Bargain Mom Saved or Spent Weekend Report for June 16-17

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My plan is to do a weekly round-up of how I saved or didn't save money over the weekend.

In this new series I'll outline purchases or activities my family did and my review of how well it work or if it was a bust.

I would love to hear from you.  You don't have to be super detailed, but I would love to hear how your saving money on the weekends.

Weekends are usually a quick way to drop a lot of money then we may suffer in the week.

If we keep it in check, the week is easier.  Am I right?

I didn't have to buy groceries this weekend.  Still working off of a stockpile but will soon need to replace a number of items.


Saturday --


Morning --

Cooked breakfast and played in our pool for a majority of the day.

Ate lunch at home

Afternoon - spending:

Stopped by Kohl's to buy my boys some shorts.

Bought each a pair for $7, did two separate transactions and used a Kohl's 20% off shopping pass on each transaction.  I passed it to the lady behind me who was paying full price for leather sandals as a Father's Day gift and didn't have a coupon.

Stopped by Marshall's in Trussville and bought my daughter some dress sandals that were priced $12.99 but rang up at $9.99.

Bought my dad some garden tools that were on sale for $6.99 each.

Dinner --

ate at a steakhouse in Pell City.  My parents treated our family in honor of Father's Day -- gas was the only expense for that meal.

That night stopped at Walmart --

Bought my husband a gift, spend $23

Bought my kids Mystery Hot Wheels for $1.07 as a treat.  That's more than the regular price of 88 cents each -- so I over spent.

Sunday --

Cooked and played at home all day.

Stopped by Walgreens to pick up my free 8x10 and they printed a second for me for free because the first had a blemish.

They let me keep the first.

I purchased 2 frames for $2 each.

So total spent $4.

Total out of pocket for the weekend -- excluding the cost of gas -- $66.60 (roughly)

Two read

d:

Vincenza Cardinale Sciarabba I used coupons at publix, bought a GC there for gas using their $10 off a gas card promo, the family ate at Chuck's fish with a deal from Posh ($25 for a $50 gc), bought a bunch of good n natural bars for free with coupons at CVS, had father's day lunch at tropical smoothie (BOGO with text), and my hubby's father's day gift was a metal picture of the boys bought with a groupon deal.

Melissa Surles I did some coupon shopping, enough to redeem my Conagra rebate and get a gas card, otherwise, we all stayed home because that's the best way to save money.

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