Office Depot/ Office Max Back to School deals for the week of 07/06/2014

Office Depot eraser caps 12 pk or Office Max eraser caps 25pk- $0.01 with $5 Purchase- Limit 3

Oxford or Schoolio index cards- $0.01 with $5 Purchase- Limit 3

Office Depot or Office Max 2 pocket folders- $0.01 with $5 Purchase- Limit 10

Mini Stapler- $1

Sharpie 5 pk- $1

Five Star Poly Clear View Portfolio- $1

Office Depot or Office Max medium binder clips- $1

Walgreens deals for the week of 07/06/2014

Things to keep in mind when shopping at Walgreens:
1) You must have as many items as manufacture's coupons
2) Register Rewards (RR) are considered manufacture's coupons
3) You are allowed 1 manufacture's coupon and 1 store coupon per item
4) When redeeming a Register Rewards against the same offer may not receive another RR
5) 2 coupons can be used with Buy 1 Get 1 FREE Sales :)

Check out Walgreens Coupon Policy here:)

Walgreens has rolled out a program called Balance Rewards. You earn points you can later redeem. Click here to read more about this program.

Dawn- $0.99
$0.25 Dawn cpn- 07/06 P&G

Clairol Nice & Easy or Root Touch Up- $12/2
$5/2 Clairol box color cpn- 07/06 P&G
$2 Clairol box color cpn- 07/06 P&G 

Pantene- $7/2
$3/2 Pantene cpn- 07/06 P&G

Gatorade- $6/6 and get 1000 points

Gold Peck tea- $1.49 and get $1.49 RR

Jack Link's Beef Jerky- $7.99 and get 1000 points

Maxwell House coffee- $5/2 and get 1000 points

Nice seasonings- $0.79

Butterball Chicken broth or Hunts tomato sauce- $1/2 with in ad cpn- Limit 4

Morton salt or Nice baking soda- $0.59 with in ad cpn- Limit 3

Chicken of the Sea sardines or tuna- $0.69 with in ad cpn- Limit 3

Oreo cookies- $6/2 and get 2000 points

Combos- $5/4 and get 1000 points

Downy Unstopables, Tide Pods or Gain Flings- $4.99
$2 Tide Pods, Gain Flings, Downy Unstopables or Gain Fireworks cpn- 07/06 P&G
$3/2 Tide Pods, Gain Flings, Downy Unstopables or Gain Fireworks cpn- 07/06 P&G 

Nice tableware or zipper bags- $0.99

Glad trashbags- $7.99 and get 1000 points

Wexford glue or index cards- $0.39 with in ad cpn- Limit 3

Wexford compass or pencil sharpener- $0.39 with in ad cpn- Limit 3

Wexford 2 pocket folder with prongs or erasers- $1/6 with in ad cpn- Limit 6

Walgreens batteries- Buy 1 Get 1 FREE and get 1000 points

Bausch & Lomb Renu- $7.99 and get 5000 points

Mueller Kinesiology pre cut strips or tape- $6.99 and get $6.99 RR

Listerine pocketpacs- $3.99 and get $2 RR

Playtex, Stayfree or Carefree- $8/2 and get 1000 points
$3 Playtex Sport or Gentle 32ct+ cpn- 05/18 SS
$1 Playtex Sport or Gentle 16ct+ cpn- 05/18 SS 

Colgate Optic White or Total Advanced mouthwash, Total Whitening or Optic White toothpaste 2k, Max Fresh or White toothbrush 2pk- $5.99 and get $3 RR
$1 Colgate Total, Optic White, Max Fresh or Sensitive toothpaste cpn- 06/29 SS
$1 Colgate mouthwash or rinse cpn- 06/29 SS
$1 Colgate 360 or Slim Soft toothbrush cpn- 06/29 SS 

Oral B 3D White or ProHealth toothbrush, Crest toothpaste, ProHealth or 3D mouthwash or rinse- $8/2 and get 3000 points
$0.75 Oral B Pulsar, 3D White, ProHealth, Complete or 2 Indicator or Cavity Defense toothbrush cpn- 07/06 P&G
$2/3 Oral B Glide floss, picks, Crest toothpaste or Crest rinse cpn- 07/06 P&G 
$1/2 Oral B Glide floss, picks, Crest toothpaste or Crest rinse cpn- 07/06 P&G 
$0.50 Oral B Glide floss, picks, Crest toothpaste or Crest rinse cpn- 07/06 P&G 

