Getting Ready for 2011

I just finished cleaning out my coupon binder and tossing out all those expired coupons. The start of a New Year means getting rid of MANY expired coupons. I love it and hate it at the same time. I mean I love ridding myself of a heavy binder (will be getting filled back up quickly), but I hate seeing all those un-used coupons going to waste.

Tomorrow there will be multiple inserts. You can get an idea of what will be in the inserts HERE. Another love/hate situation for me, Sunday Mornings. LOVE getting all new coupons....HATE cutting and sorting. I know some people just put the dates on the inserts and file them away that way, but that just doesn't work for me. I need to be able to see each coupon, cause I tend to do my own matchup's rather than going off of matchup's I see on the internet.

So here's to a New Year filled with HIGH value coupons, super HOT deals and many, many FREEBIES.

Extreme Couponing....TLC Show

I was in complete AWW last night watching this. Normally I would just skipped over this show, but this week there has been nothing on TV, so I asked hubby to turn this on. I was shocked over the size of these people's stockpiles. I mean I stockpile but nothing like what I saw last night. It could have to do with living in a Condo and not having any room to stockpile like that. When I saw the first couple and the wife's complete addiction to couponing, I really felt sad for her. She was beyond "extreme couponing", she was completely and totally obsessed with coupons and the "high" you get when you score an amazing deal. Her house was overflowing with products. She had enough toilet paper stocked up, to last her and her husband for 4 years. Seriously?? She had a year supply of pasta, but that did not stop her from getting another 250 more boxes at her next shopping trip. What bothered me about this couple or what saddened me, is that she has let couponing control her whole entire life. She admitted to cancelling dinner plans with her husband to go shopping and make sure she doesn't miss out on a deal. Her home is overflowing with products that she has no taken over the one small space in the home that her husband has as a get-away. Her poor husband just shrugged at her obsessive behavior as if it were nothing.

I watched the whole show and I was just in amazement. There are some really hardcore people out there and then there are some really WHACKO's. How I coupon in my life is NOTHING compared to how some people do it. But I am still able to stock up on items we use alot of and I am able to keep our grocery bill at a budget, well below that of a typical family of 4.

Did you watch it? What did you think?

Rite Aid Run

I had to hit Rite Aid, not for anything special, but to roll my UP Rewards. I had some that were about the expire, so rather than letting them expire and go to waste, I just rolled them into more UP's.

I also wanted to check out the Christmas Clearance.

My transaction went like this....

Excedrin Extra Strength

Excedrin Migraine

Rite Aid Light Bulbs

(2) Duracell AA Batteries

(2) Reeses Peanut Butter Cups

(2) Gilette Deodarants

(2) Packages of Pencils

Keebler Gingerbread Men Cookies (Clearance)

After my 10% Wellness Discount, $4/$20 Video Value Coupon, MQ's, and UP's...

I paid .31 Out of Pocket and got back $8 UP Rewards.

This is why I LOVE Rite Aid

Disney Store: 50% Off and FREE SHIPPING

Right now Disney Store is having a 50% Off Sale on select. Also score yourself  FREE SHIPPING. All you have to do is Buy any Disney Parks 2011 Commemorative Item and use Promo Code: 2011 and your order will ship free.

Go Here to see what they have.

Add this to your shopping bag for just $4.95 and use Promo Code: 2011 and get FREE SHIPPING on your whole purchase. WOW!! 

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Our very Happy Christmas!

I am starting to come down from the Christmas High! I am still not completely pulled together mentally (this is why I haven't posted any deals or anything in regards to couponing). It doesn't help that we were just hit with a blizzard and I have been home-bound for almost 2 days now and it is still not such a good idea to get into the car and drive to any store. I did get out before the storm hit yesterday to get some much needed milk, eggs, bread and toilet paper. LOL. This time last year I have already hit Target and Walmart with my coupon binder in hand to score some great deals, but that will have to wait this year. Even with all this bummer news, we still had an amazing Christmas. We all were very happy with what Santa had brought us.

Our Christmas starts at Grammy and Tim's house on Christmas Eve. We all get together for some very delicious food, great laughs and lots of gifts.

Then of course we head back home just in time to get ready for bed and hope that Santa brings us everything we have asked for this year.

Looks like Santa did make it to our house.

Check out what Daddy got from Santa.

We had our delicious Christmas Breakfast. Then the kids jumped right into their new toys. They decided to try on some of their Dress-up items.

Then we had to get dressed and ready to head to Nana & Pop's house for Christmas Dinner. I am a bit bummed that a setting was accidently changed on my camera and all the pictures I took there turned out way too blurry to do anything with.

Miss K and her dolly Molly

After time at Nana & Pop's we came home and the kids continued to play with all their toys and I was able to get most of the house organized.

Santa brought Molly her own bed too...and Mommy made Miss K & Molly matching pj's.

Now the kids and Daddy are getting all bundled up to go out and play in the snow. This Mommy is not at all a fan of snow...so I can get a little bit of peace and quiet.

100 Followers before 2011.

Hmmm....do you think we can do it? I would love to be able to have 100 followers or fans on FACEBOOK before the year ends. I currently have 14 followers on the blog and 38 fans on facebook. I still have the Tag Book Giveaway going on as well. So heres what you have to do, if you are not already a follower of my blog, please scroll down on the right sidebar of the blog and click on the follow button and start following the blog or you can check me out on FACEBOOK and become a fan. If you are already a follower/fan then you can start sharing my blog with your friends and family. You can also share my facebook fan page as well. Just go to my facebook page, click on suggest to friends under my profile picture and suggest your friends to become a fan as well.

Do you think we can do this???