Five Bloggers Walk into a Banana Republic

Last Thursday night, I got together with Andrea of Mommysnacks, Erin of 5 Dollar Dinners, and Cortney and Tricia of Once A Month Mom to go shopping for BLISSDOM! Because of course, any excuse to buy new clothes, we mamas are gonna take. I had never met Erin or Tricia before, but I must say with the whole group, it was like we’d always known each other. We had an instant comfortability, which I loved. First we ate at Panera Bread, where we chatted and I consumed my meal as well as both Cortney and Erin’s pickles, which they were just going to WASTE. (Please, I would never let a perfectly good deli pickle go to waste! I got me some of that!)

Then, it was time to shop! After jokingly taking a twirl around Forever 21 and scoffing at the sequined mini-skirts, we headed over to Banana Republic. When the very helpful sales guy informed us they had an extra 30% off clearance, we hoofed it back to the clearance section posty hasty. (We are all CVSers after all. We likey cheap.) And we all got some great scores! (Well, except for Erin, who’d already gotten something there!) Here’s Andrea showing off her cocktail dress for BlissDom – cloaked in plastic! It is really pretty, and she got it for about $15!

Andrea shows off her score!

Cortney and Tricia got cute tops for less than $10.

Cortney sees red

Tricia back in black

And I got a cute purple sweater dress, which does not look cute in the pic, but is, I promise, very much so. It was $12 and change!

I'll have a little cheese with my dress

Then we moved on to White House Black Market, where Tricia got a CA-UTE dress for the cocktail party at BlissDom and Erin and I took a dorky picture in a mirror!

fuzzy mirror shot Erin & Jenny

Then, came my favorite part of the night: New York & Co. At every store we went to, the sales people would as us if they could help us and what we were shopping for. Here’s how that went:

Us: We’re going to an event.

Them: What kind of event?

Us: A blogging conference

Them: ohh….(eyes glaze over)

So, at New York & Co. it was no different! But when we got to the checkout, where I was buying earrings and Andrea some cute tops, somehow the checkout girls wanted to know MORE. And Andrea began trying to convince them that we were very famous, important bloggers. Because, after all, we’ve been in the NEWSPAPER! And Erin was on TV!

The poor sales girls just did not know what to say. Andrea, Erin and I were giggling like idiots. It reminded me of Ron Burgundy in Anchorman: “I don’t know how to say this, but I’m kind of a big deal.”

After frightening the sales girls, we headed off to Caribou Coffee and got our drink on until they closed and forced us to leave by running the vacuum cleaner so we’d get the heck out. We probably should have told them how famous we are, maybe they would have stayed open later! Ya think?

Thanks girls! It was a great night!

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Return to Dew Mountain

So, yesterday I got out of the house FINALLY after the huge snow we had this week, and of course I went straight to CVS. Ok, that’s a lie. First I went to drop off some jeans to get hemmed but ONLY because it’s I have to drive past that shop to get to CVS. Oh, and did I mention my DADDY drove me in his 4-wheel drive? Yes, this CVS run was that important! Can you guess what I got? It wasn’t the most profitable transaction ever, but sometimes you gotta dew what you gotta dew.

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Five 12-packs of Mountain Dew $3.34 each = $16.70(I already put on in the fridge when I took this picture. Couldn’t waste any time!)
Four L’eggs pantyhose clearance at $1.25 each! WOOHOO! (Couldn’t pass those up!) $5
Two Gatorade/Propel $1.25 each = $2.50
Tostitos $3
Fusion Gamer razor $7.99
Total = $35.19

I only had two coupons! A Rite Aid $5/$25 and a $4 Fusion q
Total = $26.19
I used 24 ECB and paid $3.05 on a CVS gift card, and got back 14 ECB – 10 for the Pepsi products and 4 for the razor!

AND I GOT MY DEW! 😉

How did YOU dew (I can’t stop myself!) this week? For more couponing adventures, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer or Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom.

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I Can Haz Mountain Dew? No?

I only went to CVS once this week – crazy huh? The deals just weren’t too exciting and although I am feeling much better, I still haven’t regained 100% of my incessant desire to CVS shop all the time. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that there is a huge ECB deal on Pepsi products and I am still not drinking Mountain Dew, and it makes me VERY SAD! My mom brought me a 2-Liter when I was depressed last week, and I had one out to eat, but other than that I have been a very good girl. But anyways – you will see that I DID purchase a 2-liter on this transaction, but it’s for a dinner we are attending Sunday for our house church – we’re bringing the drinks. Perhaps with my Christian community holding me accountable I will be able to abstain from Dew at the dinner. (ha ha!) We shall see. Anyhoo – here’s what I got:

6 cents

4 2-Liters of Pepsi products $5
8 Propel/Gatorade $15
1 Skippy $1.67
1 CVS baby wipes $2.99
Total = $24.66
Coupons: Rite Aid $5/$25 (my CVS take competitor q’s and the manager rounded up my total for me – I had planned to buy some Lays chips as part of the Pepsi deal which would have put me over, but they were out of them)
$3 off CVS brand q
60 cents off Skippy q
Total = $16.06

I paid with 16 ECB, paid 6 cents cash, and got back 10 ECB for the Pepsi/Propel/Gatorade products!

Next, I did this, because my particular hubby likes the yellow Axe body wash and it is never on sale!

53 cents

2 Axe body wash $10
2 Skippy $3.34
1 CVS baby wipes $2.99
Total $16.33
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15 (expired, my CVS takes them for 30 days)
Two 40-cents off Skippy q’s
$3 off CVS brand q

Total = $9.53
I paid with 9 ECB and 53 cents cash, and got back 3 ECB for the Axe.

Nothing too exciting, but not bad! Hope you did great this week! To see how everyone else did, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

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