The Wags Lady...

...keeps trying to trip me up! I swear she thinks I'm ripping the place off!

Has it really been 2 weeks since I blogged last? I need to catch up here. Things are starting to settle down around our home. Through the month of September and first week of October, Clint worked 2 weekends and I worked 12 hour days on Monday and Thursdays - that's a LOT of overtime for the two of us, and the checks were/are nice, but talk about EXHAUSTING. This week has been nice though, our babysitter's kids got sick, so I took Monday & Tuesday off to stay home with the girls - a MUCH needed break - and Clint took Wednesday off - so we had a nice little week of seeing what life was like when things weren't at a breakneck pace and how happy a family could be when it's properly rested! Very nice :)

Let's see what has happened these past couple weeks:

Well, Annie can now sit up by herself! Whoot! Whoot! It seems like she got really strong and grew a ton last week. She's eating fruits now. Have done nanas, pears and applesauce on her cereal. And, hey, don't even think of giving her plain cereal now - she will SCREAM...

Grace - in the grand tradition of Madison Hammond, also attempted giving herself a haircut. Yup - we caught her in the bedroom, she had found Gramma's spray bottle and scissors and did everything perfectly right - sprayed her hair soaking wet and began snipping. Fortunately for us she started with strands underneath, and didn't get very far - actually layered the one side up a little bit and I think it looks kind of cute! Ha! A subtle difference. So - I guess that's one perk of having hair cutting genes.

Was TOTALLY stoked yesterday to find that my WAGS rebate had come - only 2 1/2 weeks! That's not bad - I opted for the gift card loaded with my rebates (19.50) because they give you 10% extra for loading the rebates on to their gift card. Yeah - I've already used 12 dollars of it. This afternoon I ran to Wags on my lunch break and got 1 Cross Action Toothbrush toothbrush (for 4.49), 3 boxes of Kotex tampons (9.00) -just call me the Kotex Queen, and 4 Glade Plug-Ins. This all came up to about 22 dollars before coupons, I think. So I hand the cashier who doesn't like me, the coupons (3 $1.00 Kotex coupons, 2 B1G1 free Glade Plug-in coupons and 1 $3.00 RR from last week) and knocked my total down to 12.00. Swiped my Wags card and out spits 7.50 in RR :) whoo whoo - 4.50 for the toothbrush and 3 dollars for the Kotex. I'm also going to submit the Glade Plug-ins for rebates for October (that will make them free) so -in a manner of speaking - I really only paid $3.00 for the Kotex! Ha ha!

Everytime I have Wags Woman ring me up - she tries to say I did something wrong - "you won't get your rebates if you use a coupon, you can't use more than one IVC coupon, etc..." and today it was you can't use 3 coupons on 2 boxes of tampons. And I look confused at her, so she spells it out very slowly for me and I reply - "I have 3 boxes in there"

"You do?" says she. "Oh! My brain is fried"

Yeah - she's trying to trip me up. Does she think I don't know what I'm doing??? Come on - now, she's rung me up about 6 times now and everytime I'm doing it right. See - there are a lot of couponers out there who don't play by the rules, but I PLAY BY THE RULES, dude. And I'm thorough, so "Humph!"

I don't know why she can't be like Wags Boy who works nights - he gets a kick out of my and my 13 tubes of FREE Crest - you read that right. AND my 7 MASSIVE bottles of dirt cheap Fructis.

Just you wait, Wags Boy - just you wait - more to come, more to come.

*Smile*

I read a rumor online that you should never buy toothbrushes or toothpaste at full price because you can almost always get some for free or next to free. Well, it's proving true so far. I've got a toothbrush and four tubes of Colgate in the "stash" that cost me about 2 bucks altogether. This upcoming week, I'm going to amp up my dental stash:

Next week at Wags there is a deal on Crest - 6.4 oz tubes for 1.99 - they have a $1 off IVC coupon. Most Wags all you have to do is have 1 of these IVC coupons and it takes $1 off each item of that kind that you buy - the one in Sturgis did - who by the way has an awesome cosmetics counter cashier! Heather :) - the one in Three Rivers, I'm not sure if it does it or not...anyhoo - doesn't matter, you can print off 10 of the coupons online. In the Gazette this past Sunday there was a PG insert with some awesome coupons - 3 of which are for Cres! One is get $1 off any Crest tube 4.1 oz + and the other is get a $1 off of 2. So - I went online and there are lots of people selling this particular coupon! In bunches of 10 or 20. So, I emailed the gal I bought the Fructis coupons from and asked her, since we live fairly close, if I could send her 2 bucks in cash and she could mail me 10 of the $1 off coupons. She agreed and by this time next week I'll have 10 of those babies, plus 3 of my own. That's 2.00 off a tube of toothpaste that's on sale for 1.99! I figure all I'll have to pay is .12 each for the tax. Ba dum dum. That's 12 tubes of toothpaste for 1.44 dude + 2.00 for the coupons + .42 for the stamp...comes out to be .32 cents a tube!...and I won't have to buy toothpaste for about 4 years, I'm thinking... Grace will be SEVEN by then and in the first grade! ha!

Now my big decision - do I bite the bullet and get them all at once...or spread it out...hmmm....

Go on do it...try it for yourself!...you know you want to!

Things that just are not right...

Things that just are not right:

WaMu credit card applications in the mail...are they serious??

Clipping coupons in your sleep...stay tuned for a post on how to obtain 10 tubes of Crest toothpaste for 27cents a tube

Working 12 hour days...I'm almost done with this

Grace decorating the toilet with stickers...yup...Dora flowers...

Discussing "The Office" with former 4th graders of mine...this one makes me feel old!

Taking pictures of poopies...That's right...sick, I know, but that's just how excited I was this morning when Grace announced that she had indeed pooped in the toilet! I may or may not have also made up a song to the tune of Super Why's "Hip, Hip Hooray"...I believe there were also "Potty Candies" involved

My 3 year old rolling her eyes at me about all the fuss I was making over her morning poop.

It is also not right that this completely made my morning!