Cyber Monday

OK sorry for the lack of posts NONE all last week but I was KIND OF busy!  We have had three Thanksgivings!  I have so much to do this week as well as I MUST finish Christmas decorating!  I will post later and let you know what all we did last week but I must share with you that today is CYBER MONDAY!  I have wanted a subscriction for Southern Living foreva and ya'll know I am cheap so I was looking at deals today on Amazon and they have SL foe $5 dollars!!!  Oh that is something I Cas will be getting me for Christmas!  I just had to share the deal!  It looks like they have some fab deals! 

Here is Something to Keep You Busy...

This lady compiled a whole list of things on sale at Wal-Mart.  There is a 119 of them under $1 and 18 are FREE!  I am at a stand still on printing out coupons since I ran out of paper. I must get some today!  Between the Sunday Paper coupns, magazine coupons, coupons from the sores, and all the ones I have printed out I have a lot of them to file.  I have cute most of them so that is a start.  Let's just say if we had a $ for every coupon I have right now, we would have some serious Christmas money!

And her Target list.

Things you made need for your Thanksgiving meal.

Oh What A Day

Oh what a day for the nasty rain...........

Gosh I don't think it ever stopped. Thank you Ida!  Now where do I send the receipt for the row boat and rain boats I need to get from the house to the car?  Oh and convinceing Maggie to go potty in the pouring rain was a "boat load of fun"!  I had to lasso her up and go stand out in the middle of the yard with her while she shook until she decided she better go because Mamma was not taking her back in until she went.  Meanwhile I was getting soaked!  When Cas left for work yesterday he told me not to go anywhere because he did not want me out driving in the downpours because he knows I hate driving in the rain.  It has ended up bad for me before!  Wellllll I decided to save more money and get more items around here I was going to have to start shopping at Publix!

Oh what a day for savings.................

Well we don't have one here in town yet.  They are supposedly building it but they need to build faster.  We have some within 30 minutes of the house.  Their sales go from Wednesday to Tuesday like Winn-Dixie.  I have shopped them before when I in town I have just never made a habit of going.  Well if you read a lot of food saving blogs Publix seems to be a phenomenal place for savings.  So I suited up in my raincoat and rolled the bottom of my jeans up don't you just hate when they get wet and then your whole leg gets wet.......? and grabbed my coupon novel along with the plethora of ones I found online for Publix and ones that went with their BOGO's  of the week.  I set out in the downpour to drive to LaGrange because it was the last day of the sale and there were a lot of things we needed so I had to get there come hell or HIGH water! And high water I did see.  So I gripped the steering wheel and prayed to get to the grocery store to tell about it blog about it.  The Publix I went to, I clocked it, it 30 miles from our house.  Normally I get to LaGrange pretty quick when I go visit a friend so it is really not that big of a deal.  I have to drive no matter where I go grocery shopping.  I made a list off of their website of all of the BOGO's that I had coupons for and I set out to only get that stuff, other than milk because we needed it. 

The Tylenol was FREE and the tape was almost free.  They had a $3 coupon in the Publix coupons inside the store and $1 off online and each box is only $3.99!  Pup-Peronis are for Christmas! LOL I am really sad I did not go ahead and get the chocolate chips that were a major deal.  I have some but I will probably need more for holiday baking! Sigh.......

It is hard to read but it says I paid $37.46 and saved $74.13!

I am pleased but still not thrilled!  I know it could have been better!

A friend of mine, who has a husband and three boys to feed went yesterday and spent $29.70 and saved $124.93!!  She also said had she realized she could have saved another $13.00 on top of that! Now that is what I am talking about!  Until we meet again next time this week Publix!

