A snapshot of San Antonio's Riverwalk taken Today!

I was invited to go on a field trip today with one of my classes that I visit at school. We took the city bus and went downtown to our beautiful public library. As we got off the city bus, look at what I saw. Isn't it a beautiful sight in the middle of our busy downtown?

Getting my free pound of coffee at Starbucks

I was about to be disappointed in Starbuck's for the 2nd time. However, they came through and I was able to grab my free pound of coffee after 8 weeks of going in 1 time a week for a cup of coffee. The barista was trying to tell me that I didn't get my last stamp in time. I was a little "pushy" and got my pound of coffee. The man in front of me was in the same situation. He got his pound of coffee too!

Goofy CVS visit

I visited my nearest CVS yesterday afternoon. I wanted to grab a couple of the Listerines for the deal this week. I found some $1 Qs that would make this deal $ .99 a bottle-and these are the nice bigger bottles! So I grabbed my Listerines and decided to grab the Reach floss too cuz I had the BOGO Q and could get some free floss. However, I did not realize that these 2 items were the SAME deal and so I did not get my EBs for the floss. I really don't like to return but I thought why should I pay $4 for floss when I have a boat load at home that I got for free or better. Well, the wonderful manager on duty at CVS not only let me return the floss, but she gave me a $8.60something GC as my money back. This is great- I paid $4 on a gc and the BOGO Q. I'm doing a little happy dance right now.

Good Deal Alert at Walgreens

Buy 4 of the men's Nivea bodywashes on sale for $3.99(regular $4.99) =$ 15.96
use 4 of the $3/1 off 1 mens body washes (from 5/2 RP) = -$12.00
= $3.96
get back $5RR
Did this deal early this morning and it works

Sunday Shopping

I ran to CVS and Walgreens this afternoon for the latest deals. Since I invested in a CVS e-gift card to get a bonus e-gift card, I used that to buy my Sunday papers today. No cash OOP at CVS and because the coupon spitter outer nicely gave me a $5 off of $40 purchase, I now have $20EBs, started out with $11. I picked up the deals of the week, Depends for women, toothpaste, Nivea body washes, Listerine, and then grabbed the cheap chips and Betty Crocker warm delights.

At Walgreens, I grabbed my new Swiffer Wet Jet. My old one bit the dust 2 weeks ago and I purposely waited until today to buy another one so I could take advantage of the sale at Walgreens. I used some MM RRs to buy my deals today. I spent $21 in RRs and $3.50 cash OOP and got back $4 in RRs. I bought the wet jet, Irish Spring body wash, Bic razor, sure deodorant, some ice cream drumsticks for Darlin Dan, 4 boxes of sugar free pudding, and some scotch tape.

I'm happy with today's shopping trip. Nothing like last Sunday, but it's not a money maker week like last week. I will be picking up the body washes all week. I will get both the Irish Spring and the Nivea body washes. I plan to burn more RRs on Swiffer refills so I can send off for the $10 rebate. I'm hoping for some hidden money maker deal!

Our Sunday was spent with family. We had a nice breakfast with my 2 daughters and their honeys. The guys helped Darlin move the rest of our heavy furniture out of storage. We FINALLY did it. We are officially out of the storage unit. This has been on our "to do" list for quite a while now. We will now have $117 more a month.
Now that it is just the 2 of us at home, we have more room to fit in the stuff we had in storage. Originally, we needed the unit because we had 6 adults living in our house and we had no extra space available anywhere for the extras. So I guess you could say we made some money today!

May 1 - Time to clean out the Qs

I don't know about everybody else, but I have alot of expired Qs that need to be weeded out.

I'm spending some quality time with my Qs. Alot of Qs expired 4/30 and I try to get rid of my expired Qs as soon as I can. On a typical Sunday, I buy 10 newspapers-unless there aren't any qs or only 1 insert. When there's only 1 insert I order them online, it comes out a little cheaper!

I organize my coupons by the week. I put all 10 inserts for the week in a plastic sheet protector. I have a binder for RED PLUM and a binder for SMART SOURCE. I've just started stacking the most recent inserts in a protector in a plastic bin cuz my binders are bulging. This is working out well because it seems that most of the deals lately require very recent coupons.

When I started couponing I would clip every single coupon in an insert and this was just toooooooo time consuming. Now I just clip the deals. There are a few exceptions. Like the snuggle coupon that came out recently, I clipped it the very week it came out because I knew this coupon is a GOOD one.

I don't typically print alot of internet printables-unless it such a perfect deal I can't resist. This happened a couple of weeks ago with the Nature's Bounty printable coupon off their website. Couldn't resist!

So it's back to the coupon binders and bins for me! Gotta get ready for the new week ahead!

DEALS FROM AROUND THE BLOGOSPHERE FOR THE WEEK OF 5/2:
CVS

Depend Variety Pack 6ct–FREE– after $6.99 Extra Bucks Reward–limit 1 reward

Reach Total Care Floss 30 yds–FREE– after buy one get one free cpn in 1/3 R1 and $2 Extra Bucks Reward on each one–limit 2 Listerine/Reach Rewards

Extra Bucks Promo: Spend $15 and get $5 Extra Bucks when you buy select Eucerin or Nivea products–limit 1 reward

Nivea Body Wash 16.9 oz–$.88– after 5/2 Rp coupon (cpn for Womens Body Wash) –Nivea/Eucerin Promo Item, spend $15 and get $5 Extra Bucks Reward

Nivea Body Wash 16.9 oz –$1.88– after 5/2 RP coupon ( cpn for Mens Body Wash) –Nivea/Eucerin Promo Item, spend $15 and get $5 Extra Bucks Reward

Aleve tablets, caplets 50ct or liqui gels 40ct–$.99– after $3 Extra Bucks Reward and 3/21 S cpn–limit 1 reward

Betty Crocker Warm Delights 3.1 oz–$.25– after 5/2 S or 3/28 S 2 coupon

Colgate Total Advanced Toothpaste 4 oz–$.25– after $2 Extra Bucks Reward and 4/25 S cpn –limit 2 rewards–



WALGREENS

Irish Spring Body Wash 15-18 oz $.49 with 4/25 S cpn and Buy 1 Get $2 Register Rewards


Niagara Starch 20 oz $.74 with 2/28 S cpn and In Ad Coupon


Sure Deodorant 2.6-2.7 oz -FREE- with 5/2 S cpn and In Ad Coupon

Bic Hybrid Advance Disposable Razor $.99 with 5/2 S cpn

Swiffer Products - includes Wet Jet Starter Kit, Wet Jet Refills (12-16 pack), Wet Jet Cleanser (42.5 oz) or Swiffer Dusters (5 pack). All are 25% off and you get back a $2 RR for every $10 that you purchase. There's also a $10 rebate (WYB $20 worth). So buy two sets of items for $10, get back $4 in RR's ($2 each time) after the $10 rebate, you're looking a cost of $6.

Buy $15 in Nivea Products and get back $5 RR

Buy three Nivea Bodywash $5.59 after 20% off
Use one B1G1 Nivea Body Wash for Women 16.9oz May 2010 All You Magazine (exp 5/31/2010)
Use two $4/1 Nivea Body Wash 5/2/2010 RP Insert (exp 5/31/2010)
Pay $3.18 plus tax out of pocket and get back $5 register reward

BEST FILLERS
royal instant pudding 4/$1 w/in-ad Q
butterball chicken broth 2/$1 w/in-ad Q
scotch tape 1/2in. x 12.5 yds $ .39 w/in-ad Q
Walgreens 100ct Aspirin $ .49 w/in-ad Q