Weis Deals Recently

I've made two trips to Weis in the past week, a $29.52 trip and a $18.20 trip.

Here are the deals I found.......

I hit the coffee clearance and got 2 bags of 8 O'Clock for Ex-College Boy at $2.74 each,
The large Folger's can for Hubs was $4.24 and the Tim Horton's were $3.44 each.
The Kaluha coffe was $3.84 on clearance and was up for grabs for any of the coffee drinkers that live here. ;-)

This pack of chicken sausage was $5 and had a $2 meat discount sticker so $3 out the door.
We lovee chicken breakfast sausage so thought we'd try this sweet Italian pack as it was cheap.
Anybody ever have these?

I saw this lone Corned Beef on that trip as well. It was originally $19.61(3.93 lbs. @ $4.99)but the yellow tag had it marked down to $11.75 plus there was a $3 instant discount sticker on it as well so I thought I paid $8.75 for this hunk of meat.
My receipt however rang up with a $15.72 discount on the $19.61 price so it was $3.89 at that point.  Discount the instant meat sticker of $3 and I paid .89¢ for this corned beef!  They must have not put another lower priced yellow sticker on to lower the price per lb. cost and then someone in the meat department put a $3 instant discount sticker on?  I just know I got 3.93 lbs. of corned beef for .89¢. lolz

On Wednesday I did the Mix and Match 6/Get $3 Off Deal.........

4 x Huggies Wipes on sale for $1.99 ea.=$7.96
2 x Cracker Barrel dippers on sale for $1.49 ea.=$2.98
SubTotal........$10.94
I used 4 x .50¢/1 wipes IPQs(which did not double this time....sometimes they do even though they say "do not double")and a .50¢/1 digital WeisQ came off and that DOUBLED....go figure!
So $3 off in Qs and the $3 instant Mix and Match discount=$6 off.
$10.94-$6=$4.94 for all 6 items.
Plus I got $1 back on Ibotta for the CB dipper things

These new Cheez-it items were on sale for $1.97 ea. when you bought at least 3 so 4 came to $7.88.
I had .75¢/1 IPQs that doubled to $1.50 each plus the cashier rang one through twice(and the register took it)so I got $7.50 off this $7.88 purchase making all 4 cost me a total of .38¢! 8-)

On that trip I found some petite pork ribs at $1.29 lb. which are in the smoker as I type this out.  I know this is something my brother who is on the way here for Daughter's graduation will eat.
I also got a de-boned turkey breast half w/a $2 instant discount sticker so it was $2.63.
They also had Promise 2-pack spread on clearance for $1.80 so I picked one up.

Not a lot of goodies but they were really good goodies! 8-)))

What finds have you had at your local stores lately?

Sluggy[[

CVS Trip

With a $3 ECB expiring(and another $5 to use)I traipsed up to CVS on Tuesday and brought home this........

2 x Kleenex 3 packs on sale=$8.98
1 x Dawn dish soap on sale=.99¢
1 x Reese's cups Easter candy clearance=$1.12
SubTotal.......$11.09

I had a $2/2 Scott/Cottonelle/Kleenex CVS digitalQ attached to my card to use and the kiosk printed me a .25¢/1 Dawn Q as well so $2.25 in Qs.
$11.09-$2.25=$8.84 + .04¢ sales tax=$8.88

I used $8 in ECBs($3 Beauty Club/$5 Maybelline)so paid .88¢ OOP on everything above.
I earned back a $5 ECB for buying the 2 Kleenex packs.

Well I have until 6/13 to use this one if something good comes up in the next month.

Ok, I am off to go get pounded in the ass at Weis Markets now and then home to try to start containing the mess going on around here.

What are you up to today?


Sluggy

Changes Are In the Air

This week I may be a bit preoccupied with stuff around here.
We are within 6 days of Daughter and her dog leaving.
So we are in packing up and digging out/cleaning up mode.

She brought down crap from her room including a water bottle I won 3 years ago that she claimed but she's never used.  I didn't even remember having that thing! lolz

We just packed up her big ass tv and the dog's crate which has sat taking up part of the den but was never used.

Of course Chester is trying to help too.  8-))

Her dog's toy basket, part of which is showing in the right hand corner, is also leaving.  Now you can see where the ceramic storage heating that stopped working years ago and was too expensive to replace got taken out but a few years after that wall was painted.

I also have to run to CVS today to use an ECB before it expires. ugh.

I might be back tomorrow with a new post or I might not be. 



Sluggy

This Week on the Dining Table

The "Broccoli  Boy" Edition....

Ok, so I had lots of broccoli stems leftover after I chopped up the heads to put into my Veggie Lasagna last week.  I tried to see if Chester would eat them.
Yup!  It seems he LOVES broccoli as much or more than green beans. lolz

Moving On....

Onward to the meal planning!