A Coupon Missionary

Of sorts.........First off all I would like to say "HELLO ANDREA" if you are stopping by!  I was in Kroger doing my deal shopping this evening after another stellar Wii game shopping trip, more on that in a minute!  I was sitting with my mega coupon binder over by the Gatorade because I had just snagged 10 of them for $5 dollars, I keep them in the pantry for the DB (Darling Boyfriend since in blogland husbands are referred to as DH~Darling Husband) when he is playing sports and doing yard work, and sometimes I crave them even though I know they are completely bad for you when the sweetest last approached me.  She is a young Mom who has just started couponing after she learned about how much her friends were saving.  She asked me a coupon question and I happily answered.  I told her about Southern Savers off of the top of my head.  I know I read a lot of sites but I could not remember the names of all of them. She said she had hardly paid for much since she had gotten started couponing. I told her a few things I do and she was very thankful and we both went on our way!  I went down a couple more isles and  I kept thinking about this women I just met and how excited I have been with these fabulous grocery/toiletry/supplies deals lately and I just felt like I had to share more.  I really felt guilty ya'll!  I had to go witness to her about some more super saving sites!  No you won't find me knocking on your doors or out in a picket line with my info so don't worry!  I stopped what I was doing and went back towards the direction I had come from looking for her!  I found her and asked her if she had a pen and she did so I wrote my blog address down for her.  I knew I had some fab-U-lous sites on the side of my blog that have helped me out so much lately and I wanted her to know about them.  Like I mentioned earlier she is a Mom and not only do I read about great savings of household items I read deal after deal on childrens toys, clothes, etc. and what a better time to know about them with Christmas coming up!  I in no way care if she even reads the blog as long as she is able to use to sites on the side which I don't write.  Hardworking ladies, and even one Dad write them for ALL of us to benefit from so I know they feel just as giddy when we are scoring deals that they have blogged about!  I also shared with her that a great place to get coupons is out of the "ALL YOU" magazine.

This is obviously not this month's magazine!  The only place I have found this magazine is at Wal-Mart but that is not to say it is not other places I just haven't gone on a wild hunt for it!  Here is the list of all of the coupons that were in this month's issue.  This magazine is cheap and it always has great stuff in it!  A tip I received from the Coupon Queeny at The Southern Women's Show was buy a Sunday paper for each person in your household to get the extra coupons.  That is her rule of thumb.  She also has older children and she said to keep them occupied in the store she sends them, as a game, to go around the store and has them collect all of the coupons that are in the little coupon machines around the store. She also mentioned if you have certain things you need coupons for ex. diapers and you have friends that don't use diapers ask them to save the coupons for you or trade them for coupons you have that they might need!  A great thing she shared with us also was that when she finds a deal on things they don't use or need that may come out FREE (or maybe super cheap) then she gets the items and donates them to the food bank!  I watched a lady on the news this Summer and she does the same things but puts the stuff up at her house and helps out friends that need help. She herself did not have much but she said it's FREE so get the items because someone will need them!  Aren't those great ideas!?  Another thing that lots of people don't know about is that you can buy coupons on Ebay!  It is illegal to charge for the coupons they can only charge for postage!  So you could get a huge coupon for the price of a stamp!  Anytime I go anywhere I try to look online for a coupon before I go to use on top of a sale.  Old Navy, Bath and Body Works, you never know so it never hurts to look!  I am in no way a coupon blog writer but when things are too good not to share I just can't contain myself!  When everyone needs to feed their families and keep the laundry washed and house cleaned and there are ways to do that for super cheap then why not!?  There were times when we all just went and bought everything we needed and the bill was probably sickening and the more things that happen in our lives and money is a BIG issue you have to make some changes.  Not feeding your family is not acceptable obviously so why not keep your pantry stocked the cheapest way possible!  My grocery bill was  $40 dollars tonight for 40 items at Kroger!  That is including 10 boxes of potatoes, 2 pizzas, 8 stouffers items for me to make dinners out of, 10 gatorade, and a few other items!  A friend and I had a conversation a few months ago about how great we felt when our pantry's were full and the fridge/freezer was stocked.  I know the feeling of we have nothing to put together for a meal and it is not payday yet!  It is a sick feeling!  That was before the couponing FREAK in me came out!  Any of you watch Jon and Kate?  Do you remember the episode where they had just moved into the new house and she found out he went to Home Depot without taking and using the coupon they had for the store and she went off on him?  People said that was horrible.......but truth is that is me in a nice way now!  If you have money to save on something you have to buy anyways then that is like flushing money down the toilet.  I carry my coupon binder everywhere with me now!  My friend Briana likes to make jokes and call it my Trapper Keeper!  Make jokes Sista! :)  Cas and I went to Wal-Mart the other day which I don't do that often anymore.  They may have "Everyday Low Prices" blah blah blah but they don't have BOGO and they have been a pain to me every time I have tried to use coupons there so really it is not the place to buy groceries.  I just go there for other clothing, gardening, decorating, etc.  Anyways I didn't take my coupon binder in with me because we picking up something that I knew I would not need/have a coupon for.  While we were there Cas said "oh we need syrup."  O.K. fine but make it cheap.  There was a brand there that was cheaper that the Great Value.  It is called Log Cabin.  O.K. that is cheaper lets move to the check out!  The next day I was filing coupons and I came across a $.50 off coupon for Log Cabin syrup! I was soo mad! :)  Also let me tell you that most things that are not name brand taste just like the name brand.  So don't be so haute ladies!  There are a few things that I do buy a specific brand of but.....I did learn that Winn Dixie green beans are growdy!  I do have to say that even if money was not an object around here on the Howard~Smith home front I would still take advantage of the coupons and the great deals because why not??  and it is actually super fun to me! 

