A Reminder of Why I Coupon

I went to Wal-Greens to have my ink cartridges filled. I can get the black filled for $10.00 and the color for $15.00. I also had a coupon for $5.00 off a $25.00 order. To my HORROR they exploded and they couldn't fill them. I had no idea what to do, so I bought what I needed at Staples. I didn't like the price, but I do get $3.00 credit per used cartridge and 10% of my purchase. I'm STILL not a happy camper. So, this is the reason I try to save as much as I can. So I can spend it on other needed items.

BiLo Deals

Do you even want to guess how much I paid for this? No, it wasn't free, but it almost was! $8.61 and I also got a printable coupon back for $3.00 off my next order. 6 salad dressings
11 BBQ sauce
2 Ritz chips
8 gum
3 packs plates
1 bread
1 case dog food

Yes, I am going to share. I thought I had a lot of BBQ sauce, but I was wrong. I read on the hotcouponworld site that one lady has 84 bottles!

Here are some of the deals that you can do this week.
Kraft cheese 3/$5.00 use printable coupon
B1G1 free American cheese singles use printable coupon
Keebler sandies $2.50 use $.55 coupon from 4/5 Redplum and it will double
McCormick black pepper 2/$4.00 use $.75 coupon from 5/10
Dixie crystal sugar $1.88 use $.35 5/17
Knorr Pasta or rice side dishes 10/$10.00 use $.60 from 5/17 or 5/3
Cool Whip B1G1 free use printable coupons
B1G1 Nabisco crackers use printable coupons
B1G1 free Kraft salad dressing and BBQ sauce
B1G1 Kraft Mayo and Miracle Whip use printable coupons
B1G1 Frenchs mustard coupon from 5/10
Hunts Ketchup $.99 use $.20 coupon from 5/10
B1G1 Lawrys seasoning salt use $.50 coupon 4/5
B1G1 Lawrys marinade $.50 5/17
B1G1 McCormick grill mates printable coupon or 5/3 insert or 4/5

This is not all the deals. You can go to www.hotcouponworld.com grocery forums and check out BiLo. BiLo doubles up to $.60

Look What's Been At Our House

Michael has a butterfly in his hand.

We also had an ant farm, but I didn't get pictures of that before they all died :-(

More Coupons

Kraft reset their coupons, so if you had printed 2 of whatever you need, you can go back and print more now. Click HERE to get to the site. Unfortunately, I have ran out of ink!LOL

I know BiLo is suppose to have their Kraft cheese, salad dressing, and cool whip on sale starting Wed., so you will be able to get a good deals on those combined with the printable coupons from the above site.

Some Grocery Deals

OK people. I think you should take advantage of some of the deals that are around until Tuesday in the grocery stores. You can print several Kraft BBQ sauce coupons and get FREE BBQ sauce at Bilo or Food Lion this week. There are $.75 coupons out too from the Sunday paper.

Food Lion whole chickens for $.59 lb and BBQ sauce $.99 free with coupon or almost free

BILO McCormick grill mates will be free if you have the coupons or you can go here and print two, the coupon will double and they will be free. Kraft salad dressing FREE if you have the coupon from 5/10 or go here and print you two and they will be about $.50 On the same site you should be able to print Kraft mayo, BBQ sauce, miracle whip and they are all buy 1 get 1 free at Bilo this week. Snuggle is B1G1 free go here and print out a $1.00 coupon Ritz chips B1G1 print coupon here and it should be about $.30 Texas Pete B1G1 use coupon from 5/10

BLOOM triples this weekend! May 15, 16, and 17

PUBLIX This store ROCKS! If you really watch the deals and mean business when you go, you can really get some great deals. I'm not going to post all the deals, but if you want to see what all you can snag, visit this blog. Scroll down until you see her post for May 13. Publix will allow you to use a manufacturers coupon along with a store's coupon on the same item. These means if you use the Kraft coupon from TARGET along with the manufacturers coupon you can get cheese for $1.00. I had heard this, but wanted to make sure so I asked the store. I was very glad to hear the good news. I am having to make several dishes this weekend besides meals for my own household, so when deals like this come around I am one happy person. You know how quick a grocery bill can add up, especially when you have showers, parties, luncheons, etc to attend! So what are you waiting for? GO GET THOSE DEALS!

GREAT PRINTABLE COUPONS

There are some awesome coupons out right now. You can print each 2 times. Go to both of these sites and you should be able to print 4 in total of the ones you need.

HERE HERE

I Am Blessed

I am truly blessed. Long ago I gave up wanting "things" for holidays. The kids have been so excited a few weeks now about Mother's Day. I think it's so sweet that they want to get me something and do things for me. I woke up and they had made me homemade bookmarks and wrote a note. I also got homemade cards. We had bought a plant holder that holds 3 clay pots at a thrift store the other week, so they each painted a clay pot to place in the container. They also made there own gift wrap for the book they gave me. I love things made with love. It really isn't what I get, but I sure do love the way it's given to me. The kids have been soooooo excited for days about this special day. They truly do love their mama!

I love my mama too and even I am excited about what I am given her today. Happy Mother's Day!

School for the Day

I love it when holidays come around because our school ends up being even more fun! I don't always have a lesson for every single holiday (there's one for everyday, right? :-)), but I think I have always made Cinco de Mayo special. Today we started off by reviewing the geography of Mexico (the older 2 knew the answers....yay them), then the kids did a couple of worksheets about the history of why we celebrate. For those interested it's Mexico celebrating winning the battle of Pueblo against the French in 1862 (short version). Later in the day the kids decorated the dining room, made a special supper, and played the limbo (it did not originate from Mexico).

2 silly girls

Are we ready to party or what? :-)

Everyone in this household loves to cook. Melanie is learning how to chop tomatoes. Don't worry, she was just posing and was very careful with the knife with me right beside her.

On the frugal side, we were able to snag the sombreros at the Dollar Tree and also 2 banners and napkins. The girls made paper chains.

KFC Chicken

Have you tried the new unfried chicken at KFC? Well, if you go here you can print up to 4 coupons with different codes for free chicken. You get 2 pieces of chicken, 2 sides, and a biscuit. Great deal! Offer ends May 19 and it's not valid on Mother's Day.