I'll be away from the computer for a little while. Talk amongst your selves and don't break the internet while I am away. 8-)
I would say to behave but I KNOW someone of you and well, that might not be possible. *snort*
Back soon,
Sluggy
Just an average Gal, older mom, trying to live a simple life & what happens along the way.
I'll be away from the computer for a little while. Talk amongst your selves and don't break the internet while I am away. 8-)
I would say to behave but I KNOW someone of you and well, that might not be possible. *snort*
Back soon,
Sluggy
I hit Rite-Aid on Monday and got all this......
Not pictured are two large tubs of CoffeMate(for Hubs who was almost out). I had a $9 wyspend $45 Catalina expiring that day and Qs for everything pictured(the clearance make-up and the Neutrogena masks were better than free after those Qs and I used Bonus Cash to pay so nothing OOP. I earned $6 in new BC on this($3 CoffeeMate, $3 Air Wick)
I also hit Walmart on Tuesday to do my 5 offers and get the $1 Midweek Bonus(oh boy! lol)......
Not pictured is a bag of dirt which was $5.98 and gave me $10 back on Ibotta(and counted toward a spend X get $X on Fetch). The Degree body wash/soak wasn't an Ibotta deal but when bought along with the Degree soap bars(which were an Ibotta rebate)they gave me extra Bonus points on Shop Kick so I counted them here. The WErther's double dipped for a $1.50 rebate and an any popcorn .10¢ rebate. With the Blue Diamond cans above at R-A this all gave me 7 more rebates toward my $10 big Shamrock Bonus. I'm only 15 rebates away from that Bonus now.
Anyway, all this plus the dirt cost me $5.26 OOP after using a $25 Swag Bucks gift card and earned me $19.10 in rebates.
I'll hit a Walmart and/or Rite-Aid on the driving part of the trip later this week and finish off that Ibotta Bonus.
That's it for my shopping so far this week.
What have you been up to?
Sluggy
After the last 5 days, these are the two pieces of music that come to mind for me........
Anybody care to guess what the connection is here between these two songs and me?
Sluggy
The "Saving Money in the Kitchen" Edition...
Here's a blogger I just found, check her out.
Friday was a very crappy day for me(don't ask!). Between wanting to cry my eyes out over the way an incompetent dr. with a horrible bedside manner treated me and wanting to lash out at said person working for the medical entity I am forced to use(not at the same time mind you)and a trip to Walmart to do Ibotta deals I was just done. Then a run in with Rite-Aid customer service over ANOTHER non-working gift cards(still). This encounter has made my HS flare(yay me!)and I sank into a depressed state. Then money issues with my daughter have me on edge. Then I get home and there is a jury summons waiting for me.
Like I said, not a good day.
Then I couldn't sleep, got up at 4 am, put dogs out in the pouring rain. Rain changed over to snow between 6-7 am.
As of this photo about an hour ago, we have 8 inches on the ground(a bit of this is ice under the snow).
When I went to put the dogs out there were about 50 birds on the ground in the snow near the trees in the distance in this photo as we have a bird feeder on one of the bare deciduous trees back there.
Most of them flew up into the trees when the dogs came out of the door so here's the brave birdies that didn't flee......
I've seen Robins for about a week in the yard too and I am thinking they are saying, WTF?!, at this point.
So here are a few of the frugal-ish things that happened here this past week.......
* Bought all this at Dollar General on clearance last Saturday.....
All this plus everything else not on clearance came to $20.17
* I bought all this at my R-A on 3/6 on in one transaction using a $6 of wys $30 coupon...
*I bought all this at my R-A on 3/8 in one transaction using a $4 off wy $20 coupon......
All this plus a Twix bar, a Butterfinger bar and a 6 pack of Irish Spring soap.* I got a few items at Weis(PMITA)Markets for Ibotta rebates--Beneful dry dog food, Canine Carry Outs dog treats, an brand Creamer, Chobani creamer and a Kill Cliff energy drink. Add in the .75¢ in Ibotta rebates from Rite-Aid(Twix and Butterfinger bars and I earned $7.10 including m $3 Midweek Moneymaker Bonus. Spent $9.57 before tax on the dog food and earned $7.10(no free gift cards used).
