TWO Giveaways for April? Let's GO!

I know Spring has sprung here as the Serviceberry tree flowers are starting to bud.
So it's time to hold some Giveaways!
Yay!!!

For The first Giveaway, here's what you can win if you are selected.........

1 x Suave deodorant
1 x Max Freeze topical pain cream
1 x HE conditioner
1 x Pantene shampoo
1 x Simple Micellar Water face wash
1 x Tums sugar-free
1 x Schick disposable razors
1 x Crest toothpaste
1 x Colgate toothbrush
1 x Visine allergy eye drops
1 x Nivea lip balm cherry
1 x Magnavox ear buds
4 x Hershey Gold full size candy bars


Close up shots of the goodies..........

Around $60 worth of regular retail goodies(depending on where you shop for this sort of thing).
Lots of April necessities here--things to get you ready for Spring(razors, hair, deodorant, face wash, dental needs)pain cream, allergy drops and ear buds for outdoor yard work time and then candy bars to feed your soul(and antacid tablets if you eat too many bars at one time.

There is a little more room in this box so depending on whomever wins and their needs I can tuck a little more chocolate in and/or some cosmetics paraphernalia.  ;-)

We are doing things a bit different this month.


* This April Giveaway Box of goodies is open to any and all readers WHO HAVE NEVER WON A  GIVEAWAY.  You can be a new reader or a long-time reader, just haven't won yet

There is a limit of ONE ENTRY PER NON-WINNER YET PERSON PER DAY for this Giveaway.  Come back every day and enter though!

Please tell me in your entry what your big plans are for April......or your Easter dinner menu if you celebrate that holiday.........your favorite thing about Spring.........if you make jams and jellies when the fruit starts coming in...........your best buy at the grocery store last week........your best money saving move.......or something random about yourself that we don't know.........that sort of stuff.
No boring "enter me, thanks" entries.  Be creative!


* Now for the second Giveaway, it's open to everyone who HAS won before only.
Being an "old-timer" here you get the luxury of choosing what goes into your box(within reason).


I would like to try to grow the readership so I want you to do two things to get entries......

1-get someone to come read this blog who doesn't read it.  Have them enter the NON-WINNER YET GIVEAWAY and get them to say in their comment there that YOU(using your name or blog name) sent them here.  Easy Peasy.
You will get an entry in this 2nd Giveaway for everyone who enters the NON-WINNER GIVEAWAY and mentions your name or blog.

2-The other way to get a daily entry on the 2nd ALREADY WON GIVEAWAY is to tell me something you'd like to see me cover/talk about/discuss on this little blog.  It has to be something we don't cover yet or give me some constructive criticism on something I do here and/or how I can do that thing better.

Ok, got it?

GIVEAWAY 1-YOU HAVE TO BE A NON-WINNER and can enter daily.
GIVEAWAY 2-OPEN TO FOLKS WHO HAVE ALREADY WON ONLY and can enter daily AND get additional entries if someone enters the Giveaway #1 and mentions you and/or your blog.


I'll leave these giveaways open until Tuesday, April 23rd at 11:59 pm Eastern Time. On April 24th I'll mark all valid entries  on slips of paper and have Ex-College Boy draw the two winners(one for each giveaway).

*Please note these rules*
I'll post the name/ID of the winner on this blog on April 24th and that person has 48 hours from the time stamp on that post to contact me privately via email(my email addy is listed on my "About Me" page, as well as on my side bar).

If I am not contacted via email, I'll attempt to contact the winner via the email they supplied with their entry(or gave me to add to the Giveaway Data Base)and if that email is not responded to within another 48 hours I'll pick another winner.

Disclaimer--This giveaway is open to those with mailing addresses within the US only.  As the cost of postage to foreign countries has gotten too high I am sorry to say I can no longer afford to mail boxes outside the US.  These giveaways are not sponsored by any companies.  I pay for it all(the cost of items given away and the postage to mail it all)out of my own pocket.

***PLEASE NOTE***

Please make sure there is a way for me to contact you in your comment.

If you're not a registered Blogger User with your contact information on your User page, please put your email addy in your comment or email me your email addy privately when you leave a comment so I can get a hold of you. If your Blogger associated user profile is a GOOGLE one with those Google Circles nonsense I CAN NOT CONTACT YOU as Google Circles doesn't show your contact info.

If I can't contact you then you can't win.  I am still having to disqualify entries due to this issue and I sure don't like doing that.  Thanks!

So let's get the April Giveaways started.  Good Luck to all!

Sluggy

More Rite-Aid This Week....30% off & Clearance

So Sharpie and Paper Mate items are part of a "Buy 2/Get $2 BC" Deal this week.  I found that all those Sharpie and Paper Mate clearance items also work on this Deal.

I hit Rite-Aid on Friday and Saturday since it is the 30% Friends and Family sale those days to get some more free and/or moneymaker Colgate toothpaste(some of the varieties that are on sale for $3.50 are even less with 30% off plus the In-Ad Q and any ManuQ you can find to stack with them).

Here is what I ended up getting..........

3 x Colgate Optic White toothpaste
3 x Cogate Total toothpaste
2 x Sharpie pens on clearance
2 x Paper Mate colored pencils on clearance
2 x Prang paint brush sets on clearance(not part of a deal, just almost free)

All of this cost me $2.86 in Bonus Cash and earned me back $4.00 in new Bonus Cash(2 x Buy2 Sharpie/PM Get $2BC)so a $1.14 moneymaker. 8-)

Then this morning and did this........

