out. Big Night...I don't know which is more pathetic the fact that this is what my life has come to or the fact that in a small way I am one of these crazy ladies??

On and end note yesterday was a great Sunday Coupon day. Which totally made up for last week not having any coupons. I am slighly behind on clipping and organizing my coupon pile but I have scanned them and am ready to go save.

Have a Great Week and Happy Saving

Is this week over YET

Ok so first things first there are NO I repeat NO COUPONS in tomorrows papers. So don't bother getting the paper...I mean if you only get them for the coupons, if you are one of those people that enjoy what is going on in the world then forge ahead!!

So I had a sick little boy...funny i said HAD I mean Have a sick little boy and it has been snot city here all week. So not much couponing got done this week, which I don't think I missed much....at least I would like to think that so I don't feel coupon anxiety!!

On the Up Side last weeks Sunday paper was chalked full of coupon inserts. So that was excited, I have yet to actually organize mine but what I saw at a glance looked promising.

So a little tip if you go on Southern Savers (link at top) you can see a coupon preview for the upcoming week. I like to take a look so I don't waste time or money on yucky or non existing coupons. I know what you are thinking YUCKY COUPONS....well it's true some are ala poo poo, just my opinion.

Hope you have had a good week and have a great week coming up

Happy Saving

Success!!

Asher and I hit up Harris Teeter today for there super Buy 2 Get 3 Deals!! So we got some craisins, coke and juice buy 2 get 3 FREE!! We also got some Cheerios for $.97 a box WHOO HOO. I think the best purchase was 1lb of hamburger meat for.......drum roll please....$.48 oh yes you are reading it right. I had a harris teeter coupon for 2.00off a package of either hamburger, chicken, or tuna compliments of hamburger helper. Harris Teeter had some of the packages marked down and bada bing there you have it.....$.48. It was a good shopping trip we ended up saving around $68.

So have any of you had any GREAT DEALS this week??