Great Date Night A.K.A. I Love Freebies

DH and I needed a reason to get out of the house; an excuse to have a date. Our excuse? We didn't have a main ingredient for dinner...so out we went! DH suggested a movie night and wanted to go out (gasp!) to the theater. Dollar signs went rolling through my head. A movie out? We have a Netflix rental sitting on the table. Tickets for a movie that is not a matinee? That's outrageous! AND dinner?! What would WeightWatchers say?! Well, I can't complain because I'm the one who was ready to crawl out of my skin because of being locked in the house. So we left and started driving. We had so much extra time we didn't really know what to do. You know what you do when you are killing time and have no money to spend? Window shop at Costco! We were planning on heading over there anyway to buy our movie tickets so we spent some extra time (and DH spent some of his graduation money) and enjoyed ourselves for a (nearly) free time. As I said, we picked up our movie tickets for much less than it would have been at the theater. Then we headed out to dinner, courtesy of my darling cousin and her hubby that came out to visit and gifted us with a little gift card. So that wasn't too bad either. Then we got a soda to smuggle in (I know..shame! But we planned on getting popcorn...that makes it better, right?) . At the ticket counter we gave them our movie theater rewards card and ended up with a coupon for free popcorn! Woo hoo! So our Great Date Night ended up being Great on the pocketbook too!

I must encourage anyone who even occasionally goes to the movies to check out any rewards programs that they have-they are worth signing up!

BYOB (Bring Your Own Bags)!

So I have been to two different grocery stores in the last two days and BOTH have given me money off for bringing my own reusable bags. What a great deal! Reducing my trash as well as saving a little coin. I think my wallet feels a little bit heavier. :)