Just a little about our month....
Have you ever seen a girl that is 44 inches tall ride a 12 inch bike?
NO....?
Well, you won't see it around here either!
I decided to get Brooklyn a new bike...
ESPECIALLY since she has TOTALLY outgrown her other one.
She is a little intimidated by this new one.
I totally skipped over the 16 inch and got the 18 inch one.
She needed it....
The other one is SO SMALL for her now.
But it will be great for Brison next year...or by the end of this summer....maybe.
We'll just have to spray paint it blue or something...
gotta get rid of the pink!
She was so excited for her helmet too!
It's also that time of year for Brian a.k.a. "green thumb" to get to work
growing his massive flower garden.
We (oh who am I kidding...)
HE decided to buy seeds at $1.00 a package for like 50 seeds
rather than $4.99 for 4 plants....he's so frugal!
Speaking of frugal:
Guess how much all this cost me!
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If you guess $2.23 in cash with a $5.00 gift card left over....you are
CORRECT!
I decided at the first of the year that I was going to try and use coupons to my advantage.
Gotta figure out a way to save money and build up our food storage...
besides, in case you haven't noticed...we are in the middle of a recession!
Anyway...with lots of patience and web surfing...I was able to score all this stuff!
Just an example:
The razors were on sale for $7.00 and if you bought 2 you got a $5.00 gift card to Target.
I then had 2/$4.00 coupons that I used towards the razors which made them
$6.00 for 2...and then with the gift cards...they were $.50 cents each!
I had $20.00 in Target gift cards from previous perscription filling incentives...
so it was a great deal!
The site that I love to "stalk" is
She does a great job of updating ALL DAY LONG
(how does she do it?)
and listing all the good deals.
It has taken about 2/3 months for my coupons to stack up enough to get these deals
and I get 5 papers every sunday...but with the amount of money I saved on just this trip...
it paid for the monthly subscription.
Anyway...if you have any other questions about that, you can sure ask!
Oh....and remember the naked bum?....
Well,
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It's covered now.
He's done.
He's trained.
He's not had more than 5 accidents.
He's such a cute kid!
and he's SO obsessed with CARS!
What have I created?
5 comments:
Hooray for saving!
Hooray for potty training!
Hooray for new bikes!
OK, I'm done with Hoorays! But I meant each one.
Nice job on the couponing! ( I think that is a word) I did it for a while, but the part that drove me crazy was having all of the papers stacking up. Plus, I have some thoroughness OCD issues that make me want to read the paper from cover to cover, which I didn't have time for.
But I keep thinking I'll jump back in....
Maybe you've inspired me!
Nice bum...where ya from??
Yay! :) Way to go buddy and horray for mom! I LOVE the couponing! Isn't it crazy what you can buy with a little work at learning about those coupons! I wish we had a Target!
**Nice to see some updates....I actually think I posted more than you did for once. ( I was taking your advice you know.....)
ok - times to share the potty-training secrets! Is it the Cars underwears?
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