Woo hoo!

If you're looking to win some prizes/generate a little cash flow just for surfing the net, check out Swagbucks! It's an online search engine powered by Google that you can use to win "swagbucks," and when you have enough Swagbucks you can cash them in for cool prizes including gift cards and electronics! It's super easy, just replace your regular search engine with Swagbucks and watch your bucks start rolling in! If you're interested in joining just use my referral link and get started today: http://swagbucks.com/?cmd=sb-register&rb=325193

Lately I've been trying my darndest to save money. And I have succeeded a little! I've been clipping coupons religiously and my parents, my grandma, and Jon's parents have been sending me some too. I've got a great little stash going on, and I've been trying to organize them, but there are so many! I have a 2" binder with 30 pages of inserts like you would use for baseball cards with different coupons tucked inside them. That fits some of my coupons, well most. But I still have a TON I have yet to cut up and store. I'm going to need another 30 or more pages! I also have a small checkbook size expandable binder that I use when I'm going to the store. I just take the coupons I'm going to use and file them accordingly so I have then all ready for when I check out. Now here's what I'm so proud of!

Kroger is having a Daytona 500 promotion, buy 10 of the participating items and receive $3 off your order at check out automatically. Here was my first run with corresponding coupons:

4 Chef Boyardee @ $0.88/can
2 Ragu Sauce @ $1.69/can
4 Betty Crocker fruit snacks @ $2.00/box
Total before coupons: $14.90
Take $3 off automatically for the Daytona 500 promotion.
Also I had a loadable coupon on my Kroger card for .50/1 Ragu from shortcuts.com.
I used .35/3 Chef Boyardee coupon (doubles so .70 off), a .75/2 Ragu coupon (doubles 1.25 off), and 2 .50/2 Betty Crocker fruit snack coupon (double so 2.00 off)
Total of coupons: $7.70
Total out of pocket: $7.20 for 1o items = .70/per item

That run also generated a 2.50/OYNP (on your next purchase) catalina because of the fruit snacks. The catalina promotion is buy 3 BC fruit snacks get 1.5 catalina, buy 4 get 2.50, and buy 5 get 3.50.

That run then rolled into the next one:
2 Multi Grain Cheerios @ $2.49/box
3 Chef Boyardee @ .88/can
5 BC fruit snacks @ 1.79/box
Total before coupons: $16.57
3$ off automatically for promotion.Had 2 loadable coupons for .75 off box of Cheerios (1.25 off total), 2 .50/1 Cheerios coupons (doubles, 2 off), 1 .35/3 Chef Boyardee coupon (doubles, .70 off) and 2 .50/2 BC coupons (doubles, 2 off) and used 2.50 OYNP cat from deal before.
Total of coupons: 11.70
Total OOP: 4.87 for 10 items= .49/item AND got 3.50 OYNP from BC catalina deal

On another note, is was 50 freaking degrees out today! When I finished my midterm and straightned up the house a little I went to get Molly and we took a walk. It was kind of chilly by 4 in the afternoon, but she had a little hooded jacket and a blanket. I had a sweatshirt and was fine. I took her our in her NEW stroller! We have a Peg Perego P3 stroller in Orange Revi. If you want you can look it up, it's so cute! I got it on e-bay for about $212 plus a matching diaper bag, a stroller rain cover, and a carrying bag. I know, so not a bargain, but I LOVE this stroller. It turns on a dime and stears like a dream. Jon really like the handles, now if we could only get them to extend like they're supposed to! Poo. Hopefully we can get that fixed. Also, it's a fullsize stroller but folds like an umbrella stroller. It's amazing, I can't say anything negative about it. Oh I think you're probably bored of my ramblings for one day, I'll just leave you with a little video of my precious girl!