Money Saving Challenge

Everyone goofs once in a while when shopping with coupons-me I screwed up and grabbed the wrong popcorn last week. I grabbed 2 boxes of kettle corn orville redenbacher was bogo. I meant to grab regualr popcorn. I just wasn't paying attention. The sale was bogo and I was calculating which coupons to use to get both boxes FREE. I didn't realize til we had friends over for a movie night and popped 2 bags. (3 bags per box). So I took the unopened box to the store and exchanged it. I bought 2 wedding shower bags last Saturday for gifts I had-unfortunately the boxes were two big so I returned them to CVS, at which point I noticed they rang up $4 each instead of the $1.49 I thought they were so I'm glad I returned them (I paid with giftcard so no actual cash was spent from our checking account).

I got a $15 rebate check in the mail from the coors light/superbowl rebate.
I got $11.49 back from the Schick Try Me free razor (It was in the paper, I didn't find it online expired March 7th).

A friend of mine named Cassie gave me a great heads up about Ziploc bags (she must have known I was running low :) ). Giant Eagle has buy 3 get $4 Catalina off your next purchase. Sale price is $2.49. They double coupons (there were $0.55 coupons in February 2/21 I believe, that will double to $1.10 off) You will pay 1.39 each out of pocket, but if you factor in the Catalina it's like getting them all for $0.17. I have 1 catalina from a different deal a few weeks ago I need to roll. :) Normally I would buy 6-9 to get $12 in catalinas back, but I think since we'll be moving next year I'll just buy 3. :) There will always be other deals. And I can use this towards my 3rd SC Johnson $5 rebate which makes this a money maker.

DH has started playing in a few amateur bowling tournaments. He's won money than he's spent on entry fees total so I'm ok with it plus he's really having fun. He uses the winning money towards other entry fees, fun money, bowling league fees so they don't come out of my budget. Well he wants a new bowling ball. Which apparently can cost $150-$200. Well DH was just going to go buy one-however when I went with him to the bowling alley one night last week I noticed an itty bitty sign(I mean really small) behind the counter "members who participated in a specific tournament just need to bring a copy of registration slip to the proshop to get a discount on any item (75% off)". I just called the manager because DH wants to get this tonight and yes it applies for bowling ball as long as we have the paperwork. DH usually throws stuff away but I managed to find it sitting balled up on his desk. :) Yay for a discount I'm hoping it's less than $50.