Find out who your neighbors are...

Just wanted to give my readers a FYI about sexual predators. You should know who is living in your community. A sexual predator could be living next door. I am not telling you this to scare you, unfortunately it's reality. As a mom I feel it's my duty to know. Family Watchdog is a great site to utilize for this public information. Of course you want to think this could never happen to you, well I'm here to tell you it can. I myself am a victim of a sexual predator. He lives 2 miles away and is listed on this site. For the respect of my brother I will not post his profile since this is his father, my ex stepdad. I'm not saying sex offenders can't be rehabilitated, however at this point there is no regulation of personal choice, except incarceration. Family Watchdog is very simple to use, you type in your address and this site gives you a detailed map of sexual offenders in your community. The legend on the side tells you if the offense has been one against a child, rape, sexual battery or other. Click on the colored square and a profile will pop up with a picture, description of offense, alias and address. Check it out and protect you and your family. This happening to one child is too many.

Here are my reasons for caring! My angels Abby and Braden!

Found some great Walmart deals!

Over at Common Sense With Money are some great Walmart deals!

I have heard from other blogs that Dr. Pepper and Pepsi 24 packs are $5, but when I went to my local Walmart they weren't marked. This blog confirms the deal and next time I go I will scan the pepsi to make sure before I buy. $5 is the cheapest you will find a 24 pack and my Hubby is more than addicted to pop!
Some other great deals are for Hidden Valley Ranch, Brownie mix, and White Cloud toilet paper. Thank you Common Sense With Money!

Homeland Deals Week 4-28 to 5-4

Here are the match-ups, these bloggers do a great job every week. Let them know how much you appreciate their time.

Simple Saving Savvy

Coupon Princess Saves You Money!

Video show and tell!

Here is my shopping trip to Homeland this week! I made out like a bandit! By the way I did have to tell the cashier twice that a coupon did not double, which was not a big deal he adjusted it easily. Coupon Princess taught me to befriend the cashiers at my favorite stores. I am on pretty good terms with the cashiers at the 2nd and Santa Fe store, and next time I am going to treat them to a pop of their choice. So anyway watch this video, If you need any help comment on this post and I can help you with any question! Happy couponing!
Here are links to the coupon match-ups!

Mystery Diagnosis!

I stick my tongue to the top of my lip and feel a bump, hmm that's weird. I guess it's a pimple that formed on my lip. Strange place for a pimple. I go inspect this pimple in the mirror and decide I will wait it out, I mean what do you do for a pimple on your lips? The next morning I feel little itchy bumps on the corners of my lips and just outside the corners of my mouth. True to form I run to the mirror again. Oh no it looks just like poison ivy. I am highly allergic to poison ivy and had multiple outbreaks every summer as a kid. So as you can imagine I know my poison ivy bumps! Now I've had poison ivy in some weird places like my eyes and hair, but never my lips. Ugh! Very uncomfortable itchy lips. I ask my hubby to grab my favorite poison ivy treatment, which is a spray called Ivy Dry, it doesn't cure the poison ivy but it does dry it up and make it manageable.
Then my mind changes to how I got it. Well I know how allergic I am to poison ivy, and in the past I have gotten it from air exposure. But that's not good enough I continue to question. Well I just planted my garden, maybe one of the plants I purchase was around it? A little far fetched. My Hubby had a hilarious story, let me tell ya, he came up with this big elaborate story about me kissing another guy and being caught red lipped. Haha very funny :(. Then it came to me, my hubby mulched up a bunch of leaves at my father in laws house, where a known poison ivy village is living near by. That had to be it because I spread the mulched leaves all over my garden. Or so I thought!
Wondering how long the poison ivy will last on my poor itchy lips I turn to the internet. I type in poison ivy on lips. All sorts of things come up, I read one story about an allergic reaction to latex. Well no this is not me I know my poison ivy, plus I hadn't recently been to the dentist to question latex gloves. I move on the the next link where my mystery diagnosis is uncovered! A blog called Silent Rant with the post called "Hooray! It's not herpes!" Haha! I start reading, and the info she shares shocks me...
Here is a quote from Silent Rant: "Do a google search for “mango allergy reaction” and you find some fascinating stuff. The mango tree is in the sumac family, with poison ivy as a relative. So if you happen to have particularly strong reaction to poison ivy, your body senses the oleoresin from the mango skin, thinks it’s poison ivy, says “we’ve seen this before, and this time we’re ready- send in the white blood cell reinforcements” which then go to town on your skin and you’re in for an itchy rash."
I bought a beautiful mango weeks ago and recently made a delicious smoothie concoction! Mango is one of my favorites and in the past I would often buy a Manga Go Go from Jamba Juice. Every once in a while I would get a few poison ivy bumps on my hands. I figured I had smelled it and my body was just reminding me I was very allergic. And the reason I didn't get an outbreak on my lips was because I used a straw when I drank one. When I drank my home made smoothie I slurped it straight from the cup!

Photo credit: Kunkelfruit Wiki
So there you have it! Mango, you are now my arch enemy! Hopefully it will go away soon! Haha!

Great Deal on Laser Tag!

LASER QUEST!!!
Groupon is offering a deal on Laser Tag! You buy four games for $16, the games can be split between kids, but all games have to be used in one visit! The original price is $32, and you can buy up to three deals! Check it out, Laser Quest is so much fun for kids or adults. It would be a great family activity! This deal is for the OKC area but you can click here to check out the Groupon deals in your area! The deal is good for today only April 22nd!

Homeland here we come! 4/21 - 4/27

Alright another week of Homeland deals!!! Here are a few blogs I check for my coupon matchups!


Coupon Princess Saves You Money!

Consumer Queen

Simple Saving Savvy