Munchkins N More

Here's the results of a small trip I made with Tracey and Talon on Monday. The Cascade was not as good of a deal as I would have liked, but I had a couple BOGO coupons that expired this weekend and needed to use them up :)


The Breakdown:

Enfapro A+ - $28.99
PM to Zellers @ $23.99
use save $12 (mail out from manufacturer)
use save $5 (mail out)
Total - $6.99

Old Spice Body Wash - 2 @ $3.99
use save $3 WYB 2 (insert)
use 2x save $1 (insert)
use 2x save $1 (tear pad)
use save $1 (RCSS tear pad)
Total - FREE

Cascade Action Pac 15s - 4 @ 5.99
use 2x BOGO
use 2x save $1.50 (insert)
use 2x save $.50 (insert)
use 2x save $.50 (mail out)
Total - $1.75 each

Cover Girl Eye Shadow and Mascara - 13.98
use save $3 WYB 2 (insert)
use save $3 WYB 2 (mail out)
use 2x save $1 (insert)
use save $1 (mail out)
Total - 4.98 for both

Dove soap - $4.49 and 2x Dove Baby soap @ 2.69 - 9.87
PM Dove soap to SDM @ $3.49
use save $4 WYB 3
Total - $1.62 each

Chocolate Bars - 6 @ $1.08
use 3 BOGO
Total - $.54 each

Head and Shoulders w/ bonus razor - $3.99
use save $1
Total - $2.99

Tax - $7.73 Balance w/o tax - $29.25

Total Paid - $36.98
Coupon savings of $59.20! (Like last time, this savings doesn't reflect the value of the free razor which I estimate to be approx. $10, or the savings based on regular prices of sale items)

Savings percentage of 61.5%

Not my best savings, but like I said, I had coupons that were expiring and needed to be used :)

Also, when I went to the mailbox today, I found a $5 manufacturers coupon from Nestle Baby, websaver.ca coupons, and my P&G Brandsampler package! Here is a picture of the samples I got


This was all free, and inside the products was $11.75 in coupons too, ALL STACKABLE!!!!

What a profitable morning :)

So earlier this month, we all had the flu, and poor Peyton got so sick, I had to take her to Emergency for dehydration :( Of course once we got there, she made a liar out of me. I told them that she couldn't keep anything down, and she finished all 6 ounces of pedialyte that they gave her, as well as 3 or so ounces of apple juice! Figures right?

And not to be outdone, last night I had to take Parker to the Emergency room for stitches! Poor little guy fell and hit his head on his train table, and split open his forehead :( After a LONG (ie. 4 1/2 hour) wait, Parker got his first three stitches.



Needless to say, he's feeling better this morning, as you can see from the great big smile, and this one last picture, just for Aunty Krista


ZOMBIE FACE!!!!!
(And I didn't even ask him to do it!)

So my friend Tracey and her daughter Talon and I went out on an extreme shopping trip tonight. Not my best shop by far (I'll post my first two on here later) but still a decent enough savings to post :) Couponing is a little harder here in Canada than it is in the States, but it's still doable. Take a look for yourself!


Here's the breakdown:

Dawn Dish Detergent 709mL - 3/$5
used save $1 (P&G unstackable)
Total $1.33 each

Huggies Wipes - $3.69
used save $1 (mail out)
Total $2.69

Gillette Antiperspirant/Deodorant - 3 @ 3.99
used save $5 when you buy 3 (brandsaver insert)
used 3x save $1 (brandsaver insert)
used 3x save $1 (RCSS tearpad)
used save $1 (tearpad)
I also used 3x buy a deodorant get a free body wash (P&G coupons from inside the Charmin I bought last week on sale)
Total for 3 deodorant and 3 body wash - FREE

Johnson & Johnson Baby Lotion - $2.99
used save $2 (mail out)
used save $1 (mail out)
Total - FREE

3 Musketeers Mint (Can't wait to try these!) - 2 @ $1.08
used BOGO (insert)
Total - $.54 each

Old Spice Body Wash - 2 @ $3.99
used save $3 WUB 2 (brandsaver insert)
used save $1 (brandsaver insert)
used 2x save $1 (RCSS tearpad)
used 2x save $1 (tearpad)
Total - FREE

Pringles Super Stacks - 3/$5
used save $1 WUB 2 (P&G coupons from Charmin pack)
used 2x save $.50 (tearpad)
Total - $1 each

