CHEAP Saturday!

Did anyone else get their free tickets to a museum for today?   We did and even though it was pouring down rain when we left, we continued on!
Our destination-Living History Farms~Ty had never been there and 2 of us got in free, so we thought, what the heck-let's go!
So, $7.00 for Ty to get in, Jason and I were FREE!(Zach chose not to spend time with his loving family!)  The plus side to a rainy day is...........VERY FEW PEOPLE!!!  We pulled up at 10:10 and there were maybe 10 cars in the parking lot.  It was great to walk around all the town buildings without lots of people!  Ty even got to become an "apprentice" at the cabinet makers shop!  The walk through the different farms wasn't quite so nice-it was pouring by then, but we still had fun.  We ended up staying there for almost 3 hours-$7.00 well spent, I'd say!
Next was to Jordan Creek Mall(I know, not the place you think of for a cheap day)  We had gotten a coupon in the mail for a FREE Build-A-Bear, good this week-end.  So, Ty was very excited that he got to get a bear with no begging on his part!
By now, we wer starving, so we went to CiCi's Pizza and took advantage of their $3.99 buffet, with a coupon for a FREE kid's buffet.  With water to drink, that's only $7.98+tax for all 3 of us to eat!
My only sad part of the day, is when I went to Cub Foods to get my sale items, it looked like the store had been robbed-I don't think they are going to make it until November-no bread, magazines, bakery looks almost empty, as does the meat/deli department.  Living so close to Cubs for the last 10 years has been very handy-kinda hard to see it closing!   On the bright side~may be able to stock up on non-perishibles when they start to mark them down!!

Labor Day Deals

Wow, did I find some great bargains on Friday/Saturday this week.  I had some good in-ad coupons and then could pair them with manufacturer's coupons~AWESOME!
I started at Cub Foods and got:
a little over a lb of grapes@ 1.99/lb
5 Kraft shredded cheese@ 5/10.00
4 Nabisco crackers@ 4/11.96
2 Oscar Meyer hotdogs @ 3.98
TOTAL $28.26
MINUS store coupon for lb of grapes~free
              $5.00 Kraft cheese coupon
               store coupon for Nabisco crackers 4/$9.00
               (2) $1.00 coupons off of Nabisco crackers
               store coupon for Oscar Meyer hotdogs 2/$3.00
              coupon for $1.oo off of 2 hotdogs
Bringing my total down to $9.33  BUT a register coupon was supposed to print out for $5.oo off a future purchase...however, as luck would have it, the printer wasn't working at that register(#9 if you shop at Ames Cub)..so, over to the customer service counter I went.  After scrutinizing my purchases, they ended up giving me $5.00 cash, bring my shopping trip total to $4.33!!!  And everything  I bought is considered staples at my house!!!!
Saturday was my other bargain hunting day~First stop Cubs, just picked up 5 more cheese(since I had one more $5.00 off coupon) and some more grapes, got one lb free and a 5.00 off future purchase!
On to HyVee to shop their sales~here is how it went:
4 fudge Shoppe Keebler cookies on sale for $1.79(half normal price this week)
2 HyVee buns@1.19 each
3 cans HyVee green beans @.39
Pillsbury brownie mix@2.15
Big tub of storebrand ice cream@4.99
MINUS:
$3.00 in Keebler coupons
.66 in hyvee buns coupons
1.46 off Brownie mix
2.00 off tub of ice cream
.05 off for bringing my own bag in( this was new to me-I knew Target did it, but not HyVee)
AND $6.00 coupon from last week's cereal purchases
TOTAL PAID--$5.00

I feel like I got some GREAT Bargains and am proving to my family that we can eat just as well( if not better) when I take the time to hunt down the deals!
Please feel free to post questions~ I would love to help you save money for your family!!!!!!!