Remember your first slip&slide ride?
Fresh green grass, cold hose water and the summer sun beating on your unsunscreened back?(our Mom's just didn't know)
This is a great way to burn off 5yr. old energy, and water the grass at the same time.
Now, our backyard is a steep hill, so we get more bang for the buck, and our guest love the thrill of this simple pass time.

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I bought this at Easter time from a thrift store for a quarter and used it to decorate Noah's room. Simple. Then it was in the easter box(to be stored), and brillant hubby says" why not use it for our cone shape coffee filters".

My knightinshiningarmor comes to my resuce once more !

Because, this is what I do;

Back to CVSing, I went this morning, before babysitting began.

Once again I had 3 transactions.

The male cashier was so nice to me, unlike yesterday, when the lady cashier gave me attitude.

Here's the breakdown,

Total out of pocket $26.24

I bought 27 items

with tax that's .97 each !

This works out better than the Dollar store, try it you'll like it. Lol

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Baksins Robbins'/ Dunkin Donuts in our town, offering .31 scoops of ice cream on
Wednesday, April 30 ONLY from 5 pm to 10 pm!

Thanks to Money Saving Mom for posting that Ben and Jerry's will be giving out free ice cream cones on April 29, 2008!



On May 20th get a FREE cup of Birthday Cake Flavored Dippin' Dots in honor of their 20th "birthday"!! Get the details here!

My friend Kelly Renee loves Dippin Dots, so this is a shout out to her (although she doesn't read old lady blogs) LOL

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i would think Titus would look so small next to Noah, but when they enjoy one another's company so much, i envision teenagers hangin' together in the future, oh i hope so. Noah is very much a policeman in personality, and Titus a rowdy, they will be a good combination !

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For those of you wondering about my CVSing, I'm going to try to keep it simple and encouraging.

There are great blogs that explain, step-by-step, how to collect coupons, earn extra care buck, and combine your order to make the most of the deals. Reading these blogs is how I learned little by little, and now I've got the hang of it. Feel free to click on pic to enlarge and see the "breakdown" on receipts.

Starter link; www.iheartcvs.com/2008/03/cvs-for-newbies.html

this Mom lives in N.VA, also. I'm waiting to see her shopping in "my"CVS.http://sahmmoney.blogspot.com/2008/04/cvs-this-week-427.html

These blogs often give links of what is on sale, so you can print it for yourself, or know where to find it,..ie.. Washington Post, etc...

Honestly this takes me a chunk of my time to gather the coupons, but it's allowed me to purchase items, I'd otherwise not afford.

This is my purchase today. I made three transactions. And, accumulated 23 items.

I spent $20.71, and have an extra care buck worth $5.00.

So, 23 items for $ 20.71. That's .90 each item. Now, that's not bad.

These are items, I'll give to my Mom or put in storage for later. Maybe even put a bag together for someone in need. Now you may wonder what in the world will they do with 5 lint rollers? One in laundry room, one in each car, one in each top drawer dresser. Now if you see me out and I'm covered in lint, remind me .