Tuesday nights are date night for my honey & I. Often times we are just relieved to be out of the house and away from all the immediate responsibility that we don't know what to do with ourselves. Needless to say, we could use some help in the date-planning dept.
Tonight I was determined to use coupons for our dinner since our budget has gotten smaller and we tend to overspend on dinners out. When I got in the car I mentioned that I had lots of different restaurant coupons but that I should have printed out the free burger w/entree at Red Robin I got in my email. My honey said, "no worries, we'll go somewhere else". So we narrow it down to Black Angus which has a multiple course dinner "deal" for 2 for $37 - not much of a deal to me, still sounds expensive, but I know my husband and steak... OR Olive Garden (much closer to our house). We got there, noticed it was pretty packed (lets face it, it's one of the only good restaurants on our side of town) so we reconsidered Black Angus and rationalized we'd probably spend close to the same amount for less at Olive Garden. So we headed off to Green Valley to Black Angus, a 10+ minute drive, only to find it dark, I mean with no signage - it's closed! Ugggh. And here we come full circle - we're right in front of the Mall where the next option is.... Red Robin. And me wthout my coupon, who knew we'd end up there?! My dinner was crummy too. That's my fault for trying something other than my usual.
Okay - that was not the deal!
After a dismal dinner, we were headed home and I mentioned to my dear husband that I wanted to stop in at CVS for a minute. I didn't really have any deal lined up, and hadn't even looked at the ad, but I thought "I'll take a look when we get in there." Truthfully I could have done better - Really but I won't go into how now- too long. I also didn't want to be greedy with my date night time, and my husband would have been bored out of his mind if I'd kept him in there much longer. Here's what I got:
Herbal Essences Shampoo 12 fl oz
Herbal Essences Hairspray 8 fl oz
Bic Soleil Razor w/ 2 refills + bonus pkg of 4 refills
2 pkgs of Sharpie highlighters
after coupons I spent $5.97
I got $6.99 back in Extra Bucks (like a gift card for next time)
which means they pretty much paid me $1.02 to take all those items out of the store!
