Saturday Evening Rite-Aid

Just some more boring cheap stuff and bonus +Ups for my stash.  Nothing to see here, just move along.....

2 x Ricola on sale=$3.00
2 x Reach Toothbrushes on sale=$5.00
1 x Compleats on sale=$1.99
1 x Cella cherry w/Gold discount=$.26
SubTotal.....$10.25

Coupons Used
1 x $2/2 Reach toothbrushes IPQ(coupons dotcom)=$2.00
1 x $1/1 Compleats IPQ(coupons dotcom)=$1.00
1 x $1/1 Compleats Load2Card Q=$1.00
Coupon Total.....$4.00

$10.25-$4.00=$6.25
I used $6 in +Ups(expiring on Tuesday)and put the .25¢ on my gift card.
I received back $4 in +Up Rewards(3 x $1 Ricola, $1 wyb2 Reach toothbrushes).
I will also receive a $1 cash Rebate on the Reach toothbrushes from Saving Star.

So, in the end, I am "down" $2 in +Ups, but "up" $1 in cash, meaning these goodies cost me $1.

I also bought 2 more $50 Home Improvement Discover Cards(using money earmarked for home repairs), which gave me a bonus $20 in +Ups to add to my Rite-Aid +Ups stash, to spend on toiletires/food/beauty items.

I've got quite a pile of +Ups built up from these card buys so I need to sit down and figure out how to spend them before they expire.  I have too many now to just roll them from weekly toothpaste, cold meds, paper towel deals. 
The ones expiring after Christmas, I might use to pick up clearance goods ahead for next Christmas.
I have some expiring on 12/25 so I have to remember to spend them by the 24th, since even Rite-Aid won't be open on Christmas day. ;-)


This trip to Rite-Aid--
OOP....$0.00
Value of items.....$19.98
+Ups coming into this trip....$67.00
+Ups used....$6.00
+Ups earned.....$4.00
+Ups for buying Home Improvement Cards(Bonus)....$20.00
+Ups at the end.....$85.00

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

Out Of Pocket....$0.00  cash
Value of items bought.....$495.86
Savings Rate of  100%
Single Check Rebate due....$8.00
Other Rebates due......$3.00
After SCR applied, Out of Pocket.... $0.00
Savings Rate.....102.22 %

+Ups at beginning of month...$47.00+
+Ups used....$165.00+
+Ups received...$203.00+
+Ups currently...$85.00+  

Sluggy

Friday at Rite-Aid

Here is my load of goodies I picked up Friday night at Rite-Aid....

1 x People Style Watch magazine $3.99 w/Gold discount=$3.19
1 x Scunci hair bands $5.99 w/Gold discount=$4.79
1 x Sally Hansen Salon Effects nail tabs $9.79 clearanced=$2.44
1 x Pretty Woman fake nails $5.99 clearanced=$1.49
SubTotal....$11.91

Coupons Used
1 x $2/1 People SW mag IPQ(coupons dotcom)=$2.00
1 x $2/1 People SW mag Load2Card Q=$2.00
1 x $3/1 Sally Hansen product IPQ HERE=$3.00
Coupon Total....$7.00

$11.91-$7.00=$4.91 + .06¢tax=$11.97
I used a $4 +Up Reward and put the .97¢ on my gift card.
*Now that I think about it, I should have bought a Cella cherry to get me over the $5 mark and put .23¢ on my gift card.  But I was not thinking last night.lol

I received $5 in +Ups back(for the Conair/Scunci "Spend $10, Get $5 +Ups back" Deal).
And I'll receive a $2 rebate on the magazine.