Colgate toothpaste or Classic or Extra Clean toothbrush- $0.99

Gillette Venus or Fusion ProGlide with flexball manual razor- $8.99 and get $1 RR

Mitchum- $2.99 and get 2000 points when you buy 2
$2 Mitchum cpn- 06/08 SS

Cover Girl lash blast mascara- $6.99
$3 Cover Girl lash blast mascara cpn- 07/06 P&G

Spend $10 on New from Maybelline and get 3000 points
$2 Maybelline New York mascara cpn- 06/01 RP

General Mills cereal- $1.88
$0.75 General Mills Fiber One cereal cpn- 06/29 SS
$0.50 General Mills Cheerios cpn- 06/22 SS
$1/2 General Mills Big G cereal cpn- 06/01 SS 

Quilted Northern or Angel Soft- $7/2 and get 1000 points
$0.25 Quilted Nothern Ultra Soft & Strong 6 double rolls+ cpn- 06/29 RP
$0.25 Quilted Nothern Ultra Plush 6 double rolls+ cpn- 06/29 RP 

Coppertone or Bain de Soilel- $9.99 and get $3 RR
$3/2 Coppertone cpn- 06/22 SS
$1 Coppertone cpn- 06/22 SS 

Nice Peanuts, Sunflower seeds or trail mix- $1.99

CVS deals for the week of 07/06/2014

Don't forget to....
1) Go to cvs.com/email and sign up for the ExtraCare email and receive a $4/20 cpn
2) Stop by the Red ExtraCare coupon center and get CVS cpns
3) You can use a manufacturer's cpn along with a CVS cpn
4) You can use a B1G1Free cpn along with a B1G1Free sale to get both products for FREE

To view CVS Coupon Policy- click here:)

Dawn or Puffs- $0.99
$0.25 Dawn cpn- 07/06 P&G
$0.25/3 Puffs tissues cpn- 07/06 P&G 

Pantene- $10/3
$5/3 Pantene cpn- 07/06 P&G

Kellogg cereal- $1.99
$1/3 Kellogg cereal cpn- 06/01 RP

Kellogg PopTarts, Rice Krispy treats or Cars fruit snacks- $1.99
$1/3 Kellogg PopTart or mini crisps cpn- 06/29 RP
$0.50 Kellogg Frosted Wild Cherry, Frosted Chocolate Vanilla Creme or Milk Chocolate Graham cpn- 06/29 RP 

7Up, Canada Dry, A&W or Sunkist cans- $11/3 and get $4 ECB

Spend $15 on Physicians Formula cosmetics and get $7 ECB

Spend $12 on Loreal lip or nail and get $4 ECB
$2 Loreal face cosmetic cpn- 05/18 RP

Spend $10 on Sally Hansen cosmetics and get $4 ECB

Head & Shoulders- $10/2
$5/2 Head & Shoulders cpn- 07/06 P&G

Oral B Stain erasing toothbrush & Crest 3D strips value pack- $9.99 and get $3 ECB- Limit 2

Spend $10 on Colgate Sensitive toothpaste and get $5 ECB- Limit 2
$1 Colgate Total, Optic White, Max Fresh or Sensitive toothpaste cpn- 06/29 SS

Metamucil- $2.99 and get $1.99 ECB
$1 Metamucil cpn- 07/06 P&G

Tide Pods or Gain Flings- $4.99
$2 Tide Pods, Gain Flings, Downy Unstopables or Gain Fireworks cpn- 07/06 P&G
$3/2 Tide Pods, Gain Flings, Downy Unstopables or Gain Fireworks cpn- 07/06 P&G 

Bumble Bee tuna- $0.88- Limit 10

Spend $10 on Maybelline face, eye or lip and get $3 ECB
$2 Maybelline New York mascara cpn- 06/01 RP

CVS Sport or kids sunscreen spray- $4.99 and get $1 ECB

Gillette Fusion ProGlide or Venus razor- $9.99
Use $1 CVS Coupon Center cpn

Tampax Radiant or Pearl, Always Infinity, Radiant or liners- $4.49 and get $1 ECB
$2 Tampax Pearl or Radiant cpn- 07/06 P&G
$1 Tampax cpn- 07/06 P&G 

Our Crazy, Fun and Busy Week......

