no sunday paper

Because it is a holiday weekend there are no coupon insterts in this weeks sunday paper. Next sunday there will probably be also so I will try to fit in a shopping trip next week be for my presentation!

CVS & Rite Aid

I went to both CVS and Rite aid on my way from from my track meet today. I needed to pick up a few items for my mom and was able to get a few thing for myself using coupons that I didn't have the chance to use earlier in the week. I am too lazy to get up and get the receipts to post exactly how much I spent and saved during the trip but i spent around $10 on about $20 worth of items.

mentor meeting 15

during our meeting today Mr. Reising and I went over my shopping trip from this week then I showed him my outline for my presentation. We discussed ways to make my project interesting and engaging. We thought of a few things to add in besides just power point. On Tuesday I plan to bring in my presentation so I can show him before I do my run through presentation on Wednesday. Then we took some time and discussed my college summer work out packet for college. What did I get myself into!

outline

I went on the renissance bbq trip today which was really fun untill we had to leave early because of the the weather. We spent 8th and 9th period in lock down mood because of the servire thunderstorms.  I told that time to work on developing an outline for my presentation. When I got home I started an excel spread sheet of all my shopping trips detailing how much I've spent and saved. I have tons of work to do.

annotated bibliography

spent today working on my annotated bibliography more. I have all the sources properly cited and in alphabetical order so now I just have to finish writing the descriptions for most of them. It would have been smarter to do this throughout work on my project but hind sight is 20/20.

drug store shopping

I went to CVS and Walgreens and attempted to go to Rite Aid but it was closed by the time I got there. At walgreens I didnt find any of the items I had intended to by which was disappointing. My shopping at CVS made up for both of those disappointments. I got $27.24 worth of products for...... $0.12! :D I got 4 bottles of cranberry juice and 5 tubes of trial sized toothpaste! One of my best trips yet!

Carl Lewis Relays

 I left school early to go to Carl Lewis Relays for Track. I got home pretty late so I didnt get a chance to work on my project at all.

Kmart and the sunday paper

I never shop at Kmart but it is just around the corner from where I work so I decided to stop by on my way home. There weren't many deals but I was able to get a tube of lipstick for free! I tried to use another coupon that I had printed online but the cashier told me that the store did not except Internet printed manufacture's coupons. I was tired and didn't feel like questioning it so I just stuck to my free lipstick. When I got home I reviewed the coupon policy for Kmart and it says that they except Internet coupons as long as they have a scanable bar code. Maybe it was just that store? Maybe the cashier didn't know the policy? oh well. I picked up the sunday paper and it only included one smart source instert.

Target

I went to target today and was able to pick up a few things. I got nail polish remover, cotton balls, and ibuprofen. $ 2.81 worth of items for $0.34. A small trip but not bad. A savings of 88%

Beach!

Skipped school and went to the beach! A much needed break!

Mentor meeting 14

Mr. Reising reviewed everything that I did over the last week. Then we started to talk about my presentation and tossed around a few ideas regrading how to present all the information I have learned. I really don't have too much time to put everything and with senioritis and the crazy amount of things I have to do over the next few weeks this is going to be tough!

ughh

I am experiancing an extreme lack of motivaton. Senioritis!!! I spent class time today printing out a few coupons for next weeks deals. It looks like I will be able to get cranberry juice free at CVS (my family always drinks it!) I havent had my car all week because it is in the shop so I doubt I will be able to get back out to any stores this week.

receipts

I spent some time organizing the receipts from all of my shopping trips. I put them in order by date and at some point over the next week I will go through and total up the amount Ive spent and saved since I started this project. I also organized my coupon binder because it always seems to get messy after I go shopping.

