Last Day to Enter the Giveaways!!!

Today is your last chance to enter the last Sluggy's Boring Blog Box Giveaways.

Giveaway #1 is only open to everyone who has yet to win one of my Giveaways.
Enter that one HERE.

Giveaway #2 is open to everyone.
Enter that one HERE.

I am also still looking for the authors of 5 "Unknown" or "Anonymous" entries.  Email with your name/contact info. and what you said in your comment for these to be valid and I can add them to the pot.

Both Giveaways close tonight at 11:59 pm ET.
I'll choose and post the winners sometime on Monday.

Good luck!

Sluggy

Other Rite-Aid Shopping Since Last Saturday

Last Friday I checked out a different Rite-Aid for more Shea Moisture moneymakers/freebies but it was not to be but I did find this stuff and I spent down BC on daughter's card.........

The Head and Shoulders was on clearance 50% off plus had a $1 R-A peelie Q on it making that shampoo $2.64.  Good thing because I didn't have a ManuQ.

I did have a $3.50/2 Q that had printed on a previous receipt for the Herbal Essence and that variety was also on clearance 50% off so both bottles were $3.48 total.

The R/S chocolates were on sale for $4.99 each, I had a $1/2 ManuQ and 1 gave back $1 in BC so $3.99 each after all that.

The fig bars were .30¢ after 20% Wellness Disc. and the .50¢ Instant Savings Peelie.($1-.20¢-.50¢=.30¢)
The dog toy was also in the $1 section and was .80¢ after my 20% Wellness Disc.

The best thing were the Reese's cookie center cups and Dove milk chocolate choccies.  Both were on clearance for .59¢ ea. AND had .50¢ peelie Qs on them so .09¢ each!
Besides the Qs noted above I also have a $3 wyspend $20 RAQ.
$32.22-$18Qs=$14.22+.24¢tax=$14.46 spend in Bonus Cash.  I earned $1 BC back for the R/S chocolates.


On Saturday Hubs and I went for a ride to a town South of here and I hit another Rite-Aid and found some Shea Moisture and Nexxus.......

The Nexxus were on clearance $9.99 ea.  I used 2 x $5/1 Nexxus IPQs so paid $9.98+.60¢tax=$10.58 in BC and earned back $10 in new BC.
The soaps were $5.19 ea. with Wellness Disc.so $10.38+.63¢tax=$11.01 using BC.  I earned my last $10 wyb 2 Nexxus/Shea Moisture BC.

Then on Monday this week I bought this at my Rite-Aid using a $2 wysp$15 Q on daughter's card.........

These Axe body washes were on clearance for $2.89, the coffee on sale for 5.99 and I had a $4/1 Q that printed on a previous receipt and I bought the Suave body wash(also 50% off)to reach $15 spent so I could use that $2/$15 Q.
Total spent was $10.33 of Bonus Cash and I now have $9.67 BC left on this card.

And on Wednesday I got this stuff here on my card.......

4 x Clairol root touch-up dyes w/30% discount(better than the sale price of $7.50)=$24.60 +.88¢tax=$25.82.  I also used 2 x $5/2 Clairol Qs so paid $14.82 in Bonus Cash.
The 30% Q was printed from their website(a swipe and save Q) The Q is HERE.

I then submitted for a $10 prepaid Visa for spending $20(before Qs)on Clairol/CoverGirl HERE.
Today is the last day to do this Visa reward deal at Rite-Aid.

So after that $10 reward I "spent" $4.82 for 4 boxes of hair color and was able to convert $10 of BC into a prepaid Visa card.

Next week I need to spend down most of the $48 in Bonus Cash on my son's card which has a $6 wyspend $30 Q attached to that account as well.  It's not a good week next week for deals so it will take some thinking to figure out the most advantageous way to spend that BC.

Sluggy

Frugal Friday....the December 13th Edition

A quick look around Chez Sluggy finds these frugal-ish wins this past week........


*  No Weis freebie(every time I go to a partcular Weis there are always out of it by the time I get there)but I did stack a "Buy One/Get Two Free" Perdue chicken parts deal with an $1/2 IPQ AND $3 in Instant Meat Discount stickers to get 10 lbs. of B/SCB for under $1.40 per lb.  I'll call that a win. ;-)


* I found money!

