Wordless Wednesday: Favorite Flowers

Dixie at French Lique hosts Wordless Wednesday....visit her to see more. This week's subject is favorite flowers.

More good deals!

Ok, since the kids are out of school already I have the time to look around on blogs for good deals. I have found so many links to online coupons! I have been saving a ton at the store...and its getting kinda addictive! I have fun seeing how much I can save each time. I always tell people...I could be a millionaire and I would still use coupons! Afterall, why should you pay full price if you don't have to?

Today's deals...

My trip to Kroger:
I printed out the new Kraft coupons. Thanks to http://www.couponcravings.com/!

I had 3 for $1 off 2 shredded cheeses. Kroger had them on sale for 3/$5. I bought 6 for $7 using the coupons.

Kroger also sends me coupons every couple of months. This month they sent me one for a free bottle of Suave conditioner and a free box of Betty Crocker cake mix. They also sent a coupon for $1 off of a bag of fresh express salad. Those were on sale for $1 so I got it for free!

They also had pillbury brownie mix (family size, funfetti only) on clearance for 1.31. I had a coupon for .35 off 1 that was tripled so I only paid .26 for it! I also got Betty Crocker muffin mixes (in the box) for 1.20 each with coupon. And Betty Crocker icing for .50. It was $2 and I had a .50 coupon that was doubled.

They had frosted flakes on sale for 1.99 a box. I had printed the printable coupons at Coupons.com for $1 off of 1 box. Thanks Money Saving Mom! http://www.moneysavingmom.com/money_saving_mom/
I also had a coupon for 1.00 off 2 kelloggs cereals from one of those machines in the store. It acted as a store coupon so I got to use it too and got the frosted flakes for .50 a box.

I bought other things like meat and produce there too so I'm not listing everything and I didn't take a picture because half of the stuff got put straight into the refrigerator in the garage when we got home. My total before coupons was 40.04. After coupons....25.24. Pretty good since I only used coupons on about half of what I bought!



The Mrs. Baird's outlet:

I hardly ever buy bread at the store. I always go to our Mrs. Baird's outlet. I had gotten coupons for it in the mail too. I used the 15% off entire order coupon. Below is everything I got. My total was 6.70. I put the bread straight in the freezer when I get home. It is always really good and lasts a long time once I thaw it out. We love the Mrs. Baird's whole wheat white and its only .89 a loaf there! And of course, we always get some yummy snacks while we are there! I even picked up a loaf of bread to feed the ducks at the park!

Happy Monday!

Just a little funny for Monday...

Mother's Day

Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
~Ann Taylor

In honor of mother's day I have posted a few "motherly" pictures. I realized in doing this that I hardly have any pictures with my mother. There's one when I was a baby and then one on my wedding day! All you moms out there--hand that camera to your husband every once in a while so your kids will have pictures with you!

This quote reminds me of my mom...
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan

My mom and I on my Wedding Day.

Me and my grandma!

She baked every Saturday and I loved to help her!

I miss her so much!

My mom with Nathan when he was a baby.

My mom with Claire.

My mom loves being a grandma!

And I even put one of myself on here. (My kids are lucky to have a mom that likes Disney so much! We've taken 2 Disney vacations in a little over 3 years!)

The kids and I on the tea cups at Disney World.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there!

Friday's Bargain Shopping Trip

I've always been a coupon clipper and bargain hunter. I just love getting good deals on things, but I've been really busy lately. I haven't been able to sit down with all the ads and coupons and figure out where to go to get stuff for next to nothing. I have been following 2 blogs though that really make the process easier. A big thanks to Money Saving Mom and Coupon Cravings! Thanks to their blogs, I printed some coupons and headed off to Target! (I don't usually do a lot of shopping at Target. I had no idea I could save this much there!)





Ok, here is what I got...

The total before coupons came to $29.15. After coupons...12.71!

Now, that is good but there's more! I also mailed in a $3 rebate for the Lysol products so that makes the total $9.71. AND....

I got a $5 target gift card (for a future purchase) for buying 4 Fiber one products. If you consider the gift card it was really like paying $4.71 for all that!

I also just bought a Dyson vaccuum cleaner from Target. They offered free shipping on the one I wanted so I ordered it online through ebates. Going through ebates gets me 4% cash back. And, I get another 1% cash back from the credit card I used. I also got to apply a $5 coupon offer to the order. Since Target had them on sale for $100 off and I am in desperate need of a new vaccuum cleaner, I was really happy with this deal too!

Show us where you live Friday: Living Rooms

Kelly over at Kelly's corner blog is hosting "show us where you live Fridays". Today is living rooms.

Go here to see more: http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/

This is my living room...

It is very clean and plain for a reason...the house is for sale. We were going for the neutral/uncluttered look.

The coffee table was a gift from my dad. He told me he bought a coffee table at an estate sale and was going to refinish it for me. When I saw it, I thought it was the ugliest thing! It was in really bad condition, the top was scraped up and it just looked old and ugly. I told my husband, "I saw that coffee table he said he's giving us. Yikes! It looks really bad!" Then, my parents came to visit one day and brought it to us. (I'll admit I was nervous when they said they were bringing it!) I loved it! He is so talented. It looks great!

I like looking at everyone else's Friday room pictures. Hopefully, we will be moving soon so I'm going to need decorating ideas for the new house!

Postcard Friendship Friday #7

This is the one and only postcard we could find of Orange, TX. Orange is a little bitty town just near the Louisiana Border. We went there a few years ago to go on a swamp tour. (that was a lot of fun, lots of alligators!)

My son wanted to send a postcard to one of his friends, but we couldn't find one anywhere. We finally happened upon their visitor's center and they had this postcard. They gave us several. I don't think they have much of a demand for them! They were excited that we actually wanted them! As you can see from the postcard, there's not a lot of exciting stuff here. They should really print up some postcards with alligators on them!

To see more postcards from postcard friendship Friday visit Marie at http://www.cpaphilblog.com/