Shopping !

today I went to both CVS and Target. During class I first signed out and went to the bank. When I got back I planned out my trips to both stores. Since I had already previewed the deals I didn't take me very long. Mrs. Sardo also gave me a few more inserts today but they were out of order and sort of messy so Ill have to take the time to go through them later. At CVS I planned to buy more protein bars, free body wash and toothpaste. My trip worked out perfectly. I picked up a few other items we needed and was able to bring the cost of the trip down from $26.14 to $9.55 with $2 ECB back for next week. At target I did awesome! I was disappoint because i printed out 3 coupons and left them in the printer at home so there were a few items I planned to get free that I wasn't able to. Despite that I was able to get $14.79 worth of beauty supplies for only $0.96! including 2 nail polishes, a nail clipper, tweezers, eyelashes, and travel size sunscreen! I think this was my best trip yet !

sunday paper

Happy Mothers day! I picked  up the Sunday paper and it had 3 inserts in it this week, a red plum, a smart source and a special proctor and gamble insert for mothers day! I considered not buying the paper and relaying on teachers to bring in more inserts but to avoid being suck with out the coupons I need I figured it would be best to go ahead and buy one.

grocery shopping

It really bothers me when my mom goes grocery shopping with out me and comes home with things that I have coupons for ! Since I have a busy schedule its hard for me to go to the store with her but if she gave me a list I would give her all the coupons she need to get the deals. She promised to start doing that or to start giving me the money and list to go shopping for her. Every time I look in the pantry or fridge I just think about how much money I could be saving us !

previews

I took a look at the previews for next weeks deals and there doesn't seem to be many good deals at all. There are barely any free things. Hopefully more deals will be added over the next few days. Since mother's day is this week that could be one of the reasons why there is a lack of deals.

mentor meeting 13

During our meeting today I told Mr. Reising about all the things I was able to get for free this week and about my plans to gather as many things for free to donate between now and my presentation. He urged me to take pictures of the things I buy so that I can put them into my presentation.

Target shopping

Stopped by target today and was able to get 4 travel size degree mens deodorant and 2 travel size coopertone sunscreens for free!

Contact!

Today I looked up target deals and plan to go sometime this week. I can get travel size degree mens deodorant, coppertone and bannaboat sun screen for free. I printed out 2 of each coupons so I can get 4 deodorants and 4 sunscreens! I talked to Chandler and she said that when ever I am ready she'll take me on base to donate any items I have!

CVS shopping

My mom stopped by Wawa this morning to see if the inserts were there but of course they weren't :( When I came into english today Mrs. Sardo gave me a whole bunch of insterts from this week's and last week's paper that teachers put in the lounge! yay! This afternoon I went to CVS and was able to get 6 Good n' Natuarl protien bars for free. There were on an unadvertised sale for 99 cents but each coupon took off $1.29 so I was able to use 5 coupons to get 6 for free. They didn't have the allegra 10ct so I wasn't able to get that. From now on anything I get for free I will donate !

no inserts :o

I got the sunday paper today and didn't check it as well as I normally do which was a mistake. I saw that some circulars were in it so i figured I didn't have to open it all the way up to look but I should have because I realized the inserts were missing once I got home. While I was at wawa I asked the cashier about getting the extra inserts. He told me he would tell the next shift and hopefully they would be there in the morning for me to pick them up! We'll see! My neighbor brought me two sets of inserts from this week plus one of the inserts from last weeks paper!

previews

Today I looked at the previews for this week's deals so I can shop early in the week. I plan to get allergy medicine and protien bars for free at CVS!

Mentor Meeting 12

There wasn't much to talk about since I didn't do much because of senior trip. While I was in the meeting Chandler came in and told me that the contact she origanal got for me to donate things on base was wrong so she's going to work on finding the right person to talk to.

annotated bibliography

Mrs. Sardo put a note in the teachers lounge for me so hopefully some teachers will bring in coupons for me! I went through my old posts today and made a list of all the resources I used that weren't already listed in my annotated bibliography. I'll work on it more and hopefully have it finalized by the end of next week.

no coupons=no deals

I checked out the deals for this week and there are none using coupons that I already have in my binder. I looked online at some coupon clipping websites and it is definitely not worth it to buy the inserts online. It will take a while for them to arrive so buy the time they get here the deal while have ended. not to mention it is extremely expensive. Ill just have to try to find them from people I know.

no newspaper

Senior trip was amazing! unfortunately my mom forgot to pick up the Sunday paper for me while I was gone :( I'm going to try to either fine someone who has it or to use a coupon clipping website to order coupons that I need from that paper to get good deals