July Haul Roundup

This is going to be photo intense, but it's also going to be a long post so please keep that in mind. Hope you enjoy all of my lovely pretties :)

The past few weeks have been insane... I've won at least one giveaway each week. Just in case you get mistaken by thinking I'm just lucky, let me tell you a little story. Last week, I was walking home from the grocery store and carrying 2 plastic bags and 2 paper bags. Out of no where it suddenly started down-pouring rain. I didn't make it home before the paper bags fell apart on me. I somehow made it just across the street from my home when the 2nd paper bag broke, so I gathered up all of the paper bag stuff, ran to my house, leaving the plastic bags on the side walk.. yelled for my boyfriend to home help me, then ran back across the street and gathered up the plastic bags. As I was gathering my things, someone stopped in a vehicle and asked me if I needed a plastic bag (yes, ten minutes ago!)

So, not so lucky. Although I suppose I was lucky no one came by and stole my food, or that no animals got to it. Anyway, I'm not lucky when it comes to giveaways: I just enter a ton of them! From now on I'm going to be a bit more restrictive in what I enter, but I will continue to post everything I find even if I don't enter them.

July started out with Julep. After finding out I could get America for free, as well as the gift voucher for a free polish, I talked my boyfriend into letting me get July's Maven box. Then I put myself on a "no buy". Let's see how that went, shall we? HAHAHAHA

Paid $19.99, retail value $60.

Same day I got this in the mail:
Family Dollar had a coupon, spend $25, get $5 back. These two were both on sale, ended up spending $1.50 on them, saving myself $5.50.

Julep had a flash sale, and I had to take advantage of it, since I still had my gift voucher. $50 worth of items, and I got it for $3.79.
Yes, I am definitely on a "No Buy" now. Positively. Not buying anything else.

Then I received my Summer Voxbox from Influenster.com, and I received my first magnetic polish, for free!

Roughly about the same time I put myself on a No Buy, again, I found out my grocery store started selling Sinful Colors polish, and I got a coupon which let me buy 4 at 98 cents each. I couldn't pass that up, now could I? Spent $4.12, saved about $4.

Then there's Copious... I bought Essie's Shine of the Times but at least I made out good there... $8 polish and I bought it for a penny. Let's see, I also bought my first nail tape for 1 cent at this time. Plus a shirt, but I ended up paying a few bucks for it.

Then, I found yet a second Sinful Colors coupon, same offer. I couldn't turn that down, now could I?

.... and once again Copious gave me more credit, so there's another penny.

Of course, once I had finally said that's enough! Walgreens decides to sell Sinful Colors at 99 cents a piece. I wasn't going to take advantage of this until I found they were having a special 15% off promotional code, and I found some really awesome sales. I ended up saving over $20 on my purchase, and I bought a ton of stuff I normally would not buy, but for the same price as my normal purchases. Oh, and I ended up needing like 80 cents or something silly to get free shipping so I threw a Wet n Wild polish in there, and ended up buying all of my polishes for 84 cents each.

Enter the Sinful Colors drama, and I'm suddenly cursing for buying so many of their polishes this month and falling in love with the brand. Oh well!

Meanwhile....

I won 2 polishes and some nail glitter from Adventures in Polishland.

I also won my first Essie from Be Someone Cute.

I won Wet n Wild minis from Pretty Face, Happy Bank.

And that brings us to today, July 31, the last day of July - and a day in which I won not one but two polish giveaways. I won 8 more polishes today, plus a ton of nail art goodies.

Speaking of nail art.... I also purchased dotting tools and brushes which should be arriving in a couple of days. That was by order of my boyfriend, though, and I did use a ten dollar gift card towards it.

At the beginning of the month, I put all of my old polishes in a box and cleared out my Caboodle to store my new polishes in. I now need a new box just for July's haul.

Not counting the stuff I haven't gotten yet, here's how I made out:
1 cuticle cream, free from Influenster.com
1 nail tape, 1 cent from Copious
1 container of glitter, I won
1 new lip gloss, which I forgot to add in to the photo
1 foot creme, which I also forgot to add to the photo
32 new polishes!

This doesn't even include some of the other stuff I won, or my other really awesome buys! Insanity! LOL

So, what's the damage this month?? Well, I estimate I got about $206.80 worth of beauty products and I paid $36.91. So I went over my "no buy" by about $17, not including the money spent on the dotting tools and brushes... which means I really do need to buy pretty much nothing in August. Let's see how that goes, shall we?

What do you think? How did you make out this month?

Now to hunt down a new box....