Frugal Friday....the February 4th Edition

This was the view out the front door this morning.  Since then it's been snowing.  I won't be going anywhere anytime soon so no money spent. rah.

So here are a few of the frugal-ish things that happened here this past week.......

*   No food waste so far. ;-)  We've got lots of leftovers this week to use up or repurpose.

*  I used 3 expiring $2 rewards at Subway to get us lunch on Thursday along with part of a gift card. 

 I saw I also had a free Birthday cookie in my Subway account so Hubs picked that up too. ;-)

* I bought about $12 in stuff on a trip to Weis.  That was my only food shopping trip for the week.

*  I did about 4 Rite-Aid transactions this week utilizing BC, Catalinas and coupons.......

*  On Wednesday Hubs and I had a lunch out at Applebee's using a Xmas gift card from Sonya.  I "went outside my lane" as they say and ordered something new(uh oh), a small steak.  It was overcooked and I couldn't cut it(the dull knife they gave me didn't help any either).  I gave my plate to Hubs to attempt to cut the steak.  This piece of meat shouldn't have been served.  I've had tough and chewy steaks before as well as grisly ones and sinewy ones but there was an artery/vein tube that ran through the center of this steak!  You couldn't cut the tube(think rubber hose)or cut the meat away that was edible from around it.  Called the server over to send it back for an edible piece of meat.  Manager brings new steak over along with a new knife(just as dull as the old one though)and I cut into that one.  Not much better but at least there was no hose in it and it was chewable.

The server brought the check and I used part of my gift card to pay and noticed I had been charge for TWO steaks!  We signaled him over and pointed out that this was an error and he took the check and gift card up to his manager then came back having taken the second steak charge off the check as well as another $10 off for all the issues on this visit.  Basically my part of the meal had cost $3 and change at this point.  go me.

*  I got the result of my sleep study back and the findings where that I no longer need the supplemental oxygen at night so no concentrator is needed.  Rah!  That's less medical bills in my future for DMEs.  Anybody need a broken oxygen concentrator? lol

*  I got $4 back in "post coupons" at R-A this week.  $2 for St. Joseph Aspirin and $2 for Nivea lotion when I forgot my qs at home.

*   I found money!

One whole penny at Weis in front of the CS desk.  I'm shocked I found no errant change in R-A this week!  At least I didn't get skunked for the week thanks to that lone penny at Weis(PMITA)Markets.

Total Found in last Week...... .01¢
Total Found This Year......$1.88

That's about all I've got for this week.

Any frugal wins in your neck of the woods?  Let's hear all about them!

And have a good weekend and stay warm!  It's been snowing all day here.... 8-(

Sluggy  

Frugal Friday.....the December 3rd Edition

  Here's what we had happen in the frugal vein around here this past week.....

*  I forgot to mention last week, in regard to my pumpkin pies.  I had a can of "yams", a crash and burn can that needed using.  So I used a can of pumpkin and this can of "yams" blended together for a couple of pumpkin/sweet potato pies.  Using up what was on hand.

*  My pillage at Rite-Aid......

My two online orders arrived as well which added...
8 packs of batteries
6 bottles of Excedrin
4 bottle of Carol's Daughter Moisturizer
8 bottles of Sally Hansen nail treatment
6 bottle of Suave shampoo
4 Twin-packs of Degree deodorant
That brought our BF haul suggested retail to $1,044.52.

If you need to roll BC this week, try the In-Ad coupon deal on SoftSoap and Irish Spring.  With the Q and the $2 in BC you get back(limit 2)your soap items will "cost" you .99¢(plus tax if applicable).

*  I received a sample in the mail.....

A sample size Dove men's deodorant.  I had sent for that so long ago I had totally forgotten about it!

*  I used some c/c points to send away for a $25 Walmart gift card and it showed up this past week.........

This is something that I can use and stack Qs and rebate apps with to get more than $25 worth of items.

*  I found money!

A couple of pennies in Rite-Aid last weekend.

Another penny half tucked under the floor mat at the entrance at Rite-Aid on Tuesday.

And a penny and a dime at Weis(PMITA)Markets on Wednesday at the self-check out I used.

Total Found This Week... .14¢
Total Found This Year.....$20.24

That's about it this week.

What frugal wins did you have last week?

Let us know!

Sluggy

Frugal Friday......the November 19th Edition

 A few frugal wins for this past week..............

*  Friday saw all this going to the local food bank.....

118 items gotten for free or for very low cost with sales/loss leader/couponing/rebating.

*  I spent very little OOP at the grocery store this week thanks to free gift cards.

*  When Sissie came to visit she brought me a giftie I forgot to show last week.......

A neat Santa shopping bag.  I'll think of her every time I use it! ;-)

*  Lots of freebies last week at Rite-Aid..........

I rolled/converted to cash/spent down under $40 in Bonus Cash for all this(+some items not pictured, many that went to the food bank).  Nothing spend out of pocket.

*  Sissie also alerted me that Aldi had butter for $1.99 lb. this week so I hit up Aldi's here and picked up 6 lbs.

