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I’m back and I’m ready to save money! Sorry for the whole missing in action thing. I was cultivating a relationship with a really awesome man (they do still exist in single serving!) and transitioning into a new job, blah, blah, blah, grown up words. On to the savings...

I signed up for JCPenney Rewards (you can too). This is not a credit card – just a rewards program. You earn points for purchases and the points add up to rewards. You must earn 250 in one month to earn $10. I will probably never do this. $250/month at JCP. Are they kidding?!? You get a bunch of points for signing up so it’s possible to reach 250 your first month pretty easily. Today I received two coupons – I don’t know why as I haven’t made any purchases this month. One coupon was for $10 off any Ambrielle bra and one was for a free Ambrielle panty. I’m a sucker for free panties. I have a pair (why are they called a pair?) from VS with little rhinestones that spell out “Bride”. I’ve never been a bride but you bet your sweet bippy I wear the free panty.

So I went to JCP during lunch and picked up my free seamless panty (normally $12), a bra on clearance (you can use the $10 off coupon on clearance items), the aforementioned bra’s matching clearance panty and a clearance tee. Grand total: $12.97.

I also learned a couple things:
(1) JCP corporate sends out coupons without informing their employees. If you are the first to use the coupon, they may not know what to do with it and may need to stare at it for a while and call other people over to stare at it. And they’ll most likely stare at you for a while too. You can try very sweetly asking them to just scan it and see if it works. They may listen. They may turn their stare into a scowl.
(2) The JCP lady who helped me does not know how to pronounce “Ambrielle”.

Interact with me! Do you correct other’s mispronunciations? Is it douche-y? Do you want to punch people in the ear-hole for things like that or do you think “gosh, thanks for helping me talk purdy”?

Original Prices: $ 80.00
Sale Prices: $ 34.97
Total Paid:$ 12.97
Total Savings: $ 67.03 or slightly over 83%

Where my girls at?

I made a JCPenney run on my lunch break today because they have my favorite brand of bras on sale - buy 2, get 2 free (Maidenform – ladies, they make my boobies look better than any Victoria’s Secret bra I’ve ever owned, are half the price of VS and do not wear out as quickly). Upon entering the store, I became distracted by the clearance rack, as I am wont to do. I ended up purchasing 2 bras and 1 chemise from the clearance rack for $39.46. Had I paid original prices, I would have spent $97. (Had I gone with the B2G2 sale, I would have spent $70. I really wasn’t in the mood to spend $70 on underthings.)

Total Savings: $57.54 or slightly over 59%.

Note to those of you wondering who I’ll be wearing the chemise for (and I know exactly who you are): Me. I’ll be wearing it for me. I live in Florida and like to keep my AC bill just shy of one trillion dollars. It’s hot here, yo.