I have not posted in a while. We have been busy. Vacation, summer activities, laziness...all just excuses. ;-)
We just returned from vacation where I totally abandoned the modified clean eating plan. Our digestive systems are still paying for it. Our meals consisted of fried foods, sugar, fat, and processed foods. It was just too hard to control ourselves! I will say that in the short time we were on vacation, I managed to gain back the weight I had so easily lost by ONLY modifying our eating. So, it is now time for us to jump back on the bandwagon, as they say.
It is also time to start thinking about back to school purchases. (Can you believe it is almost August?!) I don't have the advantage of having a "back to school supply list" yet. Our back to school night isn't until August 23, so we won't really know what we need to get until then. Regardless, I am going to take advantage of whatever sales there are because I can always donate anything we don't need or that the kids can't take with them to school.
Today I was able to get some supplies for free or for very cheap at Target and at Staples. Staples generally runs 1 cent sales this time of year: you buy $5 worth of stuff and then there are items that you can get for 1 penny each. I should have stuck to that $5, but I found some things we needed (I always do) and spent about $25. I expect to receive $12 of that back in rebates, though. So for about $13 I bought 2 reams of printer paper, 2 composition books, 1 package of Pilot Frixion Pens, 4 packs of 20 envelopes, and 4 packages of 5 Bic mechanical pencils. I also picked up 6 travel tissue packages, 2 packages paper clips, and 10 paper pocket folders for 1 cent each.
At Target, there are some great deals this week: there is a 4-pack of Chobani greek yogurt for kids (it is pretty sugary...) on sale for $2.50 and there is a Target coupon for $1 off in addition to a manufacturer coupon for $1 off on the Chobani website. There was also a coupon in the La Times Redplum insert for $1 off 3 Roseart items. Target has Roseart crayons for $0.25, so I picked up four for free! They also have their girls' Cherokee polos for $5 each, so we got some for DD's uniform.
Target also has LOTS of toys marked down 70% right now. I expected to find them all in one area, but they are scattered throughout the toy department. It is great to have a stash of toys that the kids can pick from if there is a birthday party they are attending. It is also nice to get some Christmas shopping done on the cheap. ;-) I may have to go back to spend a little more time in that department since the kids were with me when we went today.
I have also become "re-addicted" to Pinterest, so I have all sorts of good ideas to try. I have declared that August will be our month to get reorganized and decluttered. (Famous last words, right?! I fully expect that when we reach September 1, I will be wondering where the month went and why I didn't do what I had hoped to do...)
I will share some ideas here and keep you updated on any new deals I find. Good luck to you!
--Katie
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