A few more awesome coupon deals...

 

Ok so here's some more tips on some awesome deals..........................................

 

 

Deal #1:

 

YOU, yes you, can get FREE (or almost FREE if ya don't have the $1/1 coupon) Cottenelle toilet paper @ Walmart!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

So here's the deal: buy 2 (12pks) Cottenelle tp @ $5.99 each after price match (bring the most recent albertsons add with you, they are the ones that have them on sale and wally world price matches like Jerrys, YAY) which = $11.98

 

 

- use (2) $1/1 coupons from 3/13 SS insert (if you dont have that or know what it is you can print $.50/1 coupons online:

 

 

http://www.freecouponalerts.com/cottonelle-coupon/ ) your total new total will be....$9.98 (or $10.98, depending on what coupon you have/get)

 

 

Now what ya get to do is submit for Wally worlds $10 gift card and this gets to be FREEEEE (or almost!)

 

 

 

Deal #2

 

 

Albertsons is having great deals on their "Instant Savings Spotlight" and my FAV is their Propel waters.....

 

you save $5 INSTANTLY when you buy 10 of these and that makes them $ .50 each

 

-use $1/2 Propel coupons and that makes them FREE, whoop!

 

 

(If ya didn't get to snag any of those coupons in the Sunday paper a couple weekends ago,  you can do what I did and buy them on eBay, got mine for $2 and they more than paid for themselves, cause I now get to have about 30 bottles of FREE Propel!)

Coupon deals I feel are worth stockin up on...

Sunday 3/13:

-Maybeline is 40% OFF (spend $10 get $3+UPs back on next purchase, ya need a Wellness card for this)

-Dove body wash $7.99 (- $3+UPs) and use $1/1 Dove Visible care body wash coupon

-Purex Softening Crystals $3.99 (-$1 +UP) and use $2/1 Purex coupon found in todays paper

-Motrin PM 40ct $3 (-$1 +UP) and use $2/1 Motrin coupon found in todays paper

There are good coupons in todays paper so if ya can buy a couple, and the papers will pay for themselves with the savings.

I will try to post more good deals, these are just my personal favs, and will see if I can find any better ones when I am out today....

One that I can remember off the top of my head is:

FREE Yakisoba noodles @ Walmart... they are usually priced $.48, an in todays paper there is $.50 off 1 coupon!

Annnnnd Albies has their doublers again, so a ton of freebies there after you double your coupon up to $1.00 = ]

Where the Wild Things are...

Why here in our home of course!

Our typical morning involves, me getting up at 5:30am so I can shower, do my hair, put my face on (i.e. mascara, cause I just aint gonna get used to that stuff called foundation) and making a nice warm hearty, healthy breakfast for the girls, as I am calling them down sayin "breakfast is ready", and they come down fully dressed with teeth and hair brushed....


Ok NOW it's time to WAKE UP!
 It's 7am how did that happen! I hafta rush into the bath room, with Em right behing wailing, (cause I startled her as I yelled at Pez to wake up or she'd be late) so I get her started on brushing her teeth. (thankfully she is content to do this while I take my 5 min. shower, instead of practically pulling off the shower curtain, which she will/can do if she is in "the" mood.)

I grab my towel, dry off as Em is clinging to my legs, brush the hair, put it up, grab some clothes for me, Em and Pez, get some cereal started (yeah, it's a great hot meal, I know) and ooops, looks like I forgot to get Pez lunch together again last night, so that gets done as well...

So now it's 7:30a(the time we are supposed to leave when on time) and Pez is finally downstairs, ssslllllllooooowwwlllllyyyyyy getting her clothes on (she is NOT a morning person) and Em still clinging to my legs, Pez grabs her bowl (she gets to eat it in the car, yippeee) and I thow her half brushed hair into a pony/bun.

Ya see I try to get it in nice braids and brushed thoroughly, but you would think I was chopping her arm off, with how much she screams when I barely, BARELY mind you, run the brush through her tangles.

I have no clue as to how she can have perfectly brushed hair the night before and then voila Literally a birds nest in the morning, I mean how much can one move in a little twin bed, she must get that from me, and did I tell you she talks/mumbles in her sleep, ya she got that from me too, this poor child, she's dooomed!

Poor Em we didn't get her dressed, but I tell myself oh it's fine I can do it at daycare. (since I work there, and can do it then) I'm not sure how they will be able to survive with me as their mother, but we will find a way!

Thank goodness we get Pez in the door before the doors are shut and she needs to get a note from the receptionist, and I head off to grab my coffee before heading to the daycare, another day won!

Mmmmmmmmmm, coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee, coffeeeee!

Now just to survive, a few hundred more.....hmmm, maybe I need a rooster in my life cause these alarms just aren't cuttin it!

Oh yeah, your supposed to turn those things on, right?

Don't be fooled they can be WILD!

Well tomorrow is another day, we will survive!

Oh yeah, did I mention it was the weekend, those are our favorite mornings, all the coffee I need!

Things I CAN'T live w/o!

