For my one faithful reader (you know who you are)

I recently handed my almost-4-year-old a container of strawberry yogurt.

"What flavor is it, Mommy?" he said.
"Straw-berry. It's a party in my mouth!"
"No, Mommy, it's yogurt in my mouth, silly!"

Oh, right. Yogurt.

What am I?

This post could get really philosophical. But it's been a long day (lots of free and cheap stuff at Staples, Walgreens, Target, Longs, and Safeway today ~ stay tuned for a report) and my brain and my body are tired. Instead, I was really struck by a silly catalog we received when my Grandma sent my son a toy she ordered for him. It was from Toys To Grow On and he loves it (thanks GG!). I digress! Anyway I'm flipping through the catalog before I toss it (because you know of course I can't JUST toss it!) and I came across this:


Now, maybe you can't see it in the photo, but they have four different families to choose from: White, Black, Hispanic, or Asian. My first thought was, "Wow! Good for them!" My almost immediate second thought was "Oh..... I wouldn't know what to order." [ed note: we are a mixed race family] Now, just as I'm typing this, I thought "OH! I could order two families and mix them!" Then almost immediately (again) I thought "Oh... what would I do? Cut up the kiddie dolls and sew them back together so that the kid dolls are truly mixed kids?"

Forget it. I'm sticking to Barbie. (not!!!)

Coupon mania.... what next??

As you heard in my last post, I'm getting more and more excited about coupon-ing, especially since I've discovered a bunch of other folks online that tell me what to buy, where, and with what coupon to save beaucoup bucks.

With that major coupon excitement, I'm clipping more coupons and my tiny little coupon-holder is doing me no good. :( A friend was with me at WalMart yesterday and that's the only reason I could do it all ~ pawing through all those coupons with two ducklings in tow takes WAAAY too long. On the way home, I commented to said friend that I had to start researching other frugal mommies' methods for coupon keeping. And now, I may even be able to win a coupon management system FOR FREE! But I'm not the only one. If you're getting excited about coupon management ;) and want to enter to win, join me over at Tales From the Road Less Traveled. If you win, you'll receive every coupon insert that comes out in the AJC Sunday edition for the next four weeks, already labeled and ready to go in Momma’s Coupon Management System.

So go register to win!! :D

Coupon mania

I've been really inspired by Freebies4Mom, MoneySavingMom, The Centsible Sawyer, Deal Seeking Mom.... Anyway I took a little trip to Walmart today and guess what I got?

Two Powerade 32 oz bottles: $.70 each including CRV
with one $.75 coupon and one $1.00 off coupon: I made $.35!

CleanTeam flushable kid wipes: $1.64 each
THREE coupons for $3 off/2
SIX packages at $.07 each!

Scrubbing Bubbles starter kit $4.92
With rebate: FREE!

Two bottles of Pert Plus $4.34 each
Two coupons for a total of $5 off
$5 mail-in rebate
I'll make $3.32

Also, they had this huge display of Clean & Clear face wash for $3.48. It rang up at $4.77 so I went over to customer service, and after some hemming and hawing they gave me the "advertised" price (and promptly changed the advertised price). With a $1 off coupon, It was only $2.48 for a product that is normally $4.77! yay!

A bunch of the other deals mentioned on those mom blogs weren't for sale, or the prices at my WalMart were so high that it still wasn't a very good deal for me to buy the stuff even WITH my coupons. Sadness. :(

This is the problem with living in an urban area. Often I get a great coupon or read about a great deal, but my local Safeway, WalMart or Target stores are so small that they don't carry the product. Lame! Time to move to the burbs!

While we're on the topic, let me rant about Walgreens. I went in to get some of their "free" products last week (free w/ rebate) ~ well guess what? THEY AREN'T FREE! The max amount on the rebate is less than the actual sale price at the store. Uh.... no thanks!

So.... at the end of my WalMart shopping trip (and my rebate!), I will have spent $2.40 for 15 items! I'm so excited!

Another funny

"Mommy, my peepee wasn't working so I did the brown stuff instead. See?"

Yes, only a mother would love and blog about something like this.