Frugal Friday....the June 12th Edition

Here what frugal stuff happened around here this week around Chez Sluggy.........

*  Put gas in my car for the first time since late March(I think).  The price however was not so frugal.  We were at a low in PA here of $2.04 but now it's up in the $2.25-$2.29 range. bleh.  Surprisingly at home the best deal was at Sunoco w/my .05¢ per gal. discount on my Sunoco card so $2.02 per gallon.  Luckily my little car gets great mileage.


*  I went back to Rite-Aid before leaving town and bought this again..........

Paid $3.99 w/sales tax in Bonus Cash and earned $2 in new BC.  I submitted for $1.00 in Ibotta rebates again but they gave me $1.50(1 x .50¢ for the body wash, 2 x .50¢ for the deodorant)maing these cost .49¢ combined in BC.
I am up to $3.20 in Ibotta rebates for June.


*  I found money!

 These were all last Friday when I went searching for all those bags of coffee on 75% clearance at various Rite-Aids.  If they are photographed together it means I found them in the same store but I can't for the life of me remember which I found in what store. lol

I do remember this was found at the 4th store I hit(no 75% clearance left there)but this shiny fellow was over by the rack of sales flyers.

These two were found up by the register/candy rack at one of the other stores.

I didn't find any change at the Sharp Shopper last week but on the way down to my son's in VA yesterday I stopped at a SS outside of Harrisburg just to see what deals they had and to use the bathroom.

This dime was on the floor in the bathroom stall with me at Sharp Shopper.

Then is penny was laying on the sidewalk outside the store as I wheeled my cart out to my car.

Then I stopped for gas at a Sheetz outside of Warrenton VA and this penny was laying on the asphalt in front of my car.
Remember I am careful when picking up change now.  I pick things up with a wipe, a tissue, etc. and disinfect the coins once I get home or wherever I am going to.

Found Money This Week..... .17¢
Found Money This Year So Far....$45.88

* My son and I got food from Chili's yesterday for dinner.  I had bought a bunch of Chili's gift cards at R-A last Black Friday/Dec. to get BC.  Well wouldn't ya know it our Chili's at home closed down for good this past Jan. lol  And I am not hiking to the next closest one to use these gift cards.  I bring them when I go other places that have Chili's still and use them while traveling.  There's a Chili's near my brother's house so I'll be getting Chili's again this trip. ;-)  The only cash spent for dinner was the $10 tip I gave the guy. 8-)

* I hit P and R outlets last Friday while I was out pillaging Rite-Aids's 75% clearance sections and got this freebie there........

Boxes of Miso Broth they were giving away to customers you bought anything in the store(which I did). ;-)

* My greens are going gangbusters in my garden at home.  I picked the first of the lettuce and spinach and had a salad for dinner on Wednesday night.
I didn't take any pictures but I will when I get home if it all hasn't gone to seed.

* Speaking of Sharp Shopper I did pick up some items........
clam shells of 1 lb. strawberries weren't .99¢ like at the other store but $1.49 so I picked up one and had half this morning for breakfast and I'll have the other half tomorrow before I leave son's place.
I picked up 2 boxes of tea bags for 2/$1.  I also bought this........

2 x quarts of OJ to use on the trip.  They were 2/$1 as well.  I like a little OJ in my unsweetened iced tea in the mornings to get me going.

I also picked up 3 x 12-packs of these........

Sugar-free Powerades.  Now that Diet Pepsi has gone back to using Aspartame I drink this stuff instead with Sucralose.  These were 3/$1 so $4 per 12 pack.
If they all get used up while I am down here I'll hit a Sharp Shopper on the way home and load up for the Summer months. lolz

Now here is where the Food Police are going to go "tsk tsk" at me......

I love Kozy shack pudding(it's a PA thing)and like a few spoons of it as a snack at times.  My usual tapioca flavor was .99¢ a tub but the rice pudding was 2/$1!! so I picked one of those up.  I'll probably leave that at son's for him to eat what I don't have today or tonight.

I bought these 5 packs of Reese's cups with Reese's pieces in the filling as a gift for my son for letting me sleep on his sofa. lol
They were 2/$1.

That's about it for this week.....

Try to keep on keepin' on with your frugal ways and tell us all about your frugal wins for this past week!

Sluggy

If It's Thursday It Must be Hershey-Part 2

So after escaping from the medical complex Hubs needed to get gas for the car ride home and use the bathroom so we hit a Sheetz so he could do both.

Next door was Mickey D's so we drove through for a coffee(him)and an iced tea(me).
And we proceeded to Sharp Shopper.

I didn't take any photos again but here is one from the internet of the front of the building........

And now is when you cue the heavenly angelic music, as I enter the store.........

The store was HUGE, very well organized and CLEAN!  The aisles were wide too and not too many people in the store(we hit there at a good time evidently).

