I won an Award

Wow, thats all I can say, never thought my little ole blog would win anything... but then again it was from my bestie, so you know, might have had something to do with that, lol. anyway I am very appreciative!!!

The rules with this award are to name 7 things you love & pass the award to 7 blogs you love.

sooo, 7 things I love

1. I love my family and God

2. I love my pug midnight

3. I love helping others

4. I love saving money with my coupons

5. I love dt. Mt dew, lol

6. I love cooking, its my passion

7. I love helping children

Now for the 7 blogs I love

1. Obviously I love Jennifer at Coupon Mommie, after all she taught me how to do this couponing thing.

2. I love Angie at Beans and Tators mama, she and I are so much alike on our thoughts that I just can not help but read every single post she makes... Love your stuff girl!!

3. I love my life long friend Crystal at A moms world of couponing madness, I have helped her learn to coupon and happy that she is saving money for her family.

4. I love reading my friend Robins blog at A table for three, she and I went to high school together, and were known as the chatty cathys of french class, sure miss those days girl.

5. I love reading Kristi's blog at Insomniac Scapbook Theater, she rocks the CVS game!!

6. I love reading Becky at Nickels-N-Dimes blog, although she has moved to http://www.nickels-n-dimes.com/

7. And last, I love reading Easy meals for busy moms blog... they have some awesome meal ideas!!

So there ya have it, and now its your turn, lets see what things you love!!

Thanks again Jennifer for the award, Love ya girl!!

Some tips for Wags Couponing

Okay, so I have been reading alot of other peoples blogs and see questions people ask. They are all the time asking, well but my coupon is for 2.00 off and the item is 1.98 and it beeps. Okay so heres the thing, if you want to use that coupon, get a pack of gum or something and throw it up... the coupon will work then. See they can not take off on the tax at wags, has to come off the before tax total, so if the before tax is a little bit more than the coupons total, then they will work. Example of this

I bought 10 packages of Nabisco crackers the other day at ways they were on sale 1.99/2
I had 5- 2.00 coupons

then I bought one tube of Colgate total toothpaste on sale for 3.49
- wags easy saver booklet coupon for 2.99
that would have made my toothpaste .50 cents
but I had 1.50 off coupon so
I had 1.00 overage

I ended up using 4 of the 2.00 coupons for the crackers, the toothpaste coupon, and still had to throw a candy bar up to make up enough to cover the coupon money. And then I just had to pay tax. So see, as long as you have enough actual "cost" without tax, the coupons should work. Hope this helps!

Coupon Mommie has a giveaway for Yoplait

Hey guys, my friend over at Coupon Mommie has an awesome giveaway going right now for Yoplait Yoplus Yogurt and trust me, this stuff is awesome, the best yogurt I have tasted so far. So head on over and check it out. Just click HERE.

I love my Wags Cashier

Okay so I went into Wags yesterday with my mom to get our free ritz crackers and I had a coupon to get a free tube of toothpaste. So we went immediatly to the crackers isle, only to see there were only 3 lonely boxes left on the shelf. So I hollered over to my dear cashier Ashley and asked her if she had any more in the box (as we were getting 14 total, 10 for me, four for mom) and she went and checked. She came back and said no, but we could get any of the nabisco items that were on sale for the 1.99/2 and she would still use the coupon!!! I am gleaming at this point, cause she just rocks, love her to death. So we end up with 4 boxes of chip ahoy cookies, 3 ritz crackers, and 7 boxes of regular Krispy saltine crackers, and we used the wheatthin/ritz crackers to pay for them, and I even got a coupon back cause she did not need it to pay for the other box, because I had a 1.50 off MQ for the toothpaste, and wags easysaver had a 2.99 off, so it was only suppose to be .49 cents, so I had that extra 1.01 that went onto the rest of my transaction... So Ashley thank you.. oh and the hateful checker that I had reported came over where we were all at and was super nice, so apparently she was trying to appologize. Did not work, we always do and always will check out threw Ashley, I will leave and go back another day if she is not working!!

Awesome shopping trip at Krogers

Okay, so as many of you know from my other posts, my husband is a diabetic. Well it was time to refill his script for his diabetic meds, and I remembered seeing that Kroger had a thing in their ad stating that if you transfered your script, they would give you 25 dollars on your krogers card for groceries.. So thats what we done, he got his 4 dollar script transfered we got the 25 back on our card, and he done an awesome shopping trip. Heres what he got.


Just as a reminder, Kroger has the buy 10 get 5 off frozen food this week

5 40 count bags of Pizza rolls reg price was 2.99
-.50 each from kroger sale
-(5).35 MQ doubled to .70
=1.79 a bag

3 boxes of Gortons Fish reg price 2.99
-.50 each from Kroger sale
-(3) .40 MQ Doubled to .80

4 boxes of Pop tarts reg 1.99
on sale 3/5
-(2)1.00/2 MQ
=1.17 each

2 Hungry Jack meals reg 1.99
-.50 each from Kroger sale
=1.49 each

2 Kroger block cheese (to go with our walgreens free ritz crackers we will go get tomorrow)
1.88 each sale price (not sure what reg price was)

We got all this with tax for 3.15
I am very pleased with this sale, we will take pics and post when he gets home.

Wal-Mart Shopping trip on 2/27/09

We done awesome last night at Wal-Mart. My dear puppy was outta food, so I had to get her some anyway and there was a great 3.50 off any purina dog food IP so we printed it, and went to Wal-Mart.

Here is a breakdown of what we got

(4) 4pd bags Purina Dog Chow 4.94 each

- (4) 3.50 off IP coupons

= 1.44 a bag

(1) Bayer Breeze2 Blood Glucose Meter (hubby is diabetic) 18.82

- (1) MQ for up to 30.00 adjusted to 18.82

= FREE

(1) sauve 3 oz hand lotion .97

- (1) MQ for 1.00

= +.03 overage

(5) 12 packs schick disposable razors 1.97

-(5)MQ for 2.00 any schick razor

=+.03 overage on each pack

Total before coupons would have been 49.40

Total after coupons (- tax) was 5.58

tax was 4.57

Grand total was 10.15

I am please with this trip!!

I included a pic of the stuff we got, and one of Midnight the dear Pug puppy (so you can see how cute she is and that she so deserved her puppy food!!)

Walgreens

I went to my wonderful Wags yesterday, was kinda scared to go back after all the trouble I had the last time I went in with the fusion gamer razors, but thats a whole other story.. Yesterday our fav wags employee Ashley was working (love ya girl, you just rock, and I will continue emailing wags about how awesome you are!!) so we went and got our 5 reynolds aluminum foil, and our ten candy bars, and a diet mt dew for me, and we were off running around the store, trying to find out where Ashley was working so we could go threw her line. We finally found her over at the cosmetics counter, so we went back there, and waited for her to check us out. We got all the items for 2.16 or something like that, and was tickled pink. She told me she was going to have to learn how to do the couponing, and told me about another girl in the area that does it besides me and my friend Crystal, and when I got home last night I realized that it was a sister to a girl that me and Crystal went to school with, lol... small town here. Anyhow I gave Ashley my blog address, and hopefully she can go threw my blog and pick up on the whole process a little, cause with someone as nice as her, she deserves to be getting this stuff for free too!! Again, hats off to our awesome Wags Checker girl Ashley, she rocks!! If you are from Scott County and go in there, ask for the manager and let him know how awesome she is, I guarantee that if she is your checker, you will be treated with respect, and have the best couponing experience ever!