Doing the Monthly Deals at Rite-Aid Before Time Runs Out!

3 separate transactions at Rite-Aid Sunday evening and/or on Monday.......

2 x Soft Soap 5.5 oz Aloe ones on sale BOGO=$2.29
SubTotal....$2.29
No coupons.
I paid with a $2 +Up Reward and put the .29¢ on my gift card.
I received a $1 +Up Reward back for buying 2 Soft Soap dispensers.

So I paid $.65 each for these Soap dispensers.
The larger Soft Soaps are BOGO this week and give the $1 +Up wyb 2.  They are regularly $3+ at Rite-Aid but these smaller Aloe ones that run $2+ are included in the sale/+Ups promo, if you can find 2 on the shelf.
Be sure and get a raincheck for these smaller ones too!  Maybe a Q will happen to come out and you can combine it with a raincheck for almost free Soft Soap.  ;-)

Then it was free Axe Day on Monday!......

4 x Axe Body Wash on sale $4.50=$18.00
1 x Conair Roller Pins w/Wellness Gold discount=$1.99
1 x Cella cherry(filler)w/Wellness God discount=$.26
SubTotal.....$20.25

Coupons Used
4 x $2/1 Axe item(12/2 inserts)ManuQ=$8.00
1 x $1/1 Axe Load2CardQ=$1.00
1 x $2/1 Conair In-Ad Q=$2.00
Coupon Total.....$11.00

$20.25-11.00=$9.25+.01¢tax=$9.26

I paid with $9 in +Up Rewards and put the .26¢ on my gift card.
I received back $20 back in +Up Rewards(2 x $5 Axe-1 for the monthly Buy $15/Get $5 Deal and 1 for the weekly Buy $15/Get $5 Deal, $10 Holiday Promo +Ups for spending at least $110 this month).

There is a $5 Axe weekly deal wyb $15 worth of product and a $5 Axe monthly deal wyb $15 worth of product, so the Axe double dips this week but ONLY UNTIL TUESDAY!  If you want to get the double dip buy your Axe Tuesday at the latest, as the new monthly deals kick in on the 5th.

So this transaction, I "spent" $9 +Ups but I got back $10 +Ups for the Axe.

Last transaction of the day.....

4 x Wahl Groomers w/20% Wellness Discount $8.39=$33.56
2 x Conair Roller Pins w/20% Wellness Discount=$3.98
SubTotal......$37.54

Coupons Used
4 x $5/1 Wahl Groomer In-Ad Q=$20.00
2 x $2/1 Conair Product In-Ad Q=$4.00
Coupon Total.....$24.00

$37.54-$24.00=$13.54+.04¢tax=$13.58
I used $13 in +Ups to pay and put the .58¢ on my gift card.
I received back $10 in +Up Rewards for a Wahl monthly Deal(Spend $30/Get $10 +Ups).

So my 4 Wahl trimmers/groomers & 2 sets of hair pins 'cost' me $3.58.
Again, this is a Monthly Deal that ends on Tuesday.
And if your Rite-Aid won't let you use multiples of the In-Ad Qs, you will have to break this last transaction up into 4 transactions.  The Monthly Wahl $10 +Up should print after your 4th Wahl trimmer/groomer is bought.

These trips--
OOP....$0.00
Value of items....$77.97
+Ups coming into this month....$47.00
+Ups used....$24.00
+Ups earned.....$31.00
+Ups at the end.....$54.00




*And here are my MONTHLY TOTALS*
 
GRAND TOTALS FOR DECEMBER so far.......

Out Of Pocket....$0.00  cash
Value of items bought.....$77.97
Savings Rate of  100%
Single Check Rebate due....$0.00
Other Rebates due......$0.00
After SCR applied, Out of Pocket.... $0.00
Savings Rate.....100 %

+Ups at beginning of month...$47.00+
+Ups used....$24.00+
+Ups received...$31.00+
+Ups currently...$54.00+

Off to a good start at Rite-Aid this month!

Sluggy

Food Spending NOVEMBER Week 4, Meal Planning DECEMBER Week 1

Just looking at this picture makes my taste buds tingle with delight!

This is the Holy Grail of Soups for me.

And I can't find a restaurant that serves it that is any closer than 2.5 hours away from where I live.

Yet another reason to detest living here......

Some day I'll talk about how I obsess over this soup.

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And here is what actually got served last week....

Sunday--Tacos

Monday--Leftovers

Tuesday--Spaghetti and Meatballs, Green Beans

Wednesday--Chicken and Dumplings

Thursday--Pork Chops with Apricot Glaze, Mashed Potatoes or Sweet Potatoes, Beets

Friday--Pizza, Salad

Saturday--Leftovers

Yes, we pretty much ate every meal I planned but we may not have had them on the designated day.

So sue me.

The food spending last week was 1 trip to Price Chopper that cost me $32.39 for $68.35 reg. retail worth of goods. 

Some of these were really good deals.  There was a $5 off when you spend $20 on PC house brands and I got 2 dozen eggs, 4lbs. butter, 2 cartons OJ, 2 bottles of Tartar Sauce and 3 rolls of 'whack' biscuits

for $13.47.  The juice and eggs were on sale and I had .55¢/1 Qs for the butter(making each lb. $1.74 in addition to the $5 off $20 Q).

The yogurts all had instant dairy discount stickers on them so the Chobanis were .24¢ ea. and the quart of Mountain High left the store with me and PC paid me .26¢ to take it home!

Now THAT'S my kind of shopping. 8-)

Even the frozen pizzas were a deal.  We are in love with these Freschetta Sea Salt and Olive Oil pizzas.  I'd rather had a homemade pizza but for some reason we can't get enough of this frozen one.  They must put crack in it or something. ;-)

PC had them for $4.99 and I had .75¢/1 Qs and my PC now doubles FULLY up to .99¢, so they doubled to $1.50, making my pizzas $3.49 each!

