I have been behind posting in this blog section. I have been posting on my blog website so i thought i should come over here and update this in case anyone has been reading it.

2/08/09 I went to Bakers & HyVee.
At HyVee all i bought was 1 pk Hamburger Meat $4.07
Strawberries $4.41
Total Spent $8.48

Then i went to Bakers. Items i bought are listed below.
2 Minute Made Lemonade 12pks $7.26
1 Boost For Kids $11.89
2 BC fruit Stackers...

I went to 2 stores today. I went to Bakers & Walmart. I price matched everything at Walmart and what i didn't i bought at Bakers.


Bakers Trip
3 boxes of Kellogg's cereal 3/$8
-Three $1 coupons =$5
1 Gallon Milk = FREE when you buy 3 Kellogg's cereals or bars
4 pks of Honey Suckle Ground Turkey meat Buy 1 Get 1 Free it worked out to $1.74 each. Total for all meat $6.96
1 4pk Kroger TP .88
Sunny Delight 8pk $3.65
-.55 couopn =$3.10...

I went to Walgreens hoping to get some deals, i did get some deals.

Transaction #1
1 Aleve cold/ sinus $5
3 Flinstone Vitamins
Total $20
- (4) $1 coupons
After Coupons = $17.40
Gor a $10 RR to use on next order and there was a rebate in Sundays paper for this stuff.
So i am not counting this stuff in my budget because i am getting it all back by rebate. I know most people would but i'm not.

Transaction #2
1 Apricot St....

Walmart shopping trip today and items i price matched. Not a very good shopping trip. I hate to post it, lol but i have to if i am keeping track of everything.

Walgreens
2 ben & jerry ice creams 2/$6

SUPER SAVER
Celery .67
10lb. Bag Russet potatoes $2.98
Sara Lee bread $1.77
FAREWAY
Chex Mix 8.75 bag .99cents
Green Pepper .50 cents
Hillshire Ultra thin lunch meat $2.50 –( there is a try me free rebate )
BAG...

This year i am aiming to spend $3,000 for our budget. Yes, that's a lot compared to some of the other famous people we know on here
Right now our budget for last year was $3,600 so let's see how much i can drop this year.

Target Shopping Trip 1/01/09
1 Christmas Tree $17.49
1 box of cocoa $1.49
1 Dove gift set $3.74
2 small trains $1.24
1 set of ornaments $1.99
2 Christmas bags $1
2 gift lip gloss $1.48
1 diet coke 20...