The week started off nice with this sweet quarter found at Rite-Aid on Monday.

Then another penny by a self-checkout at Weis the same day.

Another penny at the liquor store by the register.  Who says drinking won't make you wealthy?!? ;-)

Then a dime over by the office door at Rite-Aid.  I need to start hanging out at that location in my store more because I found a quarter over there last month too!

And this assemblage of pennies was found at the drive-thru window at Burger King.  I stopped to get a $1 order of french fries to treat the puppies on Wednesday.  I opened my car door while I waited for my fries and spied these coins.  Kim will be proud of me for being able to scoop them up while NOT falling out of the car.(It was close but I remained in the car.)lolz  These babies had to be Purel-ed and washed when I got home BIGTIME!

*  I got a whole .25¢ last week in Ibotta rebates. go me. lolz

*  I did another Weis survey for another 100 points toward a free Christmas protein item this month.

*  I've begun wrapping presents having pulled out all the frippery for that job from various hiding places in the house/garage.  I haven't bought a tag/bow/paper/bag/tape this year(or last year)to get the job done so no money spent on the wrappings.

*  I mailed two packages of presents out this past week.  I checked what various services were going to cost online(YIKES!!!)and went with Fedex as they were slightly less expensive.  When I got to the Fedex shipping store the employee gave me "$5 off when you spend $15 on shipping" coupons to use so I saved $10 total on shipping which made Fedex a Good Deal as opposed to UPS or USPS.  Yeah!

That's about it for this week except for my Rite-Aid "buys" which I'll talk about tomorrow.

What frugal wins did y'all have this week?
It's a hard time of year to stay frugal(what with the Consumer Bacchanalia of the Holidays)but every way you can keep ca$h in your pocket is a win!


Sluggy


Sluggy

SAK, Amy, JRE, R's Rue and "Unknown", Please email me!

In regards to the current Giveaways, I now have EIGHT entries sitting in moderation that I can't validate and put through yet.

I either don't have any contact information on them-that would be "SAK", "JRE" , "R's Rue"and "Amy", or they included no name or email in their entry and it's coming up as Blogger User "Unknown".

Please would these folks email me privately so I can approve your entries.  If you entered under "Unknown" you need to tell me also what you said in your entry(or paraphrase it)so I know which "Unknown" is you.(There are 4 so far.)

You've got until Sunday to fix your entries.  I hate to have to disqualify anyone but if I don't know who you are and how to contact you I will have to.

Thanks,
Sluggy

2019 November To-Do List Update

Here's how my November To-Do  List turned out............

NOVEMBER

* Pay Bills  DONE  Top of the list, always gets done before anything else.

* Read 1, 2 Books   DONE  I actually read THREE Books this month! (It surprised me when I sat down to go over what I read. lol)

First off was this one.............

"Hanging Mary" by Sarah Higginbotham
A very well done bit of historical fiction, the author takes us into the world of the folks who lived at Mary Surratt's boardinghouse on H St. leading up to the assassination by John Wilkes Booth and how Mary became the first women in US history to be unjustly hanged for treason.
You really get to know the people who had close contact with JWB and how they were affected as the author is quite gifted at making all the folks involved in this drama come alive.

Then I read was this one.............

"A Soldier's Secret" by Marissa Moss
I didn't know going in but it became apparent quickly that this book was written for YAs(young adults/teens).  It was still enjoyable though and a very quick read.  Another historical fiction selection about Sarah Emma Edmonds, a woman who ran away as a teen from a miserable home life in Canada(then a British possession)and lived for many years as a man, including volunteering to serve in the US Union army during the Civil War.  Though the dialogue is fiction, the characters were real people who lived during that time.  Sarah survived the conflict and eventually married and lived as a women.  She is the only women who secretly served as a man during the war to be inducted into the GAR and receive a government pension for her Civil War service.  She wrote a memoir about her life which was published in the 1880's and she toured and gave lectures.  This book was based on her memoirs.
Dialogue was a little stilted and tiresome at parts but worth a read.