* Frugal fail--2 heads of Romain lettuce frozen in the produce drawer of my fridge so those had to get pitched.
* I found money!
A penny near the register counter at Rite-Aid last Saturday.Total Found in last Week...... .24¢
Total Found This Year......$3.66
That's about all I've got for this past week.
Any frugal wins in your neck of the woods? Let's hear all about them!
And have a good weekend and stay warm!
Sluggy
Now that we are living on an annuity and 401K$ withdrawals, I am still going to keep track of our monthly spending and income, and hopefully we'll still be able to live BELOW our means and I'll have some leftover monies each month to tuck aside.
I am trying to be as transparent as I can with how much is coming in and how much is going out. 8-)Sluggy
I don't go to Dollar General often but the Saturday during one of their Clearance Event weekends do tempt me. So I went into my local DG on Saturday and scored these deals......
The Hello toothpaste was .80¢ on clearance and a digital $2/1 Q came off making that -$1.20.
The Head and Shoulders Clinical was $2.92 and a digital $1/1 Q and .25¢ of the $5/$25 Q came off making that $1.67.
The Hempvana pain relief was $7.50 on clearance and .99¢ of the $5/$25 Q came off making that $6.51.
The St. Ives scrub was $2.02 on clearance and I had a $1/1 IPQ and another .13¢ came off ($5/$25Q)making that .89¢.
The St. Ives wash was $1.67 on clearance and I had a $1.1 IPQ and another .08¢ came off making that .59¢.
The Clean and Clear wash was $2.86 on clearance and I had a $2/1 IPQ and another .11¢ came off making that .75¢.
The single Glade candle was $2.25 on clearance and I had a $1/1 digital Q and another .29¢ came off making that .96¢.
The double pack Glad candles were $2.25 on clearance and I had a $1/1 IPQ and another .16¢ came off making that $1.09.
I bought a few other things(tea pitcher, napkins, matches, DDG shaving gream for Hubs, etc.)that got me up to $25 in spending before the $5 Q came off making all this and the other items $20.17 OOP after discounts and qs.
This particular store had can upon can of Pedigree chicken flavor wet dog food on the clearance aisle. NOTHING on the clearance aisle was marked so I had to try to scan those items with the app which only works about half the time in this store....can you say "bad wifi signal"? lol Then I went over to the regular pet food aisle and saw this brand/size can was priced there for $1.95 which made me think the cans in the clearance aisle would ring up .97¢ on clearance at most. HA!
I asked the cashier to price check the items I couldn't get a price on through the app and the dog food rang up $1.95. I told her that's strange since the same brand/size pet food NOT in the clearance section was priced at $1.95. She proceeded to tell me the chicken flavor dog food in the clearance aisle was NOT on clearance. It was discontinued being carried in their store(all the stores?)so they placed it in the clearance aisle since there was nowhere else to put it. WTF?!?
Now I probably could have called over a manager and pressed my case that I should be allowed to buy that dog food for .97¢ a can given that it was in the clearance aisle but I wasn't in the mood to assert myself as I'd just picked up that case of Kirkland dog food last week at that Liquidator store so I just put it back and didn't raise an issue about it.
Still a few good finds even so. Did you go to Dollar General and find anything worth buying this past weekend?
Sluggy
The "Yay! A new Pitcher!" Edition...
I hit the Dollar General clearance sale on Saturday and also took advantage of the $5 off wys $25 Q they have on Saturday. I've been sorely in need of a new iced tea pitcher. I've been checking Walmart almost weekly for months now, but this item seem to be part of their missing inventory/supply change kink here.
Well I found one at Dollar General and even before that Q on Saturday it was less expensive than the shelf price for one(if they had one in stock)at Walmart. That's my big win from the weekend! lolz
Saw this tv segment from a news station in Alabama somewhere, on YouTube........
I doubt the gas stations get fined for having people put these little stickers on their gas pumps. I call bullsh&*. Unless the government's PC police are out handing out citations for this sort of thing. At best it's vandalism of the business by whomever places a sticker on a gas pump.
I call it art. Yeah....that's what it is!
Here's the one I found on my local gas pump months ago...
