A Couponer's Heaven

This week, CVS was having some AMAZING sales for Black Friday.  What was even better was the fact that it started Thanksgiving morning!  My original plan was to go Thursday morning before we ventured up to Goshen for the long weekend.  However, my precious child let momma sleep in and therefore I missed my opportunity since I had nothing packed for the trip.  So, I had to do my shopping trip at the one and only CVS in Goshen.  This was a little different for me considering down here there are stores on every corner, but I'm being literal when I say one and only CVS in Goshen.  Therefore some of my items had been sold out so I had to totally change my list and re-plan it as I was in the store.  But overall, I am super happy with my purchases.  I had $4 Extra Bucks to shop with beforehand but I spent only $6.45 but ended up with $9.50 Extra Bucks leftover.  So I actually earned $3.05 on my shopping trip.  Here's a glance at my purchases:

Overall, I consider my Black Friday shopping trip a success. :)  I'm itching to use these Extra Bucks up soon!!!

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Coupon Crazy

This is a picture of our usual Sunday afternoons - Cohen is napping, Brady is napping, Kurtis is working on his MBA homework and I have my Sunday ads, coupon binder, pen and paper ready to go all spread out on the kitchen table.  I'm still learning -but I'm starting to really catch on.  Take for example my shopping trip at Marsh on Friday:

• ALL laundry detergent - on sale for 2.99 -- used .50 coupon which doubled to $1 off.
• Colgate toothpaste -- on sale for 1.50 -- used .50 coupon which doubled to $1 off.
• Dr. Pepper Ten -- 1.89 -- used coupon for free 2 liter
• Herbal Essence Conditioner -- on sale for 2.50 -- used $1 off coupon.

So my total for that shopping trip was 3.76 -- a 76% savings! 

My favorite place to get all our bathroom stuff is CVS.  I always buy things that I have coupons for or are free with Extra Bucks.  My most recent proud purchase was a box of Pampers on sale for 18.99.  I had a 2.50 off coupon and 4 Extra bucks so I paid around $12 PLUS I got 4 EB to use this weekend for Black Friday shopping.  So really I got a box of diapers for $8.

I know, I'm creating a coupon addiction - which isn't really that extreme yet.  But who doesn't like to save money??  Better yet - who doesn't like free stuff??  More updates coming soon. :)

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Cake Smash

Despite my son's ultra grumpiness and absolute desire to continuously go up the stairs (which, I have no idea how he can go up stairs so fast considering we don't have any and neither does his sitter) Michele captured some great pics at this Cake Smash session.  Who would've thought my son loved cake so much? :)

    www.chickpixphotography.com -- Check her out! :)

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