There are many things in life I can live without, t.v., accessories, clutter, germs, taxes, and hey why not even throw in some "crazies" with that, but these I canNOT live w/o!


Sweet life (I haven't been here in FORever and have been craving it lately!)

Sweet Red wine by Barefoot (I am drinking some right now, don't think I would survive w/o it!!!)

Chipotle ( I could literally eat here every day)

Quinoa w/ sweet potatoes and onions, mix a little salsa in there and I'm in heaven. (my greatest friend turned me on to the wonders of Quinoa)

and then there are those little rugrats that are the reason for my being that I also would not be able to live w/o, can't forget about them.

Although, I must admit, when I'm driving along in the car and everything is perfectly calm and quiet, I have to look back, just to make sure I didn't do that very thing, forget them. Which by the way I HAVE NEVER DONE! yet.....

Raised Veggie Beds

We have officially started our vegetable garden, YAY! Now what?!?

I have been saying I need to do a veggie garden for awhile now, and this year I have finally put actions to my words, and we are going to try raised garden beds. Now just to find out if it will work, I don't have the "greenest thumb" =]

We are starting out with seeds and have purchased two little "greenhouses" to grow them in, who knows how well that'll work...

So far our puchases and totals have been:

3- 2" x 12" x 6 ft cedar boards            $22.47
Beefsteak Tomato seeds                     $  1.79
Cucumber seeds                                 $  2.49
Green Onions seeds                            $  1.79
Carrot seeds                                       $  1.79
Zucchini seeds                                    $  1.79
Cantalope (planting later)                     $  1.29
Allsweet Watermelon (plant later)         $  2.49
Strawberry bulb (planting later)            $  2.99

....I don't know why I grabbed these, but the ones that are higher priced are "Organic" seeds. I didn't really have a preference, but felt like gettin those two organic, who knows I'm just crazy....

Starter seed mix                                  $  9.99  (could have looked for cheaper alt.)

So we have started with these, and eventually I will add the prices for the dirt/mulch I will be buying to add in the box, but I haven't thought that far ahead yet =]

Our total so far is $ 48.88,

hmmm this seems like it is gettin a little spendy, thank goodness I already have all my gardening tools, I only need a little shovel right???


Here's the girls an I gettin started, Peyton sure is excited!

And our now ready to water and grow seeds

So far this is what I have learned on how to be the best I can be! (at growin seeds that is, we see if I'm right and anything grows):
-make sure to water soil with lukewarm water
-never let soil dry out
-try to keep soil @ 70*
-make sure to allow for max. sunlight, when seeds sprout
-remove dome covers once 1-2" tall

I'm sure there are many more tips/areas to cover, but my wee little brain can only handle so much!

I have a label maker now, and have labeled them all...yeah I "try" to be organized.


More pics to come of our attempt to build the raised bed, wish us luck!

Oh yeah, and I'm a crazy Couponer!

All these items combined in the photos cost me a TOTAL of  $170.13. I now have a 6 MONTH supply of items needed to get us through everyday, minus T.P. and Dove soap though cause I haven't had any great coupons for those yet. There were a lot of things I didn't take photos of because everyone made fun of me for it, saying " oh geeez she's takin another one", but I will try to be better next time I stock up!

I haven't yet totalled how much I spent on all my Stock, but I am trying to calculate it soon and will post after. And of course these were were only household supplies, I haven't done a Food Stock-up, and we still have to pay those dang bills that come in every month, and the big one RENT! But this is def. gonna soften the blow! Because I'm pretty sure I kept my total around $200, since I got a LOT of freebies!

Thought I'd give this whole "Blog" thing a try!

So after reading seeing all the blogs out there I felt like making one for myself. Mainly because
a) I need another avenue to vent all those womanly rantings

b) I sometimes get bored at night and

c) because I thought this might turn into something fun (or something that may be forgotten in like a day...)

So I have survived another night with 2 screaming kids! One is asleep (thank the lord above, because she has been driving us all bonkers for awhile now, mostly because I felt another round of molars poking their awesome little selves out, she is our beloved 2 year old) and the other one is watchin a movie on the couch and ALlmost out! ( I caved in and let her stay up a little while longer)

Why is it that we set all these rules and make sure to stick to a standard??? Why can't we just give em what they want, candy, and let them stay up as late as you??? Oh yeah, it's because we have to have a life too, annnd they would be drivin me insane in a matter of days! (not to mention, cavities, I'm soo scared of those little suckers)

So even though Brandon got to (haha, "got to" like it's a prize :0 ) do the bedtime routine, brushing teeth, bathing, book reading & night night. I am still exhausted! Peyton is going through some sort of cry over EVERYTHING/ its all about me stage and Emmy won't stop being just plain CRAZY. Some days I don't know how I survive, and when I complain to my mom, she just laughs and says well "that's what ya get when your a mom" haha, great, thanks for making me feel better, you can leave now!

I try to get it all done, but it seems better sometimes to just sit and stare at the wall....it can be so much more appealing sometimes than listening to the crazies!