I was going to post about our Fun Family Saturday Adventure and then I remembered we didn't have one :)  Since I was a volunteer with our church's Vacation Bible School last week, we decided that we would take the weekend and rest and try to recuperate :) (I am still recuperating~ LOL :)

My mom always volunteered with VBS and I always thought that it was because the church needed her to.  Both her and my dad volunteered quite a bit with whatever our church needed.  My dad started the wood ministry, which was a huge blessing at winter time.  They were well known through out the church.

I was never able to go to VBS due to the long drive, it was over an hour from our house to church.  People always thought we were crazy for driving that long distance instead of finding a church closer to our home.  Now, that I look back, I am so happy that we decided to make the drive to church and then have lunch with my parents after church every Sunday.  I am so blessed with the time we were able to spend with my mom before she passed away.

Anyhow, I am getting side tracked (me and my ADD :))  I never fully understood what VBS meant to my mom until this year.  I decided to be a crew leader this year with our church.  I had no clue what I was in for:)  We had 12 kids.

Crew 16 :)

I thought my 4 kept me busy- oh my.  Thank the Lord for my helper, David, who was a huge blessing and help with all the kids.  To step back and watch this rising high school senior interact with a bunch of wild and crazy kids was priceless:)  I was blessed to have David on my team~ I couldn't have done it without him:)

To be able to love on these kids, learn with these kids and have a blast, I finally get it.  I now understand why my mom was so passionate about VBS.  On the last day of VBS during clean up, I was chatting with one of the wonderful women who takes on organizing VBS, about my experience and I got teary eyed thinking of my mom.  But I know she would have been so proud :)

If you have Facebook and want to see pictures of our week of VBS and some of me and my crazy hat, you can check out Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4 :)  I'm not sure why Day 5 hasn't made it up yet.  I was looking forward to Friday's weird and crazy day pictures.

If my week wasn't crazy enough, we had another inspection on the house we are buying.  We had a crazy 50+ page "novel" for our loan~ oh so much paperwork.  But God is good, everything is coming along nicely and smoothly.  If all keeps going in this direction, we should close on our new house in 21 days, not that we are counting or anything :)

Our new house- well it will be as soon as we close :)

I hope to fully "recuperate" soon and take my family on a Family Fun Saturday Adventure.  Can't wait to see where it is going to take us :)

June 2014 Goal Update

Let's see how we did with our June 2014 goals:

 1) To not eat out or at least to not pay out of pocket, with the exception of tips. If we want to treat the family to a meal out, we will make sure we have a gift card to cover all of us.
Did fabulous with this.

2) Pay off 2 credit cards
Still working on this- getting closer than we were last month :)

3) Not to use any of our credit cards for 2014. To pay cash for everything.
We did fantastic with this goal and paid cash.

4) To maintain our grocery budget. Our current grocery budget is $400 month for our family of 6. Our goal is to use up to that amount to feed our family healthy nourishing meals.  If we are lucky enough to come under our monthly budget, we will save that amount.
We did ok in June and only went over by $12, which we were able to cover with May's leftover grocery money :)

5) To create a monthly meal plan for our family, to use leftovers more efficiently and to make use of everything in our pantry and freezer.  Try our hand at freezer cooking.
Doing great with meal planning.

6) Lose weight- I need to get motivated to lose this baby weight- my goal is to lose 10 lbs this year.
We really need to be more motivated with this goal.  With VBS, house hunting and bank paperwork, I haven't even though about exercising.  Need to get better with this :)

7) Morning devotions, prayer time and more bible reading
Following a bible reading on my church's website:)

8) Monthly date night with hubby- whether we go out or stay at home, pop popcorn and rent a movie
We didn't have a chance to do a date night.  We have a movie gift card, now we need to settle on a date :)


9) To spend quality family time together. With everyones schedule and us running all over creation, I would love to spend more quality time together- no tv- us playing games, talking, enjoying each others company.  I think we are going to claim Saturday's as family fun day:)
June was Family Fun Month. We had a picnic at a park, we visited a Planetarium and had ice cream at a park.  Throw in VBS and we had tons of fun :)

10) Not to use our dryer to save on electricity and lower our electricity bill
Doing great with this and haven't not used the dryer.  I am loving this weather.  I hang the clothes up on clothes racks and next day they are dry:)

11) To do 1 project a month and blog about it
With everything going on, we didn't get a chance to do our June monthly project let alone May's monthly project we keep putting on the back burner.