Here's something else I saw in PA months ago....not once but at 3 different locations along the Interstate on a single trip......
Yah, he deserves that poke in the eye after his disastrous pull out from Afghanistan. We are an embarrassment to the world with this man as POTUS.
The only thing worse is how Putin and his Oligarchs have embarrassed the Russian people. Heck, everyday Russians are fleeing into Finland now.
UPDATE
First off, this isn't about Trump so stop bringing up Trump. Trump was his own kind of disaster and NO I am not a Trumpster and did not vote for him either time(and if you have read my blog for any amount of time you would know that). Those of you who don't know me(Richard, Cheryl, Julie-all have empty blogger profiles so probably trolls)stop assuming my political bent because I think Biden is not fit for the office he holds.
Y'all are welcome to your own differing opinions so go start a blog of your own instead of hating on others and their opinions.
Hope you have a nice day.
Sluggy
So here are a few of the frugal-ish things that happened here this past week.......
* No food waste last week. Not much cooking either but hey.....
* I paid the sewage bill in full for 2022 to get a 3% discount at the bank they take payments for this at. It's better than nothing, right?
* I bought all this at my R-A on Saturday in one transaction using a $10 of wys $50 coupon.....
Spent $1.98 OOP after coupons and free $25 gift card uced, and earned back $12.75 back in reg. rebates and bonuses. The Almay face make-up, the clearance Colgate toothpaste and 6 Bic razors were moneymakers after Qs(no rebates though)so that is why I included them. Moneymaker items help lower the cost of the Ibotta rebate items.
* I hit a different Walmart on Thursday and bought all this for Ibotta rebates....
$37.67 paid OOP and $48.02 earned in regular rebates($27.52) and 2 Bonuses($20-the big $15 one and a $5 Weekend Warrior one) and a .50¢ Renuzit Bonus.
* I also bought 2 packages of Land O Lakes American cheese at the deli counter. Swag Bucks has a deal to get $7.00 back in points when you buy a package of each color cheese-no size restriction. I only spent $3.59 total of both packages of cheese so that's a $6.41 moneymaker on Swag Bucks. Of course only the white cheese label says Land o Lakes on it so I had to put a ticket into customer service to get the full 700 Points back. You would think they'd know by now Walmart does this with the yellow cheese label? lolz
* I got $2 in post Qs at Rite-Aid on March 1st.......
I forgot 3 Qs at home last week. oopsie!
* I went on Wednesday and got a massage at a "spa" in a nearby town. Hubs gave me a gift card to this place for Christmas.....
The masseuse was nice, the massage felt good but....* Frugal fail--When we went out to Walmart on Thursday I brought along an Applebee's gift card to use to get lunch but we both decided we'd rather hit the Chinese Buffet at the mall so instead of a free after gift card lunch we had to pay OOP. We did save in that neither of us needed/wanted dinner that night. 8-)
* Easy Spirit had a flash sale last week on clearance priced Winter/Fall shoes. I got 4 pair of shoes for next Fall/Winter for only $17.25 a pair(reg. $69-$75 per pair!)and free shipping AND used a $15 discount I have for buying shoes previously from them which meant $54.00 out the door for 4 pair of clogs that fit my big ass foot. Now I need to go cull the worn out Winter shoes in my closet....
* I found money!
Two different pennies in the same Rite-Aid in town on Monday.Sluggy
Onward to February's Food Spending report......
While I was on our Caribbean cruise back in December I had a massage and also an acupuncture session in the spa onboard the ship.
The acupuncturist was named "Dr. Sam" and his name tag noted he was from Ukraine. He came to my mind last week as events unfolded between Ukrainians and megalomaniac dictator Vladimir Putin and his Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Since cruise ship employees are signed to multi-month contracts and do go home between their contracted employment I keep thinking about Dr. Sam. Will he go home and stay to fight? Can he go home? Does he have family there and if so, imagine the worry he carries about their safety.
Am I odd to worry about someone I have only met once?
Before opening night of the opera "Don Carlos" at the Met the other day the cast learned and performed the Ukrainian National Anthem.
Please keep the Ukrainian people in your thoughts and prayers. May this insanity end quickly.
Sluggy
The "WTF?!" Edition...