Andrea the site I told you that I use is The Grocery Game.  It is a minimal fee every two months and she points out what is on sale and the coupons on top of that and if it is a good deal of not, etc. You can use if for a Kroger, WM, Winn Dixie, CVS, Walgreens in our area.  I use it for WD on top of blogs!

Old Navy had scarves for $1 today and I had a %15 off coupon that I got off of Old Navy Weekly.com (they normally reset on Th).  So I was able to pick up a few for Christmas presents!  I will in no way admit to getting a feeeew in colors to match everything!

As I mentioned earlier in my post I scored another sweet deal at Target tonight!  I went back for more Wii games.  Scenario~3 Wii games @ $14.99.  The promotion this week was Buy Two get the Thrid FREE.  So that is 2 @ $14.99.  Then I handed her 4x$10 off coupons!  Ya'll do they math!  That girl looked at me with a stunned look on her face and said......"You just got all those for free..you didn't pay for any of them!"  That is sooooo right chicky!  If I had only been brave enough to have used more coupons last night!  I am just glad I have been able to use these great deals for Christmas presents! That does not mean I don't love you any less babe because I didn't pay for them!  It has been a true blessing!

So go on and share your knoweledge with others that don't know!  They will Thank you later when they realize all the money they hand over and they don't have to!

Andrea if you are reading this good luck to you and my email is mph4au@gmail.com if I can share the coupon love with you any further!

Saturday Things Worth Sharing

Old Navy is having $1 fleece scarves today!  Today only and you can buy up to $5.  I also found a coupon on oldnavyweekly.com so you may can score a coupon on top.  I like to have a lot of differant scarves to match different colors!

Don't forget to go buy your Wii games!  If we go back today I am going to have strength at the Dollar Bins!  Luckily for Maggie they have put their doggie winter clothes out at the 1-2.50 section!  Will post on that later! 

Also, they are having a giveaway for $25 to be used at The Monkey See Boutique.  Go and check out the details!  Click on the "giveaway" 1st.  They have some ca-uuuuute stufff!  I would like one of everything Dear Santa!

Maggie is hoping I win this giveaway so she will receive some new bling for Christmas! These handmade pet tags are super presh!

If you want something that will make you laugh go read this and keep reading her blog!  I found it this morning and was very entertained! I entered the give-away for the camera strap cover cause I soo need one! Yes in-deedy I do!  After that click on her archives and read 1-800-shoot me! I laughed out loud!

*I may be adding to this throughout the day!*

What is everyone doing on this pretty Saturday?  I would love to hear! 

I Got The Best Deal I Can't Contain Myself!

I read lots of deal and coupon blogs, etc. but when I find something outstanding you know I must share with all of you!  O.K. see the add above?  This week they have buy two Wii games get the third FREE!  Well then you go to this Target link that has Christmas coupons on it and you print out the coupon for $10 off of two Wii games!  Print off a few and stick them in your purse!  Well here is where the deal got even sweeter.....I used FOUR coupons equaling $40 dollars off!  I asked the guy (I am glad I had a young guy check me out, they are game for anything) if he thought it would take more than one?  He said he would try and it worked so I handed him a third and fourth coupon!  I had more since the stack of coupon books were sitting there I could have grabbed more but I was afraid at some point the register might decide it had had enough and he might have to re-ring me up and I might not get to use as many coupons!?  I have thought about it a lot this evening how many I could have used? :( Now they have a lot of $14.99 games too that are great for the kids so you could certainly walk out of there spending hardly anything but the games that Cas really likes were all 49.99.  They also had a large section of the $14.99 ones up near the registers FY1!

