Bargain Babe

As much as I wanted to sit at home and watch the race yesterday afternoon, the boyfriend was driving me to the brink of insanity, so instead of severely injuring him and losing my potential travel buddy for the Michigan race in August, I just decided to leave the house and go shopping to de-stress.

It was bad enough that all we had to drink in our fridge was beer and milk so I began my shopping spree at Sam’s Club. I love Sam’s Club more than any normal person should. When I can walk out with 3-30 pack cases of water for under $10, I am in love. When I can buy a box with 12 packs of gum in it for $7, I’m in heaven.

Sometimes I think I go broke bargain shopping because I love buying things for cheap. I refuse to pay for anything that I do not severely need in life for full price, that’s just me.

I took the gift card that the girls at work got me for my birthday and decided to shop it up at Kohl’s. Since it is spring, winter clothes were on clearance and I decided to stock up for next year. After all, I will thank myself next year when I won’t have to buy a few $20 sweaters when I got more than a few today at $3 a sweater. That almost made me pee my pants with delight that I got such a deal on sweaters. It’s still cold here in Ohio so I can technically wear them until the nice weather rolls in. I’m wearing a very cute blue one right now as I type…

While I am sharing bargain shopping stories, I went to Wal-Mart today after work to pick up some more of my Slim Quick diet pills and struck a gold mine of Easter merchandise that was 75% off since obviously the holiday has passed. The stuffed animals were all $1.85 when they were originally $4.95 and $7.95 and Easter eggs filled with tattoos for kids were 50 cents that were normally $2.50 so I grabbed a few to shove in the kids’ basket for next year. I still see it as a deal even though I cannot do anything with the stuff until next year. For one, I won’t have to buy anything full price for Easter next year, and two, I don’t have to go Easter shopping with the 10,000 other people that seem to go the same time I do.

Yesterday morning I woke up early and made breakfast for me and Kennedy. Thank God for frozen pancakes, because that seems to be my doom when it comes to making breakfast foods. Lover was going to be at work all day so we decided to go shopping for his Christmas present. I will not divulge details because you never know when he might be in the mood to stumble upon this journal entry and try to find out what he’s getting. *wink* I will say though that we went to the mall and stopped at a few stores. Kennedy really wanted to stop and play in the Kids Play Area, I really wanted to get going on some more shopping and get this excursion over with, but of course when it comes to her, I give in and just can’t say “No”

I’m so glad I did decided to stop because just when I sat down Santa Claus walked by. I completely forgot I wanted to take her to get her picture taken with Santa. Kennedy of course being just as alert that Santa walked by asked if we could go see him. The line was just as long as it was when we wanted to see the Easter Bunny, so I knew my schedule for the next few hours just filled up. It’s horrible how I blended in with the mother’s, standing there in line trying to fix up Kennedy’s hair and shirt to make sure she looked nice for her photo.

I wished I would of gone to Target before I went to the mall, because after meeting Santa I found a cute outfit on sale…sparkle jeans for only $10.50 and a white shirt with black polka dots and ruffled sleeves a whooping $4.15. Oh my poor piggy bank!

We did end up finding the perfect Christmas gift for Daddy though. We quickly got home, wrapped it and put it underneath the tree. We are both excited beyond belief and cannot wait until Christmas when he open’s it up and see’s how awesome his gift really is.