Two Small Victories

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Two exciting things...last week one of my girlfriends sent me a Friends & Family coupon code from Sephora (yes, I'm sorry, I should've shared it) and I realized this would be the perfect opportunity to get all those small gifts that can add up so unmercifully. So I carefully chose gifts for boyfriend's grandmother, mother, and sister. I then picked out one more gift for one of my friends. The only dilemma was that I either had to get them all shipped to one place, or risk not being able to use the coupon code more than one time. I chose to get them all shipped to me...and I thought it was marvelous, until I realized I could've just coughed up the $5.95 and had them shipped separately to each person...but the key is that perhaps I couldn't have used the coupon code more than once. I'm going to say I couldn't...knowing Sephora (they NEVER give out coupon codes, so I'm sure they'd be stingy with it). My grand savings for the order ended up being $32 off with free shipping (cue the cheers)! I repackaged the gifts and paid $9.25 to send grandma & mom to the same place and $3.75 to send sisters and buy and envelope for it. So regardless I still saved...and had I opted to buy them separately, the coupon code may have only worked on one order. Next...


Today we did our white elephant at the office party and I didn't want to spend money (ughh). So instead I chose a toolkit type thing in a silver tin (from my parent's house) and a $5 Starbucks giftcard (also a gift that someone had given my mother). So out of the $10 we were supposed to spend, I spent nothing! HAHAHA! Take that!! AND my gift got stolen 3 times (the maximum) and someone tried to steal it a fourth time. Another small victory...