I spent $65.98 and saved $89.99!!!!!

The promotion is only good through the end of tomorrow (Saturday) and the coupon is good through November but if you are wanting Wii games for Christmas then I would certainly use them on top of each other for the maximum savings!  This is when you buy things when they are on sale/promotion and a coupon on top of that!  Now I can't gaurantee anything as far as how many coupons you can use but because somethimes things happen differantly at differant stores!  Ahh I think I almost wet my pants I was soo excited! I may certainly go back and get three of the 14.99 ones and that would have me coming home with three games for the price of one!

Ahh I luuuuuuuuv a super great deal!

I wore these today!  I paid $8 dollars for them at the Payless sale I blogged about last week!

Meg yeah for your shoes you bought too!

Target and I are Becoming Very Close

Lately I have been getting a lot of super deals at Target.  I follow a lot of coupon blogs and they tip me off on some of the great deals.  I also had a bunch of BOGO coupons from the super sweet P&G savers a couple of weeks ago.  I used all of them and stocked up!  Now I just need someone to come and use them!  I like to keep things stocked and if I always try to do it when I can get thing BOGO and use a coupon on top of it.  It is really exciting to me!  Also I used these coupons and went Monday after all of the Halloween candy was 50% off and stocked up on goodies.  We have enough candy to last us til next Halloween but Cas may have it gone by New Years!  There is also coupons for Halloween Oreos which I bought two packs off 50% off with a coupon on top off.  My biggest find was a bottle of Margarita Mix that was $2 all because it had a pumpkin on the label!!  They had soo much stuff that din't even neccesarilly look Halloween-ish like the plain blacks frames that were 50% off just because they had an orange sheet of paper in them!  I am sad that I put them back now!  I can definately see me making these after holiday sales trips a must when we have kids.  There were so many cute things that you could put away for the next year.  I always got fun goody baskets for all the holidays.  This week they have a special where you buy two Wii games and get the thrid FREE!  Plus there is a coupon here for $10 off of two!  Hmm maybe the honey will recieve some games in his stocking! 

Momma Needs a New Pair of Shoes

*UPDATE* IT IS 50% OFF OF YOUR TOTAL PURCHASE!

Blue Suede ones?  Mmmm
maybe not but I do need some casual black ones.  Preferably some that will not eat the skin off of my feet like almost ALL shoes do!  Anyways I was online this morning and I read about Oprah having Christian Siriano from Project Runway on her show today.  He is now a big designer and has a line of shoes coming out at Payless so they are offering this coupon for 50% of anything in the store!!  They already have budget friendly shoes at Payless so just think of what you can get!  This coupon is only good until tomorrow the 30th so hurry!  If you have two Payless stores near you could get two pairs!  You could even make the hubs stand in line behind you with a 2nd pair paying seperately off course!  Laugh.........Cas and I have done that before when I needed a set of lamps at Hob Lob and I checked out with one lamp and a 40% of coupon and he checked out with a lamp and a 40% of coupon.  Normally I would have just gone back the next day but I didn't want to risk my lamp being bought!

While you are out shopping you can use this coupon for 15% off at Old Navy! ON will have childrens costumes on sale for $2 on the 30 & 31st.  There is also a coupon for a free travel hand sanitizer at Bath & Body Works!  They have anti0bacterial hand soaps on sale for $3 right now!

Stocking Stuffers

I know it isn't Halloween yet but if you are like me you like to get things ahead of time and especially when they are much cheaper! So here is one for you for the kids!

Hungry Hippos Travel Game $4.99
(found in the luggage section)
Use the $4 coupon from here or here: IE or Firefox
Final cost $0.99!

I picked one up yesterday for our nephews.  You can't beat 99 cents!

Also if you have anyone to buy a book for Christmas then use this coupon!  Cas has asked for a book for Christmas so I could use this!  It is only good until November 2nd!  You could use it for anyone and add a book in their stocking.