confessions and SCORE :)

 so i have a confession.

i always look up the rite aid deals and i occasionally drool over the great finds. but i don't go to rite aid very often *ever*. i walk in to grab the weekly ad and rebate flier and then blow rite aid off for the library. every week. but today when i walked into the store to grab my weekly ad (i normally find them and do the match-up based on the online ad but i find that mistakes do happen and its best to look at the physical copy as well) i saw the huge racks of candy for the unmentioned holiday this weekend and i was boadsided by the overwhelming desire to buy mark resees. or maybe buy myself reeses. potato potaato. my stomach teamed up with my tastebuds and reminded me that the baby would need diapers soon so i might as well. and i had bragged to mark that i was going to wait til the last week in oct to buy candy because i wanted to see if i could get a really good deal and i figured by waiting i could collect an army of candy coupons which i had done not really intending to use them. o and Jesus needed candy to give the kids at church on sunday. he really did. and since i now had a calling from on high i didn't stop at the paper stand up front but just waltzed my way in and got a kart. and a basket. and another basket. just to be safe. (in my defense the baby's carseat filled the kart) so i went to the diapers first just and got huggies on sale for $8.99 (reg 12.49) and i had $6 in coupons for it so i was already pretty happy (did i mention it was a jumbo pack?) and then... i walked back up to the candy. where from looking at the weekly ad i decided to get 10 bags. seriously. there were fun size bags on sale for $2.50 (reg 3.99) a bag BUT if you spent $25 in candy you got a $10 UP reward.. and i had coupons for the candy! $6.50 in coupons to be exact :) so i went back and got a second pack of diapers (all this saving was worth celebrating after all) and made my proud way up the front. on the way i picked up nail polish and lip gloss because i had a BOGO (buy one get one) coupon and it was on sale BOGO soo i was essentially paying 50% on one product and getting two and you can never have to many beauty products in my opinion. i checked out in two transactions. the first was all candy and then i used the $10 UP on my second transaction of diapers and makeup. so i spent $14.53 and got $10 back and then used that to bring my second total  from $14.98 down to $4.98 :) 

i bought all this for $19.51 and THEN i got $6 back in UP rewards to use on my next  purchase. so its like paying $13.51 for 2 jumbo packs of huggies, 10 bags of candy, one lip gloss and one nail polish. i freaking LOVE rite aid.