Now, before anyone starts thinking Sluggy's brain was taken over by aliens, because she just NEVER buys stuff like this!.....I did buy it.
But there is an explanation.....really!, there is. 8-)

Most magazines are drivel.  And after paging through this particular one, I can put it into the drivel category.  It's nothing but ads and more ads......and then photos of "stars" wearing high end stuff, using high end products that the magazine is pushing, so that the reader(usually young girls/teens)will be brainwashed into wanting/lusting after/coveting these goods and the lives of these "celebrities".
Gawd!  What a waste of paper.
I bought it so that I could make a profit of $2.81.
I got $.81 in overage with the 2 Qs to use toward other items in my transaction.  I'll get a $2 cash rebate through Saving Star too.
I'll find someone to give this magazine to....or better yet, I'll just recycle it.
After removing the perfumed pages that is, because if you aren't allergic to perfume, you can put these scented pages in your clothes drawers to act as a sachet. ;-)

While I try hard not to buy stuff I can't use(or find someone who can use it to give things to), I will sometimes do this to roll my +Ups if I can't find something to spend them on.

The Sally Hansen nail things are for my Daughter.  She loves pink camo. ;-)
The fake nails?  Not sure yet....might be coming to a Boring Blog Giveaway Box near you. lol
The fake nails have a SCRebate--$6 back when you buy 3.  But next week, there is a +Ups Deal on them(Spend $12, Get $5 +Up)and they are on sale BOGO50%, so you might want to wait to buy them then....IF you can find any by then.

I also bought 2 of the Home Improvement Cards(which are really prepaid Discover cards)that give $10 +Ups this week when you load at least $50 on them, so I get $20 in Bonus +Ups.

I've got a couple more items to purchase today.....1 Compleat, 2 bags of Ricola and 2 more Home Improvement Discover cards on my Wellness card this time.  All but the cards will be free after Qs and +Ups and another $20 in Bonus +Ups to add to my stack.


This trip to Rite-Aid--
OOP....$0.00
Value of items.....$25.76
+Ups coming into this trip....$46.00
+Ups used....$4.00
+Ups earned.....$5.00
+Ups for buying Home Improvement Cards(Bonus)....$20.00
+Ups at the end.....$67.00

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

Out Of Pocket....$0.00  cash
Value of items bought.....$475.88
Savings Rate of  100%
Single Check Rebate due....$8.00
Other Rebates due......$2.00
After SCR applied, Out of Pocket.... $0.00
Savings Rate.....102.10 %

+Ups at beginning of month...$47.00+
+Ups used....$159.00+
+Ups received...$179.00+
+Ups currently...$67.00+  

Sluggy

In The Holiday Mood

Merry Christmas from an oldie but goody......because who doesn't love a man/woman in uniform?
Or out of it for that matter. ;-)

 Happy Friday!

Sluggy

An Ode to My Daughter on Her 20th Birthday

Today is my favorite Daughter's 20th Birthday.....ok, she is also my ONLY Daughter. ;-)

I can't believe I have 2 kids now who are past their teenage years!
I feel so decrepit.....

Daughter has had a challenging year.
Lots of changes in her life the past 12 months.
School.......What direction to go in life......Health.......her Love Life.......Relating to her Family.....Friends.....Money.
We have been through it all this past year with her!

So on her 20th Birthday, I am looking back over how she....WE got to this day.

• This was the baby who despite a 4 day Blizzard in December of 1992 and a father with the flu, decided she needed to be born NOW!  6 hours to get out of the driveway and to the Hospital.  5 hours after arriving, Daughter made her appearance with one big push.  The doctor almost dropped her.

• This was the baby who didn't want to miss Christmas(presents) by arriving on her due date of Jan. 1st, so she decided to come 3 weeks early.

• This was the baby who was born premature with a hole in her heart, that we had to spend many hours in hospitals having tests done for her first few months of life, until the hole closed up spontaneously.

• This was the girl baby who arrived with little hair(unlike both her brothers who were born with long dark full heads of hair!)and probably still has glue on her scalp from many MANY bows being taped to her head so people would know she was a girl

• This was the baby who resembled Mr. Magoo until she was 6 months old and you have to work VERY hard to get her to smile.

• This was the baby who I could hold in one hand, like a football she was so tiny.

• This was the baby born with the under-developed nervous system who cried for 5 months non-stop.

• This was the baby who HATED having her head touched(still does)and would scream for an hour afterwards if you did.

• This was the baby who caused my brother to nickname me "Slugmama".

• This was the toddler who told me to send her baby brother back after his first 2 weeks home from the hospital.

