Birthday "coupon" weekend!

Thanks to Mom & David, we had a wonderful, cheap weekend! They paid for our hotel downtown, watched the kids, and gave us extra for eating out! We have signed up for various restaurants email programs, many of which ask for your birthday! We'd knew we were getting a weekend away and saved up our coupons! We started out by enjoying a BOGO, buy one get one free, at Qdoba, yum! For dinner we decided to go lite, we got BOGO spoon benders at Good Times, conveniently located just down the street from our hotel! We topped the evening off with a little Starbucks, courtesy of our leftover gift card from Christmas!

The next day we used our free rental codes at Red Box! We had some saved up from when they vended us the wrong DVD. PLUS, when you sign up online they give you the code BREAKROOM to be used once, for each different credit card you use. We got two free rentals! (Feel free to use this one!) The next night we had Red Robin, BOGO. Yum yum! We also happened to have a coupon for a free drink! We shared a Coke! John had also received some b-day cash which helped out tremendously, especially with the lovely speeding ticket we got on our way to pick up the kids. Oops, we forgot how "go cart" mom's Element feels compared to the Burban.

It didn't feel like 85 in 70!

Then, tonight we were going to have ribs but I didn't realize you couldn't keep meat in the fridge that long, even cooked they smelled bad! We decided to forgo even trying the meat and threw it out to be on the safe side. Since Jarod, John and I were out, we stopped at Tokyo Joe's for a bite. I knew I had a full punch card for a free bowl. John used it to get a big bowl to share with Jarod. Then, I saw they were running a promotion thru March, instead of needing 12 bowls to get one free, you only needed 6! So, we used the other half full card for my free bowl! We celebrated with a cookie and Pepsi for John, $3 for all of us to eat out! THEN, yep, there's one more, we ended our coupon extravaganza with our FREE Monday Red Box rental, every Monday, when you sign up online, they text you the code for a free rental! I love coupons, they can really brighten a dreary day, and save some money!! Tomorrow, I plan on picking up my free foil, Revlon lip gloss, and Hershey's Choc Bar thanks to the Grocery Game!!!