What is this mom? Honey, this is life.

Then my shoes started to squeak........

Okay so I have been going back and forth on this whole blogging thing. I really wanted to stick with one thing, and then I thought nahhh, just blog. Then last night, common sense set in....just blog about the interesting things (to me, not you) in my life.

I read about a woman who blogged about being homeless, I read tons of blogs about how to save money and cutting coupons, and I also read about my generation and the history of Bay City, Michigan. So here I go........

Like my title says, " My life all wrapped up in a little warm fuzzy blog!"

My life today:

My washer died last week, and we had it looked at Monday. Of course Mr. and Mrs Hartley, it is not fixable! Great, just what we wanted to hear. My washer has been good to me. It has been here since I bought the house 7 years ago, but the only problem is, is that it is stackable. These babies are on the pricey side. So, because of this, I made my trip to the laundry mat down the street. The last time I was pretty sure I could do all my laundry for about $10. Oh no, not today! After $20.50 and six loads, had a new washer installed this evening!!! I do have to let you in on a little secret, it is nice to get all the laundry done all at once! And I got to do a little people watching today! Fun!!!

I then proceeded to go shopping and utilize my coupon clipping skills! Target was my winning store today!! Here is all I bought:

It might be hard to see but here is the run down:

2 boxes of Lucky Charms 5.08

3 Boxes of Special K Crackers 7.17

1 box of Special K pretzel bars 2.39

2 bags of Combos 3.54

4 Single serving of Cinnamon Toast Crunch 4.00

1 Bag of Wonka Gummies 1.59

2 Baby Bottles 2.00

1 Glade Tin Candle 2.99

1 Glade Tin Refill 2.99

1 Quattro for Woman Razor 6.99

1 Quattro Elec. Razor for Woman 9.94

1 Box of Hefty Big Garbage Bags 5.69

1 10 piece Math Set 3.99

1 3 subject Notebook 3.49

4 Beach toys (beach balls, rafts) 3.17

Total would have been 68.92 (including tax)

I paid........$24.93!!!

A short summary of some of the coupons:

I got all the single servings of CTC ceral for free.

I got both shavers for free plus made $1 off one of them.

I got the candle refills for free, plus an extra .50 taken off.

I got the LC ceral for $.54 a piece.

And both bags of combos for $.77 a piece.

It takes some time to cut and plan, but as you can see, well worth it!!!

It was a great end to my day!!!