• This was the toddler who talked rings around her older brother.

• This was the toddler who potty trained quickly and then decided she had had enough of being toileted and went back to diapers.

• This was the toddler who was eventually potty trained again and by my oldest bachelor brother, not her parents.

• This is the toddler who insisted the world was tactile and had to be experienced through touch and taste.  She put everything in her mouth until she went to school(including gravel, which she said didn't taste good but had a pleasing feel to it). She teethed on pork chop bones given to her by her beloved grandmother and she still has to touch everything she sees.

•  This was the little girl who had a special bond and went on "special vacation" with that grandmother.

• This was the little girl who we realized quite young that she was much deeper than most little kids because she said things that sounded like old men philosophers.

• This was the little girl who was the family instigator.

• This was the young girl who almost got asked to leave her parochial school in Kindergarten.

• This was the young girl who almost led a classroom coup and took over teaching her 1st grade class.

• This was the young girl who was painfully shy yet craved attention.

• This was the young girl who I was told had a promising career in....wait for it!.....bowling at a bowling birthday party.

• This was the girl who tested in school at genius levels.

• This was the girl who was accepted into the Gifted Program(even though the one here really had nothing to offer her).

• This was the girl who was too embarrassed by her "unorthodox" mother to have her be the classroom mom.

• Did I mention that she had a really special bond with her Grandmother?  This was the girl who had a hard time after her Grandmother died.

• This was the girl who placed into the C-Mites(it's a Carneige-Mellon program for advanced grade schoolers)for Math and Science.

• This was the girl who was/is the tallest in our family and towers over her siblings.

• This was the girl who was always on every Honor Roll, Honor Society, Special Achievement thing, etc., and got A's with little effort.

• This was the girl who was almost expelled from the public Middle School for being creative and not having any discretion and bad judgement in regard to people.

• This was the girl who felt deeply yet didn't let anyone see her emotions.

• This was the girl who joined the chorus even though she couldn't sing....well.

• This was the girl who took lead roles in Middle School musicals(how did she win them is my question?lol)and got up there and sold her performances. Every. Time.

• This was the teen girl who has had a hard time finding boys who weren't scared of her in her podunk little town.

• This was the teen girl who couldn't wait to get out of here and away from her parents.

• This was the teen girl who had a hard time admitting when she was wrong to anyone.

• This was the teen girl who fought a weight problem, even though she was just chunky and awkward for a few years when puberty hit.

• This was the teen girl who had a hard time sticking with a decision because so many options looked good.

• This is the teen girl who learned the value of a dollar after she got her first job.

• This is the teen girl who went many years avoiding having her picture taken until she got her braces off.

• This was the teen girl who could make an argument over ANYTHING and often did.

• This was the teen girl who we believe missed her true calling in life--to be a trial lawyer.

• This was the teen girl who had a memory like an elephant and if you ever wronged her, she never forgot.

• This was the teen girl who can kick my ass giving answers while watching Jeopardy!.

• This is the teen girl who thought the internet was an acceptable way to find boys to date.

• This was the teen girl who was very VERY challenging to parent and was anything but a normal kid to raise.

And a delivery man brought these to my door this morning.....

 They are from a boy in Louisiana, for my beautiful, fearless, smart, funny Daughter who is 20 today.

I can't wait to see what the next 20 years brings.
Happy Birthday!

Love, Mom

This is Why You Always Get Rainchecks

I still had Gum Qs expiring today, 12/12/12, so I went up to Rite-Aid.
I also had $3 Conair Vibe Brush/Scunci hair items R-A Q(released thru their FB page-The 12 Deals of Xmas).
You can get 1 Q per account/Wellness card/email addy, so I had 2(1 for me, 1 for BIL).

I bought this.....

1 x Conair Vibe hairbrush W/Gold discount=$2.63
2 x Trident Gum on sale $1.00=$2.00
SubTotal.....$4.63

Coupons Used
1 x $3 Conair Vibe hairbrush R-AQ=$3.00
1 x BOGO Trident gum IPQ=$1.00

$4.63-$4.00=$.63 + $.01=$.64
I put the .64¢ on my Rite-Aid gift card.

