Win $5 from Honey Nut Cheerios

Ok, so there's an online Giveaway on the Cheerios site called the SWEET REWARDS GIVEAWAY located Here.
You need to enter a code from a box of Honey Nut Cheerios. There is a winner every 10 minutes so they say. If you don't have a code, just click on where it says "Don't have a code?".
There's a free code on the screen that comes up. Use that, register at the site and play.

I played 2 days and won a $5 check my second day playing!....and with a free code too!! 8-))
The check came on Wednesday. I don't think it was 2 weeks between the time I won and the time I got the check.
Hey, 5 bucks may not be much but it's F-R-E-E!

Sluggy

CVS Catch-Up....Last Week's Febreeze & Toiletries Haul

I did get out last week to CVS a couple of time to take advantage of the Febreeze deals and a couple other deals. I only use the Febreeze Pet Eliminator(I have 3 stinky dogs!)so anything else I got as part of the ECB deals was going straight into the Yard Sale pile.

Most of the Febreeze and both Dawn Qs were from a home mailer(except for the B1G1 Qs).


Transation #1

2x Dawn Dish Soap @$1.00 ea.=$2
2x Febreeze Noticeables Kit @$6.50 ea.=$13.00
1x Febreeze Air Effects @$3.00 ea.=$3.00
1x Febreeze Odor Eliminator @$5.00 ea.=$5.00
Subtotal $23.00

Coupons Used
2x Dawn $.50/1 (home mailer)=$1.00
2x Febreeze Noticeable Kit $4/1=$8.00
1x B1Eliminator/G1 Air Effects sunday inserts=$3.00
Used $10 ECBs
Coupon Total=$22.00

$23-$22=$1.00+.06¢ tax

$1.06 OOP
Received $10 ECB(for buying $20 of Febreeze), $1 ECB(for buying 2 Dawn)=$11


Transaction #2


2x Dove Shampoo @B1G1($4.99)=$4.99
2x Febreeze Noticeables Kit @$6.50 ea.=$13.00
1x Febreeze Air Effects @$3.00 ea.=$3.00
1x Febreeze Odor Eliminator @$5.00 ea.=$5.00
1x Bayer Glucose Meter @19.99=$19.99
3x Trail Mix Crunch Cereal @3/$10=$10.00
Subtotal $55.98

Coupons Used
2x Dove Shampoo @$1/1 sunday inserts=$2.00
2x Febreeze Noticeables Kit @$4/1 ea.=$8.00
1x Febreeze Air Effects Free WYB Eliminator sunday inserts=$3.00
1x Febreeze Odor Eliminator @$.50/1=$.50
1x Bayer Glucose Meter adjusted down@19.99 sunday inserts=$19.99
3x Trail Mix Crunch Cereal @$2/1 IPQ=$6.00
ECBs Used-$2.49, $4, $10=$16.49
Coupon Total=$55.98

Tax was charged on something, don't know what! $.46

$.46 OOP
Received $10 ECB(for buying $20 of Febreeze-with $2 credit toward a last $10 purchase), $5 ECB(for buying 3 Post Cereals), $5 ECB(for buying the Meter)=$20.00
Transaction #3

2x Olay Body Wash @$6.00=$12.00
1x Febreeze Air Effects @$3.00 ea.=$3.00
1x Febreeze Odor Eliminator @$5.00 ea.=$5.00
1x CVS Stain Pen(daughter spilled lunch on her shirt)$1.99 **Not Pictured**
Subtotal $21.99

Coupons Used
2x Olay body Wash @$2/1 sunday inserts=$4.00
1x Febreeze Air Effects Free WYB Eliminator sunday inserts=$3.00
ECBs Used-$10, $4.99=$14.99
Coupon Total=$21.99

$.00 OOP
Received $5 ECB(for buying Febreeze limit reached), $5 ECB(for buying 2 Olays)=$10.00

I had hubby's card so I did 1 more transaction at the last store....


