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Good deals

I am having great fun matching sales with manufacturers coupons. One of my favorite today: two packs of gum for $0.04. I walked out of the store smiling with surprise and excitement. Albertson's had Extra gum buy one get one free (I only noticed on my way out) and I had a coupon for buy on get one free! It seemed too good to be true, but it worked out just fine! Anyway, I like to look through ads and keep them around and never use them, so this has been fun actually cutting them out and using a lot of them for better deals than I knew there were. Thanks to Celeste!

***note: Shopko had something similar with a buy a toothbrush get a toothpaste free, and they wouldn't honor my manufacturers coupon.

Hungry hungry hippo

The last two days I have been starving! I don't know what hit me, but about the same time each day I could eat a horse. Seriously. Yesterday I felt weak with hunger even, it's so crazy, so we (Landon and I, then Stephen called as we were leaving so he met us there) went to a buffet and filled ourselves to the top. It was amazing how much better I felt. I didn't get hungry the rest of the night except for a twinge of sick feeling which went away with an ice cream bar.
Today we used a coupon for a buy one get one free burger (I ate the little bit of left over 'lasagna skillet', from the kids dinner last night, and jello w/fruit first - insufficient), and I still feel unsatisfied. At least I don't feel as weak as yesterday.
I think I am going to get a lot of the nutty granola bars when they go on sale at Albertson's(tomorrow, but I have to wait until payday Thurs.), maybe that will help. Perhaps hot pockets as well. It seems to be hard to keep fulfilling lunch food in the house.
Anyway, here's to full tummies and pantries.
Have a good one!