The Tightwad

Thursday, August 7^th 2008, I went shopping at CVS and got several items, 4 tubes of tooth paste, a tooth brush, 2 cans of Pringles, 4 skin care products, and a deodorant. Before I left, Hubby said “Please don’t spent to much”. He’s really getting uptight about our money situation. When I came home I said “I made $2.00 shopping, is that too much????” lol!!!! He had to have me repeat the story several times and still had trouble believing it. Basically, between sales, coupons, ECB’s and gift cards (from transferred prescriptions) the first transaction I paid about $2.50 out of pocket. The I noticed I was a little short for getting a $5.00 ECB for some skincare and needed to buy 1 more product. So I asked the manager to watch my stuff and went back and got another product. Well, I used a $4.00 ECB that I just received for that product so it cost me about $.50 out of pocket. The ECB still did not print. The manager noticed I was just $.03 short so he said he would give me the $5.00 in CASH. So I ended up +$2.00 and I also have another $3.00 ECB to spend the next time I go in there!!!! Every little bit helps!!!!