2 x Colgate Max Fresh toothpaste
2 x Colgate Total toothpaste
6 x Paper Mate colored pencils
1 x Paper Mate dual end colored pencils on clearance(these were $1.24 and the other 6 packs were .62¢)
1 x Sharpie pen on clearance

Total was $3.92 including sales tax paid for with Bonus Cash.
I earned back $8 in new Bonus Cash(4 x $2 wyb2 S/PM)so a $4.08 moneymaker. 8-)))

Lots of toothpaste for the giveaway boxes and some art stuff too and I grew my Bonus Cash a bit.

Next week there's not much worth getting at Rite-Aid unless you need Easter basket candy or movie gift cards(some of those give BC next week).  I might try to do the $15 prepaid Visa P&G wyspend $50 that expires the end of May.  I've got $7.80(after Qs)from shampoo I bought at CVS a couple weeks ago so far toward that.  I might get some Olay body wash(love that stuff!)as it's on sale and the Qs for it are valid until 4/27 and I have BC I need to use up or lose on 1 card.
Still thinking on what to do there.

Sluggy

Frugal Friday.....the April 12th Edition

Here's what passed for Frugal around here this past week.............

*  I got the Weis freebie last Friday.....

A 2 lb. bag of frozen mixed veggies.  This will go into a massive pot pie or a pot of soup eventually.

*  I hit Big Lots last Sunday during their 20% off store wide sale.........

I didn't get anything exciting really, just some canned//bottled pantry supplies like green chiles, refried beans, rice, some spices, stuff like that.  I spent $38.60 but can't find my receipt right now to see how much I saved.  It was all much lower than buying it at the grocery store though at regular price.

*  I hit some laundry detergents on clearance at Weis last week........

 2 each of large jugs of Tide, large bags of Gain flings, jugs of Persil and smaller bags of Tide pods.

Reg. price for all was $66.56, on clearance at 50% off($32.24).
Even better I had 8 x $2/1 ManuQs and IPQs on all these brands/items so I paid $16.24 for it all(plus $1.28 sales tax).

*  I went to CVS...............

A couple of weeks ago I got lured into a CVS deal that had me pay more OOP than I like to and left me with $7.50 in ECBs.
Not wanting to go all "Extreme CVS" at this point I had to find a way to use those ECBs and not wind up with more ECBs which would just lead me down a dark path like I am on at Rite-Aid. lolz

So I bought those 2 deodorants on the left in the photo, used 2 x $1/1 IPQs and a $3 Reward I had earned for that first foray back into CVS a couple of weeks ago.  My OOP for those was $1.04 w/tax.
That generated $5 more in ECBs($4 for the deodorant, $1 just because I was there I suppose lol).
After sale prices, coupons and ECBs for the rest of what is in the photo I paid .45¢ including .03¢ tax).

All the other items earned me a $10 Cash Card which I redeemed.  This doesn't expire like ECBs so if I ever want to go back I have it to spend but it doesn't mean I have to go back anyytime soon. 8-)

So I guess I did ok spending $1.49 total OOP this trip and getting a $10 card back.

*  Hubs and I had lunch out at Bob Evans while running errands this past week.  I used a $5 off $25 Q there so saved a bit that way.  These Qs usually cover what we would have spent on the tip so I'll take that as a win. 8-)

*  I saw this 3L box of sangria was on the clearance shelf at the liquor store......

Marked down to $19.99, not a great price but better than a poke in the eye around these parts.
I found a $2/1 tearpad w/Qs for "any Black Box" wine somewhere else in the store and used it so got my marked down wine for $17.99.
Go me. ;-)

Still no change to be found around here so that's about it for my week.
Living the dream folks, living the dream.........

What frugal wins did ya'll have lately?


Sluggy

Rite-Aid Earlier This Week

I went to Rite-Aid on Monday and got this.........

5 x Fig Newton cookie bars on sale 2/$1=$2.50
2 x Sharpie pens on clearance=$1.14
SubTotal.....$3.64 + .06¢ tax=$3.70 paid for with Bonus Cash.

I earned $2 in Bonus Cash for buying 2 Sharpies and I submitted to Checkout51 for a $3.75 cash rebate on the Newtons so spent $3.70 in BC and got back $5.75 in BC and cash.
That is all.

Sluggy

Happy Birthday to Chester!

It's April 10th.
That means that "Lil' Nell's Chester Alan Arthur III" turns 2 years old today!
Go HERE to read about the person our puppy is named for.  Quite an interesting fellow he was.
I am related to Ellen Lewis "Nell" Herndon Arthur(Chester A Arthur III's grandmother).

Here is Chester's puppy photo from the breeder for the pet shop where we found him........

And here is Chester on the ride home when we picked him up just after he turned 6 months old..........

And Chester this morning trying to get a photo of him but he does't hold still for very long these days........

And a few seconds later rolling on his back like a nut, trying to get Cinnamon to play with him..........

Happy Birthday little man!
You are a most excellent dog and add so much to our family.

A nice piece of meat is on the menu for your Birthday dinner. 8-)))

Sluggy