Deals at Walgreens and Publix

So it has been a while since I have posted anything but I am so proud of the deals I got today that I just had to share!


Went to Walgreens and got the pespi/friotlay deal and the unilever deal:

2 8ct case of pepsi max
2 8ct case of mountain dew
3 doritos
2 Tostedos
4 Ragu sauce
4 Skippy Peanut Butter

total before coupons and credit: $37.42

total after: $0 and got back $20 in register rewards plus will get $15 in pepsi/frito lay coupons in the mail


I then took those coupons to Publix and combined with store coupons and manufacturer coupons and rebates to get this deal:

2 bozes of kleenex with lotion
9-lives cat food
2 packages of kotex
2 huggies baby wash
2 J&J baby powder
6 J&J buddies soap bars
1 12 ct cottonelle toilet paper
1 box of Huggies Diapers sz 5

price before coupons: $68.56

price after coupons and Publix GC rebate(buy $35 of kimberly clark products get a $10 Publix GC): $8.42

Woot!!! Now that is what I call a bargain!

Birthday Flowers

Here are my Beautiful flowers I got from my family. It took two deliveries through the hurricane to actually get some that would last more than a day. They certainly are pretty. The storm has finally past by and I think things are starting to get back to normal.

“Extreme Makeover” Family, Milton & Patricia Harper, Have Lost Their Home

http://www.hicktownpress.com/extreme-makeover-family-milton-patricia-harper-have-lost-their-home/



So what do you think about this?

Holy Hot Flash, Batman!

When the novelist Jodi Picoult was approached in 2006 to write a few installments of the "Wonder Woman" comic-book series, her impulse was to dress the character in something besides that clearly unsupportive red and gold bustier. "As any woman writer would know," she opines in the introduction to a collection of the comics, "it's impossible to fight crime without straps." The editors at DC Comics vetoed her request, but Picoult sneaked in her point anyway. In a scene set in a bar frequented by comic-book fans, a tipsy customer muses about how Wonder Woman manages to "fight crime in a freaking bikini." Such is the irony of the planet's premier female superhero. Though she was featured on the first issue of Ms. Magazine under the headline WONDER WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT, she's been written, for most of her 66 years, by a man.

But now women are finally breaking into the boys' comics club. With the release of this month's "Wonder Woman" No. 14, the superhero gets her first permanent, ongoing female scribe, Gail Simone, just as alternative and foreign comics by women are gaining visibility. The movie "Persepolis," based on Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir about the Iranian revolution, opened Christmas Day, and Megan Kelso's multipart strip "Watergate Sue," about a Nixon-era family, was recently featured in The New York Times Magazine. Kelso's graphic story collection "The Squirrel Mother" was well reviewed, as was Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic-novel memoir "Fun Home." Manga, a Japanese style of comic featuring huge-eyed characters and often including elements of fantasy, has spawned a female-oriented subset, shoujo manga, some of which outsells regular manga. The ladies aren't exactly kicking the guys off the planet yet—"Spider-Man 3" was the top-grossing movie last year—but they're no longer the comics equivalent of kryptonite, either.

Traditionally, comics have been by, for and about men. DC Comics won't release reader demographics, but industry insiders agree the readership remains overwhelmingly male. (The Web site comicsworthreading.com claims that DC's readership was 92 percent male in 1995.) Dan DiDio, DC's executive editor, describes its audience as "college-aged men who are looking for high adventure, a level of risk, fantasy." "Wonder Woman" fits that mold, with its fantasy-based storyline and action-heavy, cleavage-filled plots. But it remains to be seen whether the increasing number of female voices such as Simone's will win superhero comics more female readers.

There's no question more women are reading comics in general, especially alternative strips and manga. For proof, just go to a convention. "When I used to go to the San Diego comics convention, the only women were children or wives of fanboys who looked oppressed being there," says Eric Reynolds, an editor at the graphic-novel publisher Fantagraphics. "Now it's just as common to have a woman come up to our booth, and for her husband to be the tag-along." The diverse subject matter of alternative comics such as manga and graphic novels, which are the comic world's equivalent of independent film, may partially account for their appeal. Kelso, the author of "The Squirrel Mother," says that the availability of alternative comics in bookstores, as opposed to obscure specialty comics stores, may be another reason. Kelso writes gently wry, family-themed tales—"The Squirrel Mother" depicts a human mother making a dress interspersed with scenes of a squirrel mother tending to her young. Hardly the "Pow! Oof! Bang!" sequences of superhero stories.

