CVS Deals This Week!

There are some great sales available this week at CVS! I plan on making a trip in the morning to get some school supplies and other items. This week I have $11 in extra care bucks so I plan to match that up with more items that offer extra care bucks for free items. They have several items in this weeks paper that you can purchase and then receive extra care bucks. Look through the sale add here and get your shopping list ready to save! Come back and post on your deal of the day!
These are a few items I will be picking up this week:

Papermate Grip Pens.................99 cents........99 cent back in extra care bucks
Caliber 5 subject notebook.......$3.99...........$3.00 back in ECB
Caliber Blunt Scissors...........$2.99...........$2.99 back in ECB
Caliber School Glue.................99 cents.........99 back in ECB
Caliber Plastic Ruler...............99 cents.........99 back in ECB

Total........................$9.95
Using ECB from last week...-$10.00

Total out of pocket.........$FREE!!!!!

Total Back In ECB...........$8.96 (great for shopping next time!!!)

ECB are printed out on the bottom of your receipt and can be used as in store cash! I just keep recirculating the ECB for items that offer more ECB! With my $8.96 in ECB I will make another trip to purchase the following:

*Hardcover Photo Book...$7.99...$7.99 back in ECB
Tylenol Arthritis.......$3.99............$3.00 back in ECB also using $2 coupon
Gillette Fusion Razor...$7.99.........$4.00 back in ECB also using $4 coupon

Total.......................$19.97
Using ECB............-$10.01
Coupon..................-$ 6.00

Total out of pocket $3.96!!!

ECB for next trip.....$14.99 -Woo Hoo!!!

Total for this trip should be around $29.91 but we will come home with everything for around $3.96 a savings of $25.95 plus end the trip with another $14.99 in ECB!!!

Looking forward to seeing how you do this week. Make sure to come back and let us know so we can celebrate with you!

*Nicole's Nickles has posted tips here on how to create your own photobook.

Check out her tips before heading out to create your own book.

Camp Supply List

Time is drawing near! Our first born leaves for camp in just a few short hours. I try not to think about it to much because my heart gets heavy. Its so hard letting them go even for just a week! I know he's going to have a fantastic time and I know God has something very special for him this year. No matter what happens we know God is in this trip and we know this is just the first of many steps preparing him to leave home.

The following is a list of supplies we pack for the week of camp. Each year we keep a list and when he returns we update the list and make any necessary changes. We use a large suitcase. When you help them pack it will be very well organized, but when it comes home, not so! Keep it large enough so they can get everything back in when its time to come home. Another thing that we do is put his name on all his supplies. After a kid took his shampoo one year we now mark everything so there is no confusion who it belongs too. We only have boys in our house so sorry girls! If you have girls, I would love for you to post your list!

Clothing/Shoes
6 Play Shirts
4 Dress Shirts
5 Shorts
2 Dress Pants
1 Jeans
4 Dress Socks
6 Play Socks
6 Underpants
Robe
Swimming Trunks
Belt
Tennis Shoes
Old Play Shoes
(he uses these for outdoor activities and if they are to messed up they go into the trash)
Flip Flops (nothing fancy, use in the shower)
Beach Shoes (he likes these for those times at camp there is swimming in the lake)
Dress Shoes

Personal Supplies
2 Towels
Shampoo
Deodorant
Toothbrush
Cologne
Soap/Body Wash
Face Wash
First Aid Supplies (I always send bandages, ointment, sunburn cream, chap stick, anti itch cream, bug spray and in recent years we have added lice spray which he sprays on his bed before making then has on hand just incase-trust me, just send it!!!)
Medication
(check with the counselor to see if they need to hold this or of if it can be left with your child)
Wash Cloths
Hair Spray
Moose

Bedding
Sheets
Blanket
Pillow-we put an extra pillow case on his pillow incase the top one gets to dirty.

Read more about our camp adventures here and here

Deal of the Day @ CVS

Today is the last sale day for this weeks sale falyer at CVS so I wanted to run in and get a few items using my CVS Bucks. This was another fun shopping trip!

I just love getting items FREE!!!!

The total for these items would have been $58.51

With coupons and sale items my total out of pocket was $5.98

Came home with $11 in more CVS Bucks for next trip!

It pays to purchase more then one Sunday paper each week!

Savings of $52.53

For some reason my husband and boys love Fabreze! I rarely buy it because of the cost. When I came home today with four bottles they were excited. This week CVS had it on sale for $5 for the fabric spray and $3 for the air effects. I had two coupons from the Sunday paper for buy one fabric spray get the air effects free. Then I had $1 off coupons for the fabric spray. They were also giving away $5 in CVS Bucks if you spent $10! What a deal! I had $5 Bucks from another purchase last week. I walked away paying $3 for the whole lot! Plus received $5 in bucks for the next trip!.

This was another fun deal! These razors were $5.99 on sale for $2.99 and I had 3 coupons for $3 off so they were as the package says FREE!!! A savings of $17.97!

