Sunday Savings, Snow, and Sickness

I am finally on February vacation! Vacations are the second reason I love teaching.
Miss Baby and I love to spend time together!

Even while we play peek a boo with daddy who is trying to paint the trim in the living room. (Living room redo pictures to come.)

We had our second storm of the season in NH this weekend. Miss Baby, and I bundled up and headed out to play in the snow.

I think our black lab Bailey was having more fun than she was.

She didn't really like her sled ride either.

Maybe it was because of the huge snowsuit I put her in. Anyone thinking of A Christmas Story right about now :)

We did our typical Sunday routine. We hit up CVS, Walgreens, and Shaws. We got some great savings, I just love couponing!

Now we are home and everyone is cuddled in bed. Hubby suddenly got sick as a dog this afternoon. I hope it is not the Norwalk virus! Have a wonderful week!

A Great Valentine's Day Gift and a Challenge

My mom for Valentine's Day gave me a $5.00 gift card to Rite Aid. Her and my father laughed and said I could make that $5.00 into $50.00. So I figured what the hell why not give it a try.

Miss Baby snuck into the background. Isn't her little pink wool sweater cute with that blue turtleneck. Her whole outfit cost about a $1.00. That's my thrifty girl.

The toothpaste was $3.50 but i got $3.50 in uprewards to use later

The hair mouse was 50% off so it was 3.49. I had a $3.00 coupon off so it was $.49

The lotion was $2.99 with $2.00 in uprewards to use later and I had a $1.00 coupon off.

My coupons weren't ringing in the register was having an issue. So I could have made $1.00 but the other coupon never rang through correctly.

Total: $5.98

Total Back in register rewards $5.50

So I spent $.48 cents of my gift card :)

What a lovely Thrifting Day

Miss Baby and I left Fairview Ave this morning to give hubby some time to install my new closet system for all of my thrifted clothes :) Miss Baby had gotten $2.00 from her GG (Great Gramie) for Valentine's Day and we were going to put it to good use.

I bet I could have had other finds; but thrifting with a 1 year old is pure sport not pleasure. Chasing her and breezing through clothes on the way is not the most thorough way of thrifting.

Miss Baby got:

• 8 pieces of clothing for $2.00. All from Children's Place, Osh Kosh, and Gymboree.


• 4 board books for $1.00


• 5 brand new pairs of kids socks for $1.00


• (Not Pictured)Regalo bed rails for when she's older for $5.00

I got:

• A sweater from Bass .50

Total $9.50. I would say Miss Baby put her Valentine's $2.00 to good use.

I also took over two huge buckets of clothes that Miss Baby had outgrown to the thrift store in plymouth. I came back with $86.00 in cash and $67.00 in store credit. It was nice to spend some time with my mom and make money in the process!

Getting Old...

I can tell we're getting older. Hubby and I were offered a night out tonight without miss baby, we hemmed and hawed and finally both agreed we would rather stay home with our favorite girl and have chicken pot pie and a glass of wine. Wow back in the day we would have been out whooping it up any chance we got!

This weekend my parent came up, we celebrated my dad's 100 days from his bone marrow transplant! I also got to do some couponing and thrifting!

I found some thrifty clothes for Miss Baby at a $1.00 a piece

My mom came up and gave Miss Baby this little people Ark she found at the dump after a hot soak in some water and bleach I thought this was quite a deal since they retail around $30.00

Mom also came up with some left over valentines and a learn to read kit for my kiddos at school.

I got all this ( and another bag of pb M&Ms that never made it to this picture) for $9.00. Pretty good considering the diapers alone retail for $9.00. And that is 216 wipes behind the diapers. We will have a clean baby butt for a while!

Miss Baby is keeping us on our toes, she is walking now ( more like running) and nothing is safe in our house. Peek a boo behind our bar in the basement is her new favorite game.

Saturday Sales

So Here are my two fabulous finds today at the grocery store. I have to laugh because they are both not food related.

For a whopping $1.75 this is what I got

Glade Apple and Cinnamon Candle 3.99 50% off 2.00 and then I had a .75 coupon that Shaws doubles to $1.50 candle was $.25

Cover Girl mascara $9.99 was 75% off. That brought it down to $2.49 and I had a $1.00 coupon off which brought it to 1.49.

So for less than a dunkin donuts coffee I can have a nice smelling house and beautiful eye lashes.

Miss Baby is up from her nap. (isn't her little purple track suit cute?? Second hand of course and perfect because i have to pry her away from crawling on the treadmill) We are off to get our free fribble at Friendlys.Happy Saturday!

A Nice Change

So usually in the mail we pretty much get bills. Junk mail and bills. But look what we got in the mail today....

No bills, no junk mail!

I had admired a friend's toiletries bag after going away for a night together. She explained her mom had the website and would get me the information. Low and behold in my mail ended up this beautiful bag with my name embroidered on it. What a wonderful surprise. My friend's mom is so sweet and truly delightful. She lives in Virginia and whenever she comes up she is just so sweet.

My best friend also sent me coupons. You know you have the best friend in the world when she sends you coupons.

Hardcore Thrifter...Thrifts in Below Freezing Temperatures

Today was cold... really cold. But I was having withdrawals from doggie thrift store which i hadn't been to in forever! So while Miss Baby got her beauty sleep, hubby let me sneak out. I was bundled up like an Eskimo off to thrift.



The thrift store was packed! I guess everyone else decided to brave the elements too! The thrift store was picked clean but I managed to spend a whooping $7.25.

Brand New Neutralizer Mary Janes $2.00

Hubby and I love board games to play in front of the fire in the winter.Battleship was $1.00

Picture Frame. I love that it looks like bead board im going to paint it a crisp white $2.00Red

Turtle Neck I think the brand is Dry Goods it is so soft and i love that it is stretchy $2.00

A book for Miss Baby $.25

As I was checking out I had a great conversation with the woman volunteering about how frugality is in right now. I explained to her that I was thrifting before it was cool.

I hope everyone is staying warm im sitting in front of my pellet stove with the hubby Im blogging while he watches The Patriots. I've perfected ducking from his impromptu arm flails and jumping around. Good thing Miss Baby is a heavy sleeper :)