fun by numbers

I had a quite enjoyable activity a few weeks ago that was a blast. My really good friend and neighbor, Lindsay has a mother-in-law that is an expert coupon clipper and money saver. She Shared some of her coupons with us for Quaker cereal. Originally there was an ad in the Harmons and Macey's store that put their prices to get boxes of cereal 5 for $5 with a manufactures coupon provided in their ad. Smiths had the same 5 for $5 sale, without the coupon. So. . . If you take a manufatures coupon from one store ad, and take it to the store with the lowest price, you win! So. . . here is where the numbers come in. . .
1 car
2 excited mothers
$2.14 for 5 boxes of cereal (including tax)
3 tired, tiny children
4 carts worth of cereal (an kids)
5 kinds of cereal to choose from
6 different receipts (sold in groups of ten)
1 confused but friendly Sales clerk
2 trips to the bathroom for those being potty trained.
10000 angry glares as we checked out in the ONLY checkout line open


Then we went out to the car. . .
Thinking that the trunk was empty. . .
1 huge stroller
2 speaker boxes
3 tie down ropes
and a left shoe of her brother.

We then attempted to fill the car with all of our cereal, milk and a few other little purchases. after taking the stroller out, and stacking everything nicely we finally got all of the cereal in after putting some at the kids feet and 2 cases on my lap. As we go to get into the car we realize we forgot one thing. . . The stroller. So we took the tie down ropes and strapped it down to the top of the car and we were off with a symphony of children's crying in the backseat.

60 boxes of cereal $25
2 gallons of milk $3.50
Getting a steal on cereal and having a blast. . . Priceless