Free sample of Valspar paint

Valspar paint is offering a great deal right now! For 100 days Valspar paint is giving away 1000 free samples of paint per day!

You can choose from all of the colors offered by Valspar.

I chose a color called garden sprout. I'm gonna try it in our guest bedroom. This sample would be great for a craft project as well.

The giveaway starts at 9am CST so you'll want to get your sample fast before they run out.

And, the best part is you'll also receive a $5 off coupon!!

Lowe's Home Improvement coupon

I got an email today for a $10 off a $50 purchase coupon at Lowe's. This is great to use right now since its springtime. Hurry up and get yours because it expires on April 4, 2011.

Here's the link:

www.lowes.com

Plastic Easter eggs for 39 cents a bag!

I took a trip to Hobby Lobby today to buy some of their Easter decorations that were 50% off. Little did I know......this included the plastic Easter eggs too!

They have 12 eggs to a pack for 77 cents, and 50% off of that means about 39 cents per bag!

This is a great deal considering the church Tyler and I attend are having a community-wide Easter egg hunt. And, we are trying to get 10,000 candy-filled eggs for this event!

Tip #1: Buy the Sunday Newspaper

First of all, two blog posts in one day- GO ME! Sorry just had to get that out. :)

So, after I posted my savings from Publix, some of my friends asked if I could give them some tips to help them start couponing. So, I have thought of 5 tips to couponing!

One of my friends asked, "Where do you find all of these coupons?"

I find coupons in places all over the internet, but I find most of them through the Sunday newspaper. If I can offer a really good piece of advice its this: Get a subscription to the Sunday newspaper. I subscribe to The Birmingham News and I receive the paper on both Sunday and Wednesday. Getting the Wednesday newspaper allows me to look at all of the grocery store ads in my area.

You can get really good subscription deals through your local newspaper. Some are like a $1 a week. Which is great considering the Sunday newspaper costs $2.50!

Stay tuned for Tip #2......

God Bless!

My Savings at Publix!

Last week was a great week to save some money at Publix! Especially on Kibbles n' Bits dog food and Betty Crocker fruit snacks.

Here's what I bought:

12 bags of Kibbles n' Bits dog food (4lb. bags)

8 boxes of assorted Betty Crocker fruit snacks

3 boxes of Weight Watchers ice cream bars

3 boxes of Quaker Oatmeal Squares cereal

6 boxes of Quaker Oatmeal low-fat granola bars

6 boxes of Quaker Oatmeal

5 packages of Mentos chewy mints

1 head of Romaine Lettuce

1 package of Publix napkins

1 bottle of Palmolive dish liquid

1 roll of Publix paper towels

1 loaf of Publix whole wheat bread

1 bag of Lays kettle potato chips

1 gallon of Publix 1% milk

1/2 pound of Boar's Head turkey breast

-I used 12 $2.00/1 coupons for the kibbles n' bits dog food. The 4lb. bags were BOGO for $4.99. Using a $2.00 off coupon makes the bag of dog food .50 cents! :)

-I used 4 $0.50/2 coupons for the fruit snacks.

-I used 5 0.50/1 coupons for the Mentos. Publix doubles coupons up to 0.50 cents and the Mentos cost 0.79 cents so by using all of the coupons I gained a $1 overage!

-Publix had a 50% sale on Saturday and Sunday for Quaker Oatmeal granola bars, oatmeal, oatmeal squares cereal, and Tropicana Trop 50 juice. I bought coupons from a clipping service earlier on in the week so I could be ready for the sale. I love the granola bars and squares cereal and Tyler eats the oatmeal for breakfast.

- I used 3 $1.00/1 coupons for the Oatmeal cereal

- I used 3 $0.50/2 coupons for the granola bars. Publix doubles coupons so this is basically $1.00 off of 2 boxes.

- I was really lucky and found $1.00/2 coupons on the Quaker Oatmeal boxes. I ended up buying 6!

I'm still working on my stockpile, but each week it gets easier and easier!

So total I spent:$55

Savings: $131.60

The first thing....

So, a few weeks ago- I finally completed all of my rotations in the coordinated program. I had just finished completing about 8 weeks worth of food service rotations.

And you wanna know the first thing I did (after jumping up and down with excitement) ?

I painted my nails a beautiful, bright turquoise color!!! The actual name of the color is Turks & Caicos by Essie. I love it! The color makes me so happy!

Thanks to all of my friends and family who have supported me all throughout school. I couldn't have done it without you!