This you just have to see

I promise that I am not going to turn this blog in to my "frugal blog".  I started the other one for a purpose - to keep track of my savings.  Since the ideas I am implementing to save all this money are not my own, I don't want to pretend that blog is instructional...it is recordkeeping only.

HOWEVER - I wanted to share today's "catch" with the both of my loyal readers of this blog...

I was pretty bummed this morning.  Today I had to miss both a 40th birthday party for one of my friends as well as a St. Patrick's Day party (that is going on as I type this...sniff sniff) because I didn't have a babysitter and Brad is working until about midnight.  And what usually cheers me up?  Therapy....retail therapy.

So - while The Queen was napping and the Princes were playing the Wii, I pulled out my grocery circulars that came in the mail yesterday and my coupon binder and started comparing.

Then I went to Acme....a store I usually hate, but they had the best sale this week.  When The Queen woke up I gathered up the kids and went grocery shopping.

This is what I got:

(16 boxes General Mills "kids cereals", 6 boxes Nature Valley Granola Bars, 3 boxes Pop Secret, 3 bags Bugles, 4 bags Chex Mix, 2 boxes Fruit Snacks, 1 bag cookie mix)

Total value:  $104.19

Total paid:  $8.68

A few of you have left comments both on this blog and the other one asking me how I have done it.  It's been really nice out the last few days so I have been out playing with the kids and not responding as much as I should.

So here's the deal: 

Tomorrow after church I will sit down and do a one-time post (perhaps split in to 2) and detail the sites that have taught me how to do this.  I think that I'm also going to use Jenefur as my guinea pig for "CVSing".  She recently went and earned $9.98 in Extra Care Bucks.  I'll detail how she can turn those in to a shitload of more free product

And then we shall never speak of this again (on this blog anyway)