It's The Little Things: March Edition

Since it started, Lindsay's "It's The Little Things" has attracted such a great group of bloggers! It's always so much fun to visit the blogs of the people that participate and leave comments as well as see who visits me and leaves me a comment.  Thanks for visiting and your comments!

My favorite Little Things are deals, so here are my big purchases/little price Little Things from the last few weeks ...

$4.88 sweaters at LOFT. I bought four! Two were originally priced at $49.50 and two were originally priced at $69.50 -- that's $238 worth of sweaters for $19.52.  Here's three of the sweaters (I bought the stripe sweater for both myself and my sister) ...

$.99 chargers at Sur la Table for my mom. She is obsessed with using chargers on special occasions and these high quality chargers were originally $4.95 each but had been marked down twice and landed at $.99. I love to have gifts like this "on the shelf" -- it allows me to give a thoughtful and expensive ($40 retail value) gift for just $8 when the time comes to give her a gift.

$.04 flowers at World Market. These were originally $4.99 a stem and I bought four; that's $20 worth of fake flowers for $.04. Each stem was marked down to $.99 but rang up at $.01 each. They were priced so low the cashier couldn't figure out how to use my coupon for 10% off my total purchase.

They look so romantic with my great-grandmother's vintage basket, they still need the bow from my wedding bouquet to hide the fake stems.  

$1.07 Target trip. Thanks to Chitown Cheapskate's most recent Target freebie post, I bought everything in the photo below for $1.07. I love my new free Maybelline Baby Lips, I recommend it -- it's very similar to a Bath & Body Works C.O. Bigelow chapstick I've purchased in the past.

Chicago visit and $9.99 infinity scarf.  My mom and I visited my sister in downtown last weekend and dined at Caffe de Luca.  I ordered Grilled Shrimp Po’ Boy -- shrimp, tomato, arugula, celery, lemon vinaigrette, herb aioli, served on pretzel ciabatta -- which was amazing.  We also shopped a bit and I bought a Bears sweatshirt for $20, down from $64 at Urban Outfitters.  Hello, I have lived in Illinois for 24 years, I should still own at least one Bears item for football season.  I aim to build my Blackhawks and Cubs apparel collection over the next year, too.  My mom also bought me a pair of knee high socks from Levi's for $7 (marked down from $24) and an infinity scarf from Urban for $10 (marked down from $24).

Galentine's Day gift from Ashlea.  My dear friend, Ashlea, left me a Galentine's Day gift on our front porch before I left for my Michigan getaway.  I've been telling her I wanted dried lavender for our bedroom and she delivered with this grow-your-own kit.  I saw my first little bud this week!

$25 off $50 of groceries at Safeway.  I transferred both of our monthly prescriptions to our area Safeway store and received two coupons for $25 off $50 of groceries.

Whew ... so many deals to talk about, I'm feeling overwhelmed with thankfulness for the little things deals in life.  Hey,  I guess this is why I write this post!