65.5% savings?! I'll take it.

Okay! I told you all to look out for my post today! I went to Dollar Tree and Publix today to do my shopping, did you know that Dollar Tree accepts coupons?! Be sure to check your area to be positive. :)

Let's get this party started!

Here is what I got from Dollar Tree- I have to start by saying that a few things that I wanted, they did not have at this particular store. :( boo. Anyway:: 

 I bought 1 pack of Sunflower kernels (for N) 1 pack of sunflower seeds ( for mom and dad) 3 bottles of Ketchup and 1 box of Taco shells! All for $3.92 before tax. I saved $2.25. It makes it $0.60 an item. This is the first time I've couponed at Dollar Tree, and besides the cashier inspecting every inch of each coupon- it was a good trip. :)

I saved 65.5%!!! 

Now for the best part!! 

Isn't it beautiful? 

I won't go into how many of each item I got- you can clearly see. :) but I will say that I bought 22 items. Spent $15.32 and saved $36.15!! $.069 an item!! SERIOUSLY? Amazing!! I saved 70.3% 

Together I saved 66.6%! Yeah, not the best numbers.. But woot woot!!! :) 

Like I've said before I am no extreme couponer--  but I think I do pretty well. 

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Tot school week 6

We have finally made it thru 6 weeks of tot school!  Just in time too, since Summer has practically started and I am so districted all things summer! I decided just a few days into tot school that we will do to 6 weeks of school and take one week off, which couldn't come at a better week. With Memorial Day Monday we all need a break! :)

This week wasn't as planned as I'd like to be, I am vowing now that our next 6 weeks will be planned out better! Trial and error right?

We did some pompom transferring with a muffin tin. She was NOT interested in this at all!

She was however very interested in the tongs we were using to transfer the Poms. 

It was cracking me up how hard she was trying to figure them out!

Then I made colored rice. The color on the left is purple, not black. :)

It was SUPER easy to make and it only cost me $2! Dollar Tree baby!!

I'll write another post about that!

Here she is trying to figure out what all of this is, we haven't played with rice in this form. :)

Here one piece fell onto the floor and she was trying to pick it up.

After we mixed it up, she didn't seem to mind it was all over the floor! 

This was a good 45 minute activity. Next time we play with it, I hope it will be in one of our theme weeks. :)

 While I was cleaning up, she thought it would be fun to play with the top. Silly girl. :)

We spent a lot of time outside and at N's cousins baseball games, so we didn't do as much as we would have hoped. We still had an amazing week and look forward to our festivities tomorrow! 

Until next time.

Pompom transfer with Lolly.

Here is a little snippet of a post from Natalie's Lolly, when she was able to have a little school session with Natalie one morning. 

"Wow! What an opportunity it was to help Natalie with school. She picks up on things so fast. I  so proud to be able to call her my grand daughter. And for her to call me Lolly. I had to show her just a few times what to do and she did it. She seems to lose interest fast, but what one year old doesn't. For what she did do it was great. I can't wait to see all of her achievements in the future. With the mommy and daddy she was blessed with, this beautiful little girl is going to move mountains!"

On this day, Natalie was suppose to transfer Pom Poms from one bowl to another bowl with a spoon.

 Look how little she looks!!

Natalie looks like she had so much fun! She's so interested in learning it's unreal!!

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Until next time. 

Publix shopping trip.

I just brought it one of my biggest savings yet from Publix! At the beginning of this year we decided to start a budget of only $30 a week for groceries. No, I don't always use coupons, so sometimes we go over. Normally that is only when we need to restock some essentials that hadn't been on sale. Generally I've been saving right at 50% which is good! Great even when considering how much groceries are!! 

Today I brought home all of this:: 

That is:

1 gallon of milk, 2 bags of Lays chips,2 things of Crystal Light drink mix, 2 boxes of Hefty slider bags,4 bags of Knorr pasta sides,2 boxes of Fruit Loops, 6 boxes of Bagel Bites (which will probably be gone by the end of the weekend) 1 pound cake, 1 package of smoked sausage, 2 pages of frozen vegetables, 1 Resolve stain stick, and 4 boxes of Capri Sun!!!

ALL for.. You ready:: $25.47 before tax!

This is 28 items for $0.91 a piece!

I saved $55.33 which is 68.5% savings! 

I am no extreme couponer, but with deals this good, why wouldn't you coupon!!??

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