Tide Pods: Return of the Coupons

After my 5-month coupon hiatus, I have returned with a vengeance. Well... not really, it's not that extreme, but I did get a crazy good deal on Tide Pods this past week. Oh, and I snagged up some Listerine mouthwash for good measure... they were free with ExtraBucks. So here's last week's deal at my beloved CVS:

Day One, Store 1: [I went to 2 stores so I wouldn't clear shelves]

• 2 Listerine Mouthwash
• $4.99 sale price
• Used $5 off $10 Mouthwash CVS coupon
•  CVS promo: Spend $10, get $5 ExtraBucks
• 4 Tide Pods, 14ct
• $3.94 sale price
• used 4 $2/1 Tide Pods MC from 11/16 newspapers
• used CVS email coupon "$5 off $15 in-store purchase" 
• Total OOP for Day 1 was $8
• And gained $5 in ExtraBucks

Day 2, Store 2:

• 4 [more] Tide Pods, 14ct
• $3.94 sale price
• used another 4 $2/1 MC from 11/16 newspaper
• Total OOP for Day 2 was $8.00
• And gained a $10 CVS gift card: Spend $30 get $10 GC on select PG products

SavingStar: 

• SavingStar is an awesome website for couponers! There is currently a Spend $30, get $10 refund on select PG products.
• Make sure you connect your CVS account first! 
• Received $10 Payout from SavingStar

In Review:

• Spent $16 OOP
• Received $5 ExtraBucks for Mouthwash
• Received $10 CVS Gift Card for spending $30 on Tide Pods
• Received $10 SavingStar Refund for spending $30 on PG products
• TOTAL: $9.00 MONEY MAKER! 

Note to Self: You're Adultier Than You Know

Right at this instant I am having a ridiculous realization: I'm officially a grown up. You know how I figured it out? I was sitting at my desk visiting random websites out of boredom and I happened upon Best Buy's 47-page Black Friday Ad.
I clicked through the first 40 pages with a disgusted, kind of bitchy voice in my head going "why do people waste money on all this crap?" and "think of all the useful things you can do with $999 instead of getting a TV" and "I wouldn't want that in my house even if it was free!" and "People give up their Thanksgiving dinner to fight each other in the store for thiiis??" 

I was completely and utterly unimpressed and unexcited until I reached page 41. And then my mind went "Oh my gosh, appliances! $1,700 is such a good price for that fridge!" [Of course, there's no way I'm getting a fridge; I live in a tiny apartment and would have a nearly-impossible time getting something that big through my front door, let alone store it somewhere.]
And then, I clicked to page 45 and did a happy dance because "Oh my gosh, vacuums! I've been looking for a good deal on vacuums for so long!!" 
[Seriously y'all, any (and I mean ANY) Dyson under $300 is a steal.]

And so then I took a step outside my body and looked at myself for a second. What I saw was this: I have totally moved past the "I need expensive consumer electronics to feel good about myself" stage and am now living the "I must make my nest clean and beautiful because I'm a grown-up and a plastic tote is NOT a laundry hamper" stage. So yeah, go Me!

Phil VS Sleep

Since P has been out in NJ for the past few months, the chances I get to hear him talking in his sleep have diminished to almost nothing. However, I recently saw something funny happen. On his first night back home, he had not slept in about a day and a half, but we had so much to talk about that he insisted on staying up so we could finish our conversation. Here's how that went:

(after closing a conversational subject)
Me: (sitting by him on the bed) Ok, you should go to sleep now.
P: (laying in bed) But I'm not tired anymore, I'm going to watch TV in the living room.
Me: Just go to sleep, I want to read a book in the living room.
P: But I'm not tired.
Me: Stay still for 5 minutes and I promise you'll fall asleep.
P: I'm not sleepy. 

I decided I was too sleepy for book reading, so I got off his side of the bed, walked to my side, took my glasses off, and laid down.
Time elapsed: 10 seconds.

By the time I fluffed my pillows and turned off the light, I looked over and P was 110% asleep. Mr-I'm-Not-Tired took all of 10 seconds to slip into a coma. He asked me the next morning how long I had been out reading in the living room because he hadn't felt me "come back to bed".