"See you later..."

suck. Plain and simple, they just suck. So, mom and dad decided to throw us a "See you later" party. The parties that my parents 'throw' I like to call "drunk fest" only because I get to drink and my kids get to run wild while mommy is drinking ... of course they are safe, how dare you suggest otherwise ;) ... when I drink, I'm actually more aware. LOL Ok, so, Didi and Pap are there along w/numerous other mom/dad's and grandparents.

Anyway ... the party was wonderful, even with having to say 'see you later' to my family, 2nd family, and friends. However, reassurances from them all made it easier.

Saying "see you later" to mom and dad was much harder. For fear of a 'breakdown' I'm just going to say a few things. My heart hurts because their hearts hurt. (That's all I can say right now)

The in-laws were just as tough to say 'see you later' to. I helps knowing that Frank has other siblings still in town to be there for them. No, nobody can replace my kids, so I'm certain that it was/is hard for both Nanny and Papa...as well as, my kids and myself.

So many things I want to say I will miss. But, I must say "see you later" ... I ran out of tissues. ;)

"Move that truck ... "

What can I say? Well, I can say that it has been one hell of a month. Last month this time we were in PA celebrating Jake's 10th birthday, trying to avoid the inevitable. This month we are jumping feet first into a new life of living ...

The first week in August was mentally exhausting. On Tuesday the packers came and packed my (our) life into boxes, lots and lots of boxes. The next day, they loaded up our life into a United Van Lines truck, leaving the first house that Frank and I bought, empty. Completely, empty. When they pulled the truck away it marked the beginning of our new life. "Move that truck, move that truck" so the Aguirre's can start their new life adventure...

Movie "Staycation" deal! Use at Target for $3 DVD's!

You can read about it here...

and print from here:

There are MANY DVD's for $5 at Target ... some great choices!

(You can also print right from the site, I just linked the PDF for easier access)

Back to school supplies...NOW is the time to buy!!

The last few weeks I've been getting free or cheap school supplies ... I even got 12 rolls of scotch tape for 9 cents each! I know a lot of what I do involves coupons, so, I wanted to bring you some school supply deals w/out the coupons. NOW is the time to buy, even if you don't know what your kids will need.

Walmart ... this has got to be my least favorite place to shop, but deals are deals!

• Notebooks (70-sheet), $0.15
• 2 Pocket Folders, $0.15
• Elmer’s Washable Glue Sticks (2-pk.), $0.25
• Crayola Crayons (24-pk.), $0.25
• Elmer’s Washable Glue (4-oz.), $0.25
• Trapper Notebook (70-sheet), $0.50
• Trapper Folder, $0.50
• Dixon Pencils (24-ct.), $1
• Crayola Colored Pencils (12-ct.), $1
• Crayola Markers (10-ct.), $1
• BIC Cristal Pens (10-pk.), $1
• Expo Dry Erase Markers (2-pk.), $1.50
• BIC Mechanical Pencils (10-pk.), $1.50

They also have 18 gallon plastic totes on sale for $3.50 --- wonderful way to store your school supplies!!

When I find more, I'll post!

"Darth, I am your father..."

I heard Kris yelling at Hayden (the cat) and turned around to see Hayden playing with Kristopher's Darth Vader ... this is the best picture I could get, Hayden was having so much fun!

6 Days ...

and I shall be married once again. It's been a long 7 months.

Now, how many months will it take us to get used to living together again ... LOL

Just. About. There.

We are so close that I can see it. 

Dishwashing Gel Tabs only 99cents at Target!

Target has Electrasol/Finish 20+5ct. Quantum or 32 ct. tablets or gel packs, on sale for $3.49 starting tomorrow (7/12)

In this week's paper, the SmartSource pack of coupons has aa $2.50 off manufacturer coupon (exp. 8/9)

After coupon, this makes each pack $.99!

Buy your papers and stock up!!

FREE Slurpee at 7 Eleven on 7/11!

FREE small Slurpee Day at 7 Eleven on 7/11/09

http://ocdeals.freedomblogging.com/2009/06/12/free-slurpees-july-11-at-7-eleven/

More FREE items at Food Lion!

There are 2 FLIP's (Food Lion internet printable coupons) that are out right now.

