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Monday, January 2, 2012

deals from today and saturday

Deals from today: AAA rayovac batteries 4 pack are 50 cents at canadian tire, they also have a 3 drawer desktop organizer on for $7.39 or so that is regularly $12 or so. They have garbage bags 40 count for $2.99, golden buds for $.86 each nielsen brand, and slowpokes for 86 cents each, eggs large white for $2.19. I am not sure if they are still on sale but as of last thursday walmart had a 16 pack of motrin liquid gels for $3.47 and if you have the $3 off coupon they are only 47 cents!!!

Saturday I had a tonne of coupons expiring and it was a 20x the point event at shoppers so I went there. I had $2 off gillette antiperspirant and it was on for 2 for $5 so I got 6 for $3 total, I got 21 charmin toilet seat covers at 89 cents each and she used 7 of my $1 off any charmin and 7 of my $2.50 off any 2 charmin products coupons and didn't mark them down to 89 cents so there was some bonus overage, Vicks vaporub 50 g was on for $5 so I got 5 of those and used my $2 off each one so was $15 for 5. I bought a robax platinum on for $13.99 and used my $10 off coupon, They had royale 3 ply kleenex on for 69 cents each. I bought 4 and used my $1.50 off when you buy 3 coupon, Redeemed my coupon for the free kashi cereal. It is toasted berry and is yummy. I picked up pgx on for $29.99 for 150, The sign said bonus points for axe body wash 1250 when you buy 2 so i bought 4 at $5 each and used 3 $1 off coupons and a buy one get one free. Turns out the points were over on the 30. Total saved in coupons was $69.99. Total saved buying sales items was $45.55. Out of pocket cost was $95.02. After using up what was left on a $50 giftcard and 2 $25 giftcards from november I paid $1.04. Total regular points earned was on the before coupons total of $148. Earned 1480 coupons and with the 20X the ponts even I earned a total of 29600 points which is approximately $30 on a regular redemption day but more on a bonus redemption. I forgot that I picked up a milk fo r$4.19 and 2 butters on for $3.49 and an airwick scented oil kit that I have a 100% mail in rebate for.

Will blog about the holidays when I get a minute.

Tomorrow is Paul's last day with us before he leaves for 6 months of training in Kingston. He hopes to make it home every weekend but you never know. Logan was very sad tonight and crying because Daddy is leaving.

Love Always, Rae-Lynn, Paul, Logan and Finn

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

We have arrived in Ottawa.

Things have been super crazy since my last post. We went to Ottawa on the 9-18 of November for our house hunting trip. We bought a house in River side south in Gloucester that is really close to where I will be working.

We were home on the 18th and had a accepted a conditional offer on our house in courtenay that should hopefully close at the end of January contingent to them selling their house.

Then we went to jr. ranks bingo with Jen on the 19th and it was awesome. Chloe, Cailey and Codie babysat the boys. On the 25th of November they did a pre-pre-pack of our stuff and then did a pre-pack on the 28th and packed on the 29th. The load was on the 30th and our movers were awesome. We really really liked working with them. Then we had the clean on the 1st. We had cleaners and Paul and I cleaned and it was still 5 hours of cleaning. But the house looks great. Dad flew in on the 1st and we also put 4 new snow tires on the truck for the trip. We sold our kia sephia to one of Pauls friends in comox.

We hit the trail on the 2nd of december and stopped in Parksville for a wonderful Jamaican breakfast with Margie and Jerry. I love her dumplings. Was so sad to leave them. They were soooo amazing to us while we were there. We miss them terribly. We caught the 1230 ferry to Horseshoe bay and we unfortunately Paul was by himself in the truck so he couldn't use the HOV lane. We hadnt thought of that but we found each other near chiliwack. We made it to Kamloops that first night and stayed at the Hampton inn.

Day 2 of driving we got 20 minutes east of salmon arm when I noticed the trailer paul was towing looked weird. I got him to pull over and sure enough he had lost a tire. All of the nuts were gone too. Paul and I and Finn back tracked to salmon arm for parts and then came back and fixed the trailer and we were off again. probably cost us 3 hours fiixing the trailer. That night we made it to Canmore and stayed at the Radisson.

