More Than a Little

I am having  a busy week, trying to get ready for my daughter’s second birthday party.  I made a shopping list on Wednesday and headed out for a round of sales shopping, determined to not need to go anywhere else the rest of the week. That way I’d have plenty of time to prepare for [...]

I do not much care for going to the same store multiple times per week. Dragging a toddler around town once is hard enough. Three times is just too many. But I really wanted to find the Nivea body wash that is free after RR this week at Walgreens, as well as the Bayer monitors, [...]

I dithered on whether or not to go out yesterday, but when I finally did, I actually managed to hit all my drugstores for the week.  Well, except that Walgreens was out of the Nivea body wash, I forgot to check for the Bayer aspirin and I didn’t use all my $2.25 Ecotrin coupons because [...]

I think I have warped my child.  We headed out to go shopping yesterday, and Evelyn said, “Walmart!” as I strapped her into the car seat.  ”No, we’re going to Walgreens,” I told her.  ”Walgreens!” she said happily.  A few miles down the road, she is chattering away and she says, “Walgreens!”  There is a [...]

Two weeks ago, the three of us went shopping in Lexington, which is a little less than an hour away.  We had such a wonderful time that we felt the urge to do it again today. Naturally, it didn’t work out to be quite as much fun as the original–you can just never recreate those [...]

I don’t normally do much coupon shopping on the weekends because I’d generally rather spend time with M while he’s home.  However, today he’s been outside burning our tree debris since about noon.  It’s now 11:55.  He’s pretty much just waiting for it all to die down right now but I can’t believe how much [...]

Last week, I received a $20/$100 coupon from the magic scanner machine, and I have spent more time than I’d care to admit trying desperately to think up a plan for using it before it expires tomorrow.  I had reconciled myself to the fact that I wouldn’t be able to use the silly thing but [...]

Some days, the shopping is really fun and some days, my sweet, sweet baby is kind of a pain.  Today was unfortunately not the fun times.  She wasn’t in the mood, apparently.  I wish she would understand that sometimes Mommy needs to think for a minute so I can finish up and we can get out [...]

I am really lucky in that my Walgreens is really friendly and patient with me and my coupons.  I only had two transactions planned today, but I forgot to use my Visine coupons, so I had to return and rebuy, so I turned it into three.  I am also extremely lucky that my child is [...]

I’ve had a hard time posting this week.  First, I was at my parents on Monday, and my mom came home with me, so I didn’t have time to do anything on Tuesday either.  Once the baby was in bed, I had some work to do for the company my husband works for, and then [...]