Hay Un Amigo En Mi

In case your Spanish is a little rusty...this post is really "You've got a Friend in Me." Thank you Toy Story theme song! We went and saw Toy Story 3 yesterday. The kids were loving the 3-D glasses and popcorn and treats. Matt and I loved the movie--the kids liked most of it, though they were scared a few times. And yes, the theme song was done in Spanish at one point during the movie. :)

Check us out!! Note Matt already eating all the popcorn. :)
Annie sat on my lap and didn't move during the entire show. I kept checking to see if she was asleep but she wasn't.
The aftermath: a blowpop and a tired 1 year old equals a bad combination.

The best part about the movie was that it didn't cost us anything. Thank you Kelloggs for your Toy Story 3 promotion on your cereal boxes (and General Mills for a promotion last year). I spent around $25 for 25 boxes of cereal (good deal as is) and with that scored 5 free movie tickets and $5 of concession cash. Sweet! I love my coupons and good deals!!

AMAZING!!!!!

I've found some awesome grocery deals these past few weeks, and though I promised myself not to blog about my coupon/good deal excitment, I'm making this one exception for one reason and one reason only...it is SOOOOOO awesome!

Hats off to Shaws, my favorite grocery store (mainly b/c everytime I turn around they are spitting out free $$ at me, literally spitting out of the register). Here's a glimpse of the awesomeness:



Total out of pocket $38.48
but then I got $60 back in store credit coupons off my next purchase.

So, I went back and hit the awesome promotion again.

This was my best day, are you ready?


All of this for 9 cents!!!!! (thanks to some of that $60 worth of store credit)

So, I paid 9 cents and again the register spit out store credit coupons...$45 worth!
I decide to hit the promotion one more time.

I had fewer coupons to use this last time around, so I did spend $11.40.

Again the register gave me $45 in credit coupons.

At this point, out of pocket I spent $49.97 cash and still had $50 worth of coupons for the future remaining.(are you feeling the awesomeness?)


This week, there was a different promotion and of course I had to try again.

65 cents for this pile of goodies. I still have $20 remaining in coupons and thanks to this week's deal, I am getting a $20 rebate check in the mail.

I could go on and on about how great this is, about the 18 boxes of cereal, 7 bags of cheese, 7 things of laundry detergent, 24 or so pasta/rice sides, not to mention about a billion fruit snacks, brownie mixes, yogurts, and more. I'll stop going on and on and on, but isn't it just SOOO FUN!

Coupons

I can't believe I'm actually posting this. I never thought I'd be one of 'those' people who blogged about their good deals. I've turned into a coupon nerd, or am at least trying to figure out how to be one. This was a more exciting day of purchases at Walgreens and Shaws.

I spent $19.36 and got 7 boxes of cereal, 2 boxes of nutra grain bars, 2 cartons of ice cream, 3 Listerine, 1 Scrubbing Bubbles, Keebler cookies, veggies, bagels, frozen lemonade, lunch bags, tootsie rolls, Soft and Dry deodorant, a 3 pack of scotch tape, 4 packs of rolos, 12 packs of Easter stickers, and a big bag of Palmers chocolates. It was exciting!

My favorite couponing website is http://www.hip2save.blogspot.com/