They had just about anything you might want in food, not as much in paper goods and HBA/OTC meds but still there was a nice variety.

There was a bulk goods aisle, fresh produce, dairy and meats and a frozen food section too.

With a surplus or discount grocery outlet though you need to know your prices because everything is NOT a great deal. Some great deals, some good deals and some "eh" deals depending on what you are use to paying at your big grocery store/big box store.
As I don't have much freezer space at the moment I concentrated on pantry items mostly.

Here's most of my haul.......first the little bit of frozen stuff.

The Fish Pie(?)and Squash Ravioli tv dinners are for Hubs and I, respectively for when I don't want to cook(those were each $1.99). There are 2 Country Fried Steak dinners for Hubs and Ex-CB for 99¢ ea.(I don't eat that stuff).  The freezer meal Alfredo/Chicken/Pasta/Veggie casserole thing should feed all 3 of us($2.99)and the pasta in that is made with veggies too.  The apple/cheese snacking packs were 2/$1 and are for me.  The two hunks of Teriyaki Pork loin were $6.85 total, it was a two pack.   That was $2.99 lb. and 2.25 lbs. enough for at least 3 stir-fry meals with lots of leftovers.
I stuck Hubs/Ex-CB's hot sauce(3 for $1)in this photo because I forgot to put it in the next photo. lol

The 4 blue boxes on the left are facial tissue at .59¢ a piece(100 sheets each)
The bag on top of those is a bulk buy-cherry almond granola for $1.29 lb.
The 3 bottles are iced coffee(mocha)drinks for Ex-CB(3/$1).
There are 2 bottles of creamy Greek salad dressing for Hubs next to that(2/$1).
In the middle back(and in front of that too)are 7 bags of coffee-5 Starbucks Caramel for $2.99 ea.(any brand caramel is Ex-CB's fav)and 2 bags(1 Ugandan, 1 Nicaraguan)packed by a local importer and those are full 1 lb. bags for $2.99 ea.!
(I don't drink it and hate paying for it so if I can get decent coffee cheap, I am there. lol)
There are 5 cans of tomato soup(the Rite-Aid organic brand line)that cost $1 for all 5.
Next to that is a bottle of Olive Oil for $4.99(sounds high but a good buy for the brand/type/size bottle). 
In front of that is a .89¢ jar of celery seed(it's making pickles season!) ;-)
On the left front, those are 2 bags of Bob's Red Mill Semolina flour which were 4/$1.  I am going to actually pull out that pasta machine I got years ago and try my hand at handmade pasta finally!
The light blue box is BC key lime mousse packets for .99¢(a Summer treat for me).
To it's right is a 3 pack of baby aspirin for $2.99(I can get this for a similar price at Dollar Tree but I am wary of those China imported meds there.).
Right behind the baby aspirin is a grinder of Violet or Grape flavored sea salt from France at .99¢.  The salt was just something different to try. ;-)

I got these flats of coffee energy drinks and juice bottles for Ex-CB in hopes of his work reopening soon.  $2.99 and $3.75 from left to right and this will keep him from going to Starbucks or the gas station near work and spending $$ on drinks.  Please say a pray his store can open up sooner rather than later. 8-)

I also bought 4 loaves of bread(still not as cheap as my Bread Outlet at home but they are still closed down), some Kool-Aid(for Ex-CB since they didn't have any Gatorade or Power-ade at a cheap price), and a flavor of Utz potato chip we enjoy now and again but they only make that flavor sporadically(those were BOGO), but the best deal was this........

1 lb. clam shells of fresh local strawberries for .99¢ each.  I don't make jam, by frozen bags of them out of season and only eat them fresh so I limited myself to 3 lbs.-what we could eat this week before they went bad.
I love me some fresh strawberries and if I lived close to this store I'd just go buy a lb. every day until they were gone. lol

I spent just over $100 total(and that was with the cashier charging me an extra $1.99 for a frozen item I didn't buy(didn't check my receipt before leaving the store as Hubs was starving so that's on me).

So we packed the cooler and loaded the rest into the backseat and went looking for somewhere to eat.  This part of this country had a couple restaurants open with outdoor service(Hubs refuses to eat while driving)so we stopped here..........

The Udder Choice  Mostly they are known for ice cream(duh!)and their breakfast menu but they do serve sandwiches and such for lunch.  Nothing fancy....no fancy pesto, aioli, guacamole dressed type foods, just soup, sandwiches and the like.

The restaurant had erected a huge tent on the lawn beside the building and put out picnic tables very well socially distanced.
You had to use their app or call to order but cell phone reception was spotty and when I finally got through the line was always busy(1 line, they aren't set up for those amount of calling in orders).  So we just flagged down the waitress as she flew by and gave her our order(they had a menu posted by the front door)and waited for our food.  The weather was beautiful-hot but a nice breeze too.

