The Coupon Game

Want to know my newest hobby? I'm learning how to coupon! So far it's been fun. I'ts opened up my eyes to the savings available out there and I don't think that I'll ever be able to pay full price for something ever again.

Here's some pictures and a break down of my last two shopping trips.

Purchased:

• 16 rolls of Scott toilet paper


• 2 Pinesol


• 4 GE Flood Lights


• 2 Pkgs. Foster Farms chicken breast


• 2 Pkgs. Stay Free pads


• 2 Small boxes Bounce


• Garbage bags-45 count


• Margarine tub


• 2 Kit Kat bars

Total Price Paid: $32.35

Total Saved: $51.01

Purchased:

• 4 Tubs Breyers ice cream


• 2 boxes Magnum ice cream bars (Have you tried these? They are to die for...)


• 4 bags Kroger cheese


• 4 boxes Goldfish crackers


• 3 pkgs. Gummy Bears


• 2 boxes Beach Nut baby oatmeal


• 2 boxes Beach Nut baby rice cereal


• 6 bars Ivory soap


• 2 Reach floss


• 2 Crest toothpaste


• 8 Reach toothbrushes

Total Price Paid: $19

Total Saved: $74.72

Okay enough of my bragging! I'm just so excited!!! Have I convinced you to coupon? Would you like some pointers?

The top three blogs that I check for good deals. http://www.thecentsableshoppin.com/ , http://thekrazycouponlady.com/ and http://www.iheartthemart.com/

I get a lot of really great coupons through facebook. When you LIKE a company, a lot of times they will give you a coupon towards their product or even free samples. I usually find out about the facebook deals through the blogs above.

Here's a few links for some online coupons... http://www.grocerycouponcart.com/print-coupons , coupons.com , http://www.couponnetwork.com/ , http://shortcuts.com/printablecoupons .

I mainly shop at Fry's. For a limited time Fry's will match every coupon up to $1 and they will also match other store coupons. Click HERE for a link to Target's online coupons. Just print, take to Fry's and they will accept it. HERE is a link for Fresh and Easy $10 off of $50 spent. It works until May 2nd. Fry's will also accept this coupon.

6 Months Old (as of yesterday)

Sam has changed A LOT in the past 6 months. He went from being a tiny baby with tons of dark hair, to a big chubby blonde/baldish baby. Oh how I love him!!!

Feeding Time

Here's me attempting to feed Sam some oatmeal. He has NOT figured out how to work his tongue properly when eating. It mostly just comes out of his mouth again. Here's Bryan feeding him backwards. Too cute!

All Wrapped Up

Even though he's six months old... I still swaddle Samuel. He almost always gets out by the time nap time is over, but he is still very content with going to bed all wrapped up.

IronKids Triathlon (Turned Biathlon)

Tate recently participated in the IronKids Oro Valley Triathlon. It was a neat experience for him. I'm proud of him for completing it even though the weather was not helping one bit. It was 50 degrees something and pouring down rain-total opposite of what you think of AZ weather being in April. They ended up cancelling the biking portion of the race due to safety reasons. Even though it was a VERY short race... (50 yard swim, 500 yard run) He was totally proud of himself. Afterwards he said to me "I didn't think I was going to really make it"!

Sunday Afternoon :)

We have lots of fun together as you can see. My favorite picture is the one of the boys attacking Bryan.

March 2011

Here's some March happenings in one big blog post...These pictures are out of order and I'm too lazy to re-arrange them right now. Enjoy anyway.

Sam is really liking his toys. I can't say that I remember Tate ever being as interested in toys (at that age) as Sam is.

He's practicing sitting up. He usually makes it about a minute and then get's distracted, looks up at something and falls over on his noggin.

Playing trains together (sorta) Tate's playing t-ball again. And he hates it just about as much as last year. The only reason why he wanted to play was because every day after school when he wanted to play with his friends, they couldn't because they had some t-ball something going on.

Samuel and his wild crazy hair. Everyone kept calling him an old man so I buzzed it off! And I'm glad I did too! He looks much better.

We heard about this BALD EAGLE family (from someone at Tate's school) that had built a nest in some huge trees on the corner of Brown and McKellips. One afternoon after school we went to go see them. It was so awesome!

Tate had this idea to build some sorta wooden car. He drew up a design on paper and showed it to Bryan who designed it further using auto cad. Then they went to Home Depot, bought the supplies, and started building it together. Tate's already named it the AMAZING CART. It's currently in our garage half finished. Maybe sometime soon they will have time to complete it.

Bryan's aunt (Cheryl) passed away. Sad day:( We will miss her tremendously). This is a picture of Sam on the way home from the funeral that was in Wyoming. It was a long drive and we entertained him by letting him suck on Wheat Thin sticks. YUM!

I got to go with Tate on a field trip to the Children's Museum of Phoenix. We had a fun time. He's already talking about going back.