Day 3 we left Canmore. We stopped in shoppers calgary to see about redeeming 95000 shoppers points for the $250 mega bonus redemption but they didn't have what I wanted so we kept going and stopped in Strathmore. For the $250 I was able to get a new watch ($60 and has a pedometer on it and heart rate), a wii game, donkey kong mario for ds, a game for the ps3, 3 movies for Paul, a $24 electronic learning toy for Finn, and then 8 dairy milk chocolate bars, 2 pepsi, and 6 bags of chips. Then because it was alberta it only cost me the one tax!!! Was awesome.We made it all of the way to moose jaw and stayed at the temple spa hotel with the geothermal hot springs. It was awesome.

Day 4 we got up and made it to Pierson where Mom and Duffer met us at Grandma Ediths. We had a great visit and then stopped in Medora so Paul could work on some light issues with the trailer. My windshield washer pump wasnt working and we werent sure why. Then we got to Deloraine at 1730 and had a wonderful supper that Lynn made. Rob and Rosie and Rolly, Robyn and Quinlan and Ursula all came along with Dad and Lynn and we had a great visit.

Day 5 we headed to Winnipeg and stopped in Brandon to see Rick and then Winnipeg where we went to see Grandma. We were lucky that Auntie linda and Uncle Dave were there so we had a visit with them. Then we went to Auntie Elsies and had a great visit with her. Then we went to Canadian tire to see if the car was ready and they hadnt even looked at it yet. Paul ended up staying there with the car to wait on it. We headed to the Fairfield by Marriott and it was wonderful. Paul was there shortly after and we were told the car was fixed.

Day 6 we left winnipeg and headed to thunderbay. We stayed at a hotel there with waterslides for the kids.

Day 7 we left thunderbay and made it to Cochrane. The Windshield washer fluid didnt work all day so we stopped in hearst and steve from canadian tire was awesome and fixed my car for real this time. We stayed at the best western cochrane and had chinese food for supper .

day 8 we made it to Tamiko which is 34 kms north of north bay and the trailer was toast so we called a scrap metal place in north bay and they came and took the boat and trailer away. Then we had lunch in north bay and made it to Mom and Dads by 2000.

We made it to Ottawa on day 10 and I had a flat tire in my car so I had to get 2 new tires but that was fine.

We finished our paperwork with the lawyer on monday and Paul headed to work at ndhq. Got the keys to our place at 1800 and Dad and I dropped off all of the stuff from the back of our truck. Place looks great!!!!

I have been sick since October and I think I have a blocked duct right now in my boob.

Today we did a beer run to Quebec. They have 60 coors lite for $56.65. great deal. I also grabbed a 24 of stella for $23.08 and $28 keiths for $28. Great deal as well. Picked up the coors lite for my father in law.

Then we went to Wal-mart and got some super duper bargains. They have the scrubbing bubbles daily shower and extended cleaning triggers on for $5.97. I have coupons for $5 off making them 97 cents each!!! You can only get one per person so I got DAd to grab one for me. Then they have colgate sensitive pro-relief on for $4.88 and it comes with a free tooth brush. I have $3 off coupons so we each got one for Dad so he will have 2 at $1.88 each. The tooth brush alone is a $5 toothbrush. He normally pays over $5 for that in Deloraine. Picked up 2 bags of tostitos multigrain on for $1.88 each. I picked up gold fish teddy graham chocolate flavour $2.97 but had a 50 cents off coupon. I used my coupon for a free scrubbing bubbles one step toilet cleaner which retails for $9.97. And I picked up a $12 bag of cat food for Bear. I grabbed some wal-mart microwave popcorn for Logan too for $1.43 for 3 bags. Oh yeah I redeemed my $3 off purex for a $4.47 or so 53 load purex bottle of laundry soap. Coupon came with a free sample from the company and expires at the end of the month. I have 3 coupons to use by the end of the month for free stuff, a free philadelphia cream cheese dill spread, a free kraft salad dressing and free amooza cheese strips. I think I have a free kashi bars coupon too. Have to go to the grocery store.

