My shopping trip 10/17

Alright ladies just got home from all of my shopping today. The kids have been off of school this week and I DID NOT want to take them shopping with me. I hit up 4 stores, Target, Walgreens, Safeway, and CVS.
Target
6 Ortega Taco Shells- .63 a piece
2 M&M- 1.50 a piece
4 Chef Michael Dog food bags- .26 a piece
= $8.84

Walgreens
1 Vitamin Lotion
1 Chapstick
2 cream chicken soup
= $1.37
spent $10RR and got back $10RR :)

Safeway
15 Macaroni cheese- .33 a piece
2 milk- 1.37 a piece
6 Dial Hand Soap- free
Febreze Noticable- free
2 Bacon-1.63 each
1 Deli Meat- 1.50
=$13.46

CVS
2 Kashi Cereal- free
2 Neosporin Lip Care- free
=.47 in tax

So I spent a total of $24.14. So awesome! Kayla is so excited that I bought Macaroni and Cheese that she is making it right now all by herself.

Old Navy, Anniversary, Birthday

Look what I WON! Every Thursday Old Navy updates their site and hides coupons ranging from 15% off an item to the mack daddy of them all $75 off your purchase of $100 or more! The $75 coupon is incredibly hard to get, once the site resets sometime on Thursday the $75 coupon is gone within 30 seconds so you have to be super fast and find it right away! I just got really really lucky. I probably screamed at the top of my lungs for 10 minutes because I was so excited. Jared came home right after I had won and thought I had won something better than $75 bucks by the way I was jumping up and down and screaming "I won"! Dang, if I ever won the lottery I would probably pass out. I tried yesterday and was too slow, I had a chance for the $50 off the $100 coupon but didn't find it in time. :(

So here is what we ended up buying at Old Navy this week.... Kayla got a dress, a pink shirt, and a pair of brown pants. Elizabeth got the plaid skirt and two undershirts. Blake got two shirts, two pairs of pants, and not pictured a tractor trailer toy. I only paid $26!!!



Last week was also our 11th Anniversary and Jared's 30th birthday. Jared and I left the kids with Grandma and Grandpa Dutton and drove to North Scottsdale to stay at the 5 star Fairmont Princess. Wow! It was truly beautiful and romantic, we have never stayed anywhere remotely as nice as this place. After our dinner fiasco last year for our anniversary and paying over $100 for 1 steak! we decided to go to Outback for dinner and get a good dinner for under $50 bucks, it was really yummy.
Jared's birthday was on Sunday and we celebrated with his family at his sister Angie's house. They made homemade chili and cornbread which was really good. We also played poor little black cat and fruit basket tip over. It was a really nice weekend and are so blessed to have family around that we can share our many experiences with.

Ferris Wheel!

This weekend the kids school had a carnival.... Since this is our first year at this school we were pretty excited about it, it sounded really awesome. The school was advertising how there was even going to be a Ferris Wheel! Wow, that is so cool..... So here is a video of Blake riding the Ferris Wheel all by himself! Wow, what a big boy!

A little bit of South

This picture is for my two sister in-laws who have brought a little "south" into our lives. He he he. :) j/k Liz.

Alright I really am not going to blog about every shopping trip but I had to tell about this one, it even surprised me! Now the trick to this deal was e-coupons (cellfire and shortcuts). These sites let you upload coupons to your shopping card. Apparently I had more e-coupons on my card than I remembered.


This deal was at Safeway and if you bought 4 of the participating products it would subtract $4 from your total (making everything before coupons $1.50). Plus when you bought 4 products you receive a free box a capri sun.

