Free Starbuck's Atlanta

Check your Sunday paper carefully. In the Atlanta Journal Constitution, there's a light blue flyer with a card that you can take to Starbucks every day through July 14 for a free 12oz cup of brewed coffee, hot or iced. Good in Atlanta and Indiana. Not valid at Barnes and Noble Cafe.

Thanks to the Affuent Pauper for this heads up! :)

July Is Upon Us

We are finally slowing up for a couple of days! We have been on the go since school let out. We are going to spend the fourth with Husband's family like we traditionally do! The children look so forward to that!

The week of July 7th, ALL of the children are going to church camp - THE SAME WEEK, at the SAME TIME!!!! Husband and I have been on trips without them, but we have never been at the house for more than a night without them! I am so excited! I probably won't get a thing accomplished while they are gone! I need to "plan" my days carefully! Not too much, but at least something!!

I turned in my application to take the Substitute Teacher Course. I figure I spend so much time at the school already, might as well get paid for some of it! I had to request my transcript - WOW! Blast form the past! I miss those days in our apartment, but not the classes! Don't tell my children, but I was not the best student! I made all A's and B's after I met their daddy the begining of my junior year, but before that...Lawsy Mercy... Mama, you should have had my hide for some of those grades. Hopefully my Freshman year will not hinder me getting a call to be a substitute teacher for third grade! How would I ever explain that to the children? "Do as I say, not as I did???"

Great-Grandmother feed him a DOUGHNUT!
Here we are getting slathered-up for the Water Park!

Couponing 101

I received an email from my friend Cat. She came over to my house a couple of weeks ago for Coupon 101. I typed up a "How-To" and showed her actual receipts. Then we actually went to the stores together and I showed her little quirks about each store! I would love to email you my 101!


She got the hang of it! Check out her purchases! I am so proud of my first pupil!!! Here is her email:

I am having so much fun with coupon shopping!!! Let me give you an example:
TODAY 6/24/08
Between CVS, Walgreens and Publix

24 Charmin BIG rolls toilet paper
16 Bounty paper towels rolls
5 boxes of cereal
4 boxes fruit snacks/fruit roll-ups
4 boxes Zataran's rice mixes (David's fave)
4 boxes Barilla pasta
2 bottles Hunt's ketchup
2 bottles Ocean Spray Lite Cranberry Juice (David's must have!)
1 doz eggs
2 1/2 lb bananas
1 loaf sunbeam bread
8 sticks Smart Blend butter
2 Lysol Neutra-Air sprays
1 ALL Small and Mighty 32 loads
1 ALL Ultra 32 loads
1 75ct Advil (my must have!)
2 Colgate Advanced Whitening toothpaste
1 CVS after shave lotion
1 Brut Deod 2.5 oz
1 Brut Anti-Pers/Deod 3.0 oz
1 2pk Oral B C/A toothbrushes
2 Huggies Bath/Hair Wash ( I have a new niece I will be visiting soon!)
1 Aqua Fresh Kids toothpaste
2 Ajax dish detergents


Total: 168.27 BUT........................

I PAID 40.96!!!!!!! OMGosh!!!!!!

I am loving this! Who needs a job when you have coupons??!!

Old Navy Flip Flops $1.00

I had to let those with an Old Navy know about the great sale tomorrow!
If you need flip flops for $1 check out this site!

Money Saving Mom

I am still saving money! It is so addicting! My favorite is Publix. I love watching the screen as I check out to see if I save more that I spend!

I even took my coupons to the beach. The Publix there did not double coupons, give you half off each of their buy-one-get-one items, nor would they give the best price on a 3/$5 deal. CRAZY - I am so glad we do not live there! I could not handle it!

I will not post play-by-play actions of my savings, except if it is a money making deal! Sister and I had a ball clipping coupons and shopping together! The best deal was the Shrimp Boil we had! Seafood at the beach... there is nothing like it!

We did not do so good positioning ourselves for this picture, but it is us!

These are MY People- where I come from. Ain't always pretty, but its real!!!!!

My oh my what a crew... Wouldn't you love to be my brother-in-law? He flew down Wednesday with my son. Son was at Junior University Monday -Wednesday!

I need to tell all my coupon friends out there about the free Kraft Cheese I scored! There was a coupon in the Parade Magazine Sunday - Buy three items (Kool-aid included) get a pack of cheese for free.

Kroger has Kool-Aid for 10/$1.00 (.10 Each). So I bought three $.10 packs of Kool-Aid for $.30 and I got a $2.75 pack of Kraft cheese for FREE. So of course I did it five more times with my coupons and I now have 18 packs of Kool-Aid and 6 packs of Kraft cheese singles for $1.80. Wahoo!!

Anybody want to come over for a grilled cheese? Now if I could score some cheap bread!

If you are wondering how I have SIX coupons, let me explain. I buy the Sunday Atlanta paper, bundled (Journal & Constitution) for $2.50. I also buy the Daily Paper for $1.25. Husband brings home his paper on Monday that arrives at work and Father-In-Law saves me his papers from work as well. That is six sets of papers with six sets of coupons!!!

A friend of mine has connections at the Daily Paper and we are trying to score coupons from there, but it has not happened yet...

Junior University Graduation

We went to Son's Graduation from Junior University this morning. We are so proud of him!

His Great-Grandmother and Grandmother were there to celebrate this special day! Out of everything that he learned he is most excited to have his Summer back! He can't wait to sleep late!

Summer Time Fun Continued

I love Summer!
The children love to play inside and out! Our only battle has been over the computer. They rotate around, but it is killing me! I do not know why sharing is so hard for three children about to enter fourth and sixth grade, but it is!

Husband was not able to go to the beach with us. he sent me some beautiful roses and told me how much he missed us!
He also got outside in my garden and weeded that BIG mess! He enlarged it and built a new fence around it! He added a new gate and put bunny-proof netting around the bottom! He did such a good job. I was so surprised!!!! I am now so proud of my garden! I will post pictures real soon!

This is the crab that the GIRLS caught! They were so proud, and so was I. My sister had gone to the Outlet Mall with her youngest daughter and son! I took the four girls to the beach and we had a ball!
Sister is making Ree's Apple Dumplin's! I had to take a picture of her preparing it like so...
Oh My He is such a beautiful baby, even if he did wake up a couple of times a night! He was not so cute at 3 AM, but I loved him through it!
Since we needed more FUN in our week, we went to the Big Kahuna! The children had the best time! This water park was HUGE! They loved it!

SummerTime

It has been way to long! WE have been at the beach with my mother and grandmother! My sister and her four children were there! We had a blast!


Here are a few pictures from the trip! Baby was not having so much fun taking 20000 pictures! We were there from Saturday to Saturday! We made some great memories!!