I used two $5/$20 at Rite Aid yesterday, plus a coupon for a free Bayer Contour (to get my total up over $20) to purchase two brand new books by two of my favorite authors for $3.17 each.   I paid with a $25 gift card that I got for free.

There are things other than health and beauty and overpriced junk foods at drugstores, you know. :)

The funny thing is that before I went shopping yesterday, I spent an hour sorting books in the sunroom.  We switched our bedroom with Evelyn’s and in our new room, we don’t have a logical place for the bookcase that used to be in there.  We were trying to figure out where to put it and couldn’t come up with a good place for it–that’s how it ended up in our room to begin with.  So, I suggested that we consolidate our books until they fit on two bookcases instead of three instead, and move the third bookcase to the basement and use it for general storage.  Most of these books won’t get read again anyway, so why are we holding on to them?  So I spent the morning looking at my books and thinking, “Can I justify the space in my home for this book?” and the afternoon buying two new books.  :)

Also, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Blink for their eye drops.  Blink has had several different promotions over the last couple of years that made them free, so I had a bottle in my storage area but had never tried them.  I woke up with a terrible eye irritation. I’ve been using Visine and eye washes and stuff all morning, and while the Visine helped a little bit, it stung like crazy and then finally I noticed that it was expired.  (Not sure if expiration dates on eye drops are that important? But I don’t know for sure.)  Anyway, I happened to see a bottle of Blink sitting around a little while later and thought I’d try it and it has helped IMMENSELY.  My eye feels better than it’s felt all day.  So, YAY BLINK.  And also, I would like to note that people used to ask me all the time why stores/companies do these sales that involve giving their product away for free.  This is why.  If this drop helped my eye this much, I would pay for it gladly.  If I run out and I am buying more eye drops, I will remember this and I will purchase accordingly.

With a coupon, of course.  I may have suddenly switched brand loyalties but I haven’t, you know, become a different person. ;)

Now, my apologies to those certain persons who have nagged me about not updating this blog.  It has occured to me, now that Evelyn is no longer napping and I don’t really have a good chunk of time in the afternoon to blog, that I don’t really enjoy making certain kinds of posts.  Although I’m thankful to the bloggers who do post daily deals and coupon matchups, I don’t like committing to that sort of posting schedule, and I don’t like feeling like I am just reposting every single thing I see online.  And, I do enjoy posting photos of my shopping trips, but I would enjoy it MUCH more if I didn’t feel like I should do it every time.  I don’t know, those things sort of stress me out and then I don’t post anything.

So, maybe now I will feel less stress about posting, now that I have officially given up on those things.  I mean, I wasn’t DOING them already so there’s no reason to feel guilty. :)