*  I attended the Bridal Shower last Saturday for my son's fiancée.  I won two of the games we played.....

The two flat black packages were those prizes(each had a bag of specialty tea bags, a bookmark with a famous author's quote on it and a piece of jewelry).  It was a "Bridgerton" themed shower....we drank tea from proper china cups and saucers and ate finger sandwiches and scones.  We played Jane Austen word searches, had to guess things about the bride and then a shower gift Bingo.  The party favors were the pair of bride and groom pretzels enrobed in chocolate and the cup and saucer with dainty handmade candies and more tea covered with shimmery netting and a bow.

*  Our kitchen backsplash got installed this past week!

First a reminder of the 1980's tile work we had removed.........

And now we are 40+ years into the future.......

                                        

The handyman only took 1.5 days to finish the job too!  While having work done on your house isn't frugal per se, Hubs added up both bathroom jobs and this tile work and it cost us LESS to have our handyman do all 3 jobs than the big contractor company wanted for just the main bathroom job.  So I'm calling this a frugal win! ;-)

*  Speaking of house projects, Hubs tackled a long delayed small job of replacing the hall closet doors.  We actually only had 1 bi-fold door after Ex-College Boy fell into the other door and broke it when he was home from college on break a few years ago.  Hubs finally bought new doors, painted the backsides and installed them(well, he installed them twice because the first time he put them in upside down!lol).  I'll post a photo once we get the fronts of the doors painted. ;-)

We are slowly chipping away at the house projects list......

*  I found money!

2 dimes next to my car in the parking lot at Walmart last Friday.

This nice shiny penny was leaning up on one of the frozen food case doors at Weis last Friday as well.

Found a penny at a Rite-Aid in NJ after the Bridal Shower when I went in to get some gift cards there.

Found a quarter at Weis on Wednesday when I went in for 2 items to finish my Mid Week Bonus.

Found This Week... .47¢
Found This Year...$20.03 

Woohoo!  Passed the $20 0f found change mark for the year!

That's about all I got for the week besides the usual stuff.

What frugal victories did you have this past week?  Let's hear all about them!

Sluggy

Frugal Friday...the July 30th Edition

 Frugal wins here at Chez Sluggy this past week came and went.  Here are the highlights.......

*  The Freeosk machine in Walmart was actually dispensing samples this week.....

Cinnamon mini tarts.  No one has tried them yet so the jury is still out on this product.

*  I found money!

Last Saturday I got a drink at Burger King while I was out pillaging a R-A.  These 3 coins were stuck into the asphalt next to my car at the drivee-thru.  Since the cashier was slow at running my gift card I hopped out of the car and pried them off the driveway.  There were more coins more embedded into the asphalt so next time I'll bring a screwdriver with me! lol

Found this lot around the store at my Rite-Aid and in the foyer there on Monday.

This penny was found on Tuesday at CVS by the register.

Back to R-A for Rx refills on Wednesday and found this lot of coins.

The 3 coins to the left were found again at my R-A on Thursday.  The coin on the right I don't remember where.....Weis maybe or Walmart?  It's been a long week and I can't recall....

Total Found This Week... .32¢

Total Found This Year...$12.78

*  I actually went to CVS(if you saw the penny I got there above)on Tuesday.  I had a freebie digital Q for acetaminophen or ibuprofen but their truck hadn't come in yet this week.

But I did use a $5 off any ice cream digital Q and brought home a pint of my favorite Ben and Jerry's flavor(Cherry Garcia).  It only cost me $1.29.  I'd pay that all day long for this flavor. 8-)))

And speaking of CVS this ECB printed out when I bought the ice cream......

An ECB for THREE CENTS!

Seriously?  What the hell am I suppose to do with that?!?! lolz

*  I've been trying to keep ahead of the cukes and zukes from the garden.

Last Weekend I made pickles.  I need to add more cukes to this jar once we eat these.

And the zukes have made appearances at the table(so far)as tempura spears, in a tomato based dish with lemon pepper chicken and in this......

I had leftover carrot shreds to use up so I shredded 1/3 of a zuke too and threw that into the mixture and voila!....carrot cake.  So moist and full of fruits and veg and nuts it doesn't need frosting.

I see more tempura spears, grilled zuke, a zuke gratin casserole and stuffed zuke waiting in the wings to make their appearances. ;-)

That's about it for the highlights besides some Rite-Aid pillaging(4 cans of Friskies for a $6+ moneymaker? Yes please!).

How was your week?  Any good deals or frugal wins??

Hope y'all have a good weekend!

Sluggy

Frugal Friday....the April 17th Edition

 Here are the frugal wins for this past week........

*  Well I lied last week.  We DID have Take-Out/Eating Out last week.  I totally forgot about going out for Hubs birthday to Outback. Duh!  The good news is we had an old partially used gift card for that place so one of us ate free. lolz  I only ate half my meal saving the other half for lunch the next day. ;-)

*  Because of the $10 off $50 Rite-Aid coupon there was a bit of R-A pillaging......

