Sunday shopping scorecard (a day late)



My super-intense drawing project
(drawing fabric pinned to the wall)

 After a week of having a full house and working on an intense project for my drawing class, I decided to take some time on Sunday to just sit. Not watch TV, not do homework, not check Facebook. Just sit (and snuggle with John and play with CJ). 

My mind and body really needed a break from the constant activity and sitting hit the spot. Needless to say, I did not successfully kick off my plan for blogging each day. I’ve got the outline of what I want to write about each day, but my body had become one with the floor and my heart was happy just to be enjoying my family on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.

My happy little boy
just playing on Sunday afternoon

So here’s my Sunday shopping scorecard a day late…
On Saturday, with the hope of new job possibilities on the horizon, I decided I needed to pick up a few additional pairs of dress pants because I am taking the advice of “dressing for the job you want” seriously. But of course, I refuse to pay full price for pretty much anything, including clothes. And where can you ALWAYS find a deal on decent quality and fashionable clothes? New York and Company. There is always some kind of sale (BOGO) or coupon available. This weekend happened to be the end of a season (I assume) and everything, yes, everything, in the store was 50% off. I bought 3 pairs of pants, 3 shirts and a watch for a relatively low price. I am now dressed head-to-toe in New York and Company attire in preparation for a chance meeting with future bosses. Hopefully the great deals will pay off (literally) and I won’t have to always look for a deal.

Yeah, right, who am I kidding, I always look for deals, even at discount stores like TJ Maxx and Marshalls! I’m forever a discount digger thanks to years of following my mom around store after store when she wasn't chauffering me from sporting event to sporting event.

My grocery shopping was light this week mostly because I didn’t have a whole lot of time to rifle through my stash of coupons before heading to the store. We wanted to get something going in Crockpot, but were missing a few key ingredients. (We still haven’t been able to find cream of cheese soup anywhere, so John ended up making it from scratch yesterday.) Due to the making of the cheese soup and the chicken being frozen, we weren’t able to start the crockpot meal. So we’ll be having that on Tuesday night.

Back to the grocery trip…so I didn’t get a whole lot, but most everything I bought, I had a coupon for AND it was on sale. The Gerber GoodStart coupon was back in the Publix ad and I was so bummed because the additional $5 coupons I have expired 3/31/2011. But as luck would have it, I received a coupon envelope from Gerber on Friday with a $5.25 formula check for Gerber GoodStart 2. For the third week in a row, I was able to get a can of formula which costs $19 for less than $10. That’s a steal. Too bad I didn’t have a second check, or I would’ve stocked up on another can. CJ is an eating machine lately - must be going through a growth spurt (I hope). Beyond that, I bought more baby food since Earth’s Best was BOGO and I had a manufacturer coupon.

Overall it was a good weekend. I saved a total of $21.50 (paid a total of $39.69) at the grocery store. It’s a fun game, seeing how much I can save and still buy the things I like/need. Couponing saves me money that I’m able to spend on fun outings (like going to Typhoon Lagoon and the Sun n Fun air show) or on my precious little baby because I am quite the sucker for baby clothes.

More about the fun family time tomorrow along with a second post ... need to catch up.