Frugal wins this past week, May 7th to May 13th........
* Well it was bound to happen. While on vacation we hit an Ollie's(Good Stuff Cheap!). So as soon as I got home I got a 15% off flyer in the mail. lolz Potential savings for my next trip to Ollie's? Perhaps....
* Hubs and I went to Target last weekend to do the Spend $20/Get $5 Gift Card deal, as well as pick up a few items to finish my Ibotta Weekend Bonus. The trip turned into a clusterfuck!
Since my knee was messed up I took advantage of those electric shopping carts rather than keep walking on it and let me tell you it was great! The problem came when I went to check out as I used a self-checkout. The employee working that area saw me in that electric shopping cart and came right off to give me "assistance" which I didn't need. I guess she figured I was a doddering old lady so she took over scanning my items and must have had 5 Red Bulls that morning because she was moving like "The Flash", pushing buttons and ringing stuff up before I could do my coupons, etc. I was dizzy and wondering what just happened and ended up using all my free gift cards to pay that were in my Target wallet and then OWED another $6.07.
WTF???
So we went over to the customer service desk to hash these mangled transactions out.
I found both this dime and penny in the parking lot at the "Suspicious Rite-Aid". I don't enjoy going there since it's the furthest R-A away that I frequent but I go there because it's a LARGE store and I can find stuff there I can't find at other R-As plus it's super clean. Except the parking lot has money in it. lolz I call it the "Suspicious Store" because the cashiers inspect every coupon you try to use and if you end up getting back more BC than you spend they will go over your receipt like it's Nazi Germany and you are presenting your papers for inspection. What one has to do sometimes to beat the system.....
Total Change Found This Week.... .33¢
Total Change Found This Year......$3.72
* Hubs and I hit the Produce Outlet on Wednesday and got fresh produce(10 lbs taters, 2.5 lb. squash, 2 lb. strawberries, 1 lb. carrots, etc.), canned OJ, a 2 lb bag of frozen veggies, 2 packs of bacon, 1 lb. of frozen salmon, a pack of creamed spinach, 4 pot pies, a bag of lettuce, a huge can of corn, a lb. of Whole Foods dried cranberries and a WF chocolate brioche plus 2 other items I can't identify from the receipt for $30.41. I figure it's all more than 50% off regular retail at Whole Foods or Weis or whatever other retail grocer around here(not that we have a Whole Foods within 100 miles of us). We got great value for that $30.41.
That's about it this week other than all my Rite-Aid hauls which I'll talk about later this weekend. There were 4 different Spend $50/Get $15 Bonus Cash codes again this sales week. Yum!
What frugal wins did y'all have lately!?
Sluggy
The hated box box store will not help me at all! I cannot sit on the cart and reach the buttons or anything which means I have to try to get off the cart and stand and bend a lot which hurts. I cannot pick up anything that has any weight. So, I just give up and go to the register. However, I do hate when the cashier rings up things so fast. Half the time, they don't listen. That is why I have a can of food bent almost in half with a dent across the seam that I will return because I said, "I don't want to buy this because it is dented," and handed it to her instead of leaving it on the belt.
ReplyDeleteI know What you mean about the speed. I call them turbo staff. It's a good time to stock up on sun screen.
ReplyDeleteGood cheap stuff!
ReplyDeleteGCS!
I will think of you when this happens to me.
I have given up on complicated transactions, because mine almost always turn into a cluster, & I don't have your patience. I did have both pico de gallo & strawberries on my shopping list yesterday, and was very excited to see an iBotta Costco offer for both, which is super rare. iBotta added in a $.15 weekend completion offer, so I'm just raking it in over here. ;-)
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