Photo Project

I'll be the first to admit that I have grand ideas about different projects that I want to do, but when it comes down to it, I can't seem to get anything accomplished. Just look in my basement (wait...I don't want you to look in my basement!!) for the bins and bins of scrapbook stuff ~ stickers, albums, ticket stubs, souvenirs, photos, etc ~ not to mention, the thousands of digital photos I have not printed out or did anything with.

That said, one thing that I *have* gotten done is the framing/collage of Cody's first year of monthly sign photos. What are those, you ask? See here, here and here for examples.

I was able to take advantage of some deals (of course, are you surprised?!) on Shutterfly for these neat 11x17 collage photo posters. These worked perfectly for what I wanted to do with the monthly photos of Cody. I'm already in need of another collage being made, but for now, these fit on the wall perfectly and I'm super pleased with them. The photos are not that clear (sorry) but you get a general idea.

Garage Sale Finds 8/29

Garage sales were cruddy on Saturday morning. As noted previously, we took Cody along and he did great! It was chilly but he handled things well. My finds were pitiful and definitely not worthy of a blog post, but there is a monster nap going on so I am going to take advantage of it!

1 Christian romance book for my momma - 25 cents

7 kids books for Cody - 75 cents

1 tablecloth - $2.00 [got this right by our house on my way home, had to stop at "just one more".]

1 Noah's Ark plate for Cody - 25 cents

That's it! Ridiculous.

I am getting sad that garage sale season is almost done for the year here in Minnesota. It is such a short season! My "to find list", although technically long gone due to the cell phone mishap of August 2009, still has quite a few things on it. There should still be a few weekends of sales left before the (gasp) snow flies, so there's still time. And if not...there's always next year!

Thrifty Target Treasures

I was lucky enough to meet up with a college friend after work on Friday for appetizers and drinks (hi Lissa!), and Gordon offered to watch the little guy while I did that plus some shopping afterwards. I should admit that I used a $10/$25 coupon at Champps for our "dinner" (if you can call what we had a meal!), so we scored some yummy food and drinks for cheap!

After spending a frustrating time at the mall in Sears, which I will be writing a complaint letter to them about, I stopped into Byerly's to get a movie at Redbox for $1 to watch that night with the hubby. After that, I headed to Target for that week's deals. I was going to take a photo of the loot, but I am too lazy.

Here's the scoop:

6 full size bottles of Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo/wash (some also had "bonus" amounts to boot) - 99 cents each

1 smaller size bottle of J&J baby product - 44 cents

3 baby bottles - free (will save for later ;) or baby gift)

1 big bag of Skittles for hubby for movie night - $1.44

2 packages of Combos (" ") - 87 cents each

1 box of Jose Ole steak & cheddar quesadillas - $2.02 (clearance plus coupon)

1 box of Tyson Any-Tizers chicken - $1.95

1 gallon of whole milk - $1.79

1 bottle of contact solution - $4.51 (clearance plus coupon)

Total Before Savings = $44.85

Saved = $23.80

Total Spent = $21.05

(Thanks to the hubby for the suggestion of my savings bragging!)

So, to summarize, I got three large bags of stuff for just over $20 at Target ~ I call that a victory!

Saturday Morning

Good morning!

Up and at 'em early on a Saturday for a morning of garage saling with Careen and Cody. We usually don't bring Cody along, but Gordon is on-call so I don't want him to have to worry about watching Cody if he ends up having to do some work (as he did when the phone ring-ringed last night at 11:30 p.m. Grrr....). So, garage saling could be interesting (and/or frustrating, and/or fun, and/or tiring, and/or hilarious, and/or exhausting). There's not too many sales listed for today but we never seem to have a problem in finding them in our galavanting around town! (Or should I say "gadding"?!)

One more quick administrative note...I changed the settings on my blog that comments are now moderated, so you may not see your comment immediately appear after you submit it. Give it a little while and it will show up (unless I reject it, ba-ha-ha, enter evil laugh here). I just wanted to make you all aware in case you were wondering where in the world your witty banter went! Keep commenting, please! I really appreciate feedback and it makes blogging that much more enjoyable for me.

I made a quick trip to the (groan) shopping mall, as well as Target last night, so a deal post might be on the horizon in the near future!

With that said, I am off! Hope you have a most enjoyable weekend!

Sleeping in Spaghetti

I couldn't resist posting this picture that Cari (our childcare provider) sent to me early this afternoon. Isn't it the sweetest, saddest thing you have ever seen? We have been trying only laying Cody down for afternoon naps for the past few days, as he has been refusing to take two naps lately. He gets SO tired though when it comes to be time for lunch. Poor thing! He ♥ 's spaghetti, too, so you know he is tired when he can't even stay awake to eat it!

I just can't get over how much I love this little guy :)

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Twin Cities Live

This is so funny, but I set up the show,"Twin Cities Live", to record today because Dave Ryan from KDWB was scheduled to be on and my husband I enjoy his morning radio show quite a bit. Little did I know, that right after the segment that he was on, was a feature on couponing! They had Carrie from Pocket Your Dollars on, whose website I go on quite a bit. It was such a neat segment! My husband even had to chuckle as this is totally the stuff that I am into and have been blogging about the past few days.

I did find a link to the show segment on their website - I am not sure how to embed video here. You need to click the "right" arrow until you see a photo of a receipt. Hope you can get it to work:

Coupon Queen

I hope you enjoy it, too!

(By the way, I got the same Rice Krispies coupons in the mail as she did :))