Yay for deals!

So couponing is definitely not an easy, simple or fast way of shopping, BUT if you have time it is TOTALLY worth your while! I subscribe to various couponing blogs through Facebook and I plan plan plan all my shopping trips. Today my plan was CVS, Target, Publix and Save-A-Lot...

CVS:
Started my trip with $15 ECB's from last week...

Pepsi 12 pks-- 3/ $10... spend $20 get $10 back in ECB's = six 12 pks for $10
Blink Tears eye drops $8... get $4 back in ECB's ( I have a $4 coupon) = FREE
I am totally not a random shopper, BUT their Xmas stuff went 75% off, so I bought a bunch of stuff ;) and they had a cute spatula/ spoon set which I am desperate for, and it was cheap....

TOTAL: After my coupons and EBC's I paid $17, but I got back $14 ECB's to use next week... so technically only $3!!

Target:

needed lightbulbs.... marked at 80 cents, rang up as 49 cents
Johnson and Johnson mini travel first aid kits 97 cents (coupon, but 2 get $1.50 off)
Checked the sale racks, found dog treats for $2 (coupon for $1 off)

PLUS, I used my red card (a Target debit that gives me 5% off every purchase)
TOTAL: 36 cents

Publix:

Welch's Essentail's Juice BOGO (two coupons for $1 off one)
Goldfish (were on sale for $1, Kenzie wanted them)

TOTAL: $2

Save-A-Lot:

whole chickens on sale for 89 cents per pound
celery 79 cents
some kind of istant noodles, on sale for 49 cents (had a coupon for 50 cents off)
... don't remember my total... I picked up a few lunch things for Joe too-- no coupons :(

So I LOVE coupons!

Planning on going to Winn-Dixie tomorrow... their Ken's dressing is Bogo and I have two coupons and their strawberries are BOGO....

I will post pictures one day of my insane coupon binder!

No class tomorrow because of Martin Luther King Jr day... going to take the time to get all my reading for school finished. Kenzie still has school, so I will be glad for some quiet time to get some work done. I have a meeting with the Easter Seals organization on Thursday for orientation for my service learning... I am very excited. I will be working with children with special needs that are Kenzie's age... with her disabilities I feel like I have a leg up, and I am so glad to be able to see some of the tools they implement in the classroom that I could possible do at home!
I am so going to love school this semester! I am waiting to hear back for my Junior Achievement.... it is like a mini- internship this semester... hoping to get into the middle school right around the corner from my house!!!!

Ok, time to get my kids too bed, I have no idea how she gets so much energy!!!! She is pretendig our bed is a train and telling everyone to get "All Abord" ;)

Night Night!!!