The first one is $1 off your next 360 purchase and the second one is $1 off your next Home 360 purchase. Both can be printed from HERE. Be sure to select the amount you want to print off, you can NOT got back and reprint!

You can use 1 of each of the coupons in a transaction. I usually do 2 transactions in a row, unless there is a really great deal that I just have to stockpile on, then I do 5 or 6 transactions, but not in a row. I take my 2 transactions out to my car and go back in, or go to another Food Lion.

Here are a few items that you can purchase with these coupons. Some are free and some are only a few quarters! (Of course, prices may vary!)

Price List for Home 360:
Envelopes 1.49
Scrubber pads (similar to Brillo) 1.39
Sponges 1.78
Plastic forks, spoons, or knives 1.49
7lb cat litter for $1.50
Kid scissors $.99
Red plastic disposable cups $1.42
Packages of rubber bands, erasers, pencil sharpeners 3 for $.99
Adult scissors $1.49
Packing tape $1.49
Drinking straws 40ct $1.36
250 toothpicks for $1.12
Transparent tape $.99
Scotch type tape $1.22
Duct tape $1.99
Wood kebob sticks $2.00
Baby bibs $.97
Kleenex 230 ct $1.55
Food Lion brand baby wipes 40ct. $1.50
25 sq ft Aluminum foil $.99
2-pack dish sponges $1.77
Single wet one packs $.89
40ct fabric softener sheets $1.69
Paper Towels $1.50

Price List for Healthy Accents:
Rubbing alcohol $.99
Peroxide $.69
Handsoap $1.49
Epsom salts $.99
hand sanitizer $1.49
Qtips $1.99
HA bandaids $1.79
Petroleum gel in a tub like vaseline $1.39
Nail polish remover $0.97
Dental floss is $1.29
Honey lemon cough drops are $1.50
Toothbrushes $1.00
Cotton balls $.99
FL Water $3.29
Calamine lotion $1.49
Kids and adult bandages $1.79
Acetominophen $2.99
Jumbo cotton balls (100) for $1.26

Sample Purchase:
1 Home 360 Paper Towel Roll - $1.50
1 Healthy Accent Peroxide - $.69
Total: $2.19

Use:
$1.00 Home 360 FLIP
$1.00 Healthy Accent FLIP

OOP: $.19

STOCK UP!

FREE Razors if you have a Food Lion!!

Food Lion has the Healthy Accent M5 Magnum Razor w/Trimmer on sale for $2.99 (Exp. 7/14).

Print off the $2 IP (internet printable coupon) for the M5 Magnum Razor w/trimmer HERE.
You can print 2 of these coupons!

Food Lion has out a $1 off any Healthy Accent FLIP (Food Lion Internet Printable) ... you can print the FLIP from here http://foodlion.com/web-coupons/privatebrand/default.asp?title=coupons_0617 BE SURE TO PRINT AT LEAST 2, ONCE YOU PRINT, YOU CAN NOT GO BACK!

You can only use 1 Healthy Accent FLIP per transaction...so, if you want both razors free, do 2 transactions!! Make sure to get something else in that transaction, though...(match number of items to number of coupons)
Example Transation:
Razor - $2.99 Gum - .50cents
Total: $3.49

Use:
$2 Magnum Razor Coupon $1 Healthy Accent Coupon

PAY only 49cents!

OR just get a razor and pay 99cents after the manufacturer internet printable coupon, if you aren't a penny pincher like me :)

Here are EACH of the boys snakes....

yes...each. We are getting 2! Oh MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jake's is an albino corn snake...(red/white). He is thinking of naming it Rossi (motorcycle racer).


Kristopher's is black/gray/white. He is thinking of naming it Rocky.


We were visiting a friend's house (Laura) last night. She has them and 8 others! I can't believe how good the boys did w/them...the snakes were a bit scared at first but the more the boys held them the snakes became calmer, quickly.

Laura has to get the snakes to eat their first 'pinky' (day old mice) and then we can have them.

See, Didi, they eat mice, so they are good snakes!!

I'm going to be a snake mommy?

OI! What am I thinking??

One of these newly hatched snakes will be ours. They are so easy to care for ... and J loved my friends snake ... oh my, what am I thinking?!