1x Febreeze Candle @$6.50=$6.50(They were out of Noticeables, better Q!lol)
1x Febreeze Noticeables Kit@$6.50=$6.50
1x Febreeze Air Effects @$3.00 ea.=$3.00
1x Febreeze Odor Eliminator @$5.00 ea.=$5.00
Subtotal $21.00

Coupons Used
1x Febreeze Noticeables $4/1=$4.00
1x Febreeze Candle $1/1=$1.00
1x Febreeze Air Effects Free WYB Eliminator sunday inserts=$3.00
ECBs Used-$1, $4, $8=$21.00
Coupon Total=$21.99

$.00 OOP
Received $10 ECB(for buying Febreeze)=$10.00


Total Spent OOP...$1.52
Total Coupons Used...$66.49
Store Sales....$94.86
Value of Items bought...$213.35(reg. prices)-$153.35 w/out the Meter
Savings of......99.3%(99% w/out the Meter)
ECBS Used...$50.48
ECBs Received...$51.00


Sluggy

Yard Sale Time! Dreading the work but loving the CASH!!

Our community is having a Yard Sale.
Besides selling some of my eBay stuff that's still sitting in the garage, I've decided to sell off a big chunk of my Food & Toiletries Stockpile too.
I've got to get my garage unloaded and go through tons of boxes in there and then reorganize and set up for the sale...and I have TWO DAYS to git 'er done!
I plan on having most of the stuff set up in the garage so I can just open the door Sat. morning when it's time. I'll have some tables & boxes to set up on the driveway too in the morning but I want 90% of the work done beforehand so I'm not lugging everything out that morning. Plus we might have scattered showers Sat. so no scrambling to keep everything dry if it's in the garage.
Going to go get the change now because I won't have a car tomorrow. Then it's time to make some signs. I'm going to cut up some old blank address labels to use for price stickers so I don't have to buy anything new to hold this shindig.

This is my 1st yard sale selling new food/HBA items so wish me luck! I hear that lots of couponers who stockpile products do this and do quite well. I'll start out at half-price what the stores charge & go down a bit if I have to. I can go pretty low because most of this I got for pennies on the dollar, but I won't give it away. I'd rather keep it to use or take it to the food bank or homeless shelter than give it away at a yard sale.

After extreme couponing for less than 6 months I am just overrun with stuff! If I can make some $$$ that's just more for my $60K Challenge total for July...or extra $$ I can take to the farmer's market to get some fresh produce to preserve next month.

I'll report in on how things went after the weekend.

Sluggy

On the Road Again & What Not to Eat in WVA

Hubby & I had to take a trip to VA the week of the 4th. Drove down on Wednesday, stayed over Thursday and then on Friday, we had to drive to PA near Lake Erie(the western end of the state for those who don't know their PA geography). We slept over at a motel there because we had to pick up #2 son from camp the next morning and then drive the 6 hours home.
It was a brutal 12 hour drive on Friday....12 hours EXACTLY from the time we left the driveway at my brother's house in VA to when we pulled up to the door of the motel in PA.

We took I-64 West into West VA. To avoid having to go all the way to Charleston to pick up I-79 North, we took local Rte. 60 to Rte. 19 north once we got into WVA. Rte.60 was a wind-y road up a mountain and back down again. We stopped for gas at the first town we came to while on Rte. 60. No stoplights and ALOT more teeny tiny than the teeny tiny town where I live. There was a gas station, a bank, a garage and I snapped a pic of the other "sight" in town while sitting in the car waiting on hubby to pay for the gas.


Nice to know you can pawn your jewelry AND buy a gun or get your ammo all in the same place!
We made ok time but hit Pittsburgh right at rush hour too! I thought it would be horrible but surprisingly, the traffic was not.

