Last Wednesday, my mom came down to visit, and when she left, she took Evelyn with her to spend the night.  It was a momentous occasion. On one hand, I had not been away from her for more than about four hours since she was born (she’s almost 28 months old!) but on the other hand… she’s my baby and I want her with me!  Anyway, it worked out really well, and I didn’t even pester my mom with TOO many phone calls. 

I kind of wanted to stay home and do things around the house that I never get a chance to, but since we were getting ready for our yard sale the next day, I headed out to buy more merchandise, plus household stuff.  I hopped over to the next town to try their Walgreens (twice) and Walmart, and then stopped back in at the one here in town.  I did a total of thirteen transactions, and bought the following merchandise:

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…and I spent $16.57 for everything.

Full price, without coupons or RRs?  At least $192.50ish.  That’s a 91.2% savings!   (I say at least because I just added up the price of every item in the picture plus tax, but I might have forgotten a couple.)

So, yes.  It really is worth the time it takes.  Also? I am so loving my overage coupons lately.  :)  I kept wandering around Walmart, trying to figure out what to buy to eat up my overage from the razors ($1 each, and there are 32 there) so I could go check out.  I didn’t want to buy perishables at the first store, since I wasn’t heading home yet, and we had bought most of the non-perishable things we needed earlier in the week.  That’s not a bad problem to have!