This is what was planned--

1. Sunday--Fend for Yourself

2. Monday--Ham and Beans, leftover rolls

3. Tuesday--Teriyaki Beef w/Veggies, Rice

4. Wednesday--Veggie Lasagna, Salad

5. Thursday--Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches, Sweet Potato Fries

6. Friday--Leftovers
7. Saturday--Leftovers

And this is what actually happened--

1. Sunday--Fend for Yourself

2. Monday--Homemade Ham and Beans, leftover rolls

3. Tuesday--Teriyaki Beef w/Veggies, Rice

4. Wednesday--Veggie Lasagna

5. Thursday--Leftovers(I had soup)

6. Friday--Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches, Sweet Potato Fries
7. Saturday--Leftovers

Last week saw 4 nights of home cooked dinners(1of those nights was a frozen food heated), 3 nights of leftovers/fend for yourself, 0 nights of Eating Out/Take-Out.  

What got put into the freezer last week.....

* 2 pork loins

What got taken out of the freezer and used last week.....

* 2 packs of  pork tenderloin pieces
* 5 packs of Chinese entrees
* 1 bag of broccoli

One trip to Weis and a trip to the Amish Grocery Outlet brought the food spending last week to $78.99 and my May total to $219.27. 

My savings percentage last week was 50.09%(without Rite-Aid trips)and May's monthly savings total came to 50.71%(w/out R-A). 

I have 18 more food shopping/spending days in May.  

Leftovers going into this week.....rolls, fajita filling, ham and beans.

Here is this week's "food plan".....

1. Sunday--Daughter cooking dinner for me

2. Monday--Turkey Tenderloins, real Mashed Potatoes, Veggie

3. Tuesday--Soup and BLTs/Grilled cheese

4. Wednesday--Stir-Fry Shrimp/Veggies/Noodles

5. Thursday--?

6. Friday--?
7. Saturday--?

This week will see 3-? new meals cooked, ? nights of leftovers/FFY, and ? nights of Take-Out/Eating Out.
My brother is coming for Holly's graduation(for 5 days)and I have to figure out what he'll eat so that's throwing a wrench into the meal planning.

What needs buying for this menu?
Through Wednesday it's all good. After that?....No clue yet. My brother is a picky eater.  I don't want to have to go out for 4 dinners so I've got some thinking to do.
I know he'll eat steak and we've got some in the freezer plus the pork tenderloins I got last week but I can't serve steak or pork for 4 nights. lolz

What is getting fixed and served at your house this week?

Was last week's plan successful, did you go off plan or did you not even plan what was going to be eaten last week?

Any great deals on food at your stores this week? 

Sluggy  

A Survivor's Story....Part Three, Things Go From Bad to Worse

Read Part 1 of this story here PART ONE
Read Part 2 of this story here PART TWO

So the murder trail of Richard Randolph and his sister in-law Nancy Randolph was over and they were both acquitted.
So it was back to their normal life.....or was it?

Though legally they were free and clear, the notoriety it brought on the families was altogether something else.

Not only was there the stigma that the unmarried Nancy had become pregnant and either miscarried or given birth to a stillborn infant but society of that time wasn't able to get past the murder trial.
There was no way for Nancy to stay among her social peers and have any hope of marrying within her social set and having the only type of life a woman of her standing in the late 1700's could hope for.  In that time the only thing a woman had going for her was her virginity and her good name.  Nancy now had neither and it was a widely known fact.  No proper young suitor would be trying to court her.

Unwed and widowed women in that time and culture were the burden born of their extended families.
Until a woman married she was either under the control of her father(and mother to an extant)or if her father was dead, she became the ward of another male relative-either a brother who was of age, an uncle, a grandfather, a nephew or some other male relation.  Very few women could own property outright, they certainly couldn't vote, or even enter into a legal contract during this time.

A young and attractive(and even better if her husband had left her with property/wealth)widow could still hope to remarry if a suitable societal match could be found.

Nancy had no hope of every making a proper marriage match now.  To be 17-18 years old and to know that your best days were behind you.....never to have a husband or your own family.  Nancy could only live at the pleasure of your male benefactor's whims for the rest of her days.

      Painting of Nancy Randolph in later years.

So Nancy continued to live at "Bizarre" Plantation with Richard and Judith and their two sons, John St. George Randolph(named after Richard's beloved stepfather St. George Tucker)and Theodorick Tudor Randolph(named for Richard's deceased brother and Nancy's secret betrothed and/or for Richard's maternal grandfather, Theodorick Bland).

Society was very strict place in Colonial times.  You associated with those in your social circle and you married within that circle or you didn't marry.  For the Founding Families in Colonial Virginia this meant a very small pool of folks from which to choose a spouse.  People did not move around and people did not as a rule travel far from where they were born so the available potential marriage partners were located within say 100 miles of where you lived.

And with these families, more than not, having a great number of children, who in turn, married cousins of varying degrees to themselves, the gene pool began to break down, much like the farmlands in Colonial Virginia did by the turn of the 19th century.

