California

A couple weeks ago, we flew to San Diego for a week.  It was kind of a working-trip for my husband, but I tagged a long anyways.

First off, I would like to say that THIS is why I try to choose a window seat on the plane:

There are just so many beautiful things to see!

We got a great deal on a hotel in Pacific Beach.  I tried to snap a few pictures of our room before we brought all of our junk in.

It was a nice room, very beachy and VERY close to the beach!  About a 60 second walk to this:

The beaches were nearly empty.  It was so great!

We ate some good food including custom ice cream sandwiches:

We relaxed.

We shopped.

We walked a lot and went to the beach.

We went to Point Loma, the southwestern most part of the United States.

We watched the Husker game.

We went to a Chargers game.

There's Philip Rivers (#17).

And we watched the sunset every night.

We had such a great time.  I hope we can make this a yearly trip!

Black Friday

On Thursday night my friend and I went out for our traditional Black Friday shopping.  We met at Target at 9:00.  After that we went to Walmart, than Old Navy, then we went to the mall, which was a first for us this year!

Just like last year, we had SO much fun.  It was not nearly as crazy as I thought it was going to be.  Target was a breeze, even Walmart wasn't bad!  

Old Navy was great as usual.  The whole store is 50% off on Black Friday.  

We found some good sales at Bath & Body Works at the mall.  They had buy 3, get 3 free off of everything in the store.

I got some lotions, a new bathroom bag for traveling (the blue and white checkered one) and of course they suckered me into buying the black tote bag full of products at the checkout counter.  It really was a good deal though.

I think my favorite purchase this year though was this:

I upgraded my Fitbit for a new Fitbit Charge.  I am loving it so far!  It tracks my steps, calories, sleep, and more.  It's normally $130.  Target had it on sale for $99.  And because of my saved up Target gift cards (the ones I get for purchasing qualifying products) and my pharmacy card discount and my Red Card discount, I only paid $47 for it!!

We had a great time.  We drove through Del Taco at 1:00 a.m.  We didn't get home until 3:30.  This is our fourth year, and each year we always say 'this year was the best one yet!'.  

See ya next year, Black Friday!

One Pic

I'm too tired tonight to blog about California, but I wanted to post one picture that I took on my phone with the panoramic feature.

Sunset Cliffs:

So beautiful.  More to come!

Target Deal(s) of the Week

Wow, this is the first time I've blogged in November!  That's bad.  We've had a busy month and we just got back from California.  But before I blog about that, I'm going to share two Target deals that I scored today.  I'm going to ramp up my couponing a bit more.  We are saving for Belgium and anything that I can do to save a few dollars will help!

Deal 1:

Fancy Feast Broth

Our oldest kitty is 18 and she pretty much eats only cat treats and soft food.  And because she's 18, we let her eat whatever she wants.  Because...she's 18.  

Anyways, I don't buy Fancy Feast broth packets often because they are expensive.  However, our oldest kitty LOVES them.  So when I found two stackable coupons for a discount on 4 packets, I used them!

Original price per packet:  $1.17 x 4 = $4.68
Target Coupon: .75 off of 4 packets
Manufacturer Coupon:  $1.00 off of 4 packets
$4.68 - $1.75 = $2.93 for 4 packets

There was also a Cartwheel deal on these, 5% off.  Plus, I got an additional 5% off by using my Target Red Card.  This brought the total price down to $2.64 for 4 packets, or .66 each - a 44% savings!

Deal 2:

Clear Care

I usually buy the Up & Up Target brand for my contact solution.  It's around $7 per bottle.  So I usually ignore the name brands, because they are always way more.  Except for today! 

Before my trip to Target today, I checked out www.totallytarget.com for any deals.  This was the first one that came up.  There was a printable coupon from coupons.com for $5 off any bottle of Clear Care solution.  AND Clear Care was on sale at Target too.

Sale price:  $7.99
Coupon:  $5.00
New price:  $2.99

Minus 5% for using my Red Card, I paid $2.84 - a 65% savings!

So if you have cats and wear contacts, head to Target!  Ha ha.