I paged through the Weekly Sales Flyer again and saw that the flash drives were on sale so I took a stroll over to the "electronic stuff wall".   After seeing signs for stuff % off this week and other stuff giving $5 +Ups when you spent $25.00, I had a crazy idea.
I whipped out my flash drive raincheck I got from the Black Friday sale and then I went about buying more stuff like this......

1 x Hormel Compleats(the hubs likes these for lunches sometimes)on sale=$1.99
4 x Ricola drops on sale 2/$3.00=$6.00
1 x Conair Vibe hairbrush w/Gold discount=$2.63
2 x Pentel Pencils w/Gold discount $3.99=$7.98
2 x Stride gum on sale $1.00=$2.00
2 x Trident gum on sale $1.00=$2.00

2 x SanDisk 8Gb flashdrive reg. $27.99/raincheck price $3.99=$7.98
3 x Magnetix Nail Polish reg. $7.99 clearanced $1.99 ea.=$5.94
SubTotal.....$36.52

Coupons Used
1 x $1/1 Hormel Compleats IPQ=$1.00
1 x $1/1 Hormel compleats Load2Card Q=$1.00
1 x $3 Conair Vibe Hairbrush R-AQ=$3.00
1 x BOGO Stride gum IPQ=$1.00
1 x BOGO Trident gum IPQ=$1.00
Coupon Total.....$7.00

$36.52-$7.00=$29.52 + .28¢ tax=$29.80

I used $29 in +Ups to pay and put the .80¢ on my gift card.
I got back $24 in +Ups(6 x $1 Ricola, 2 x $4 Pentel, 2 x $5 SanDisk).
And those 3 clearanced nail polishes can be submitted to the SCRebates, so I'll get $6 back for those from Rite-Aid.
Basically, I "spent" $29 and I'll get $30 back(after $6 rebate).
I also have $5.26 tracking toward a $5 +Ups(wyb $10 in Conair/Scuni hair items), so if I buy another $4.76 in items I'll get $5 +Ups, which would make it free.

Those flashdrives are rung into the register first at their regular price and then price adjusted to $3.99, so it must trigger the computer to think I am spending $27.99, thus triggering the $5 +Up Reward.
So I "spent" $3.99 on flash drives and got $5 +Ups back, making them free and giving me a $1.01 profit each....before tax of course.

I had a hunch and it worked out this time.  ;-)
The funny thing is that I also have a line of tracking labeled "$25 Photo Items-$5 +UP and $7.98 spent toward that goal.
$7.98 is what the flashdrives came to, so it looks like this is a Double Dipportunity!  If I found $17.02 more that qualifies, I could get another $5 +Up but I am not even going to try.

There is a Home Improvement Card(it's a Discover Card really)Deal that gives a $10 +Ups back(limit 2 per Wellness card) this week.  I'll probably convert some dollars earmarked for home improvement into a couple of these gift cards/Discover cards and add the +Ups into my stash as a bonus.  I'm loving all the bonus +Ups I can take advantage of this time of year.  It's a way to put some of that spare cash we have sitting around to use.
The local market is doing a gift card Deal too--Buy $100 in any sort of card/denominations and get a $X bonus chit to spend in the grocer's.  I've been buying up gift cards to places we go anyway--Subway, KMart, etc.  Might as well get the Bonus of free groceries if I am going to spend the money at those other businesses anyway, right? ;-)


These trips to Rite-Aid--
OOP....$0.00
Value of items....$118.90
+Ups coming into this trip....$51.00
+Ups used....$29.00
+Ups earned.....$24.00
+Ups at the end.....$46.00

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

Out Of Pocket....$0.00  cash
Value of items bought.....$450.12
Savings Rate of  100%
Single Check Rebate due....$8.00
Other Rebates due......$0.00
After SCR applied, Out of Pocket.... $0.00
Savings Rate.....101.78 %

+Ups at beginning of month...$47.00+
+Ups used....$155.00+
+Ups received...$154.00+
+Ups currently...$46.00+  

Sluggy