A New Kind of Anniversary

It's been one year now. One official year of being newly divorced. Am now just, Divorced. Ugh. Was married for 28 years. Am still sad at times. It's lonely. I look forward to the weekends but by the time Monday rolls around I look forward to going back to work.

Breakfast

I love breakfast. I have a picture of myself at Grandma Betty's table one morning, fried eggs and toast. Yum. When mom would buy a box of Corn Pops it was all I could do to get to sleep at night, only to be able to get right up the next morning and have a bowl of those Corn Pops. I am still that excited today when I bring home the box of Corn Pops, except there's no waiting until the next morning.

A Survey, A Coupon and An Apron!

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Truth in Advertising

Here is a can of newly opened Cheetos crunchy. Can you believe it? They sell this big container of snacks and that's all that was in there. The front does say 4.75 oz, this is the biggest misleading in packaging of a product and a waste of packaging. Shame on you FritoLay.

First Strawberries

Here in Michigan, these are the first of the locally grown strawberries of the season. They are spectacular.

The CVS Game

I'm game...

First off, I went to the pharmacy with my $25 gc coupon and got my prescription filled, $5.55.

With CVS gc in hand, I shopped...

2 bags Chex Mix $1 - had 2 coupons $1/1 = free
1 CVGRL eye shadow $1.77 - had 1 coupon $1/1
1 CVGRL lip $2.99 - had 1 coupon $2/1
1 Adidas Pure Deodorant $4.99 - had coupon $4.99/1 = free
1 St. Ives Lotion 18oz $2.65
1 Sunday Paper w/ 3 packs of coupons inside $1
1 JJ Easy Grip .99 - had coupon $1/1 = free
1 L'ORL advanced revitalift (the v.best face cream ever) $16.99 - had coupon $1/1

Had $5/$15 purchase coupon too

Total bill $17.90 used GC still have balance of about $7 on GC.
Total OOP $0
Trip Summary on rcpt reads $26.34 saved today!
Plus $4.99 ECB printed out from Adidas purchase.
DD called as I was leaving store needing FaceWash. I went back in with ECB and bought her $5.99 FaceWash for $1.06.

Correction Total OOP $1.06.

Mmmmmm....food...

My mom's new husband thinks my kids and I are food obsessed. I tell you what, you try to live out here in the rural county of Livingston and not want for a better place to eat at. We were visiting them over Easter break and apparently, as we drove around we would acknowledge restaurants and stores we had seen advertising for but had never seen or visited in person. Sonic, Whataburger, In and Out Burger, AJ's Grocery, ah....the list goes on and on. They have access to anything their hearts desire. Back at our home, we have the usual, bland and boring Wendy's, BK and Mickey Ds. B-O-R-I-N-G!