Salad dressing meltdown

Ok, today I was going to a friend's house for dinner and she asked me to bring some salad dressing, knowing of my stockpile. I must have 10 bottles or more. I realized about 3 minutes from her house that I FORGOT THE DRESSING. In my irrational-must-not-actually-pay-for-dressing moment, I pulled into the grocery store parking lot, merely to turn around. (I was willing to drive 15 minutes to get the dressing from home versus actually pay for salad dressing WITHOUT a coupon). My husband looked at me like I was crazy and said to just go in and buy it.

I really thought I was going to have a melt down. So sad. Over $2--I'd probably spend 1/2 that in gas (not really cause I'm actually calculating this in my head) not to mention we were already 30 min late!! This is serious. Knowing I had 10+ bottles of dressing I had paid nothing for made $2.87 seem extravagant. After staring at the shelves in disbelief I finally settled for a store brand for about $1.50.

The story has a happy ending however. They didn't really need the dressing after all and I will return it as soon as I get back to a Lowe's. Close call....Only a couponer can really understand the ridiculousness of this situation!

I had to laugh--I'm officially obsessed with coupons!

Target deals 9/2

Went to target this afternoon and got some good deals on some items....

Buy 4 Special K crackers $2.39 each get a $5 gift card
-$1/1 www.coupons.com
$5.56
-$5 gift card = .56 for 4
(I actually rolled a previous $5 gc)

All travel sized detergents .97
www.all.com
RP 8/2

Tide travel size .97
PG 8/30

Kashi Cereal Bars $2.88 sale
-$1.50/1
$1.38
(sale continues through 9/28)

Michael's clearance bins

My sister and I went into Michael's today after getting a hold of the largest fountain soda I have ever seen to share....64ounces...whoa, it literally took 2 hands to drink. We nestled it into the baby seat of the cart and happily sipped along as we shopped.

Anyways they have a ton of stuff on clearance. Recipe boxes, stationary items like cards, pads of paper, gift notebooks, spatulas, etc....Early Christmas and wedding gift ideas

I got:
2 water bottles, screw cap, wide mouth for $1.47 a piece
6 really cute recipe boxes for .70 each (though they had some for .47 each)
4 candles in cute colorful tins .70 each

The cashier said this is the last week they are running the huge clearance sale to make way for Christmas stuff.