Challenge Update-The Weekend

I went to walwart on Friday night after work. I do not have my receipt with me today as I need to return/exchange some of the Kraft dressings that I bought. I was buying it up for me and my mom to use as marinades, and it turns out she will only use the fat free ones. So, I will take it back to get fat free.....I will post my actual totals when I am done with that reciept, but my savings were somewhere around 50%. Not too shabby for walwart.

Saturday morning I took my van in to get the windshield replaced. I went to the used parts junkyard which has an agreement with a local company to put windshields in at a reduced rate. Yeah, it's reduced cuz they do a lousy job. There is a gap on the outside molding at the bottom of the windshield. I called and they contacted the guy who did the replacement and he said it should be fine. Just take a hose to it to make sure it does not leak. But surely it will be okay. Oh we shall see, with my luck it will leak. He already had informed me Saturday he did the best he could and to leave the tape on the window for at least a day or two to make sure the glass did not come out. Let the glue and all that dry.

Since I could not use my van on Saturday, I did not get all my errands done. I called my sister to borrow one of their vehicles. I got to use their car. Compared to my van, it feels like I am sitting on the ground in the car! It feels really weird driving something that low and small. So I first go to wags to see if they will let me use my rr which expired the day before. NO we will not. So I leave. I will try tomorrow with my favorite cashier. She is really nice and does not complicate orders by arguing about my q's.

Then off to cvs. I was not sure about going as I lost my extra care card. The cashier told me to call 1800 shop cvs and see if they would help me out. I do plan to call today. I am not making any phone calls as I am still waiting for the return call about my windshield. She gave me a new card to use temporarily. I did pretty good.

For my first order, I used my rain check for the command strips 2 for $5 and get $5 when you buy $15. I bought my six and used my six $2.50 off q's and also purchased the bayer meter. I had one q for it and got my $5 for that. I only pay 1% tax on the monitors. I pay 7.75% on the general merchandise. My subtotal was zero and my tax was $1.31! Not too shabby for getting $10 in EB back.

On my second order I got four boxes of the Kellogs cereal which were $2.00 a piece. I also bought three ragu pasta sauces. I only had three q's for this, and did not have any q's for the peanut butter as I had already used them. However the 3 for $5 on the pasta sauce is a good price here anyway. I found CFL bulbs on sale for $1.49 which is a super price! I got two of those. I can always use light bulbs. I am trying to replace all my old light bulbs with the cfl's as the old ones burn out. I used four $1 off cereal q's, three 30 cents of ragu, and my $10 EB from the previous order. I paid $1.14 total on the second order. No EB but I was not sure if I would keep this card as my cashier said if I call the 800 number and explain what happened, they may be able to print off the eb again and send them and a replacement card. That would be cool if they can.

So my total cvs purchases this weekend was $2.45 for $143.21 worth of merchandise. I can live with that. I gave some of my purchases this weekend to my mom. I have not donated the monitor yet as my mom was recently diagnosed with diabetes. Her doctor wants to wait and see if her numbers change after being on the sleep machine at night. If they improve, then I will donate it. If they do not and she has to start checking her blood sugar, then she will not have to buy the machine. I also shared some of my q's with my sister at walwart this weekend when we went shopping together. She used the q's and did some price matching and she saved around 50% as well. Not too bad for either one of us this weekend. I added to my stockpile relatively cheaply, and my sister started hers.

Here are a couple of pics of my deals this weekend. The first is the walwart run and the second is the cvs run.

After I went to cvs I decided to run to walwart again to get more diet pepsi as it was marked down to $4.98 a case. On my way there, the check engine light comes on in my sister's car! I call to tell her, run to walwart and then run by Advance auto so they can see what is wrong with it. I take it back to her because it is something to do with the emissions but it will run okay for now. I swear at this rate no one is ever going to let my use their car, I can't keep any of them running!