I handed out multiple coupons to people I saw with items that I have coupons for. I have so many expiring at the end of december. I also left some coupons on the shelf for stuff that I wont be buying.

I took a drive past the parliament buildings for Dad. He thought they were way out of town from on the news and had no idea that they are right down town.

I finished my Christmas letter and emailed it off to Auntie Linda.

Finn is so good at feeding himself and refuses to eat baby food now and just wants what we are eating. Logan is having a swim in the hotel pool right now as I update my blog.

Looks like our stuff will be here friday morning. Hopefully the unpack will be saturday morning so we can get all settled in while we have help. I'm going to run down to ndhq tomorrow to sort out my mata/pata stuff. I dont have to clear in at work till I am ready to start work.

We ate at East Side Marios last night and they have kids eat free on mondays. Was good!!!
Thats all for now!!!

Love Rae-Lynn, Paul, Logan and Finn. From the nationals capital!!!

Sunday, October 30, 2011

October 30th. update and deals I have recently scored.

We have been crazy busy with the house and all. We are doing well. Some updates are that the house is finally on the market. Up for $399,000. Market is crappy here right now so we will see what happens. Our HHT is booked and we are heading to ottawa from the 9-18 November. Hopefully we will find something good. And hopefully our house here will sell soon.

Finn started crawling this week!!! It is a leopard crawl and is soooo adorable. Logan, Finn and myself are all sick. It sucks but hopefully it will pass soon.

some awesome deals from this week:

At London drugs I had 3 stacks of finish coupons for $8 each. So I got 3 20 packs of Finish Quantum powerball all for free. I also picked up a windex on sale for $3.99. I used a buy one get one free coupon and a save $2 when you buy 2 which meant I got 2 windex for $1.99 total. I price matched neocitran warming liquid from the safeway flyer on for $6.99 and stacked a smart source online coupon and a tearpad coupon to get $6 off paying only .99 for it. I stacked 2 $1 off noxzema coupons and got a $3.99 noxzema for $1.99. 2 charmins for $10 minus my save 2.50 when you buy 2 coupon, Ocean spray juice 2.99 minus 2 $1.00 off coupons making it 99 cents. Iams cat food on for $9.99 minus my $5 off coupon getting it for $4.99. Pediasure on for $9.99 minus $7 in coupons making it $2.99.

Wal-mart:

I picked up a double pack of glade scented oil on the clearance rack for $4 down from $12 something and used a $3 off coupon getting it for $1. Olay body wash on for $3 and $3.22. Grabbed 4 and used 4 $1.00 off coupons. 4 Alberto styling gels/creams on for $.99 used 4 $1 off coupons and they were free.

Rexall: Tylenol childrens on for $7.99 minus a $3 printable from living well.ca making it $5.95 after taxes and earning me 54 aeroplan points!!!



Shoppers: febreze to go on for 99 cents. Used my $1 off any febreze and bought 3 making them 3.

Last night I popped by shoppers to do the redemption of 95000 points for $200. I picked up a 25th anniversary Nintendo DSI XL on for $149 down from $179. It came with super mario cart and the brain age games. I also grabbed mario for it for $35. Triscuits were on for $2 and buy 2 get 200 bonus points. I bought 4. I picked up degree deodorant/antiperspirant off of the sale rack. It was a 2 pack on for $2.00. I used my $1 off any degree tearpad and paid $1.50 for 2 making them 75 cents each. I bought 4 packs. I bought a gillette clinical for $2 with a $2 off coupon making it free but noticed it was expired when I got home. Oh well. I can't remember what else from last night but I ended up paying $44 because you have to cover taxes on the full 200 etc and I had over $200 worth of stuff. Oh yeah, I bought 4 packs of baby mum mums on for $2.49 each.

