The last few days.... Michael got his final grades back for his first set of classes. A 95% and a 97%. Woohoo! Good job Honey!
We had a pretty leisurely weekend. Yesterday we went to the mall so Michael could get a new Seahawks hat. He's back in the land of Hawks....someone help me!
After that we took the kids to the park. Our emergency room kid, Jake, decided to give us a scare. He was hanging on a bar and decided to let go and sortof jump down the the ground. The structure is made of logs by-the-way. Anyways, he sortof let go and scraped his back up pretty good going down. He had a place next to his spine that immediately bubbled up sortof like he had a pea under his skin. It flattened out after about 15 minutes but you could tell there was fluid under the skin. I spent about 2 hours worrying that he had leaked spinal fluid or something and that's what the bubble was, my imagination was getting the best of me. It finally dawned on me that if he had ruptured a disc, we'd KNOW it. We kept ice on for awhile and he's a little bruised but he's fine. Back to his antics:)
We didn't make it to a church today. I'm still aclimating. We've got 2 picked out to try and we're going to make a good effort to go to one next week. I've got phone numbers for Michael to call and "interview" the Pastors. Hopefully one will work out very quickly and we can start going regularly again. First step is to GO though. LOL
We got some housework done today. Played some games. I took Hannah out for a "girls" night. Walgreens (my pick)and Walmart (her pick). We got deals and got to look at "girly" things that we don't usually get to do with the others in tow. I did my final Walgreens run for the month. I almost stayed on budget, which is $35 bi-weekly for household/toiletries. We have quite the stockpile of shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwash, bodywash, and Febreze. I've gotten a sneak peek at the next 2 week's ads and I'm going to stock up a little on cleaning supplies and we should be good for awhile and I can hopefully start saving up some of my budget money! I've been able to lower my grocery/household budget even further down to $350 month/$175 bi-weekly. That's pretty much the best I can do though. With one still in diapers and 7 mouths to feed, I think I'm doing good!
Our "first" week of school went good last week. We didn't do Science or History so that we could concentrate on the core subjects but we're starting our full load this week. Neat things ahead!
Blessings!

Weekly Walgreens trip

I did my weekly Walgreen's run tonight. Did pretty good! Stocked up on cold medicine for the winter:) Here's the breakdown...
Transaction #1
3 Robitussin $3.99 each--$11.97
Minus 3 $3.00 coupons--$9.00
Total oop w/tax--$4.00
Register Rewards earned $10.00
$6.00 overage!



Transaction #2
2 Dimetapp $3.99 each--$7.98
1 Robitussin $3.99
Crest Pro Health mouthwash $4.49
Minus 2 $3.00 coupons--$6.00
Total w/tax--$13.87
Register Rewards earned $14.50
$.63 overage!



Transaction #3
Chemistry shampoo $7.99
2 Visine eyedrops $3.99 each--$7.98
2 Sunsilk hair mousses B1G1--$4.29
Excedrin Rapid gels $3.99
Revlon nailpolish $4.49
dog toy $2.00
Scunci hairbands $.75
Minus coupons totaling $11.00
Minus RR $20.00
Total w/tax $3.52




Total oop tonight: $21.39
RR Earned: $24.50
RR Used: $20.00 ($4.50 left!)
Rebates Earned: $18.44
Net cost: $1.55 overage!

Blessings!

Another Wag's deal....almost free toothpaste!

I was going to add this deal to my Wag's list last night but the Aquafresh site wasn't working properly so I couldn't see if there were coupons or not.

Aquafresh deal:
Ad coupon for B1G1 free
2 for $2.19
2 $.75/1 coupons from here
Final price: 2 for $.69 or $.35 each!

Blessings!

Walgreen's deals for 8/10-8/16

I'm a little slow getting these up. We're scrambling trying to get an apartment and pack/sell things so we can be out of here by the 26th. Good times!
Another WAGS Diaper deal:
B1G1 50% off
2 packages for $11.98
Easy Saver coupon $5/2
Pharmacy book coupon $2/pk (takes $2 off each)
$2.98 for 2 jumbo packs

Physicians Formula deal:
Physicians Formula 40% off
Use $6/1 $5/1 $3/1 coupons
found at the cosmetics counters.

Covergirl deal:
Cover Girl Eye Cosmetics B1G1 free
2 $1/1 mfg coupons from 8/10 insert
Cheap!

Neutrogena cosmetics deal:
B1G1 50% off
$1/1 coupons from here Also, if you spend $30,
you get a $10 RR!

