Frugal Friday......the June 26th Edition on June 29th

***It's the last day for the June Giveaway winner to contact me before I pick a new winner.  Come out, come out wherever you are LISA B.!  *And no, you have never been known as Lisa B. Dr. Spo. ;-)

I am still playing catch up on blog and home stuff here.  I tweeked my left leg yesterday(that's my GOOD leg! ugh)so am bedridden for now and typing from the bedroom as I am verboten from going down the stairs(at least until Hubs gets tired of going up and down the stairs to retrieve me drinks/meal/stuff/etc.). lol


Here is my half-assed attempt at Fridays' Frugal post...................I say half-assed since I am looped up on pain meds right now. ;-)

* While in VA last week we took care of some legal/builder business.  Met the builder at the house and handled the lawyer stuff via Zoom from my brother's house.  There are no bills attached to these initial consults so yay us!

*  While not pillaging Rite-Aids or going to the grocery store(Kroger)with sis in-law we did some reading, free entertaining things online, watched tv or sat outside in the mornings on the porch talking.  And I took a LOT of naps!

*  I sprang for dinner on Saturday and used another free Chili's gift card.  Two Chili's meals in as many weeks is my limit!

*  I didn't want to make more work for my sis in-law so I bought about half of my own food at the grocery store so she didn't have to cook(plus she pays for all the groceries for the household out of her income)--stuff like salad fixings or frozen foods I could heat up when I got hungry.  Plus they eat dinner so late(7-9pm)and I just can't do that.  The money spent while down there that I ate down there I'll take out of the eating-out funds and not our grocery budget.
I went with her twice to Kroger where they shop so that was exciting. I had an old Kroger card Hubs and I picked up in our travels in TN or KY or somewhere but I used her card so she got the points which they use on gas there.  We don't have Kroger anywhere near here in PA so better for her to benefit from my points, right?

* I found money!

This .11¢ was found by my sister in-law's car in the driveway.  I am thinking it fell out of the trash pile that is her car's backseat. lol

This penny was found on the floor at Lidl when we went for asparagus and beer(to bring home to Hubs).

These two nickels were found under the floor mats in sis in-law's car.  I spied them while getting into her car and offered them to her but she said keep them.  She probably would have just thrown them into the back of the car's trash pile anyway. lol

This penny was found at an R-A sis in-law took me to to return an item.  It was on the sidewalk outside when I was walking into the store.

Total Change Found this Week....... .23¢
Total Change Found this Year so far...$46.42

*  Most of the Rite-Aid trips the second week in Va was returning an item and going back to stores to get a refund because two store cashiers didn't deduct R-A peelie Qs on products...........

This $1 on a box of cereal.

And this $2.15(taxable item)on a bottle of vitamins I bought for Hubs.

$3.15 cash back in my pocket and $3.15 less in Bonus Cash to have to roll.

* There were two Ibotta Bonuses worth doing that overlapped a bit over the course of the 2 weeks I was gone.  I ended up getting them both so $15 extra on that platform............

Everything pictured here(plus 2 x Arnicare leg cramp items on clearance at R-A that I gave to sis in-law, a coffee drink Ex-CB drank before I took this photo, plus two small Noosa yogurts I left with eldest son, a large Fage Greek yogurt I didn't finish and left w/brother and wife and maybe something else I can't recall as my paperwork for it all is downstairs right now)gave me an extra $16.50 in Bonus(the 2 big Bonuses, a .50¢ June Level 1 Bonus and a $1.00 for buying 2 or more Nuun items(the small canisters in the photo).

I'll do a post later this week about how all this was an $11+ moneymaker after rebates.
Oh, and I had two people sign up under my Ibotta referral link and buy something using the app before June ended(one of those folks being sis in-law)so I also got an extra $20 on my Ibotta account in June.
I earned $91.42 in June Ibotta rebates.....woohoo!!!

*  Not much Rite-Aid pillaging since a week ago Friday.
We did get this..........

The  previous week's Bic In-Ad $3/1 Q is valid until July 1 so I took a number of extra ads that first week to cut those out to use last week and this current week.
That Arnicare had a $3 peelie Q on it and was $2.99 on clearance and there's a $3 Ibotta rebate so a $3.01, the Compeed was $7 and gave back $3 in BC plus sis in-law got a $2/1 Compeed Q in her RMN insert and there is a $4 Ibotta on this so it was a $2 moneymaker.
The razors, while they didn't give $1 in BC back(that was the previous week's ad)after 20% Wellness Discount were $9.47 total, then I used a $2/1 Soleil ManQ sis in-law had and 2 x $3/1 RA In-Ad Qs.

Altogether this was $19.46, $6.46 after Qs and the purchase gave back $3 in BC and $7 in Ibotta rebates so even with whatever the sales tax was(again, I don't have the receipt in front of me)this was still a moneymaker.  I gave all these items to sis in-law too.

I also got these razors at the store where I went for the $2.15 peelie Q snafu(the original trip there when the Bic razors was giving $1BC wyb2).  With Wellness Discount the razors were $3.99 per package.  They each had a $1 peelie Q in them so I had to add a cheap item so all my $8 in Qs would come off even though the razors only cost $7.98 after discount.  The Cella cherry was .31¢ after 20% disc. so I paid .29¢ plus sales tax on the razors(.02¢?)and earned $1 in BC so better than free.

And I hit another R-A on the way up to Fredericksburg and got this.....
A different variety of Compeed so free after BC and Ibotta rebate.
And I found two Nexxus items on the clearance area for $2.49 each.  Last week when you bought two Nexxus items you got $10 in BC back so this was a $12 or so moneymaker($8 back in BC and $4 in Ibotta).

That's it from me on my latest vacation edition of Frugal Friday......

What frugal wins did y'all have this past week or so?

Sluggy