Then today I popped in to Shoppers quickly tonight and they had axe bodywash trial size on for 50 cents on the clearance rack. There was a deal buy 3 get 3000 bonus points. I picked up 12 of them for a total of 6 something and earned 12060 bonus points. I also picked up hydrasense filters 30 pack on for 2.99 and used my $1.50 off coupon making them $1.50 x 2 packs. And a nyquil on sale for $3.79 and earned another 90 points.

Superstore has dove hair products on for $2.99 which is an awesome deal. I bought 3 shampoo and 3 conditioners. The coupon zone has $1.50 off any dove product but says one per family. They let me use 2 of those coupons and then I used 2 save $2 when you buy 2 dove product tear pads giving me $7 off of my total and a few superbucks that I had. Total cost for 3 shampoo and 3 conditioners came to $10.36 out of pocket.

Logan is now addicted to my Nintendo DSI on top of Little big planet on the PS3 and mario brothers on the WII. He is sick so I let him play it a bit more than normal this weekend.

Hoping that we feel better super soon.

Last weekend Marjorie and Jerry came up to watch the kids saturday night so Paul and I could have some alone time. We had side by side massages at oh spa and then we went to dinner and then to the party at the legion. Then we had a free hotel room at old house because of my vip spa membership. It was wonderful!!!Thank you so much to Marjorie and Jerry. We love you sooooo much,.

Love always Rae-Lynn, Paul, Logan and Finn

Friday, October 7, 2011

My first stacking trip to London Drugs


Today was a busy day. Paul and I had a meeting about the posting at the base for almost 2 hours. The kids were at daycare with the lovely Janice!!! I forgot to drop off a bottle when I dropped off the kids so I went over and nursed Finn on my way home. I spent some time organizing my coupon binder and putting coupons away and getting rid of some old ones.

I took a look at the London Drugs flyer and thought I was going to get some crazy awesome deals and then I realized that my charmin coupons weren't stackable. I still went because I thought I could get some good deals and wanted to try out stacking.

Similac formula is on for $24.99. I had 2 cheques from the company worth $10, and $5 as well as another $5 off coupon so I paid $4.99 for a container of formula.

They have all dove products on for $2.99. I got a nourishing oil shampoo for $2.99 minus my $2.00 off coupon so $.99 and then a visibly something body wash on for $2.99 with a $2.00 off coupon and then I used my save $2 when you buy 2 dove tear pad coupon so those were free.

They have pampers Size 4 52 diaper packs on for 2 for $26.99 or $16.99 each. I picked up 2 and unfortunately the P&G coupons aren't stackable but I was able to use a $5 off coupon on each one. 104 diapers for $16.99 sweet!!!

They had the scrubbing bubbles extend a clean on for $6.99 and I used my $3.00 off coupon. The scrubbing bubbles toilet gel was also on for $3.99 and I want to try it out so I used my buy one get one free coupon and got 2 for $3.99.

My bill was $32.00. I used $43 in coupons I believe. Was sooooo awesome!!!

Logan turned 4 on October 5th and it was a great day. Marjorie and Jerry came up for supper and we went to Boston Pizza to celebrate. Was a wonderful birthday!!

Love Rae-Lynn, Paul, Logan and Finn

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

deals and update

Took Logan to the dentist today and the dentist said everything is great!!! Both boys are doing well.

Tomorrow is Logan's 4th birthday. Unfortunately they will be at daycare since I have a medical at 0730 tomorrow. Logan has school as well. Oh well, we will celebrate tomorrow night. He can't wait. I have a bunch of running around to do for his birthday anyway and some more cleaning.

Safeway has speedstick on for $2.49. If you use the coupon that came out in redplum or smart source a couple of weeks ago then it is $1.49. If you buy 3 you earn 25 airmiles. Today is also customer appreciation day so double the airmiles or 10% off I believe!!! Also if you spend $75 you get a $10 giftcard.

That's all for now.

Love Rae-Lynn, Paul, Logan and Finn