Exhausted

Well, all I have to say is I ended last week exhausted and am beginning this week exhausted. Some weekends are just like that. The biggest bummer is that I left my camera at Mom and Dad's so I have to wait to blog about my big, MASSIVE savings this week, but Wal-greens did not let me down!

A brief glimpse though of what I did today: Meijer is running a special -buy 5 Kellogg's cereals for 10 and get a free gallon of milk...well - I went here and printed off 2 coupons for Mini-wheats on my computer at work and 2 from my boss's computer (most websites let you print 2 coupons)-I went to the store and got 4 boxes of Mini-Wheats, a box of Rice Krispies (for treats) and a gallon of milk for cha ching - $5.00 (I also had a register coupon for $1 off next purchase from this weekend's gala)

Considering that milk is usually 3.89 a gallon - I think that's a pretty good deal :) - my receipt said: "total savings - 13.99.

My second transaction -sometimes ya gotta make more than one - and I had another register coupon so I did two transactions was for 6 tubes of crescent rolls and 6 tubes of cinnamon rolls. I had $1/1 coupons for each tube and they were on sale at Meijer 2/$3 - I got them for 50 cents a tube - 12 tubes of rolls for +$1 register coupon and- cha ching - $5.00. Total savings on that transaction was 21.34.

Do you know how many different things you can do with crescent rolls! These babies come in handy and I know it says not to freeze them, but I think you totally can. And the cereal I'm putting in the care packages we're putting together to hand out. I wanted to put some cereal in it, but all I bought this weekend were the Fiber and Kashi health cereals and I figure since we're giving it to families with small children, they might want something tasty, rather than something that was merely designed to make you poop...*hee*

I'm thinking of keeping a tally of my savings on the sidebar - simply because I'm annoyingly competitive and this whole coupon thing has gotten to be one big massive game for me right now and I want to see if I can keep one-upping myself. My goal each week is to get at least SOMETHING free (from the store) and yes, I do sound incredibly Dutch right now Kate! :) but heck- this is fun.

This past weekend my free items were:

10 packages of Kotex pantyliners (I have 6 more coupons for these, I think I'll be set till menopause)
1 Johnsons & Johnsons Bud-E suds bar
1 bag of beef jerky
4 bags of Green Giant vegetable steamers
6 bags of Chex Mix
1 bottle of Crest Mouthwash

Are you mocking me yet? I totally wouldn't blame you!

and I'm already starting on this week with my gallon of milk :) with some very well laid plans for shampoo and toothpaste...(insert wicked grin and evil laugh)