Frugal Friday....the June 7th Edition

Here's what frugalness happened around here at Chez Sluggy.........

*   My car was finally low on gas so I headed to Weis and used my second Bonus Cash Reward Prepaid Debit Card I had earned at Rite-Aid back in Feb.

The $20 on the card didn't quite fill my tank (just under 7 gallons)but it was close.

*  I hit the Bread Outlet this week.............

$4.98 for 3 large loaves and a bag of stuffing cubes.

*  I found money!

At the register tucked in the corner under the counter at Rite-Aid when I was spending the last of the Bonus Cash attached to one of my Wellness cards.

*  I went through the bags Daughter and Ex-College Boy threw into the Salvation Army pile before Hubs and I carted it all off and came up with these books.......

3 books I can add to my reading pile.  Not having to haul to the library and/or scour Ollie's for inexpensive books is always a good thing.

*  I had a $5 reward at Kohl's that was expiring last Friday.  I really didn't feel like going so I handed it to Hubs and said go buy yourself something cheap. lolz

He found himself a brown belt for when his current belt bites the dust.  After the $5 reward it cost him $4 and change for this $30 belt that was on clearance.

*  I got the Weis Friday Freebie last week.......

A single serve bottle of milk.

*  Among the improvements we are doing in the house are new window blinds........

Three rooms got them and Hubs hung them all.  They were free as we used a Lowe's gift card I sent for using some of our credit card points.

*  We got free sandwiches from McDonald's on Thursday...........

Well not exactly free but close!
McDonald's was doing a promotion for their International menu items.  Bring in any foreign currency and you can get 1 of the 4 items.
Hubs and I both took in a Canadian penny.

Hubs got the Canadian Tomato Mozarella Chicken sammie and I got the Spanish Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger sammie.  Mine had smoked Gouda cheese which was quite the upgrade from a regular Mickey D's burger bomb. lolz
My sammie is regularly $5.82 w/tax.  I'd never pay that kind of money for this.  It was far from worth almost $6.

Funny story here.......I had gone to this McDonald's at lunch time on Thursday to get an Unsweet Tea after filling up my gas tank.  I asked the gal working at the window if they were doing the promo w/the foreign currency and she said yes but not 2-5pm like every other store was doing but 5-7pm.
I asked her again to confirm it, she confirmed, I took my drink and went home.

So Hubs and I went up shortly after 5pm.  The gal at the counter inside took my order and I handed her my CDN penny.  The manager had to come over and key in something because technically I wasn't paying anything(it was free), she rolled her eyes and told the counter gal that this was the last one being as it was after 5pm.  The gal said the guy behind me also had foreign currency to pay with(Hubs)and the manager said ok, after him no more.

So I told her what the lunch time gal had told me(about this store doing it 5-7pm instead)and she rolled her eyes at me.  Evidently the lunch/afternoon folks were misleading people who asked and telling them the wrong/later time but nobody on the dinner/late shift was told the time was changed.

I didn't realize there was a big snafu over this because when I handed the cashier/counter gal my penny she had said to me that I was only the second person who had taken advantage of this promo of a free item.....which led me to believe that the store had just started taking foreign currency at 5pm.

Then the eye rolling and remarks of the manager clued me in. lolz

But y'all KNOW I would have raised hell if they had denied me after being told by an employee earlier that day that I was there at the correct time to do the offer!lolz
But no worries, we got our free burgers and no blood was split in the process.  ;-)

So that's it for me.

What frugal goodness happened to ya'll this past week?


Sluggy

Target Trip

Well I won a coupon for a free Dial Foaming Hand Soap product from Frances awhile back.  I tired to redeem that coupon last week at 2 different grocery stores AND then at Rite-Aid and none of the three carries this particular product.
bleh.
So I googled and found that the only place around here that has this item is Target.
Since the freebie coupon expires today, guess who went out to Target today?

This lady! ;-)
So to make this more efficient I decided to stop by the Bakery Outlet along the route I take to Target.

First the Target trip............

4 x Mountain Dew 12-packs on sale 4/$10. *not pictured*
2 x Hawaiian buns/rolls on sale 2/$5.
1 x Dial Hand Soap reg. $1.84
2 x Seventh Generation Cleaner refills on clearance $1.04 each-$2.08
1 x pack of Baby Back Ribs on sale $2.49 lb.=$8.54
1 x pair of men's shorts on clearance $7.48
2 x  metal hangtags 70% off Red Spot $1 items=.60¢
1 x box of  Lemon Heads candy 70% off Red Spot $1 items=.30¢
Total.....$36.48(w/tax)

I had a $1/2 Hawaiian IPQ which made those $2 a pack.
The Dial Freebie coupon took off $4.00 instead of the $1.84 the product actually cost so $2.16 in overage applied to the rest of my order.
Sweet!

$31.48 after coupons which I put on my free $100 Target gift card so nothing OOP.

I don't know if the shorts will "please" College Boy so those might go back.  Though we still have soda(enough for the cook-out)I picked up this $2.50 pack soda deal anyway since they had CB's fav. Baja Blast Mountain Dew.  I don't know how the kids drinks this nasty stuff. lol  I am hiding it so he can't drink it.....it's for him to take back to college.  Sssshhh, don't tell him..... ;-)

Then I stopped at the Bakery Outlet for 3 packs of hamburger rolls($1 each), 3 Danish/Donut packs ($1 each)and 2 packs of hot dog buns(.75¢).  $7.50 out of the $8 and change left in my wallet for June.

All this shopping goes on July's tally since I closed out June's spending already.

It's been raining cats and dogs off and on all day here.  It finally cleared long enough for me to take everything I left in the car most of the day.....not the meat, I brought that in right away obviously. lol

I don't need to go down off the mountain now until next week.

Sluggy