july monthly challenge

this week has been totally nuts o. i have hardly accomplished anything that i have planned. mon was work day, tues camron was off so we ran errands, tell you about my deals in a bit. wed was free day at the zoo! ya i love when i can spend time with family and friends and it costs a little of nothing! thurs is today and anakin has her kind. physical. poor girl is so nervous that she is going to have to have shots. i feel sorry for her, im making cam be the bad guy and take her. but i am going to try and finish up my debt calculation, and write out my budget for july. my big challenge this month is to reduce my grocery budget to $200. normally this would not be too bad, but with 2 dogs, cat and a new baby this seems almost impossible. diapers and formula cost a fortune! my dog and cat both are on special food so thats mucho money.

so anyways i got some great buys this week. i went to staples and got the maximum amount of folders, pencils, and binders. i also picked up the free highlighters, so out of pocket $1.60! i had a whole bag, it was great. i was also able to pick up the rest of her school supplies. i wasnt able to get the great deal on crayons due to the school needing certain ones. but i picked up her special scissors at the $1 store. got her pencils for a penny per pack of 8. folders 3 for penny a piece. glue had to be a special kind so i got a 3 pack for $2.19 could have done much better but had to have the jumbo packs. So a pretty good deal since they run $2.19 a piece. Megan is giving me a school box that Kailey wont use so thats FREE! yaaa thanks meg. I allowed anakin to pick out a special school backpack since she wants to use her old lunch box that we already have. her old back pack zipper broke, and that is something special for her. She got a hanna montana one on sale for $14, its pretty cute. I also picked up a $1 pencil bag for her bag in the dollar section at target. Oh and the steal of a deal hanna montana paper packs for .48cents at target. they were $2.19 at walmart. so i will have to sit down and figure up what my total is. i was hoping to be under $50 bucks for the whole caboodle. LSA requires so many certain brands that i wasnt able to get some of the deals, but i was able to catch some.

well off to get some things done.