HIll's Milestone Photography - Great Deal!

My great friend Michelle is doing an awesome contest on her blog and website! Go check it out, become a fan and follower and get some great things!
Here is what is on Michelle's Blog: (Be sure to visit her blog!! HERE)

Hill’s Milestone Photography is on a quest to expand our fan base. In order to do that, I have set up a contest to reward all those who wish to participate. Both current and new fans need to follow these steps in order to participate.
Step 1 (receive 15% off package coupon): If you are not one of our friends on FB, please add us as your friend. New and old friends, post the following on your wall:
Michelle, owner of Hill’s Milestone Photography is a talented photographer that I know who is trying to gain exposure and expand her client base. I’m helping her do that by asking you to become a fan of her work on facebook and follow her blog. There is no obligation for you to use her services and there is no cost to you. In fact, there is a reward for helping out. If you follow these simple steps, you can earn too:
1. Copy and paste the above and the following on your facebook wall. (receive 15% off package coupon)
2. Become a fan of Hill’s Milestone Photography group & business page by searching for us in the search box at the top of the facebook home page. Post a comment on our wall to let us know you joined. (receive 50% off sitting fee coupon)
3. Follow our blog by following these simple steps: Visit our blog at http://hillsmilestonephotography.blogspot.com/ Then scroll all the way to the bottom and click on the “follow” button. (receive $10 Milestone coupon)
4. New logo Contest. Visit our website at www.hillsmilestonephotography.com, click on Contest tab and place your vote. Everyone who votes will receive a free 11x14 photo coupon to use with your portrait session or wedding package. Plus you will be entered into a drawing for $100 Milestone dollars. There is no limit on how much voting you can do and you will receive 1 entry for each vote. The logo that gets the most votes will be Hill’s Milestone Photography’s new website logo.
Contest Rules & information:
• All coupons will be emailed to you so be sure to include a correct email address.
• Drawing for $100 Milestone dollars will take place on July 1, 2010. Winner will be contacted by emails and announced on our website.
• Free 11x14 coupon can only be used with the purchase of another package.

FREE collage at Walgreens

Walgreen's is offering a FREE collage print in honor of Mother's Day! So stop on my Walgreens.com and create a collage print using code: GOODTHOUGHTS Good thru May 8th perfect for a wonderful Mother's Day gift!!

Coupon Commotion with the Cones

Well today was a fantastic shopping trip to the grocery store! I usually try to do a big shopping trip every 2-3 weeks. In between we just get the essentials like milk that we go through like water!

Publix was having a great BOGO sale along with other sales, and I had a TON of coupons this time as well. It was one of those weeks where a lot of what I needed was on sale, I had a coupon and had a competitors coupon. It took awhile since I had all three kids with me, but my parents came along as well so my Dad watched the kids while I shopped and my Mom helped me. I ended up with 2 grocery carts FULL!! I think that's a record.

Some good deals I got were: Huggies Diapers for half price. I bought 2 pkg and had 2 manufacturers coupons and 2 Publix coupons. Band-aids were not on sale, They were $2.39, I had $1 off manufacturers, and $1 off Competitors coupons so I got a box of 60ct Band-aids for 39 cents!! Strawberries were 2 for $4, I had a coupon for $1.75 off the strawberries if you bough a SaraLee pound cake, which was 50% off on sale. Yummy dessert!! I had a lot more great deals too but those were a few of them.

My receipt is about 4 1/2 feet long, not kidding almost as tall as me. The breakdown of 2 grocery carts full of stuff:
Total before savings/coupons: $359.18
Vendor coupons: $43.03
Store Coupons: $18.64
Special Price Savings: $92.72
Grand Total: $204.79 (this was my out of pocket)
My Total savings: $154.39

I SAVED MORE THAN HALF!!!

The sweet deal of the day was the Dunkin Hines brownie mixes were BOGO, well at the register they didn't ring up BOGO. So they checked the price in the aisle and I was right so I got 1 of them for free and still got the other one for free because it was BOGO!! Sweet!!

The funny story of the whole trip was my Dad works at the Publix part-time. He said he was in the break room one day and talking to one of the cashiers. She said you come shopping with your daughter here right? He said, "Yes." She asked, "is she the one with the 3 little kids?" He said," Yes she is." She replied back, "Oh the coupon lady. I get her in my checkout line a lot!"