Well the chore pay scale actually seems to be WORKING?! for now at least. The boys spent 2 hours cleaning their room tonight and no blood was shed. Holly didn't have to do hers because she had done it 2 days ago and it was still clean, but she did her best attempt at sweeping and swiffering the kitchen floor and earned herself 1.00. I was worried my "low pay scale" wouldn't appeal to Eric much, since the kid is already rolling in dough. (Really. The neighbor paid him 15.00 last week for us to babysit their dog overnight, and he made at least 50.00 this winter shoveling snow. not bad for a 9 yr old.) but he definitely is up for getting every buck. So in conclusion our house is super clean on a wednesday night- which almost never happens! Great news, since tomorrow we will be having some help getting a massive "rearrange"ing project done. At this rate I am going to clean myself right into labor. had a doctor's appt on monday and it seems that Mabel had been in the same spot for about 2 months and suddenly she has decided to completely roll from one side to the other, kindof like when you are laying on your side in bed watching tv and you roll over to face the other way. Wierd, she better not start making trouble NOW! It's really getting down to the wire, about 4 weeks or less to go. It's like usually this was always the part for me that went sooooo slow, and it's going too fast this time! Too many things to do before she gets here, and when the hell is this snow gonna melt, I want my rummage sales?!
Since Jake has had off all this week on spring break, he got stuck running errands with me all day today. I think we went to three different thrift stores. ahhhh they have a Bethesda Thrift on our side of town now- I am sooooo excited! It's kindof my "secret" bargain place. Seems like when we find stuff there, we find a LOT, and it is supercheap, we are talking 99cents for kids jeans, etc. I found this big stack of super duper cute burp cloths- they have lace around the edges- and they were only 49cents each. Still hunting for a dresser for Mabel, but haven't found one yet. We had to return something at the mall and then had lunch there (Jake can wolf down a whole six inch sub in 5 minutes flat. I cant believe I used to split one sandwich between all three of them...) He got to check out trains at Toys R Us while I percused the clearance racks and free magazine pile, and then we went to Target to try out the whole Target coupon/manufacterer stackable coupon idea. Well I shouldve waited and went to the Target on our side of town, cuz the one by the mall has a really small grocery section, but we still got some good deals-hand soap for 39cents, 5.00 off formula, fruit roll things for 77cents a box, a bunch of others that was the best I think. For sure I think the Target brand fruit snacks are always the best deal, and they even taste more "real". You can get a box of 50 pouches for 6.00 and that usually lasts us a month or more vs. paying 2.50 for the general mills boxes, which only have 6-10 pouches.
And Jake got 2 packs of free gum, when we got home he wrote his name on the orange pack with a black magic marker, "Jake's Gum" lol, and he could not wait to get Eric and Holly from school so he could give them each a piece of this gum. (They are NEVER allowed to have gum, so it was a big deal. I think he chewed a whole pack in like 3 hours. My only reason is every freaking time I let them have gum it either ends up stuck in the cupholders, on the bottom of one of their shoes, or in someone's hair. I give it a day this time, I will find it somewhere...)
I am definitely enjoying this whole being able to print coupons off the web thing, and I messed around with the Swagbucks thing tonight for awhile, but it seems like an awful lot of work. I don't really get where you are supposed to find these "codes", except for the random search thing? Well I got 91 so far. I could use some suggestions if anyone has any. those amazon gift cards would definitely come in handy.
Saturday is a big "10 double coupon" day at PnS and Copps, oh the preparation.....:) It's too bad someone doesn't have a blog or a website for us "local" shoppers, like the one I always use is based out of California, so they don't have the Roundys, Festival etc. websites on it. (Or if there IS one, I haven't found it yet!) I would love to do something a little more detailed like that myself but I just don't have time. If anyone knows of one, let me know.
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