furnishing

Today we started our big push for getting the new apartment furnished. It was yard sale Saturday! We went to approximately 15 or 20 yard sales this morning. Here's the final loot tally:
-1 coffee table
-1 bag of office supplies, including, but not limited to:
---pens (also, including, but not limited to, 2 brand new Pilot V5 Precise Rollerballs! My favorite!)
---pencils
---a couple of desk organizer items
---a bottle of white out
-a plastic expandable file folder for extreme couponing
-a box of tabbed divider sheets, also for extreme couponing
-a weird vase from an Oklahoman Native American reservation for decoration
-an old looking but actually new world map in a cool frame
-a marker board-cork board combination
-four books (Brave New World, Crime and Punishment, Rereading America, and one more)
-a two and a half foot tall decorative candle holder with candle
-two heart shaped red sparkly plates
-five tiny ramekins that say "Country Crock" on them

All this for less than $15!! We were wheelin' and dealin' today!
Also, yesterday, at the Goodwill, we got a nice, big flat screen tv for $10! It's still a CRT, so it's a big, heavy thing, but, it works well, and it was super cheap! Wahoo!

I learned an important lesson this week: At Walgreens, you can only use as many coupons as you have items. This includes the Walgreens register rewards "cash." So, for example, if you are buying six items, you cannot use six coupons plus four register rewards. The best trick around this is to find some really, really, really cheap items, and add them in to your purchase so you can use more coupons. I found this out the hard way and did not think about adding the cheap items in, so I lost out a little on my Walgreen's excursion this week. But, I'll know for next time! Ha ha!