What do you do when you only have $3 in your wallet ?....

You call your super cool friend Kim and go shopping!!! I can not tell you how much fun I am having with these coupon shopping trips!! I LOVE TO SHOP! But have been curbed due to our new household budget that is very long overdue!! Now, I have always felt like I was a pretty good bargain shopper. I hardly ever buy things full price. I shop at consignment stores and look at the grocery sale adds and buy what is on sale. I have even been known to price match a Wal-Mart and felt like I was hard core for doing so. Until I met Kim!!! Wow can that girl shop!! It is a lot of work for her but she has a gift! She can even add and do the percentage off in her head! Now that's talent!!

So yesterday the boys went with our neighbors across the street to the lake to celebrate Jasper's 8th bday. Kim's son went too and so we had a couple of hours with nothing to do. I was going to finish up some laundry, ironing, etc but Kim called and asked "Do you want to go shopping?" I told her I only had $3 in my wallet and she said that was plenty! So off to Kroger and Wal-Mart we went!!



My Loot was...

3 bags of chips
2 packages of Wholly Salsa
1 large bottle of Dawn dishwashing liquid
1 Candy bar (this was extra b/c my coupons were so good, Kroger owed me money!!!)

The original price $16.94...
I spent .24... after all of my coupons, Kroger owed me .25, so I bought a candy bar for fun!!

At Wal-Mart my loot was...

4 packages of Kotex
1 16oz bottle of Kraft Italian Dressing
2 tubes of Colgate toothpaste

The original price was $11.96... I paid .95

So all together I paid $1.19 for $28.90 worth of stuff!! WOW! We are such geeks(not nerds :) but what fun!! Steve laughs every time I come home. He doesn't understand my excitement over toothpaste but loves the savings!! The best part is that I still have $2 left in my purse! Check out my friends Kim's blog here she loves to share her wealth of knowledge!!

I will leave you with a few pix of the boys at the lake with the Burklins. Although Linda said it was a little precarious at times b/c of the weather... the boys couldn't stop talking about all the fun they had! Thanks Linda for braving the lake with 7 little kids!!!