The Randolphs of Virginia were notorious for marrying within their extended family. Richard's brother, Theodorick died of consumption.  Consumption or Pulmonary Tuberculosis has long been thought to be one of the common side effects too close intermarriage within a family.
Richard and Judith's sons-John St. George Randolph(called St. George or as he was known within the family "St. John")was born deaf(another genetic defect)and Theodorick Tudor(called Tudor)also died at a young age of TB.

Tobacco had been successfully and commercially cultivated since 1612 in Virginia.  Tobacco is a bothersome crop in terms of the nutrients it takes from the soil.  But in the 1600's our forefathers knew nothing of crop rotation and such, so soils were depleted after a few seasons of tobacco and new fields had to be hacked out of the forests and put into use.  Tobacco by the 1790's was in decline as a cash crop, being replaced by the cotton trade which  flourished further South in the Delta lands.  To be successful with tobacco farming at this point in time meant continually buying more and more land to plant, and land in Virginia was getting quite expensive and these grand plantations, after primogeniture passed out of favor in the Colonies after the Revolutionary Way, got broken up or sold away.  The Landed Gentry Class in Virginia was hanging on by a thread by the 1790's.

Bizarre was founded by Richard's grandfather, Richard Randolph of Curles.  Upon Richard of Curles death, Bizarre would have gone to his son, John Randolph of Mattoax, Richard's father, but since John was dead, the plantation went to his son, Richard.
So Judith, Richard and their children lived life at Bizarre along with their relation Nancy.
Judith was not convinced that Richard and Nancy had/were still having an affair so she slowly simmered a hatred toward her sister Nancy.  After the trial Judith had written to the cousin they had been visiting at Glenlyvar when Nancy had given birth, Mary Harrison, "My health is very bad, indeed so much have I suffered lately, both in body and mind that I much fear that a few months will put an end to my troubles in this world, neglected and thrown off by all whom I once fondly relied on".

A mere three years after the scandalous trial ended Richard Randolph lay near death in June of 1796.  There are stories that still persist about that time.  One tale says that Judith changed the amount of ingredients in a concoction to alleviate Richard's pain which brought on his death.  Judith told Nancy to fix this altered potion and give it to Richard but then slipped the original recipe into Nancy' apron pocket thereby framing her once Richard passed and questions began to be asked.

Another story goes that Nancy knew Judith was trying to poison Richard but she was too afraid of Judith to say anything and expose her.

Still other's say Judith and Nancy were in cahoots to bring on Richard's end.

There was a witness to this macabre scene playing out, an English traveler who had come to Bizarre with a letter of introduction from yet another famous family member, Colonel Beverly Randolph(the 8th Governor of Virginia).  This traveler asked why Judith had not sent for a doctor yet to help Richard.  As a thunderstorm boomed large Judith replied that the doctor wouldn't come until the storm had passed.  Once the doctor arrived the next day Judith insisted on nursing Richard but it seems she didn't give him the medicines that the doctor prescribed but her own potions. Richard Randolph died within 2 days after that, a month past his 26th birthday.
We will never know what hand Judith and/or Nancy had in Richard's death or even what killed him.

After Richard's death the lone surviving Randolph brother, John Randolph of Roanoke inherited Bizarre but he spent very little time there.  Judith, Nancy and the two children, John St. George and Theodorick Tudor lived together at Bizarre in isolation from most of their family and society.  Between Judith and her brother in-law John Randolph, they spent the rest of their lives vilifying Nancy, blaming her for Richard's demise and twisting Judith's sons young minds against Nancy.

Once Richard died Judith became emboldened toward her sister Nancy.  She began to take away all of Nancy's privileges.  She no longer had free run on the plantation and house.  She no longer was allowed to ride the plantation's horses(one of the joys of her life), could no longer play the drawing room harpsichord, or given leisure time for reading.  She was forced to take all her meals in the kitchen or in her bedroom and not in the dining room with the boys and Judith.

For the next 12 years Nancy lived as a servant at Bizarre.  She was expected to work from rising until Judith went up to bed every night and to stay out of Judith's sight.  Nancy was expected to empty the chamber pots every morning so that "it would free up a slave to do other work" in Judith's words.  Nancy spent a lot of time in needlework(probably one of the few useful skills she had)when she wasn't reduced to menial labor like a slave.
Judith's mental state deteriorated over those 15 years and she was reported to suffer convulsions and fits.
The final straw came when a note Nancy had written to a literate slave named Billy fell into Judith's hands.  Nancy had written, "Dear Billy Ellis" and had asked him to polish the andirons.  In Judith's twisted mind she was convinced Nancy was having sex with this slave.  After screaming at Nancy Judith had Billy whipped, Nancy locked in her room until John Randolph could be sent for.
Upon hearing from Judith, John ordered Nancy to leave Bizarre plantation and never return.

In the year 1808, at the age of 33-34, Ann Cary "Nancy" Randolph left Bizarre, her home for the last 19 years.  Both her parents were long dead and she had no relationship with her father's second wife who was only 2 years older than Nancy, and the reason she had fled her father's home 19 years ago. Nancy had no relatives who would take her in being a social pariah and nowhere to go and no financial support.

Part Four next time..........

Sluggy