Coupons Rock

A few years ago I got into the "couponing" game. However I was working full time then, so it didn't last. But now that I am home, I figured I would try it again. Moneysavingmom.com is my go-to for all the great deals and how to organize the deals for more savings. This is my haul from my first week of "couponing".

Pretty awesome huh?! The receipt reads like this:
3 Jumbo Packs Pampers Diapers
3 Jumbo Packs of Huggies Diapers
2 Palmolive Dish liquid
2 Tubes Colgate Max Foam toothpaste
9 Rolls Sparkle Paper Towels
1 Box Cheerios
1 Box Cinnamon Toast Crunch
1 Box Cocoa Puffs
1 Duracell 9V 2pk
1 Duracell AA 8pk
1 Duracell AAA 8pk
6 Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
4 Children's Advil
3 Scooby Doo Fruit Snacks
4 RightGuard Deodorant
10 Charmin Basic single rolls
3 Command Strips
3 Carmex Chapstick
2 Airwick Scented oil Warmers
3 Hotwheels
6 Kleenex Slimpack Tissue
2 Glade Oil Warmers
4 Boxes Nips Candy
2 Lady's Speedstick deodorant
2 Poweraide
2 Starbucks Double shot
2 Advil Vials
1 Thermacare Lowerback and Hip
1 Listerine pocket pack 3pk
1 Diet Coke 1.25liter
1 Cepacol Sensation Cooling
1 Play Dough Soft pack
1 Somnapure Trial pack
1 Nasal Ease Allergy
1 Street King Energy Shot double pack
1 Contour Next ez Meter
1 Pur-absorb Iron pack
Total: 232.96
What I payed: 115.05
with 18.25 Extra Care Bucks left over to use next time.

I do have a few suggestions if you are going to try getting into the "couponing" game. First I cannot say enough about moneysavingmom.com. I would not be able to do this with out this blog. She makes it so easy. Also do some shopping around. I actually go to a CVS that is not in my city because I have found they are better stocked and are much nicer about doing multiple transactions than any of the four CVS in my town. Also get a plan in your head before going. SimplyCVSshopping.com has some great suggestions on how to organize your transactions and they help you figure out how to work CVS with out having vendor coupons. This is very nice if you are not a coupon clipper or are just starting out. My last suggestion is a big one, SMILE! It is extra work on the clerk to do multiple transactions. A pleasant demeanor and a smile go a long way in thanking the cashier for helping you with something that is a little out of the ordinary.

Extending our Giveaway

We will be extending the Teavana Tea set giveaway till Wednesday November 21st. So be sure to look at the original Giveaway post and enter!

Sick as a Dog

I'm back! I have had an incredibly sick little boy for that past few days. That is why I have not posted lately, but after finding out he has an ear infection and getting him on some antibiotics, it seems we are on the up swing. I have been telling people for days that little one is as sick as a dog. Then yesterday I realized I have no idea what it means to be sick as a dog.

Why a dog, and how sick can a dog really get. So I looked up this popular colloquialism to see where it came from. According to worldwidewords.org " date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sick as a dog is actually the oldest of them, recorded from 1705; it is probably no more than an attempt to give force to a strongly worded statement of physical unhappiness. It was attached to a dog, I would guess, because dogs often seem to have been linked to things considered unpleasant or undesirable; down the years they have had an incredibly bad press, linguistically speaking (think of dog tired, dog in the manger, dog’s breakfast, go to the dogs, dog Latin — big dictionaries have long entries about all the ways that dog has been used in a negative sense).
At various times cats, rats and horses have been also dragged in to the expression, though an odd thing is that horses can’t vomit; one nineteenth-century writer did suggest that this version was used “when a person is exceedingly sick without vomiting”. The strangest member of the set was used by Jonathan Swift in 1731: “Poor Miss, she’s sick as a Cushion, she wants nothing but stuffing” (stop laughing at the back).
The modern sick as a parrot recorded from the 1970s — at one time much overused by British sportsmen as the opposite of over the moon — refers to a state of deep mental depression rather than physical illness; this perhaps comes from instances of parrots contracting psittacosis and passing it to their human owners." Very interesting. So next time you are coughing and sneezing remember the damage done to your dog's reputation, so that you can describe how you feel with intensity. :-)

Best of Both Worlds

I love Desserts. Let me say that again I LOOOOOOVE Desserts. I also love breakfast, so when I find a recipe that puts both together, well it's an excitement I find hard to explain. These Red Velvet Pancakes are by far the best idea for pancakes ever and so easy to make.
                              

Ingredients

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 egg, beaten
• ¾ cup buttermilk
• 2 tablespoon butter, melted
• 4 teaspoons red food coloring

Cream Cheese Icing

• 2 oz cream cheese, softened
• ¾ cup powdered sugar
• 1 ½ tablespoons milk (may need a few drop more)
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

 

Sift all the Dry ingredient's together in a large bowl, add all the wet ingredient's to the dry and mix. Preheat your griddle and make sure to grease it well. Use about 1/4 of a cup of pancake mix per pancake. After making pancakes mix together all of you Cream Cheese Icing ingredient's and stir until smooth.

 

Assemble and Enjoy!

 

 

Warning: Once you make these you will have to make them again and again and again......