I always hated this saying. This is something Kohls does so often. If you buy $25 worth of items you get 5% off. If you spend $50 worth of items you get 10% off. Well, sure I may be saving more percentage-wise but I'm STILL spending more money! The best way to save money is simply not to spend it.
That said, we spent some money today. :) I've been thinking about getting a good set of knives for a while now. But just haven't had the ambition. Well, we received a 20% off coupon for Bed Bath and Beyond a couple of days ago and after looking online I decided to go with a set of Henckels. They aren't the BEST of the best in the line of Henckels, but they are really nice. Matt used them today to skin and chop up a chicken. I threw an apple in the air and caught as it landed on the blade of my knife it made it half way down the apple. Holy cow those are sharp! Plus we saved a bit of money on them, too.
Matt and I also purchased a steam upright carpet cleaner today at Best Buy. Originally it was $300 in the store but Matt found it online at Best Buy's site for $239 on sale. They honored the online price. Plus, we had a 10% off coupon so that brought us down to $216. So that was a pretty decent savings of 28.5% off overall.
I also canceled my china coffee pot order and I will also buy that at Bed Bath and Beyond since they sell it for less and I can use another 20% off coupon. So I'll be saving $40 on that (including shipping) over what I would have spent the other place. Not too bad!
I've also been looking at new vacuum cleaners, but well, I'd like to steam clean and then keep up on our carpet with our current vacuum cleaner and see how that works first. If the floor starts to look grungy quickly I'll know I need a new one.
Tea of the day: Mighty Leaf Orange Deluce and Green Jasmine