Today was an exciting day here on the homefront. We did our grocery shopping and I managed to hold on to $80.00!! Yippee!!
As an added bonus- hubby took me to a store that is currently under liquidation. I was a bit skeptical upon first glance since the store looked as though a hurricane passed right through it.. but the frugal chick in me took over and accepted the challenge! Hubby and I usually spend ALOT of money during Christmas on the kids & family.. not to mention we often wind up giving presents to many soldiers in the unit. Well.. last year we gave the soldiers mini stockings that I filled with candy.. I think the going price was $0.89 each (booo).
::wicked grin:: So I wandered up and down the aisles and happened upon a shelf filled with the cutest little christmas tins! I picked one up and examined it further. The sticker price of the tin said $1.99. I was about to put it back when I looked up and saw two price reduction labels above the tins.. one for 40% and the other read 75%. This piqued my curiosity so I asked one of the cashiers to double check the price... wellll turns out the price was 0.99 and it was 75% off!!
Needless to say, I walked out of there with 45 tins and 10 packs of giftwrap paper for a whopping $13.75
So.. recap... 80 bucks left over for the monthly food budget and 45 christmas gifts & tissue paper for 13.75 hehehe
What can I say... today was a good day
Pre-Christmas Shopping bargains!
February 20th, 2005 at 02:36 am