Yes, that’s right.  It PAYS to drink more water.  Or at least for me because I am darn lucky!!

One of my favorite web gals Audrey over at Mom Generations blogged that she was pledging to drink more water.  Even better, if you pledged with her…you have a chance to win a $500 gift card.  All this was sponsored by my fave Crystal Light.  Well hot dog, guess who won?  Yep, me! Freakin exciting!!

The gift cards came in the mail yesterday and I am so ready to use them! I decided to see how much I could stretch the money.  I love getting a lot for a little.  I am going to share my little adventure with you.

Our first stop was at Kohl’s.  We went last night and holy moly, we rocked the clearance rack.   Our mission was to get April a new backpack (her other one was not working out!) and look at clothes for April and Abby.  (I will totally do my own shopping..don’t worry…but need to be ALONE for that!)

Let me just start by saying we ended up SAVING $473.21.  Oh come on, pick your jaw up and check it out with me!

April scored and ended up with the most stuff.

I just put it all on the couch see you can see what we got.

She got:

Black/white Bermuda shorts reg. $40 sale price $10.50

Purple floral cotton top reg. $24 sale price $4.80

Pink shirt reg. $24 sale price $9.60

3 fun loud print short sleeve hoodies reg. $34 each, sale price $3.40 ($10.20 for 3!)

Blue floral cami top reg $16 sale $1.60

2 shortie button up sweaters (blue & green) reg $30 each, sale price $6 ea ($12 for 2!)

Blue plaid top reg $24 sale price $4.80

Khaki capris for school reg $40 sale $8

Jansport backpack reg. $50 sale price $39.99

If my math is right, we got ALL her clothes for $61. 50!!

Oh, and her backpack for $39.99

Now Abby’s loot…

Notice lots of “fashion scarves” ?  Those are her fave!

She got:

Turq top with scarf reg $28 sale $5.60

Green peace top with scarf reg $26 sale $10.40

Green dress (I think it’s actually a shirt in a bigger size but totally looks cute as a dress!)

reg $28 sale $5.60

White skort reg $32 sale $6.40

Denim shorts with way too cute belt reg $26 now $5.20

And I did get a 2 things for me…

Purple top reg $30 sale $6

Dress reg $64 sale $12.80

That would bring my total to $153.49

But WAIT, it gets better!

Apparently the super nice guy that was ringing my stuff up didn’t know how to work the AmEx gift cards.  He finally figured it out but he had to scan the whole purchase over again. (I totally didn’t mind and was being so patient!) Well, bonus on TOP of bonus…he ended up giving me an ADDITIONAL 20% off my whole order!

So, take $30. 70 off the total, add $10.19 for tax and we have…

GRAND TOTAL

my price $132.98!! (reg price $606.19)