Archive for January 10th, 2008
Status Update
January 10th, 2008 | 
Author: Today was an exciting day in our house. Within the next couple of months, we will have two incomes again!!!!!! My husband’s second disability hearing was this afternoon, and we won! 
I feel kind of strange being excited that someone has finally said that he is truly disabled, but after four years of waiting, I don’t know how to feel anything but excitement.
I can’t begin to explain the feeling of a tremendous burden being lifted from my shoulders. I know my hubby feels the same way. Because of this, our obligatory feeling to settle his compensation case is now gone too. Along with that feeling goes the pressure on me to provide our income each month – now my income will be the extra income for special things, something we haven’t had in almost two years. I’ll also be able to focus on my business and spend time growing in that area rather than focusing on tutoring to pay the bills.
All I can say is – Praise be to God!!!! We may not be out of the valley yet, but at least we are walking along the stream bed among the foliage.
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CVS Savings
Hey all! I know it isn’t quite Friday yet, but I wanted to post my CVS trip. I’m hoping that eventually I’ll convince some of you to try your hand at CVS-ing too.
Here’s what I bought -
Palmolive Ultra Dish Liquid 13 oz
Hershey’s Miniatures 9.2 oz bag
Hershey’s Kisses 9.2 oz bag
Colgate Toothbrush
Aleve 1 bottle, 24 caplets
Excedrin Back and Body 1 bottle, 24 caplets
Visine Tears for Contacts 1/2 oz
4 Hershey’s candy bars
2 bags Twizzlers 17.6 oz each
I’m thinking that the toothbrush will come in handy after eating all of the candy.
But here’s the big question…. What did all of that cost? $4.18
Yep, you read that right – $4.18!!! That’s what I paid out of pocket. Plus I have $10 ECB (CVS’ reward for buying certain products) to use on my next trip. Initially, without CVS coupons, my previous ECBs and manufacturer’s coupons, my bill was approx. $32. For those of you who still believe the Wal-Mart ‘lowest price guaranteed’ phrase, I challenge you to try and buy the above list for the same price or less!