How did you do on your June goals?

July 2014 Monthly Spending

Here is where I keep a list of our spending for the month of July.  We have a $400 grocery budget for this month.  We did ok last month and only went over by about $12, which was covered by May's grocery budget leftover:)  This is for everything for our family of 6 and 2 cats.  So, lets see how we do this month:

06/29/2014
$13.96- Walgreens
$15.78- Save A Lot
$58.23- BJ's
$77.61- Walmart

07/06/2014
$9.14- Save A Lot
$9.86- Publix
$10.75- BJ's
$31.22- Walmart
$15.00- Farmer Market

07/13/2014
$2.01- Winn Dixie
$6.36- Publix
$6.86- BJ
$23.00- Save A Lot
$42.37- Walmart

07/20/2014
$0.00- CVS
$2.00- Win Dixie
$6.43- Publix
$6.58- Walgreens
$10.88- Save A Lot
$14.55- BJ's
$30.83- Walmart

07/27/2014
$3.17- Walgreens
$5.83- Save A Lot
$10.03- Walmart
$16.45- BJ's

$428.90- Running Total

-28.90- OVER
But that is OK~ we had $55.85 leftover from May & June :)

Our Shopping Trip~ 06/29/2014

Wow~ it is July 1st already~ Yikes.  This year seems to be flying by all too fast.  I cannot get over that we have been in Florida almost 1 year already.  It doesn't seem like it.

Well, it is the beginning of the month grocery shopping for us.  It is that time to stock up on most of our groceries for the month.  Since we are trying to eat out of the freezer and pantry, we shouldn't need too much :)

Here is our shopping trip details:

Walgreens
$13.96- (4) Gallons milk

Save A Lot
$3.94- Grapes
$1.99- Garlic bread
$1.99- Garlic bread
$0.99- Spaghetti sauce
$2.29- Cheddar Cheese block
$4.58- (2) blocks of Mozzarella cheese
$15.78- Total

BJ's
$9.25- Chicken Legs
$1.29- Lettuce
$10.49- Cheese
$4.79- Eggs 2 dz- Egglands Best
$8.29- Outshine bars
$5.99- Peanuts
$4.59- Organic Tortilla Chips
$7.99- Palmolive
$6.98- Crushed Tomatoes
$3.98- Hamburger buns
$1.59- Bananas
$65.23
-2.00 Outshine BJ's store cpn
-2.00 Land O Lakes Cheese BJ's store cpn
-2.00 Palmolive BJ's store cpn
-1.00 Eggland Best BJ's store cpn
$58.23- Total after tax

Walmart
$2.96- Wheat White Flour
$2.96- Wheat White Flour
$1.96- Popsicles
$4.88- Chocolate Chips
$2.97- Right Guard Xtreme deodorant
$0.00- Right Guard Xtreme deodorant- price matched to Publix
$2.97- Right Guard TD5 deodorant
$0.00- Right Guard TD5 deodorant- price matched to Publix
$2.00- Hashbrowns
$6.88- Frozen veggies
$6.98- Swai Fillets
$1.36- Lunchmeat
$2.96- String Cheese
$7.12- Flour Tortillas
$1.18- Half & Half
$2.48- Creamer
$2.48- Sausage
$5.56- Allergy meds
$1.52- Mushrooms
$2.48- Butter extract
$1.88- Sugar
$1.98- Salsa
$0.88- Chili Powder
$2.48- Black beans
$0.57- Cumin
$2.88- Maple extract
$0.96- Marshmallows
$1.98- Corn Flakes
$2.98- Golden Grahams
$2.67- Luigi's Ice
$0.00- Luigi's Ice- price matched to Publix
$81.61
-2/2 Right Guard deodorant printable cpn
-2/2 Right Guard deodorant printable cpn
$77.61- Total after tax

This shopping trip has been added to our July Monthly Spending post, where I keep track of what we spend for the month of July.