Went to Publix today:

2 Gallons of milk

2 A1 Steak sauce

2 Motts juice

2 V8 Splash

2 Cheez-Its

2 Ritz crackers

2 Hefty aluminum pans

Pork chops

2 Wholesome goodness cups

2 Tostitos bags

2 CFL GE Smart bulbs

2 Welch's squeezable jelly

Sara Lee Loaf of bread (FREE)

2 Reuseable Shopping bags (FREE)

2 Tomatoes

2 Dial Body washes

2 Packs of Hot dogs

2 Bush's Baked Beans

Grand total: Got $111.86 worth of items for $67.70 which is a savings of: 39.4%

I am proud of myself because I'm lowering my $100 a week original budget a lot and getting more than the $100 in merchandise a week so we eat better and go out to week less often.

Went to CVS and did three transactions:

#1
1.99 * 2 Oral B toothbrush
4.19 * 3 Bandaid
.99 CVS Baby Travel wipes
- 1.00 * 2 Bandaid Q
- .50 Bandaid Q
- 2 * 2 Oral B Q (they had to push this through)
- 2/10 CVS Q
- 2 Skincare CVS Q
- 5 ECB
TOTAL OOP with tax : $2.04 paid with gift card
Earned 5 ECB for J&J Bandaids & 2 for Oral B Toothbrushes
(cost...4 cents!) And it would have been lower the bandaid prices on the shelf were less than 4.19 but this was great anyways

#2
1.99 * 2 Oral B Toothbrushes
2.99 J&J Cloth tape
7.99 J&J First aid kit
.99 CVS Travel baby wipes
-1.00*2 J&J first aid Q
-2/10 CVS Q
-2 Skincare CVS Q
-2*2 Oral B Q (had to push these through)
-5 ECB
TOTAL OOP with Tax: $.95 paid with gift card
Earned 5.00 ECB for J&J and 2.00 for Oral B Toothbrushes
cost? -1.05! awesome!

#3
2.29 * 4 Foamy shaving cream
4.29 * 2 Sunsilk shampoo/conditioner
.99 CVS Baby travel wipes
-2.29 * 2 BOGO Foamy
-4.29 Sunsilk BOGO
-2/10 CVS Q
-2 CVS Skincare Q
-1.50 * 2 Sunsilk Q
-2 ECB
Total OOP with tax: 1.10
which basically was the negative price I got in transaction #2...so this all cost me only .09!!

Grandtotal: Paid 4.09 (all on gift card) for a total of 56.46 in merchandise which is savings of: 92.8%!

Between the company visiting me this weekend and the weather, I haven't been hounding. I'm hoping to go to the grocery store today. Here is what the outside looked like...our dock is underwater. Nothing else to report except we have water in the carpet on the enclosed porch so it stinks out there. Have to let that dry later.

At last, a view of my stockpile....it is all in one closet (minus what I have under the sink and above the washer). Everyone thinks it's great. They come and go "shopping". See the purple in the last picture? They are the CVS travel wipes (12 ct) and I get one for every transaction because .99 - 2 (CVS Skincare Q) = -1.01!! They make me money :)

I have a lot of shampoo/conditioner, detergent, soap, toothpaste (I think over 20 tubes), and Smart Rinse. I also have a ton of Lysol products.

I made all the curtains for my new house and here is what I did:

They are made from 3 flat sheets...2 Queen for the background fabric and 1 printed with white starfish. Perfect for the beach! It took a long time, but hey time is money :)

I don't have time to go through the receipt but I took pictures and basically copied most of what is on HCW....to much success! One problem...I forgot to use one of my $2 off Skin Effects coupons and since my manager allows stacking, that was terrible! Oh well, it was still great and I paid about $10 on a gift card that I already had, which was also free!

I have a huge cat...Thorn. Got him at the SPCA in Pensacola 3 years ago...I walked in and they had over 100 cats. So I walked back out (was wearing my uniform so no time to play with the kitties) and just said give me the one that has been here the longest. He is 16 lb, and long and lean...about the length of my torso without his head or tail (so his torso is the same as my torso!). He is a huge predator...although when I first got him, he was very sick. He's better now though :)

Then my dad got a trap for me to trap mice at my disgusting dorm room ....

but now that I'm out we have been using it (humanely) to catch other beasts...including a HUGE armadillo!

I got some pictures of graduation in June finally...we had a great time. The first picture is of me and my parents in the courtyard...

The second picture is of my dad on a duck tour of Boston, driving a WWII amphibious vehicle, called a Duck.

I found the pictures of the curtains I made for our spare bedroom...you can see them here...we are going for a relaxing island theme in the upstairs 1/2 of the house.

So I've been away from the blog for a long time, but I'm planning on being more diligent than I have been. We did move, on 5/9/2008 and we have been painting. By we, I mean me. For goodness sakes, I am only one person though! Now I am sewing curtains for the 20,000 bazillion windows of our house...at least they all have blinds. And the painting is complete.

Currently I am buying a house with my husband on the East Coast of Florida. We are about halfway through the process and are waiting to finish the insurance/mortgage. Both of us can't wait until all this is behind us.