You can read all the details in previous blog posts I wrote on those trips if interested.

*  Last Saturday this arrived in the mail.........

A prepaid debit card with a refund of an overcharge from 2018.  Back then Daughter was still on our insurance and we were paying her co-pays and this is a refund for something they overcharged us for.  I'd prefer they sent a refund in the form of a check but I'll take this anyway.  I can add this to my food budget and leave the equivalent amount on this card in our bank account instead. 8-)

*  I found money!

Last Friday's trip to Walmart netted me this penny tucked under a magazine rack while I was checking out.

On the way home on Friday I treated myself to a Chalupa at Taco Bell(using a gift card).  I did a little stretching exercise to reach this penny on the ground in the drive-thru lane.  I got it without falling out of my seat in the car even though I have inordinately short arms. lol

On Monday I hit the trifecta of pennies at my Rite-Aid.  That brown floor mat in front of the register counter camouflages pennies it seems because I spied 3 of them when it was my turn to check-out.  Woot!!

While waiting to get my Covid shot at the R-A 80 miles north of here on Tuesday I found 4 pennies on a table next to the chair I was sitting in in the waiting area by the pharmacy.  I reached for them and snagged one then Hubs "penny blocked" me and wouldn't let me take the other three.  Nobody else was around and coming back for them as they were obviously abandoned as being worthless pennies.  Hubs gets embarrassed when I pick up change because as he says, "We don't need it!".  He thinks it's demeaning to pick up change. Silly rabbit!  I'll remind him he said that the next time he tries to beat me to a nickel laying under the Amazon lockers in Walmart! 
I should have told him I'd be right there when we left the store and then gone back for Abe's 3 little friends in the back of the store. ;-)

Total Change This Week.... .06¢
Total Change This Year......$2.46

That's about it for this week unless you count getting 2 free Covid shots in order to hopefully stay out of the hospital and not come down with this horrible illness.

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

Sluggy

Rite-Aid Pillaging This Week

So I hit R-A this week channeling my inner Viking and got this............

Rite-Aid had snail mailed me a sheet of R-A Qs so I used 4 of them, including a $4 off wyspend $20 Q.

2 x Mitchum deo BOGO50%=$7.23
1 x Biscoff cookies 20% Wellness disc.=$2.71
1 x Kokie cosmetic brush 20% Wellness disc.=$5.99
4 x Big Win candy bags on sale=$6.00
SubTotal.....$21.93

Coupons Used
1 x $4 wyspend $20 R-AQ=$4.00
1 x $3/1 Mitchum R-AQ=$3.00
1 x $2/1 Mitchum curves type ManuQ=$3.00
1 x $1/1 Mitchum ManuQ=$1.00
1 x $2/1 Biscoff R-AQ=$2.00
1 x $2.50/1 Kokie brushes R-AQ=$2.50
1 x $4/1 Kokie IPQ=$4.00
Coupon Total........$18.50

$21.93-$18.50=$3.43 paid for with Bonus Cash.
I earned back $2 BC for buying 4 candy bags.
And I earned $5.99 tracking toward a $6 BC Deal wyspend $12 on Kokie items.

Just a heads up if you got those snail mailed Qs from R-A.  If you try to use the $X off wys $XXX one and any of the rest of the Qs on that sheet in the same transaction they will beep.
We voided and redid the transaction when that happened and tried the $X off wys $XXX Q last and then that one said it had already been used(because it got deactivated when it was rang up on the transaction that was voided). Ugh

The manager just took $4 off my order for that Q since I couldn't use it another day now.
Something always goes wrong at Rite-Aid lately....even their Qs, the ONES THEY SEND YOU don't work right!!!

I bought this today on the same card/account........

2 x Reese's thins on sale=$6.00
1 x Kokie nail polish 20% Wellness disc.=$3.99
SubTotal.........$9.99

Coupons Used
2 x $2/1 Reese's thins tear padQ from Spring that expire Halloween=$4.00
1 x $4/1 Kokie item IPQ=$4.00
Coupon Total.......$8.00

$9.99-$8.00=$1.99 paid for this BC.
Tracking on the Kokie Deal is now $9.98.

Then I bought this..........

1 x snack bags(in $1 area)205 Wellness disc.=.80¢
1 x Kokie nail polish 20% Wellness disc.=$3.99
SubTotal.........$4.79

Coupons Used
1 x $4/1 Kokie item IPQ=$4.00

$4.79-$4.00=.79¢ + .05¢ tax=.84¢ paid for with BC.
I hit the Kokie $12 spent threshold so earned back $6 in new Bonus Cash.

If you have that Kokie PDF IPQ that expires 8/31, remember you can only use one per transaction.
If you have the 20% Wellness discount you'll have to buy something to cover the .01¢ of overage the Kokie Q gives you too.

Total BC spent was $6.26, new BC earned was $8($2 candy, $6 Kokie)for everything pictured in this post.

Next week will be all about spending down ALL my Bonus Cash.


Sluggy