CVS Haul!

It's that time again! :) CVS haul time!! Now this week there's only 1 insert in the paper but not a ton of deals going on. But I did manage to find some things to stock up on plus I had some extrabucks to use up at CVS.
I picked up their deal on Quilted Northern, Angel Soft, and Sparkle products on sale 3 for $15 plus get $5ecb back making it 3 for $10 plus I had a 45 cent and $1 off coupon to use! :)
Milk is $2.99 plus get $1ecb  back
Culturelle probiotic is on sale for $10 plus get $10ecb back making it FREE!
Scott toilet paper is 2 for $2 plus a store coupon for $1/2 making them 2 for $1.
Physician formula products are BOGO50% plus there's a store coupon for $5 off $15 plus a $4 off $12 beauty coupon. The blush is from Maybelline and I had a $3 off coupon plus had to use it in order to use all my coupons.
M&M's are 75 cents plus get 75 cent back making them FREE! :)
Total spent: $38.87
Saved: 52.88 or 60%
Plus I have $16.75 in ECB to use next time
Grand total minus ECBs: $22.12, not too bad!
Share with me your deals!! :) Happy Sunday!

Project Empties Update

Hey there! I just finished doing my taxes after 3 hours. I am happy to say I will never ever ever ever do Mary Kay again since that was a big pain in the butt. Thankfully, all went well though with my taxes! :)
I thought I'd update you on my Project Empties. First off, my whole trying to control my purchasing thing didn't work so far. I tried but there were so many good deals! So I am going to work on that some more! But I have managed to toss out two boxes full of empties which feels quite good to do! :) So there is progress somewhere at least! :)
I counted my lip products just in my purse and I have 15...I know, I am a lip gloss junkie/addict/hoarder. But who doesn't love a fab lippie, right??! But I am trying to get through them since a lot of them are like half gone anyways. I've had mascaras that I've tried that are no good or dried up on my really fast so those get tossed out pretty quick. The blushes and eye palettes seem to take forever and a day to go through! But that's okay. I try to keep them sanitized so they will last anyways.
My current favorites are:

Wet and wild coverall foundation
Naked lipgloss in Naked
Naked 3 palette
Dream Matte powder(being discontinued I think)
Laura geller baked bronzer
Avon ideal flawless concealer
Too Faced face primer(sample)
Maybelline color tattoo in pink
Mary Kay cream blush in sheer bliss
Ulta gel liner in brown
Physician Formula FakeOut mascara(love this even more than my green tube)
Bath and Body Works Forever Red Vanilla Rum Perfume

2 other amazing products I've fallen in love with are from Anth's cousin's coworker. She makes more all natural body care products. I purchased her Cocoa-nut body butter and Pumpkin Spice body scrub. First off, they both smell amazing! Secondly, they work and really hydrate your skin and the scrub exfoliates very well! I told her after I used them both for the first time that I will contact her to repurchase once I start to run low!! Check out her site at  http://www.sugarloveproducts.com/

I hope you all had a lovely Valentine's day! Anth made some tasty bread with our penne vodka for dinner and bought me two boxes of chocolates! :) He's awesome! :)
I am off to rest for the night!
--Randi

Life happens

So I know I have been MIA for awhile. As you all know we were sick after the holidays with the nasty flu bug. Then a few weeks ago I tripped over a cord at work when rooming a patient and ended up spraining my wrist and have had two different wrist braces. I am thankfully back to normal. I've had to replace my windshield due to a large crack in it. Then my driver side window decided to go out on me. Thankfully it was replaced under warranty.
Now more recently, after getting my windows replaced, Anth, Chels, and I went to my Mom's to get her big TV for us to take home and Chels couldn't get out the back from the inside. So I let her out.Weird, right? Then, we were driving home from WI to IL and halfway thru our trip my throttle light and check engine light turns on along with a strange jolt of maybe a lack of power? Not sure. But then we come home and it's a balmy 51 degrees and then we turn on our space heaters just for our power to go out. I know, this is just a never ending tale of bad luck. Then work was crazy today and I already had the start of a headache due to said issues and then my eyelid begins to twitch. I was about to lose my mind. It wouldn't be so bad if it were one thing here and then one thing there. But not all at once. But as they say, " when it rains, it pours".
I called a local dealership and they are so busy with vehicles due the crazy cold weather I'd have to wait over a week to get it for it to be looked at. Thankfully, an auto parts store near us, literally one block away, offers free diagnostic check. So the gentleman read it for us and told us something may be off from getting a tune up and they may just be able to tweak it at the dealership.
So then we got the heat figured out along with our lack of hot water. We forgot to tell the apartment office about the power going on, so we will let them know about that soon. My doors open from the inside now since the child safety locks were on without our knowledge. My amazing friend/coworker Melissa is picking me up tomorrow to go to work(yay! carpooling and coffee!) Everything seems to be figured out for the most part. My sanity is coming back. I almost had a crying disastrous meltdown today but I kept it together and pushed through. There really is a light at the end of the tunnel. I just hope that this is for the year and the rest of the year will be less stressful! :) Time to relax with pizza and wine. Nighty night.
--Randi