CVS & Wedding!

Well today my fiance husband and I tied the knot. This is the first of major wedding events as the reception with the 90 or so people is in April (the ceremony itself today was very low-key and the attendance was 8 plus a photographer and Rabbi).

But this entry is not about my wedding, though I was quite frugal with my bouquet. I went early this morning to the neighborhood Giant and purchased a dozen cream roses and about 10 red tulips and some baby's breath. Total cost $28.60 = total time to put pretty wedding bouquet together? 15 minutes.



I wrapped the bottom with leftover ribbon from the invitations and the ribbon that is going to be wrapped around the tiers of the wedding cake.

Anyway, I went to CVS Saturday afternoon:
(3/28/09)
$9.99 Neutrogena foundation
$7.99 Neutrogena lip soother
$8.49 Playtex tampons
$10.99 Dr Sch. shoes inserts
$5.49 CVS brand foot spray
$3.19 1 gallon skim milk

- $3/1 Neutrogena foundations CRT
- $5/$10 Dr. Sch. for women purchase
- $1/1 Neutrogena lip soother
- $1/1 Playtex tampon

- $15 Extrabucks
- $3.49 Extrabucks
- $2.99 Extrabucks

= $15.32 OOP
Received back $2 from Playtex and $6 from Neutrogena

PS Tomorrow I am finally going food shopping! I'm at least doing the Chill Out promotion at Safeway and maybe the buy 10, save $5 a few times depending on what we need. I already have a kitchen full of food and cake! We've had 2 so far and we haven't even had the reception yet!

Weekly Summary (February 1st-7th) & Frugal Weddings

Well, I was so wrapped up in wedding stuff (we sent out invites out on Monday - DIYed the fancy paper and ribbon on Sunday/Monday morning).

But first, I'm going to discuss how my frugal nature dressed up the very inexpensive wedding invites I ordered from Wedding Paper Divas. It came out to about $2 per invite/envelope and response card/envelope, which unfortunately is very cheap when it comes to invites. I bought $23 worth of fancy paper and ribbon to make them look much more expensive and we've already received compliments (the added pieces added a mere 30 cents per invite). Very worth it but it's left me a little (ok, a lot) exhausted.

So weekly update?

Monday, February 2nd Safeway: $47.89
Thursday, February 5th CVS: $17.15
Saturday, February 7th Safeway: $17.22

Total: 82.26 ($32.26 over, though this week will be significantly less)

DAYS	MONEY SPENT
SEP 28 - OCT 4	$49.18
OCT 5 - OCT 11	$13.88
OCT 12 - OCT 18	$75.08
OCT 19 - OCT 25	$10.04
OCT 26 - NOV 1	$43.58
NOV 2 - NOV 8	$42.00
NOV 9 - NOV 15	$20.94
NOV 16 - NOV 22	$80.16
NOV 23 - NOV 29	$16.39
NOV 30 - DEC 6	$25.49
DEC 7 - DEC 13	$24.32
DEC 14 - DEC 20	$117.75
DEC 21 - DEC 27	$2.26
DEC 28 - JAN 3	$36.81
JAN 4 - JAN 10	$42.83
JAN 11 - JAN 17	$14.60
JAN 18 - JAN 24	$55.84
JAN 25 - JAN 31	$8.29
FEB 1 - FEB 7	$82.26
FEB 8 - FEB 14	$?
FEB 15 - FEB 21	$?
FEB 22 - FEB 28	$?

Pink for Valentine's Day! =)