1 Cocoa Puffs - ecoupon cellfire .75, ecpn shortcuts .75 = free
1 Cin Toast Crunch- .55 cpn doubled to $1= .50
2 Trix- ecpn .55, 2 .55cpn doubled to $1= .45 for 2 boxes
4 Nut Clusters- ecpn $1, $1, .40, .40. then I had 3 $1 off cpns= .20 for 4 bags
2 Capri Suns= free with deal

Total= $1.15

I actually had a $1.60 printable coupon for the 4th bag of nut clusters but it wouldn't scan so I technically could have been owed .45 but they probably would have freaked out over that so maybe it was a good thing that coupon wasn't scanning and I can use it later. Or if I would have brought one more $1 off cpn for the nut clusters I would have only paid .15. I didn't think to bring an extra cpn because I had the $1.60 cpn. Oh well I am happy only paying $1.15.

My shopping trip 9/14

Since I started couponing a few months ago I have had a few people ask me to blog about all the great deals I am getting. So I thought I would start with my shopping trip today.

Today I headed out to Bashas and had 10, .50 off coupons for Barilla pasta, plus 2 coupons for .55 off Hillshire farm lunch meat. Since Bashas doubles coupons I was able to get all of the pasta for free (on sale for $1) and the lunch meat for $1.88 a piece.

5- whole wheat spaghetti
5- mini rigatoni
2- Hilshire Farm lunch meat

paid $ 3.74






This photo is for my trip to Walgreens. Walgreens has been my new Walmart lately... It is weird never to go there anymore. Walgreens has deals called Register Rewards (RR) that print out after you purchase an item that is on sale that week. You can use your RR on your next purchase, but not on what you just bought or a new RR will not print out! The goal is to buy things that "roll" (use your RR on items that offer RR) making alot of the things you buy really cheap. Today I did 6 transactions.

1. Bought bag Northern Crisps on sale for $3. Used a $2 RR from a previous day paid $1 oop (out of pocket) got back $3RR for next purchase.

2. Northern Crisps $3. Used $1 RR from a previous day paid $2 oop. got back 3 RR

3. Northern Crisps $3. Used $1.50 RR from a previous day paid $1.50 oop. got back 3 RR

4. 2 Triaminc cold strips 2/$10. Used $2 off coupon in Walgreens Healthy Savings book next to Register (since it is a Wags coupon it takes off $2 per item and you can keep the coupon). Then I used 2 of my $3 RR from the Northern Crisps. So $4 off from Wags cpn and $6 off from RR. Paid .81 oop (I technically got these for free but had to pay .81 in tax). Got back $5 RR

5. Northern Crisps $3 and Pringles 2.29 (thanks Blake, extra buys when you bring along kids :).
Used $5 RR from Triaminic. Paid .29 oop got back 3RR

6. Decided to do the Triaminic deal again. Used two $3 RR from the Northern Crisps and the $4 Walgreens coupon. Paid oop .81 got back $5 RR.

Few that was a long explanation. So I calculated all of my purchases from Walgreens and paid a total of $6.41 for
4- Norther Crisps (hope they are good)
4- Triaminic cold strips
1- Pringles can

Timber

I have the pictures in the wrong order so a few pics down is the picture of our hideous bottle tree that we had cut down this weekend. This tree makes a mess all year round and was not providing any shade for our home so we decided to get rid of it and plant something else. We do feel a little bad for cutting down such a mature tree but it is too late now.

These guys did a pretty good job and had the tree down within an hour, the clean up took a little longer though seemed like they were here for at least four hours. It was quite the show, I think every neighbor that was home came out to watch the tree fall.

So here is the before picture of our overgrown tree and here is a video of tree falling. Enjoy.

New AC Units

When we bought this house we knew one of the first things we would need to replace would be our 22 year old ac units. I got a few quotes and decided I would call one more place to compare prices, glad I did they quoted us 3k less than the other places. We had them installed the next week. Here are a few pics of the replacement.

I thought this picture was fun with our old "large" ac unit in between the two new units.

These are the two old units looking pretty sad getting ready to be hauled away.

Wahoo our new units in place. Thank goodness it was starting to get really hot in the house with out the AC on all day! We spent most of the afternoon in the pool. :) Now bring on lower utility bills.