Nice 'n Easy deal:
On sale B1G1 50% off
B1G1 Free coupon from 8/03 insert
2 for 1/2 the price of 1!

Bic Soleil deal:
Sale $5.99
Easy Saver Coupon $2
$2 off 1 mfg coupon from 8/10 insert
Final Price: $1.99

Oxy deal:
Buy 1 for $4.99 get 1 free
2 $1/1 mfg coupons from 8/10
Final price: 2/$2.99

Lysol toilet bowl deal:
Buy 1 for $2.79 get 1 free
2 $.50/1 mfg coupons from here
Final price: 2/$1.79

Hershey's Bliss deal:
On sale for 2/$6
Get 4 bags for $12
Easy saver coupon for $2 off 2
Easy saver rebate of $5.00 when you buy $10 of hershey's
Print 2 $1 off 1 here and another 2 here
Free plus $1 overage with coupons and rebates!

Bic Pens deal:
On sale 2/$1.00
Use $1 off 2 Bic Stationary Products from 8/03 or print somehere


Blessings!

Walgreens coupon submission order

Here's some info. that will definately help you avoid any problems playing the Walgreens Game.



Submit your coupons to the cashier in this order:

MFG coupons, including RR's

BOGO MFG coupons

Easy Saver coupons

Store coupons

Blessings!

This is info. straight from a WAG manager. Hope this helps someone!

The Walgreens Game

As you all know, Walgreens is a store that I now frequent for the super great deals!


Ever want to know how to do it?


Here are my tips for playing "The Walgreens Game" so you can begin to take advantage of the great deals too!


First off, Walgreen's has their regular weekly sale ad - usually not super great prices but the coupons in
there can be used in addition to any MFG coupons you may have for additional savings.


Walgreens also has a monthly "rebate booklet" that contains all the rebates for the month, PLUS money-saving coupons
in it, which can be used in addition to MFG coupons. The booklet is called the Easy Saver Catalog.
These catalogs are located on the rack with the weekly ads in your store. Grab a few, you might need them!


The ES Catalog has rebate listings for items purchased at Walgreens. This means, there are opportunities for you to
purchase a product and get $X back just for buying that item! You simply save your receipts for the qualifying purchase and
submit the rebates online to get your money back! And, if you request the money to be loaded on a Walgreens Card instead
of them sedning you a check, you'll get a 10% bonus just for doing that!


An example this month from the ES Catalog is Pert Plus Shampoo. My store has it for sale for $3.79. I used a $2.00 MFG coupon
on it making it $1.79. There is a rebate available in the ES Catalog for up to $4.29. They'll refund me the $3.79, the
original price (+10% on my card) making it an overage of $2.38! Basically, I "made" $2.38 for buying the shampoo:)


Here's REALLY GOOD tip that I came across this last week. As soon as you get home from your shopping trip, go online
and enter the receipt codes on your rebate eligible purchases. Don't click "submit". (You may have other purchases
that you want to make when a new ad comes out that month, and you can only submit rebates once per month.)
At the end of the month they will automatically process your rebates. By doing this you don't have to worry about
forgetting to submit them or losing your receipt. I just lost a rebate from last month because I went to enter it
on the 3rd and they had to be submitted by the 2nd. Argh! Don't make my same mistake.


Walgreens also does something called Register Rewards (RR). These are MFG coupons that print out with your store
receipt, when you buy certain products. The can be used just like cash on your next order.


An example right now is the Kellogg's promotion that if you purchase 4 boxes of Smart Start for $10, you get a $5 RR - so very cheap cereal!
You can use these RR's on your next purchase. The only catch with these is you can't "roll" the RR's, meaning, you cannot pay with a RR on
more cereal and get another RR for it. You CAN, however, pay with a RR from a different promotion (i.e., Poptarts, Clean & Clear)
and get another RR. Register Rewards are considered MFG coupons in the register's software. It is also setup to not accept a greater
number or MFG coupons than there are items in your order. If you run into this problem, simply throw a couple of really cheap items
on there to "up" your number of items.

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Submit your coupons to the cashier in this order:

MFG coupons, including RR's

BOGO MFG coupons

Easy Saver coupons

Store coupons

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Enjoy your shopping trips at Walgreens!

Blessings!

Free film developing!

Just a head's up. Walgreen's has a promo. tomorrow where you can get 1 roll of film developed for FREE:) So, if you have 1 laying around tomorrow would be a good day to develop it! Blessings,