Publix Shopping Trip: $4.49!!

Had a great shopping trip at Publix today! I got all this for only $4.49 after coupons!

* 1 gallon Publix milk - 3.39

* 2 boxes Toaster Strudel - used 2 $1 off coupons, makes them 24 cents each

* 6 boxes Honey Maid crackers - used six $1 off coupons, makes them 1.06 each

* 1 Lubriderm lotion - used one $2 off man. coupon and one $1 Walgreens coupon, makes it 79 cents

* 2 cans Fancy Feast - 1.10 each (no Q's, but I was out!)

* 1 loaf Publix bread - 1.17

* 2 bags Chex Mix - used two 50-cent off coupons, which Publix doubled, makes them 24 cents each

I also had a $10 RR coupon, which brought the grand total down to $4.49 after tax.

PLUS, there is a mail-in rebate offer on the Honey Maid crackers (I bought 4 more boxes the other day at 1.06 each) for a $10 rebate when you buy 10 boxes. That brings the cost of each box of graham crackers down to SIX CENTS EACH!! Holy cow!!

The electric bill cometh

Oh my! I knew the electric bill would be bad this month after that Arctic blast came through a couple of weeks ago and the heater was running pretty much constantly (and we had it set no higher than 68 at any given time!). But I didn't expect it to be THIS bad! Last month it was $207 and this month it was... $322!! *gulp!* We have a two-story house (which I do NOT recommend, just for this reason!) so our electric bills are always higher than in our last house, but this is just ridiculous. We were even using the fireplace more, but clearly it didn't make a whole lot of difference. We're changing the filters again, but I'm not sure that would have helped much on this bill. Luckily the temps have been much more mild the last week or so and the heater is running much less now. Hope it stays that way! I'm WAY over my wish for snow now! Hee!

This on top of the return of the dreaded furlough days at work is NOT a good combination! But the good news is all of our tax info is now ready so we can file our taxes this weekend. Here's hoping for a nice refund!!