This is Juliana holding my friends corn snake. She loved it!

Jake is sooooooo excited!

He has armpit hair.

(I'm trying so hard not to laugh at him)

Mustard and Hot Sauce at CVS!

Here is a deal you can do at CVS by using internet printables...

FRANK'S® REDHOT® - Hot Cayenne Pepper Sauce

Right hand side says get coupon for 50cents off Frank's Hot Sauce ... when you sign up, it will give you about 6 different coupons ... 1 Print

FRENCH’S® Foods Promotions, Sign Up For Special Promotion Coupons
1 Print

and 2 more from here:
CLICK HERE


CVS has their French's Mustard and Frank's Hot Sauce on sale for only $1.00 ... after the coupons above, they are only 50cents each.

When I find things like this on sale, I stock up ... in this case I could only get 4 of each, but we don't use much of it. This saves me from having to buy mustard or hot sauce for at least a year. Which helps save on money...
How?

I got it on sale and used q's with it, got the best price possible.
I won't have to buy it for a year.
I won't be forced to buy it not on sale because I ran out.

I want this!!

BUT I'll share with you anyway...

http://www.consumerqueen.com/ck-review-on-hoover-cordless-vacuum-and-you-could-win-one/comment-page-11#comment-19594

Win a Hoover Platinum Collection Cordless Stick Vac ... Go on, you know you wanna!

Say wha?

You think I shave my legs because I have a bajillion free razor's? HAHAHAHAHAHAhehehehehehehehehehehe

They paid me to buy all of this!

Total before coupons: $148.48
Total after coupons ( and RR's, ECB's, OYNO's): $18.81
Total after CATS (that weren't expected): $17.81

GRAND Total after rebates are received from Gillette Products: -2.19


Trip 1 Walgreens:
3 "Go Green" Shopping Bags - $1.00
2 St. Ives Body Wash - $2.99 x 2 = $5.98
1 Right Guard Deo - $2.99

Total: $9.97

Coupons Used:
$4.00 RR's
$.75 Right Guard Man. q (Kmart beauty book)
$1.50 St. Ives
$1.50 St. Ives
Wags Q $2.00 off Right Guard

OOP: .70 cents / .48 cents being tax!!
Earned: $3.00 RR's back

Trip 2 Walgreens:
2 Clip-On OFF Starter Kits - $9.99 x 2 = $19.98
2 Quattro Razor (BOGOFree Sale) - $9.49
1 Mead 100ct Envelopes - $1.29

Total: $30.76

Coupons Used:
$4.00 RR's
$2.00 off OFF Clip-on Starter Kit
$9.99 BOGO Free IP OFF Clip-on Starter Kit
$4.00 Quattro Razor
$4.00 Quattro Razor
Wags Coupon .62 off Envelopes

OOP: $3.2o / $1.54 Tax
Earned: $3.00 RR's back

CVS Trip:
1 Hefty One-Zip baggies - $1.00
1 Kellogg's Raisin Brand - $1.88
1 Kellogg's Fruit Loops - $1.88
2 Kellogg's Rice Krispies - $3.76
1 RIB Magazine - .99
1 Schick Quattro - $7.99

Total: 17.50

Used:
$1.50 Fruit Loops
$1.00 Rice Krispies
$1 Rice Krispies
$1.00 Raisin Brand
$1.00 Hefty One-Zip
$4.00 Schick Quattro
$7.99 ECB's

OOP: 1 Cent! (Let me look on the floor for that...LOL)
Earned $3.00 ECB's

Weis Trip 1:
2 Gillette Fusion Razor's $8.99 x 2 = $17.98
2 Gillette Fusion Hydra Gel $2.99 x 2 = $5.98
2 Gillette Body Wash $3.49 x 2 = $6.98
2 Gillette Shampoo $3.49 x 2 = 6.98

Total: $37.92

Use:
2 $4.00 Gillette Fusion Razor = $8.00
2 $1.00 Gillette Body Wash = $2.00
2 $1.00 Gillette Shampoo = $2.00
2 $1.00 Gillette Shaving Cream = $2.00

