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Friday, April 17, 2020

Frugal Friday......the April 17th Edition

Still no Friday freebies at Weis or Fantastic Friday Deals there but let's still see what frugal wins we can pull out of our asses hats from this past week.

* On Sunday I was making lasagna for Easter but was low on mozzarella cheese.  Going through my meat/cheese drawer in the fridge I found these.......

String cheese sticks I had gotten in Feb. 50% off on clearance AND an Ibotta cash rebate on.  Since they were mozzarella I cut them into small coins and mixed with my reg. shredded cheese to put into the lasagna.  Win/win!

*  I had Hubs pick up my Easter freebie last Friday with my Weis points.  I had him get one of these boneless dinner hams.

I had used the one from the freezer for his birthday dinner(instead of Easter)and Ex-College Boy really liked it so we got another to put into the freezer for future dinners.

*  I found money!


I had to drive Hubs to his eye shot appointment on Wednesday but they wouldn't let any one in besides the patients so it was either sit in the car for up to an hour or go to Maines restaurant supply nearby.  I found this penny walking up to the door to Maines.

* And speaking of Maines.......I got a few good deals in there though most were in restaurant quantities.


10 lbs. of flour wasn't a "great" buy but still less for Gold Medal at Weis(PMITA)Markets.
If you can't find baking supplies try your local restaurant supply store if they let the public in.  With many restaurants closed or doing less business since they are restricted to take-out/carry out meals the restaurant supply stores should be stocked with anything you need.


I also got these cans of pineapple juice there for .99¢ each with use by dates to the end of 2022.  Theses run $2.50 or more at the grocery stores around here.  I now make my own Sweet and Sour Sauce and this is an ingredient.  And if not for that, for Summer cocktails(Pina Coladas anyone?).

While we were out on this side of town I hit up P and R Discount Outlet while Hubs went to Lowe's and found Ex-College Boy's favorite coffee for cheap.  They also had a new flavor called "Florida" which is a caramel flan so I picked one of those up.


Then the other day I realized we were on our last bottle of yellow mustard when I made deviled eggs so I picked up  another bottle for cheap there as well.


*  By the time we were done with Hubs' eye doc and the my food errands it was lunch time so we used a discount code Hubs got on his account and got lunch here...


Primo Hoagies are a Philly based business but we have a couple of franchises here so we did our part to help a small business by getting lunch to take home.

*  I had Hubs call our car insurance provider since I heard many were giving discounts/reductions/credits on future bills due to the pandemic and folks just aren't driving or driving as much.
State Farm is giving a 25% discount from mid-March to the end of May on your car insurance bill.
Of course we received our renewal bill that day so we won't actually see a discount until the bill that comes in November. lolz


But that $109.45 discount will be welcomed when it does arrive.

*  We decided to put Chester and Dixie on the dog food Chester and Cinnamon use to eat when the grand dog lived here.  The best deal on this variety is the 41 lb. bag.  For some reason the Chewy site kept crashing so I bought it on Amazon.  I also put it on Subscribe and Save so saved 5% this order.


I also ordered 4 types of dog treats too(the ones in the blue bag are Chester's absolute favorite and I can't find large bags of them here anymore).  All these qualify for the Subscribe and Save program on Amazon so we'll get various % off every order.


The best part is I used credit card points to pay for it all so nothing OOP. yay

And that's about all I have that's frugal this week.


Be safe, stay home if you can and tell us about your frugal wins lately.

Sluggy

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Even Though You Are Frugal, You Can Still Be Nice


One of the gals I am friendly with up at my local Rite-Aid store is expecting a baby.
She is due in the next couple of weeks actually.
This is her first baby and she is super excited. 8-)

She is a sweet person, so I really wanted to do something nice for her.
Even though I am not what you'd call one of her friends in her personal life, I wanted to give her something for the new baby.  But I wanted to be frugal about it, because, well......that's what I am, frugal!lol    I went about getting a gift together without spending money.  It took planning and time to pull off.  But I had time on my side, since I've known about her impending bundle since about March.

So as soon as I found out that she had a bun in the oven, I set about entering Giveaways online for baby items.  There are always tons of giveaways out there for all kinds of baby stuff on the internet.  You name it, you can find someone giving it away in order to promote a company and/or a blog.

I know she is like me, in that she doesn't believe in having a lot of "stuff".  She's not into newfangled products that aren't "needs"......she doesn't have the room in their tiny apartment for all kinds of gadgets and doo-dads that aren't necessities for raising a baby.  She is also very big on being "natural", using natural products.

So I entered giveaways for baby stuff that was useful.
And I scored some 7th Generation diapers for free and a hardcover copy of The Lorax by Dr. Seuss back in March.  Even if she does cloth diapering, she will have occasions where disposables will be needed.

And 2 weeks ago, I bought a bunch of Johnson's Baby body wash and lotion from their "Naturals" line in a couple of my Rite-Aid trips.  These products didn't hardly cost me anything.
Combined it all made for a nice little gift for her new baby.

Now I didn't have a baby themed gift bag to put it all into but I did have a Summer themed bag(watermelons!.....so appropriate when you look like you are about to give birth to a watermelon!lol).   The bag was done in soft blue and rose colors.  There was a gift tag on the bag so no baby greeting card was needed either.

This baby gift cost me only cents on my gift card and I used something I had already.  Can't get much more frugal than that! ;-)

And the mom-to-be loved it.  She didn't expect this and she was thrilled to get it....especially the book since she said it is her favorite Dr. Seuss book and she told her hubby she wanted to get the baby a copy of it when she got older.
And she loved the irony that I got all the Johnson's baby stuff from where she works.....she may have checked me out on one of those trips too.lol

And it warmed my heart to make her happy.
And I got to be a nice person but still maintain my miserly frugal ways.

But if anyone ever says I'm a nice person, don't you believe them..... ;-)

Sluggy