U by Kotex Tampons - 4 @ $3.99
used 2x save $3 WUB 2 (mail out)
used 2x Free Tin WUB 2 boxes (in store tearpad)
Total for 4 boxes and 2 tins - $9.96 or $2.49/box with 2 FREE tins

Head and Shoulders - $3.99
used save $1.50
used save $1.00
(one was mail out, one was insert, not sure which was which)
purchased the bonus pack with free Gillette Fusion Razor (approx. $10 value)
Total for Head and Shoulders AND Razor - $1.49

Colgate Total 170mL (Big tube) - $4.99
PM WM @ $1.97
used save $1.00 (mail out)
used save $.50 (insert)
Total - $.47

Tax - $7.61 Balance w/o tax - $22.69

Total Paid - $30.30
Coupon Savings of $53.97! (This doesn't reflect the value of the razor or regular prices of items that were on sale)

This was all done at London Drugs in Maple Ridge. I can't say enough good things about the staff there :) I still need to hit another location tomorrow for a few things that Maple Ridge was out of, but this was the bulk of my shop this week. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions about couponing or the class that I took to learn this amazing shopping technique!

Just thought I'd share with you guys the new yarns I just picked up from Andrea at Spinup Yarns. She is also working on a new site of her own: www.spinupyarns.com


Chica


Kiwi


Passion Fruit


Mango


and Dragon Fruit

Send me an email if you see something you'd like :)

Happy Easter everyone! Our kids had their first visit from the Easter Bunny this morning! We've never done anything for Parker for Easter before, because he was too young to get it anyway, and really, what parent WANTS to get their kid lots of candy if they won't even understand the reasoning behind it? As it was, we didn't get them much in the way of chocolate. We figured their grandparents probably had that area covered :-)
So this is what the Easter Bunny left the munchkins at our house!


Quite a haul right?


This is Parker's Easter bucket. He was so excited to find it on the deck! Of course, of everything in it, his favourite is the ball. There's a couple colouring/activity books, a Cars harmonica, a Cars nightlight, two bottles of coloured bubbles, some chocolate eggs, a couple Lindt chocolate carrots, the ball, and of course the bucket he found it all in! I have to say, the Easter Bunny is lucky Easter was this weekend and not in a couple weeks because every time the Easter Bunny when shopping, he found something else he wanted to get them!


This is Peyton's bucket. As you could probably guess, she couldn't care less about what's in it, but she has enjoyed chewing on the ball so far this morning! I'm sure she'll snuggle up with the monkeys later on at nap time.

My favourite thing that both of them got are these really cool crayon wallets that I sourced out for the Easter Bunny on Etsy! They're made by a woman named Theresa and she makes a lot of really cool stuff that she sells in her Etsy shop. Stop by and take a look!

So, like I said before, I started this blog mainly so I can do giveaways for Munchkins N More without having to deal with Facebook. Having said this, I don't plan on everything in this blog being about Munchkins N More. I am hoping to use this blog to write about my kids, my family, and just things that happen in our lives. I like to think I'm funny, but I don't know how funny my posts will be. I promise to try my best to keep you guys laughing and keep you interested without you saying, "ugh, her again?!?!?"
One thing I can promise you I will be talking about is COUPONS! I don't know if I'm quite one of the crazy coupon ladies on the new TLC shows. I know my stockpile is NOT NEARLY what theirs are, but I do have an overabundance Tide laundry detergent, and 80 rolls of toilet paper! I also know that I have just recently upgraded my 2" zippered binder with 25 card sleeves in it to a 3" zippered binder with 50 card sleeves in it. I don't know if I really want to admit it or not, but when I weighed my binder earlier this morning, complete with the weekly flyers in it, it weighed slightly more than my daughter did when she was born! I'll take a picture of it one day and show you. I'm actually quite proud of it and get quite a few compliments on it when I take it shopping! Unfortunately, I can't fit both my binder and my kids in the top of the buggy, which to me logically means that Mommy gets to go grocery shopping without the munchkins most of the time!
I did take a course to learn the basics of couponing in Canada. I'll tell you more about it another day. There's also a course from the same woman about couponing in the US, and being so close to the border, I think I'll probably take that course eventually too, and be an "international couponer"! Won't my family be proud! My 10 year reunion is next year. Maybe this is just what I need to finally break my way into the "in group"! ;-)

Hey everyone! I'm so excited to have this blog started! I hope I'll be able to post on it regularly, but as you all know, I get done whatever I can in between feeding little bellies and wiping little bums! I have mainly started this blog as a way to do giveaways without having to jump through all of Facebook's hoops, so we'll give it a try soon, I promise!