For every 2 (select) items you get $5 off - $20.00

OOP: $3.94 / Tax: $1.02

Weis Trip 2:
2 Gillette Fusion Razor's $8.99 x 2 = $17.98
2 Gillette Fusion Hydra Gel $2.99 x 2 = $5.98
2 Gillette Body Wash $3.49 x 2 = $6.98
2 Gillette Shampoo $3.49 x 2 = 6.98
1 Weis "Go Green" bag = .99 (had to buy something different (Bag) because Debit doesn't allow you to have 2 like orders in a row)

Total: $38.91

Use:
2 $4.00 Gillette Fusion = $8.00
2 $1.00 Gillette Body Wash = $2.00
2 $1.00 Gillette Shampoo = $2.00
2 $1.00 Gillette Shaving Cream = $2.00

For every 2 items you get $5 off - $20.00

OOP: $4.99 / Tax: $1.08

Food Lion Trip:
1 FL Curly Fries - $1.97
2 FL Black Beans - .59 x 2 = $1.18
1 FL Tomato Sauce - .44
1 FL Stewed Tomato - .44
1 FL Elbow Noodles - .69
1 Digiorno Flatbread Pizza - $5.50
1 FL Whole Fryer Chicken - $3.20
Total: 13.42

Used:
$1.50 OYNO CAT
$2.00 FL Chicken FLIP
$1.50 Digiorno man. q
$2.00 Digiorno FLIP
$1.00 FL Pasta FLIP

OOP: $5.97
Earned back $1.00 OYNO (from Digiorno) and $1.50 OYNO (from FL)

I'm a grandma!?

Jake got a butterfly kit from his Aunt Kristi last summer for his birthday. We finally ordered the gross a** caterpillars ... they spun their cocoon's (my sister is going to get me because I'm not using the correct terminology!) and 1 hatched last night while we were at a ball game. Now, we have 4 total. My cats are going nuts! I have them hanging in the middle of a door (form the top) so the cats can't get them....Here is the first one that hatched:



He/she is on the right ...SO PRETTY!

We are having problems feeding them. Jake is too chicken to stick his hand in and I, well, hate bugs, so I'm certainly not going to do it! LOL I've been DROPPING in grapes for them...

Here are the bad kitties...

Correction! We have 5 of them now! Within mins I missed the last one hatch!

$150 in products for only $20?! WOOT!!

What coupons can do for you!

All bought at Kmart. This week at participating Kmart's they double $2 and under coupons...so that $2 coupon becomes $4!

I'm listing them as price then the actual q used ... then the actual OOP:

Softsoap Ensambles refill $2.99 - $1.00 man. q = .99
St. Ives Scrub $3.69 - $1.50 man. q = .69
Clearasil Face Pads $5.49 - $2.00 man. q = $1.49
Listerine $4.29 - $2.00 man. q = .29
Listerine Strips - $1.79 - $1.00 man. q = Free
Rolaids $1.79 - $1.00 man. q = Free
J&J Baby Q-tips $1.69 - $1.00 man. q = Free
Pert Men Shampoo $3.49 - $1.50 man. q = .49
Lysol Neutra Air $3.29 - $1.50 man. q = .29
Renuzit Spray $2.19 -$1.00 man. q = .19
Oust $3.79 - $2.00 man. q = Free
Del Monte Fruit Chillers $1.99 - $1.00 IP = Free
Premium Saltines $2.69 - $1.00 IP = .69
A1 Steak Sauce $4.49 - $2.00 IP = .49
Kitten Chow - $1.99 - FREE man. q = Free
Wheat Thins Clearance .88 - $1.00 IP = Free
Visine Tears Clearance $4.24 - $2.00 man. q = Free
Visine A+C $3.99 - $2.00 man. q = Free
Edge Shaving Gel/Cream - $1.99 - .75 (or $1 man. q) = .49 or Free
Dentak Floss Picks $2.29 - $1.00 = .29
J&J Baby Wash $3.79 - $2.00 man q = Free
Ritz Crackers $3.00 - $1.00 = $1.00
Wheat Thins $3.00 - FREE Q when you buy Ritz Crackers = Free
Triscuits $3.00 - $1.00 IP = $1.00
Snyder's Pretzels (buy 2) $2.29 x 2 = $4.58 - $1.00 man. q (on 2) = $2.58 for 2 packs or $1.29 each