Ephrata PA is in the middle of Amish and Mennonite enclaves(it's between Lebanon to the North and touristy Lancaster to the South).  We passed two Mennonite churches along the way to Sharp Shopper, as well as a few Amish homes displaying/selling quilts from their front porches, a Mennonite family was sitting at the table nearest to us and as we talked and ate lunch at least 3 of these passed in traffic on the road outside the restaurant(though I didn't stop eating to take any photos-this is off the internet).........

Tummies full we pointed the car Northward and headed home where I took pictures of the Sharp Shopper haul and put everything away, did my Humira injection, took a short lay down afterwards and Hubs got Chinese take-out dinners for him and Ex-CB and Hot and Sour soup for me.

Hitting a new-to-me grocery outlet, having a good doctor's visit(outside of the Foil Hat Lady encounter), and a nice lunch outside with Hubs turned this into a good Thursday.

How was your week?  Did anything good happen for you?
Have a great Sunday!

Sluggy

Frugal Friday....the June 5th Edition

Here what frugal stuff happened around here this week around Chez Sluggy.........

* I almost forgot about submitting my Allegra purchases from April at Rite-Aid for an offer from the makers or Allegra and other allergy OTC meds..........

Receipts are now submitted and in 4-6 weeks I should have a $20 Visa prepaid card.  go me! lol
I already earned a $15 cash rebate for buying these same items on Saving Star.  I LOVES me a good double dip! lolz

*  Hubs and I hit Ollie's(Good Stuff Cheap!)on Monday to use one of those 15% your entire order coupons I had.  Here are the food items I bought.........

Oatmeal packets, Cherrios, Peanut Butter(chunky)and Pretzel Crackers.  Every time I buy a bag of these pretzel crisps they disappear into Ex-CB's room and I never get any.  This bag is safely hidden in my walk-in closet so he can't find/eat them all. Ssshhh, don't tell him............. '-)


*  I found money(and boy, did I!)

At Ollie's this dirt old dime was found at the register counter.  When I used my Lysol wipe to pick it up I thought it was a penny(plus it's so dark in that store).  I was pleasantly surprised to see it was a dime when I got home and unwrapped it!.

Then as I wheeled my cart toward the door and passed a red hand truck used by the employees to move heavy shit, I spied another coin and told, no ORDERED! Hubs to pick it up for me as my arms were too short to get it without moving a bunch of stuff in front of the hand truck.
Again, due to lack of lighting I thought it was a penny but it turned out to be Tom Jefferson's face smiling up at us. 8-)

Then on Wednesday(no Wellness Wednesday *sad face* though)I went to pick up an Rx and found this dime back by the pharmacy.......

Then I saw this penny under a freestanding candy rack up by the registers..........

And this quarter was peeking out from under the candy rack attached to the side of the other front register............

When I went to pick up the quarter with a wipe this also landed in my hand..........

It's a religious medal(probably Catholic)of Joseph and baby Jesus.  I cleaned it off, tucked it into an envelope and will return it to the store.  I hope someone is  missing it and they get it back.

Found Money This Week..... .51¢ + a medal
Found Money This Year So Far....$45.71

* I also hit Rite-Aid this week(if you read the found money thing above you know I did already).  I bought brought home this stuff here............

3 x their Organic line of fair trade coffee 75% off($1.69 per bag)=$5.07
1 x Cover Girl brow pencils 20% Wellness disc.=$4.39
2 x Rimmel brow pencils 20% Wellness disc.=$6.22($3.11 eac)
SubTotal.....$15.68

Coupons Used
1 x $3/1 Cover girl eye IPQ=$3.00
2 x $2/1 Rimmel any item IPQ=$4.00
Coupon Total........$7.00

$15.68-$7.00=$8.68+.36¢ tax=$9.04 OOP paid for with Bonus Cash.
I earned back $10 BC for buying the 3 cosmetic items making this transaction a .96¢ moneymaker.
Woot!
And who is going to turn down coffee for $1.69 a bag, seriously?!?

* After my medical appointment on Thursday in Hershey Hubs and I hit this place..........

Try saying "Sharp Shopper" 10 times fast.............it can't be done! loz

Anyway this was "sort of" on the way home down in one of the many pockets of 'Amish country' here in PA.
This regional chain isn't Amish owned(but it's not open on Sundays like all other Amish businesses n the area).  I love me some discount grocery outlets!!!  I got some great deals I'll tell y'all about another time as I am getting this posted so late in the day.
And if anyone wanted to send me a Sharp Shopper gift card I would NEVER turn that down! lol

That's about it for this week.....

Try to keep on keepin' on with your frugal ways and tell us all about your frugal wins for this past week!

Sluggy