I love, love, love to read stories about tithing like this one. Scott and I have always been firm believers in tithing 10% on the gross amount and even when we first got married, I was working part-time in college and he wasn’t making much to brag about, we always, always have had enough. Now I can’t say we are fabulous stewards of the money we have right now and I’m not proud of that but whenever I hear of people having financial troubles, the first thing I ask is if the tithe and usually they don’t. Yes, people that tithe are tight on money too but they are always are provided for and sometimes, like in Cindy’s case, He gets to show off and rain down money from Heaven.
CVS Deals January 6, 2008
Oh my gosh. I’m still hardly believing the deals I pulled out today. Unbelievable. Look at this…
That’s my Walgreens and CVS Deals. Sort of ignore the two boxes of cereal and Splenda and add in a gallon of milk…do you know how much I paid for all of that from CVS…..
ELEVEN CENTS
Yes, that’s $0.11. I opened my little change purse and pulled out a dime and penny and went home with that cart full. And you can’t even see the 3rd roll of wrapping paper there in the back. As for Walgreens, I paid $7 for the cereal and Splenda. Not the best deal but it was on sale and I had coupons and was getting low on both and Heather wanted to go there for milk, yadda, yadda, so I went for it.
As for CVS…my receipt says I saved $150 something. Insane, I tell you!
First off, the Christmas stuff is 90% off so that held a great deal on the amount I saved. But I got some good deals otherwise. Let me see if I can list out the really good stuff I got…
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2 Aquapod waters
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Visine
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4 Bottles of Chewable baby aspirin
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Similson (sp?) Pink Eye Drops
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Aleve
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2 Aquafresh
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2 Colgate
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Garnier Fructis Shampoo
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2 Lysol Neutra Air
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Lighter
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Zantac
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Gallon of Milk (not pictured)
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2 2-pack Rubbermaid containers
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Monster Energy drink (as a peace-offering for hubby for such a long planning session and trip)
I used a coupon for everything except the milk and Monster drink.
Then I used $10/$50, $5/$30, $3/$15, $2/10 CVS store coupons.
Then I paid $18 ECBs.
My balance was $.11
I also earned $9 ECBs plus it spit out $3/$15.
Find these deals and more at moneysavingmom.com. Thank you, Crystal!!!
That one day we didn’t get out of bed until 9:38
The girls stayed at home last night and I thought we were in for an early morning when they were both asleep by 8pm. But somewhere in the night Lexi ended up in our bed with Scott and I ended up in the girls’ bed with Emma. And we all stayed asleep until 9:38am. It was grand.
We got up and got us and the girls ready and took them over to his parents. We made a trip to CVS and then came home and opted to eat lunch in and clean up some. I actually got to reorganize my office shelves which were a disaster and under my bathroom counter which was even more of a disaster. After that, Scott and I just vegged on the couch and watched Shopgirl.
This evening was spent at Chili’s celebrating D’s birthday. It literally took all evening because we waited an hour and a half to get a table for 14 people. The girls went right to bed when we got home and now instead of blogging I really need to be studying for Sunday School in the morning.
That day I argued with a gas pump and got a new laptop
Work was decent today although busy. The day started out a little wobbly when I was fighting with the gas pump when it kept beeping at me to pick which gas I wanted and I kept telling it (literally) I had. Turns out I had picked up the Diesel pump and was trying to pick regular gas. Good thing those hose thingies are different sizes and it’s smart enough not to pour out regular gas when you choose it while holding the diesel pump or I’d have had a mess on my hands.
Anyway.
I had two meetings today, a great Mexican lunch, had coworkers put in power steering fluid in my car when it started making very odd noises and would hardly turn, gave up the pager, got a new laptop after mine died randomly today and came home a little late. Some good, some bad but all busy today.
This evening was spent at Mom’s and the girls were asleep as soon as we got home at 8. I’m trying to catch up on my computer time I didn’t have today. I seriously think I might need to go to an addiction center for computers.
We have no plans for tomorrow and the house is in an almost clean state. Just some dusting and cleaning of the bathrooms should take care of it. Sounds like it should be an easy going Saturday and Sunday for us.
Light Day
Today will be a day of light postings…I’m headed into the office today.
Before I go…I just read biblegateway’s scripture for today (on my right sidebar) and it’s the same one as my Sunday Scripture post from this week. How cool!
Proof it really is cold in the Carolinas today
Thankful Thursday
Not going to be so serious with today’s list…
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Heat! It’s so cold here today!
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School starting back today.
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Printer ink..haha..my order finally got delivered this week. Never knew how much I used my printer until it’s gone. They always said absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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Triple coupons at Harris Teeter this week. Yay!
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Unisom. I probably wouldn’t get any sleep without it.
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DirecTV. I got to record Gossip Girl last night and Scott didn’t have to watch it.
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Working from home. I got to type up this list while I’m on a conference call.
That was a bad American Idol audition
I’m nearing my breaking point with this youth band thing. I love my band members, but we were HORRIBLE tonight. Our drummer, base guitarist and lead guitarist were all out tonight. We had one guitarist and two vocalist. You’d think that’d be ok but we haven’t practice in 3 weeks and we winged it. Scott said we sounded like a bad American Idol audition. And surely we did. I even got so embarrassed during the thing I turned bright red. Thank goodness we have colored lights on us on the stage. I have a little hope a guy in our church might take over or at least help with the band but I am SO not cut out to be the lead singer of a band. I can sing ok in a choir when I have rehearsed much but this. I just can’t do it. I mean I’ve been doing it for several months now but I’m to the point of not even looking forward to Wednesday nights anymore. I really don’t want to see the end of the band and that’s the only reason I hang on. But now two of the main guys got part-time jobs and it’s just not working without them. The students aren’t into anymore. The students were actually sitting down while we were singing it was so bad. As much as I want it to work, we may just need to scrap the whole thing unless something or someone major happens.