Here is my trip to Wal-Mart last Saturday evening...upon coming home I discovered that my cashier did not scan $7 worth of my coupons. I went back today to see if we could get this resolved, sure that there was nothing that they could about it today, 5 days later. Well, to my surprise, it was actually better that I waited because they do not count out the registers until the following day and based on that info my cashiers register was in fact over by $7 worth of coupons. Easy as that....I got my $7 back!!!! So, here is what I purchased on Saturday and after getting the coupon thing fixed to today I ended up paying a grand total of $24.36 OOP for everything in this picture:

And since I was in Hannibal anyway I decided to swing by Walgreens and try & snag a few more bargains. They were out of 1 of the RR items that I wanted and I have to go to Quincy tomorrow anyway so I will probably try the WAGS there for the item that I am wanting. Anyway, I spent a grand total today of $13.55 (doing 3 seperate transactions) not my best totals but I am happy with that, plus a have a $10 RR to use tomorrow or start next with. Here are my purchases:

I'm baaaccck.......

I have been busy couponing and hope to be able to share many of my routine saving adventures here with you on a regular basis. With that said lets get started....here is my latest shopping trip to WAGS:



Any guess on how much I paid for all of the above? Awww, come on, just take a guess........if you guessed $1.11 OOP then you would be right!!!! Plus I earned $9 in RR for my next visit to Walgreens. I was pretty impressed if I do say so myself!!!!! If I had paid full price (no sales & no coupons) for all of that stuff I would have spent $77.52. Not sure what the % of saving that is but looks pretty good to me!!!! Until next time......

~Christine

I bet you guys thought I forgot about this place.....

Well, you are right!!! Not sure what happened last summer to cause me to neglect my blog so severely. Well, David Cook *might* have had something to do with it. Yes, I am still obsessed with that man (much to my mom & husbands dismay).

So....what have I been up to? Well, I have been to several David Cook concerts this year (imagine that), I am a substitute teacher at our local school (not too difficult & $70 a day), Lance is in 2nd grade (for another 16 days anyway), Ty is graduating from high school on the 22nd (hopefully), Rylee's first year of pre-school graduation is May 15th and she has a dance recital the 23rd & 24th. Plus, we have 2 birthdays coming up in June...Lance will be 8 & Rylee will be 4. WHERE does the time go?

I haven't gotten much scrapbooking done lately but I am hoping that will change real soon. My scrapbooking room is in the middle of a "makeover" and I will be sooo much more organized when it is completed that hopefully I will be able to crank out lots of pages. A girl can dream right? (LOL)

Well, I know that I no longer have any blog followers but I am going to keep it up this time (I promise) because I really enjoyed finding this place again and reading all my old posts (giggle).

Well, off to help Lance with his math homework & then head out to ball practice.

Lean, Mean, Mystery Shopping Machine

Yep, that title describes ME!!!! I am officailly a mystery shopper!!! What is a mystery shopper you ask? Well, companies and businesses hire outside indivduals to perform surprise evaluations of their facilities to be sure they are operating to the proper standards. Last year my mom told me about a company on-line that was "hiring" people in my area. I signed up but never accepted any jobs. Well, last week they called me & needed two Hardee's evaluated ASAP. So, I agreed. I completed both of my assignments yesterday. Unfortuately, both had unsuccessful results ~ one being MUCH worse than the other (but honestly I was not surprised. Anyway, I will get paid $28 plus re-imbursed for my food. Not bad for less than 2 hours work!!!

On to other news....since the finale of American Idol a week and a 1/2 ago I have searched for evey available video, message board & web-site pertaining to Mr. David Cook. Plus, atempting to watch every TV interview that he has done. And I proud to say that I think I have found nearly every single one of them!!! I just cannot get enough of this man!!!

Well, Ty left this week for South Carolina for Basic Training. Without so much as a phone call or a quick visit to say good bye. Hopefully, the military will teach him a thing or two about respect for his parents and those that are supporting him financially. And if not, well then maybe he will get the point when he returns at the end of summer and is at our house weekly wanting $$ and we tell him "no".

Well, I think we have successfully captured all of the mice ~ 1 by drowning, 1 in a traditional trap, 4 by way of sticky trap and 1 by our head mouser ~ Q-Tip!!! Yep, you heard right ~ in her old age Q-Tip has officially become a mouser!!! Not only did she catch and kill it BUT she ATE it too!!!! Ewwww, gross is all that I have to say about that!!! I spoke to her vet about it and she said that a mouse is the best nutrition for a cat!!! OK ~ maybe so but ewww, gross!!!

OMG ~ HE WON!!!!!!!

David Cook is the 2008 American Idol winner!!! I am so happy & excited for him. He sooooo deserves it!!!! Like I said previously I have never really gotten "into" AI but this season something was different ~ DAVID COOK!!! And for the first time EVER I actually voted Tuesday night ~ and managed to log in 175 votes on my land line during the 4 hour voting period. 175 votes is NOTHING compared to the 97.5 million total votes ~ BUT I voted!!!! Now I am just trying to figure out how to score some good tickets to the St. Louis concert ~ E-Bay here I come!!!!! And I will leave you today with this pictures from last night:

Death by Drowning

So, early this morning (4:15 am to be exact) I am awakened by what sounds like the cat hitting around an empty plastic bottle in the kitchen. I get up to investigate and find the cat sawing logs in the computer room chair ~ hmmmmmm. I go to the kitchen and hear a funny scratching noise over by the sink and realize that it is a mouse in the cabinets. I bang a couple cabinet doors to hopefully scare him out so I can back to sleep in peace. Then, as I look into the sink I see this:


Do you see what I see? Well, I thought he was faking me out and just waiting for me to leave him alone but then I realized he had drown. So, I snapped these pics to show Bradley and then threw him out the back door. So, I guess if we can't catch the mice with traps then we will just drown them (LOL)!!! Seriously, we have a couple of more mice around here and they are so small they are not setting off our mouse traps so I think I am going to get some of those sticky traps over the weekend and try & get them all caught once and for all!!! All winter long we did not have a mouse problem but for some reason this spring we have been taken over by them not sure what the deal is but I just want them GONE!!!!


Is it EVER going to warm up? I am sooo ready for warm weather EVERYDAY!!!! Next week Lance has Field Day and a Field Trip so I am hoping (praying) for good weather on Monday & Wednesday so he can have a few good days for his school activities.


Speaking of school....the countdown is ON!!! Only 6 1/2 more days including today. And of those days one is Field Day, one is a Field Trip and the last day is a 1/2 day. We will then have 1 week off and summer school starts at the beginning of June for 1 month!!! Homework has already slowed WAY down (which is a good thing for me) and today is his last spelling test (thank goodness). And lots of things/supplies were sent home yesterday already. Gosh, this school year went by so fast!!! Where does the time go?

Object of my obession

Confessions of a 33 yo wife & SAHM of 2. I have totally and completely become OBESSED with this man:

Just look at him ~ how could you not fall in love with him? This is David Cook from American Idol (duh!!!). Anyway, this is the first year that I have ever really gotten INTO any of the contestants on AI. But I was intially drawn to him because he is from Missouri. Then I thought he was a good singer/performer. But recently I noticed the SEX appeal!!!! He has transformed over the last couple months and I believe he has truely become confortable with who he is and what he is doing. And he is such a humble and honest person. He has made it to the top 2 and in my opinion he should be the American Idol but if he does become the runner up he still has a fabulous career ahead of him!!! Love you David Cook!!!!

PS ~ That is him you hear singing!!!!