But other writers embrace the constraints of traditional comics—or are working to enact change within the genre. Simone, "Wonder Woman's" new scribe, got her start when she published a blog titled Women in Refrigerators that argued that most female comics superheroes end up "depowered, raped, or cut up and stuck in the refrigerator." The blog led to a writing job for the all-female comic "Birds of Prey" for DC—which became a short-lived, live-action TV series—and in turn won her the "Wonder Woman" job. Simone says she sees a change since she wrote her "refrigerator" rant 10 years ago. "At that time, the trend was towards grim stories where female characters were killed," she says. "We only had a handful of female characters to look up to. Today we're not seeing those stories so much." Her plans for future issues include presenting the Amazons, the tribe Wonder Woman came from, as "less a bunch of women in beehives and togas," she says. Simone believes that despite being written by a man for most of her life, Wonder Woman has always been a strong female character, and the writer doesn't plan to insert a feminist agenda to the strip or tone down the superhero's overt sexiness. "Part of her appeal is that she makes your eyes pop out of your head," Simone says. In other words, that bustier is here to stay.

ALSO IN WONDER WOMAN NEWS....WW DOES PLAYBOY?!!!

http://billgatevackes.vox.com/library/post/i-rant-about-the-wonder-woman-playboy-cover.html

Target,Publix and CVS deals so far

So yesterday hubby was sick and went to DR. He had to get 2 prescriptions. So luckily I had target coupons for $10 GC (course today I get Winn Dixie ones for $25
:( oh well)

Got some good deals yesterday an today

First had a gift card for Best Buy that I have had for a while and a rewrd certificate and my kids all time favorite vcr movie broke of Toy Story and it jsut so happens I had exactly enough for it to be shipped to me for FREE!!Woot!!
Got 4 really cute Blues Clues books in the mail for the little monster from Amazon today with that $10 credit and 4 for 3 special delivered to my door for only $1.47!!Double Woot!!

Today at CVS hubby needed spray deodorant so I went to CVS and grabbed that and these deals:
Hubby's deodorant $4.39
2 Neo to go on sale for $5 each
3 J&J Bedtime bath for $3.99 each
3 j &J easy grip soaps $.99 each
2 7-up $1.39 each

total before coupons $32.72

used 3 $1 off coupons for soaps
3 $2 off coupons for bath soap
$4 off $20
$3 ECB

total $17.72 and got back a $3 for $15 and $11 ECB's for next trip woot!!

Target

Light Balsamic viegarette dressing marked down to $.36/each!!!
Fructis Shampoo 2-pack on sale for $2.99
2 Bandaid double packs with regular and Hello Kitty marked down to $3.48
Bertolli pasta $5.99
Old Spice Body soap with free trail size too marked down t $2.55
2 Sally Hansen 2 polish sets marked down to $2.48
Listerine super huge mouthwash plus free smaller one marked down to $5.08

Total before coupons $30.35

$1 off shampoo
$1 off old spice
$6 off for sally hansen
$1 off listerine
$1 off bandaids
$10 GC from pharmacy
OOP $10.30


Not bad for a day's work

more to come around the 5th of August for the big grocery trip!

Summer Sale for Money Saving Mom's ebooks

Have you heard the big news? TODAY ONLY you can get an incredible ebook package from MoneySavingMom.com--over $100 worth of money-saving ebooks, homemaking helps, and encouragement for only $5.97! I can't believe she's offering such a great price and I'd highly recommend you run over here Click Here! and check it out.

What makes this deal so good is that this ebook package includes the ecourse Supermarket Savings 101--this course alone is worth much more than $5.97 and will teach you how to drastically reduce your grocery bill. If high fuel and food costs are discouraging you and leaving you strapped for cash, you definitely need to buy this ecourse. You'll learn how to cut your grocery bill by up to 50% or more and have fun saving money at the same time!

Go here Click Here! to read more about this huge sale! Hurry, though, the price goes up tomorrow--get this money-saving ebook package at a ridiculously low price while you can!!

Tommorow it will go up $3 and the next day another $3 and then the sale will be over!!Hurry and get it now!!




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The Starbucks Coffee Gods must love me...LOL

Ok so yesterday I almost forgot about the free Vivianno's yesterday. I rushed over and drove up to the drive-thru. I asked for the free drink if I have 2 cards can I get a free one for each card? They said "YES"! Ok so I order one free one then another order with another free one and one to pay for and a Frappucinno for Daddy. The lady giggles hands me the drinks and the cards and says all the Vivianno's came up FREE!!!
Triple Score!!!!
So we got 4 delicious Starbucks drinks for under $5!!!
Woot!!!!