Thanks again to the Sunday paper I had coupons for BOGO free and CVS was offering $2 in CVS Bucks up to 3 deals. I also had $2 off coupon for the one I did not get free and $3 in CVS Bucks from a previous purchase. So, I ended up paying $2.98 and came home with $6 in CVS Bucks!
A savings of $20.98

Remember to get your Sunday papers this week so

you can find some great deals next week!

I Quit!

The other day my cute niece Emily had on a t-shirt that had a picture of a cigarette butt in an ash tray and it said, "Sometimes, its ok to be a quitter!" After a day this week, I decided I would be a quitter too! As we're going into week four without a job I had a day this week where I held myself a really good pity party. Mark received an email to come take a test at a job he worked part time a year ago. They were wanting to hire for a supervisor position and we were really excited about the possibility. Then he realized he can not work for them because he is under a binding contact that he can't work for a competitor for one year! That started my pity party. For a good 8 hours I sulked, I was mad and I did not have a good day! It was not until late that evening that I realized what I had done all day long. What a waste! I sat myself down (well I was actually cleaning the kitchen) and had a good talk with ME! I told myself, "You had a good day focusing on you now its time to put the focus back where it belongs. Just because this job did not come forth does not mean God has stepped of the throne and its empty up there! God is still on the throne and He is still in control." I was pretty harsh on ME! So, today I have decided to be a quitter! I'm quitting my pity party, I'm quitting being mad, I'm quitting the worry, I'm quitting the negativism, I'm quitting the what ifs and I'm quitting focusing on ME! We are going into week four without a job, but its comforting to know God is still in control and we continue to press on.

Luke 12:7
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Thanks For Visiting With Us

A warm welcome to all our friends who visited our blog this week!

We had visitors from Austria, Bahrain, Mexico, Chile, Sweden, Canada as well as 135 from the good ole USA! Thank you to each of you for taking time to visit with us this week! I hope you will come back again, I would love for you to leave a comment and join our blog so we can visit often. Its our first week counting and it was fun to see how many visitors we had.

Thanks for stopping by, I look forward to hearing from you!

BOGO FREE SALE @ BI-LO

Do you like BOGO FREE Sales? Me too! Its a great week to shop Bi-Lo, they are having a huge BOGO Free sale here this week! Match those sales with coupons and save even more! Bi-Lo allows you to use two coupons with a BOGO Free item. For example, I am getting 2-Carolina Pride Smoked Sausage which is on the BOGO Free sale, so I am going to use 2 coupons for $1.50 each! I will get both sausages for $.68 cents! Check back soon for the Deal of the Day post!

Happy Shopping!!! Let me know about your deal of the day!

We're Lucky

Caleb is "puppysitting" Lucky for the next few weeks. Every time he comes over the two of them are inseparable! As we were packing for camp all plans stopped because the ball they were playing with ended up under the couch. As you can see it was a team effort to locate it again. Once it was found, they were off on another adventure!

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Deal of the Day @ Food Lion

We wanted to have taco salad for dinner on Thursday (you know using the free Catalina dressing here from a few days ago) evening but I was out of ground beef. I was running errands and decided to go into Food Lion to see if I could get any meat on sale.

The above meat would have cost me $62.15 but I paid $29.64 a savings of $32.51!

I was pleased to find this Tyson chicken on a double mark down plus I had 4/$1.00 off coupons! This chicken would have cost me $22 however, with coupons and double mark down I only paid $6.79 with a savings of $15.21!!! A great deal!!! What are we going to eat using this chicken?

Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli and Tomatoes

Grilled Chicken Strips on a bed of Garden Salad

Grilled Chicken Pita Pockets

I was excited to see the ground beef I needed for Taco Salad on clearance. A few packs that I purchased were a double mark down too! This was would have cost me $26.42 but I only paid $16.13 with a savings of $10.29 and I love it because its the 93% fat free so not a lot of fat to tend with, just meat! How are we going to use this ground beef?

Taco Salad

Meat Loaf

Spaghetti

Hamburgers

I purchased this roast for my Dad who enjoys having a "chunk of meat to nibble on" over the weekend. His Mom and Dad did this when they were older and now he likes to have some too! He cooks it in the crockpot and will "nibble" on it all weekend long! Its a little comfort food and provides him several meals. Enjoy Dad! This was another double mark down.

Its original price was $13.73 marked down to $6.72 a savings of $7.01

What deals have you found this week?

Corn on the Cob

I love a good ear of corn on the cob! When my brother was married in Iowa they had corn on the cob at one of the dinners and I can remember me an my friend eating several ears and when we left we craved good ole Iowa corn all the way home! Our corn is not quite that good but non the less, its a treat my family loves! Today Mr. Tom our neighbor gave us a few ears and my mouth started to water as soon as I saw what he had! As much as I was looking forward to having it with our baked chicken this evening, I forgot to put it in the pot! When I was fixing the plates, I saw it! Again, my mouth started to water. I did not want to wait for the water to boil so I decided to try my hand at the good ole microwave! I wrapped the peeled cob in a wet paper towel and placed it in the microwave for 3 minutes. That was the best tasting corn ever (no not as good as Iowa but great for us). No water to tend with, no pot to clean, no heat in the kitchen, just good fresh corn on the cob! It was so yummy! Thanks Mr Tom!