Mac Daddy of All Deals!

OK, so I normally never figure out how to post these deals.  But for this one, I figured it out!  i haven’t bargain shopped in a while because I just have not had the time to organize all my coupons and figure it all out.  Well, this morning I did it!  And boy did it pay off!  I did 3 seperate transaction, really just to make it a little easier on me.  Ready for the numbers?  You better sit down…I got $175 worth of stuff for $50.00!  That’s a 70% savings!  Here is how I did it:

First order

I bought one lysol nuetra air and used a $5.00 off coupon from the paper.  I bought 2 glade plug in scented oil warmers with a B1G1 free coupon.  I also bought 2 glade scented gel warmers and 1 glade flameless candle, I used a $5.00 coupon for this.  My subtotal was 32.49.  Minus my 2-$5.00 couons and my $4.49 b1G1 free coupon and this brought my total to $18.00.  Then after paying you get 4-$2.00 off your next transaction and 1-$4.00 off your next transaction coupon.  (Now there is a B1G1 coupon for the gel warmers, I just did not have it)

 

Next transaction:

This may be the most confusing one so I will try to make it as easy as possible.  First I am going to start with the deal Kroger has now.  By 15 selected items and instantly get $3.00 off your transaction.  Here are the 15 items I got-4 cans of Chicken Noodle Soup, 2-V-8  V-Fusions, 4-Betty Crocker fruit snacks, 1-Cottonelle toilet paper, 1-chex mix, and 3-General Mills cereals.  I also then added 2 airwick freshmatic air freshners, 2 bags of sunmaid raisins, 1-lysol nutra air kit, 1-box town house crackers, 1-large container coffee mate creamer, 1-tube aquafresh toothpaste, 1-bottle  of Nature’s H20 water.  My subtotal was $71.05.  I used my coupons earned from the above transaction 1-$4.00 off and 4-$2.00 off.  I then used a $.50 coupon for the chex mix, then a $.50 coupon for fruit snacks, then a $1.00 fruit snack coupon, then $1.50 cereal coupon, then a $.40 coupon for the soup, then a $1.00 couon for the V-8, then a $.50 coupon for the toliet paper, then$.50 coupon for the toothpaste, then a $1.00 coupon for the raisins.  Then a $5.00 coupon for the Lysol airfreshner, and then a B1G1 free coupon for the airwick freshners ($10.19) and then a coupon for free coffeemate for $3.35 and a free coupon for water $1.29.  WOW!  That brought my total to $29.61 a 74% total savings on this order.

 

My last order:

We needed milk and I had a $1.00 off coupon, add in 2 more Lysols with a $5.00 coupon for each.  This brought my subtotal from $18.36 down to $7.36, an 80% savings! 

 

So, there you have it.  My morning and my “mac daddy of all deals!”  Now I will have to give a shout out to my sister Rachel for helping me with my deals and between us we had 4 kids!  Glad she brought the goldfish!

Knock, Knock

“Unannounced visits”  Do you make them?  If we are in your neighborhood, my husband would love to just pop in for a quick visit.  I, on the other hand, insist that we must call first.  But why, I love for people to just drop in to visit us.  I just think times are different.  Family time is so cherished now and I would never want to feel like I interrupted someone else’s.  What are you thoughts?  Be careful what you write, we may pop in if you give us the ok!

Boy vs. Girl >>> 20 years

OK, OK, so the picture is a little big, but it will work!  

Can I just start out by saying we serve a big God!  A God who is so “in tune” with us.  He knows exactly how to reach us, especially those of us with small children.  He uses them!  I am eager to hear His voice and recognize it!  Well yesterday I was in Wal-Mart of all places.  Not only was I able to hear Him speak to me through a child, luckily not mine, (you’ll understand why in a minute!) but I was actually able to “get” the lesson!  Now come along with me to Wal-Mart…  I rushed in, picked up what I needed and was heading for the exit when I noticed a little girl about 6.  Her mom was a little bit in front of her, missing the ENTIRE thing!  I notice the girl stops to look at the lastest movie being released, “Barbie and the Diamond Castle.”  Have you seen the posters by the doors?  You know the ones, they are giant size and they cover the security bars.  Well, as the little girl stands in awe of the poster, she begins kissing, yes I said kissing, all of the barbies and the little dogs.  Now not only is she just kissing them, she has her arms spread wide open as if they are embracing her.  She is completly consumed with this poster!  I hit me right then…wow, little girls are SO different than little boys.  And there it was, the lesson in all of this.  Take the same differences and add 20 years.  Ding Ding…there still there!  Why is it that I can so easily see the differences between two children of different sexes, but yet when it comes to adults, I have such a problem.  What I think is so cute in a child is expected to just diminish away??  God has taught me something today.  And I am so thankful that I heard his whisper!  So, let me challenge you to embrace the differences between the male and the female.  After all, God has created us each for a purpose.  

 

WHO YA WITH? VU!!!

OK, so it was a GREAT night!  We were so pumped about the game last night.  As I was trying to find us black t-shirts for the game last night (they announced last minute it was going to be a black out) their was a weird frenzy in the air.  Well…weird for vanderbilt.  There were actually lots of people in the mall sporting the VU gear!  The atmosphere was fun!  I know a lot of other teams experience this every week, but for a vandy fan, this is not the norm.  We just kinda, don’t have expectations.  This way were are never disappointed.  Even last night, we don’t claim victory until the clock is a 0:00!  I don’t care if we are 3 touchdowns up!  You just don’t do that as a Vandy fan.  But last night, as we were televised on ESPN, it was a diffrent kinda Vandy, a good kind of Vandy!  The fans cheered like they had never cheered.  As I left the stadium and got in my car, my head was pounding!  This is so not normal!  Normally you can shout to someone across the field and they can hear you!  We had a great time last night and are really pumped for our team.  Not to mention that the “other” local team ummm… HAS A LOSING RECORD!!!!!!!  And they ARE expected to win, their fans not only expect it, they demand it!  I am just going to sit back and enjoy this win for a little while.  And our “better that UT” record!  GO DORES!!!  Oh, and by the way did you see us on ESPN?  We were there, in the crowd shots!  Do any of you fans from, “that other team” ever see yourself on national TV in your stadium???