West Virginia has some gorgeous scenery. But you don't want to eat Mexican food there. We stopped in some little town, near Summerville Lake. There were 3 dining options in the shopping plaza we pulled off into....a Bob Evans(our original reason for pulling in there to eat), a Chinese Restaurant(a buffet type place I believe)& a local Mexican Restaurant. Hubby loves him some Mexican food and we hadn't had it in awhile so I suggested we go there instead of Bob's(since you can eat at Bob's everywhere). That was NOT one of my better ideas it turns out! Bob's, the SAFE choice, would have been the way to go. We got some combo plates of food. The filling for my enchiladas and hubby's burritos was plain ground beef....NO seasonings at all! It was so tasteless!!
The photo on the menu of my combo dinner showed a chile relleno(a battered & fried mild poblano pepper stuffed with cheese, served w/a sauce and melted cheese on top). What arrived was a SLIVER off of a pepper under a glop of sauce & cheese. There were also not enough servers for the number of customers. This place had 2 large rooms of tables and there were 2 servers. No one bussed the dirty tables in the hour we were there, so we were surrounded by trash and yuck and out of control children. After waiting upwards of 20 min. for the check, I walked up to the register and told the guy there I wanted to pay but our waiter had disappeared and I wasn't waiting any longer for a check and here was what we ordered.lolol
I should have raised a stink about the poor food too or told him I just had a soda or something and not paid for this inedible garbage they served but I don't think he had a very good handle on the language yet and I just wanted OUT of there!
Ugh.
The place was called La Carreta or something like that. Looks like there are 3 of them locally in WVA. Take my advise if you are in southern WVA...stick to Bob's. ;-)
At least there were no "gastic repercussions" later from our horid meal....if you get my drift. ;-))

Sluggy

I am all Cooked Out!

I came across this item in the back of my pantry a few days ago, while cleaning it out. The cleaning thing is all part of my Cleaning out the Pantry/Freezer Challenge I was taking part in over on the Compact Mailing List in June. I'm working on this Challenge through July too.

I must have picked this up on clearance at Big Lots back when my daughter still ate tuna fish. It has to be over a year old in that case, or older.

I wanted to serve this but no one besides me really likes tuna much. So I decided to shake things up a bit.
I made the Tuna Helper as directed on the box, except I left out the tuna. Then I cut up some leftover raw summer squash, broccoli we bought last Friday and got some bagged crinkle cut carrots out of the freezer. I put a little Olive Oil in a hot skillet and sort of 'stir fried' the veggies while the fettuccine and sauce were simmering.

When all was cooked, instead of Tuna Fettuccine Alfredo.....


I had Fettuccine Alfredo Primavera!

We had a yummy non-meat meal for 3 and I didn't have to throw away the box of Tuna Helper.

In other Cooking news....I spent most of Monday preparing food for later use.

I chopped onions, red & yellow bell peppers.
Then I cooked multiple packages of ground beef and grilled chicken breasts on the gas grill.
I made up a meatball mixture with some of the raw ground beef, formed & cooked 42 meatballs(1/2 are for Thursday night's dinner, 1/2 for the freezer to eat later).
While the meatballs cooked I picked & pulled apart the grilled chicken, then sauted the veggies/aromatics with tomatoes, garlic and herbs/spice.
After I grated 1/2lb. each of jack and cheddar cheese, it was time to grab the tortillas and start the burrito assembly line.
A little refried beans, a big spoon of grilled chicken or ground beef, another spoon of tomato & veggies and a clump of cheese to fill each tortilla.
Fold & roll each tortilla up in foil.
Over & over again.....until I had 12 chicken & 12 beef burritos all ready to be loaded into the freezer. Here are some of them.....



The last 6 tortillas were used to make a dish of Enchiladas for Tuesday night's dinner(we've moved this meal to Wednesday now, as we had leftovers tonight). The Enchiladas are covered with foil in the fridge, awaiting the enchilada sauce and monterey jack cheese, which I'll add right before heating them up.

We'll be eating good food and doing it frugally this week!

Enchiladas on Wednesday(just top & shove it in the oven).
Spaghetti & Meatballs on Thursday(just have to boil the noodles and assemble the meal)
More leftovers on Friday(pork bbq or fettucine or enchiladas, etc, just reheat)
Eating out Chinese on Saturday(Lunch time not dinner because the lunch price is less expensive)
Corned Beef, Cabbage, Potatoes, Carrots(in the crockpot-no work just dump it in & leave it)

I've gotten all my "real" cooking out of the way for the week. More time to spend on other things....like enjoying the pool! ;-)

Who the heck wants to be chained to the stove/oven in the summer?

Sluggy