Who Needs Sleep?

You really need a helmet when you agree to get up at 5:30 a.m. to go couponing with Maureen. This is especially true for Spring Ahead Weekend since 5:30 is really 4:30 in the morning. (No, you can't fool me and I'll still be subtracting an hour every time I look at a clock for the next week.) At any rate Maureen can be persuasive and I do enjoy the occasional Cadbury Egg for the stores involved, so I agreed.

We stumbled into the CVS store when it opened at 7 (really 6 remember) and I had my marching orders. "Go to the chip aisle and get four bags of Chex Mix." I started to hurry until I realized there was no one trying to elbow me out of the way, retrieved the loot, and awaited further instruction. Meanwhile Mo buzzed about filling a shopping cart while I yawned and checked in on Foursquare.

When checkout time came around, the Coupon Queen of Windham handed me two coupons and told me to use the $3.79 ECB (that's extra care buck for those of you not in the know) that I got the last time we  did this. Imagine my surprise when after all was added and subtracted the clerk said "That'll be 21 cents." I was so surprised that I giggled. How embarrassing!  Coupon assistants are not supposed to giggle, but my mentor should have better prepared me.

Still chuckling we headed to a second CVS store where I repeated the Chex Mix Magic and also got 36 rolls of toilet paper added in for about two dollars total. Hey, I just follow along, do as I'm told, and laugh a lot. If you want the details and the secrets, read Maureen's blog - 2012 - A Year in Coupons at http://2012incoupons.blogspot.com/