And finally I read this one............

"The Liberal Redneck Manifesto-Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark" by Trae Crowder, Corey Ryan Forrester and Drew Morgan   

I really related to this book, being a Southerner and all. 8-)  They dig in and go after every stereotype and shed light on many issues that people from this region of the country are affected by and still dealing with.  They go after both the good and bad of the culture and delve into the real history of why things are the way they are there.  These guys are a comedy trio of self-proclaimed rednecks but they are educated and articulate rednecks who are proud of their region and history.  They have lived real, sometimes painful lives and have seen both the good and bad about the region and have thoughts and ideas that may make you go, "huh".
This book will get you thinking and it's a must read for anyone who isn't from/didn't grow up in the South.
I am the product of a NY Yankee father and a VA Southern mother and was raised in the South.  Most of my Southern relatives come from uneducated redneck stock(at least for 5 or 6 generations)so this book spoke to me.  Living and traveling widely in other parts of the country I've seen the regional prejudice first hand Trae and company talk about.  I'd be delighted to spread some learnin' about true Southern culture(both the good and bad)to other regions.
HIGHLY recommend!

* Hold Giveaway  DONE

* Mail Giveaway  DONE  Mailed off right away and gladly received.

*  Chester Surgery  DONE  My poor puppy lost his nuts in November.  He healed up rather quickly and didn't need the "cone of shame" but for 2 days.  The good thing is he is less likely to mark in the house now and we don't have to confine him as much.

* Repair DR Ceiling  DONE SORT OF  Hubs got the patch job done but he still has to sand and paint it.  It will get done as soon as I nag enough. lolz

*  Work the Polls  DONE  I did my civic duty.  It was a long day but enjoyable really.

*  Hem Hubs Pants  DONE  The denim was so thick and non-plyable that the machine needle wouldn't go through the multiple layers of fabric at the seams so I had to partially hand hem part of each pants leg. ugh.  But it's done.

*  House Train Puppy  DONE  Dixie is finally house trained...yay!!

*   List Items on eBay  FAIL  I looked back and I didn't list a single item in November(though I did sell stuff that month).  I just got too busy with other things.  I'm not listing anything in December either due to being too close to Christmas now and we have the out of town Wedding in early January so I won't be able to ship stuff out.

*  Go to HS Clinic  DONE  Had my appointment and things are going well....not great but the outbreaks are not as bad as before going on Humira.  Only time will tell how successful this treatment will be and for how long.
In other medical news I also had my sleep doc appointment in November and I am now down to being borderline for needing sleep apnea treatment.  go me. ;-)

* Work on Christmas Gifts  IN PROGRESS  I'm not really "making" anything for gifts, it's just about making up gift baskets, wrapping all of it, and mailing a couple of things.  After we get the tree decorated this week my dining room table becomes wrapping central and the tape and scissors will be flying fast and furiously. lol

* Clean Downstairs for Turkey Day  DONE  Got the place presentable.  'Nuff said.

* Change Curtains in LR  DONE  Got Hubs to finally help hang the Winter curtains up without too much cursing(Guess who did the cursing?!LOL)

* Hang a Picture  DONE  Ditto the item above.  It was a much more difficult chore than the curtains but nobody committed murder in the process(though there were murderous thoughts on both sides).

* Hang Curtains in Hubs' Room  FAIL  I got him the curtain rod out but he just didn't do it.  I need to hem those curtains so they don't cover the baseboard heating unit under the window but he needs to get the rod on the wall so I know how much to cut off the drapes.  And he really needs to do this soon because we'll have folks sleeping in the daybed in that room for the Holidays and that window gets the morning sun so I guess I'll go into nag mode soon.........

* Cook Turkey Day Meal  DONE  It all got done and on time.  Cooking ahead really helped me not to overdo physically.  Even not being as tired and rushed I didn't take a single photo of the day. I was just in the moment for Thanksgiving(when I wasn't running to Rite-Aid that is.)

That's about all I can remember.
I hope everyone tackled everything on their November To-Do List and are satisfied with how things turned out.

Sluggy