Walgreen's

I never used to shop at Walgreen's until I started couponing. Now I love to see how much I get buy for how little! Here's this week's trip:

I got:
5 packages of Oreos (sale)
1 package or Oreo Cakesters (sale and $1 coupon)
2 packages of lunch meat (sale and $1/2 coupon)
4 packages Dole fruit cups (sale and $1/4 coupon)
Cotton balls (not on sale/no coupons)
Reeses' Peanut Butter eggs (sale)
Walgreen's aspirin (free with coupon)
Green nail polish (St Patty's Day! - no sale/coupon)
Soft Soap pump (clearance for 80 cents)
4 Reach toothbrushes (paid 99 cents for all 4 after coupons and sale)
Charmin (sale and coupon)
Excedrin (free w/ coupon)
3 bottles Dawn dish soap (sale and coupons)

Used $11 in Register Rewards from last week, got $5 more that I used (2 separate transactions today).

Spent $21.77
Saved $64.26 or 75%

Also got a prescription transferred there, and got a $25 cert for future purchases on that! Woohoo!!
Jenn

Too Wicked to Kiss

My friend Erica Ridley is a published author!!! Today was the release day of her new historical romance novel/murder mystery, Too Wicked to Kiss. You can read about the book at this site.


I picked it up at my local Borders store and plan on having it autographed! I haven't read it yet since I just got it today - but will be diving in soon!

Congratulations, Erica!!!!!
Jenn

My Morning Coffee

No, not real coffee - ick lol. I drink sweet tea to start my day :)

I'm talking about a button on my Firefox toolbar that loads all the web sites I check daily (or weekly). Warning, lotsa enabling to follow!

Free Software at Giveaway of the Day (different each day)
Enter daily to win a printer at Staples
Daily Deal at 1 Sale a Day
Daily Deal at Woot
Daily Deal at Shnoop
Daily Deat at Sellout.Woot
Daily Deal at Yugster
Daily Scrapbooking Deal at Scrapbook Steals
Daily Scrapbooking Deal at Scrapbook Moja
Daily Scrapbooking Deal at Crafty Steals
Daily Scrapbooking Deal at Peachy Cheap
Daily Scrapbooking Deal at Crop Chocolate
Daily Scrapbooking Deal at Flowers to Flourishes

I have various other sites for entering contests daily, and some weekly sites as well.
Happy shopping!
Jenn

Office Supply "Candy"!

Rob took me out for the first time since coming home from surgery. We went to Bennigan's for lunch (can't beat their $4.99 cash crunch lunch!). Then he took me to Staples.

Staples has a new feature called "Mix It Up". It's like bulk candy, but better - bulk office supplies with no calories! For $5.99 for a small or $9.99 for a large bucket, you can mix and match a selection of Staples-brand office supplies including binder clips, paper clips, and thumbtacks.

The containers are divided and the lid fits tight, so you lose a lot of space. Still, I was able to get some really cool patterned binder clips, a lot of metallic paper clips, a couple 8-packs of thumbtacks (they are a little larger than normal, good for hanging things on), and some fun shaped paper clips - guitars, treble clefs, footprints, hearts, and stars. They also had several types of handprints, but I opted against those. I spent a lot of time playing with everything, so that was worth part of the cost right there lol! The pic below shows just a few of the goodies I shoved into my container.

I can't wait to see what else they add to the selection. It would be great to split with up to 3 more people, since the buckets are divided into 4 sections. Although then you'd fight over the bucket lol. Happy shopping!

Jenn