I finished November spending $368.57 of our $400 food budget.

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Going into this week, I have leftover Taco Beef(a little bit), some meatballs, some stuffing.  I also have a large container of ricotta cheese that needs using.  I had hoped to make cannoli but I don't think that will be happening.  I'll need to find a recipe for something else or make more stuffed shells to put into the freezer for later.

This week's menu....

Sunday--Everyone was sick but Hubs, he had soup and sammie

Monday--Lasagna Casserole, Salad

Tuesday--Chicken and Gravy over Fried Stuffing, Cali blend Veggies

Wednesday--Rigatoni and Meat Sauce, Caesar Salad

Thursday--Tuna Sub Sandwiches

Friday--Going Out for Dinner....woohoo!

Saturday--Leftovers or Breakfast for Dinner

This week I need to use up the stuffing or throw it into the freezer.  I'll pan saute some chicken breast, then put a crust on slices of stuffing and place the chicken and gravy over that on Tuesday. Getting inventive here!lol 

I'll break up the meatballs and use the taco beef for my meat sauce on Wednesday.

What I need to buy for this menu?

Salad Greens.  Everything else is on hand.

I'll be doing some shopping ahead this week....bagels, clementines, green chiles, cream cheese, sour cream, pasta, more OJ, some canned pumpkin(since it's on sale now), some cheese, etc.

I spent $35 already on Monday and plan on spending another $60 or so more this week.  I'm trying to keep it under $100 total for the week.

What are your menu plans for this week?

Sluggy

Boring Blog Box Giveaway Winner Revealed!

First let's take a look again at all the fine prizes that went into this Giveaway's Box.....

There were 80 valid entries.  I numbered them all and had Random.org pick the winning entry.

The winning entry is from.......Lisa Richardson.
Congratulations Lisa!
Please email me privately with your mailing information so I can get this box 'o goodies out to you.

Thanks to everyone who played.

Sluggy

My Sealed Pot Amount Revealed & the Winner!

Here is my Sealed Pot and it's contents.....

And here is the shot of all the rolls that were in that Pot, so you can get a calculator and add it all up like I did......

And if your calculator or your "fingers and toes method" added up to $117.50, you would be correct.

And someone guessed that amount EXACTLY!
Can you believe it?  I couldn't.....

And that person was......

JUDY from "When I Get Where I'm Going"!

Congratulations Judy.  8-)

As soon as I can find your mailing address here in my inbox files, I'll get a surprise box out in the post to you.
I'll show what I am sending her after she gets it or I'll let her post about it if she prefers.

And a big THANK YOU to everyone who played along!  A couple of others were pretty close too, like Carrie and Tanner.  You guys/gals are good when it comes to keeping an eye on the money.

Now I have to decide how to spend this wad of cash.
Oh, to have that sort of problem.....  ;-)

Sluggy

The Nothing Goes Right Weekend

This past weekend was a real pip.

I'm feeling real sorry for #2 Son especially.
He was been run ragged what with all his musical extracurricular activities--marching band, pitt orchestra for the high school musical, concert band.
He's a bit rundown.
Then he had to get up the crack of dawn on Saturday to go take the SAT at a downtown high school......he missed the PSAT, so we had him take the SAT as a Junior just to get a "baseline", as he is planning on taking it again next Fall as a Senior.
Anyway, he sat for that thing for 4 hours Saturday morning.
Then sleep deprived and now tired from thinking for 4 hours, Hubs made him drive home.
He's still working on the 60 hour "behind the wheel" requirement to get your license here in PA.
I know nobody here makes their kid actually log 60 hours in all kinds of weather before they take the road test but us.  We are hard asses. 8-)

So he's driving home from the test with Hubs and he runs a stop sign(one of those rolling stop deals from a merge lane....he says he didn't even see the stop sign).
Unfortunately, a police car was sitting about 100 yds. up from where he merged/ran the stop sign, so #2 Son got to experience his 1st time being pulled over.
He handled himself well and only got a warning from the officer.

Then after getting home and giving me all the details of his thrilling morning, he goes upstairs and I hear him stomping around more than usual.
He comes down to tell me he has lost his wallet.
The last time he saw it was at the SAT when he had to take his ID out to show to get into the high school for the test.
And he had $70 in it.  8-(
I told #2 Son that he was most definitely the BUG and not the Windshield this past weekend.....

$70 hard earned money.....gone.
Mind you, this is the kid who wants a $400 cell phone for Christmas!....which he is Not getting by the way.  I don't know what it is, but those teen hormones are doing wacky things to his brain lately.  He has gotten so absentminded!  He loses everything......even his train of thought.  If he was a bit older I'd swear he was going through menopause. lol

Then he started running a fever on Sunday and he missed the pitt rehearsal.
Then I started running a fever Sunday night, followed by chills and a queasy stomach.

It's not been a fun day today for either of us as well, though the chills are gone the low-grade fever and the queasies are not.

But the good news is that someone turned in #2's wallet at the downtown high school.  Since it was a VANS wallet(coveted by teenagers the world over lol) I figured it was gone for good.  I'll lay money that the $70 won't be in it when we get it back.

Hubs got the Christmas tree out of the garage and set it up this weekend.  It's still nekkid however.
And he's set storage tubs of Holiday accoutrements willy-nilly all over the living room, so I can't get to my eBay items should someone purchase one.
And yah, the eBay stuff isn't going so great this Holiday season.  I need to get some more listings up this week and hope for the best.

So how was your weekend?

I've got some errands to do and a Menu to figure out post, and 2 giveaways to post winners for so maybe I'll get to that tonight.
Stay tuned.

Sluggy