Here's a little background into my night tonight: Jackson and I have agreed to watch our friends' little boy while they take a scuba diving class Monday nights this semester from 6:00 to 9:00. Fun, right? We were glad to help out, because they're the ones that watch Addy when I'm at work so it's nice to swap babysitting hours. Well, it was Orian's first time with a babysitter, and he did GREAT!.. for about the first 15 minutes... then all of the sudden for a mystery reason he just started crying. Addy came over to him, saw that he was crying, and gave him some nice pats on the back. She's so sweet. She then looked at him again, sees that he's still crying after her best efforts to comfort him, promptly sticks out her bottom lip and SHE starts to cry. Oh brother.
After a few minutes Orian stops crying, but then he looks over and sees Addy crying now, so he starts crying again. Addy would stop crying, look over and see Orian crying and then she would cry again. And so it went.. for the better part of 2 hours. That's a lot of crying. Trust me. Jackson tried to help out as best he could but he was speedily trying to finish his homework, so we tried to just leave him alone. Finally, after 2 hours and me trying EVERYTHING to calm this boy down, Jackson found a good stopping place and took Orian to the basement with him. This was so helpful because it was time for me to give Addy her bath and get her to bed so I could go couponing (although I'm quite tired by this point.)
So I get Addy in the tub and she plays for a while. Addy loves taking a bath, so I usually let her play for a while. Well, after about 5 minutes in the tub I look over and see a red-faced Addy squatting just above the water and I think, oh, no, you better not be doing what I think you're doing... She was. She pooped in the tub. Gross. Great. Another mess to clean up. About this time of course the Martineaus show back up to pick up Orian so they're knocking on the door while I'm trying to wisk her out of the tub, rinse her off, calm her down because she's quite upset her bath time was interrupted, and run off to answer the door.
Orian had worn himself out and was sleeping finally (props to Jackson) so the Martineaus left with Orian and we were left cleaning out and bleaching the tub and trying to get a very tired Addy off to bed.
Finally we're finished. It's about 9:30 and I am EX-HAU-STED. I would so desperately love to have just crawled into bed right then. But then, alas! I have this thought: Oh, no, I have a $5.00 catalina that expires tonight! (a catalina is a little coupon that works like cash you can get from buying certain things in a sale.. so a $5.00 catalina is basically like a $5.00 bill that I can use at Albertsons.. coupon lingo) I then think: oh, it's only $5.00. I'm so tired! Then I think: It's $5.00!! That's like just throwing away $5.00 bill! Unacceptable. Especially to a couponer.
So... instead of crawling into bed, I wait until Addy falls asleep and head off to Albertsons, dead tired and with a headache to use my $5.00 catalina. Was it worth it? You tell me.
The picture is blurry.. sorry. It was taken from Jackson's cell phone because I couldn't find our camera.
I bought:
6 Juicy Juice 8-pack boxes
5 Lysol Disinfectant Wipes
1 Lysol 4 in 1 All purpose cleaner with bleach
3 Lysol Toilet bowl cleaners
1 DRAINO cleaner
GRAND OUT-OF-POCKET TOTAL: $1.88 (this is where you "oooh" and "ahhhh")
Plus, I got another $1.00 catalina that I can use on my next shopping trip!
Everything was bought with coupons with the exception of the DRAINO that we needed for our bathroom sink. I basically just paid tax for everything. This is why couponing is the best ever. I save so much money, and now I have a bunch of cleaning supplies and I love these little juice boxes for Addy! Yea!
I think it's exciting. You may disagree and think I'm a CRAZY coupon lady instead of a KRAZY coupon lady (by the way, check out krazycouponlady.blogspot.com. They're a great couponing site), but I like it and I love getting things for free and/or very cheap, and now I'm going to bed. Good night.
7 comments:
Wahoo! Wow now it is official I need tips, I want to be a crazy couponing lady, heck I am already crazy, so it shouldn't take much!
That is so awesome! You have no idea how jealous it makes me hearing about the awesome deals you and Kaci get. I'm trying to do the whole coupon thing and I'm just not getting it and I never get deals like the one you just got. I'm so ready to quit but your story gives me courage to persevere (sometime you need to tell me EXACTLY how you go about this whole thing)
Here I am sitting at work not having a very good day. So I decide to see who has updated their blog page, because heaven knows I have not but have intended to for like the last three weeks. Let's just say that your story put a little smile on my face. You are such a great story teller. Thanks for sharing. Love you guys.
I am so very proud for three reasons! 1. You cleaned poop out of a tub...that is sick. 2. Very good deal couponing- I should have gone with you last night but we watched a movie then I was oh so tired. So you got the CRAZY- I got the LAZY! 3. You STILL stayed up to blog about it! So proud! I'm going tonight- don't know what I'm going to get- but I'm going!
WOW! Your like a coupon Queen. That's amazing. Good Job.
Holy Cow! Sheila, you're amazing! You do it all: clean out a poopy tub, watch the kids, and THEN go couponing and get awesome deals! Wow, I am impressed :0) I need to get in on this couponing thing - sounds like I am really missin' out!
HAHA i love it!! i am offically hooked!! i love couponing and thanks for helping me out! :) p.s. i got some great deals and had to take pictures of all the things i got, but then i was too embarrassed to post them so i didnt, but... maybe i still will! :)
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