Trick or Treat?! No, REALLY...

WARNING! The jelly beans you are about to consume may be highly disgusting. Be a little wary if your prankster friend hands you a tin of jelly beans -- you could get BEANBOOZLED. Jelly Belly's BeanBoozled candies come in twenty flavors... but only ten colors. Each color has a good-tasting version (like Chocolate Pudding) and a bad-tasting version (like Canned Dog Food). You can personalize tins and include one color or the full array. Why do it? Who knows. People are weird. We just know that if any Rotten Egg flavored beans end up in our office, there's gonna be trouble. Each bean clocks in at 4 calories. P.S. Rumor has it, the formula for the Barf flavor is based on Jelly Belly's failed attempts at making a pepperoni pizza flavor back in the day...

Can't Say I never win!!

From the Yard Sale Queen's website:
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Congrats to Zhu Zhu Pet Winner
Thanks to all who entered out of the 39 entries (I deleted the last entry since it was submitted after October 17), it was Leslie in Idaho whose number got chosen. She has already responded back, and was thrilled since she says she never wins anything.

See the details of what I won on her blog: http://yardsalequeen.blogspot.com/2009/10/zhu-zhu-pets-review-contest-giveaway.html

Check Your Outdates

With all the items we have been buying, don't forget to check the expiration dates. I got one box mix that is only good til the end of the month. It is a good idea to check them at the store before they go in your cart. I will next time. So I organized the pantry and put everything away with the shortest date in front. Everything that expires this month stayed out on the counter. We have enjoyed brownies, angelfood cake, and soon oatmeal. YUM!! Might need to look for some recipes for all the oatmeal I have. LOL.

Also since cancelling cable and joining Netflix we have seen some great movies:
Little Manhattan
Soloist
and at the theatre: Orphan

My trip to Albs

I went to Albs did 2 transactions. I could have done 3 if I was paying attention and had a calculator.
Transaction 1:
18 jars Ragu
1 loaf bread
Reg price: $64.75
Used 9-$1 Ragu coupons, doubled 7 of them
and one $1 coupon on bread.
Paid with a $10 catalina from the Dr. Pepper promo and part of a $15 gift card my husband won at the Safety thing in the park Saturday.
Bottom line was $6.44, zero out of pocket.
Got $15 Catalina.

Transaction 2:
Everything else in the photo.
Reg. price: $97.41
Had $27.60 in coupons
Doubled 7, for another $7 off
Used $15 catalina,
Used remainder of gift card.
Total out of pocket $11.27 and still have another $15 Catalina.
And I am up to $.40 off per gallon of gas.

My Rite Aid trip

After coupons: $26.18
Applied remaining
giftcard: $24.85
After rebates: $1.14 money maker
Plus I'll get the cute bag full of samples.

My friend is hooked, and she ROCKS!!

I first told my friend Sarah about couponing and rebates about a year ago. She is very organized, always planned meals before she shopped. She is a very busy person, and really didn't feel there was time to clip coupons and save $.40 on Ragu. Well look at her now. This is her first trip to Albertson's and only her second couponing excursion. She has only been collecting coupons for three weeks.
The breakdown:
5 transactions and bought 66 items (5 jars Ragu still in trunk)
(ave. 68 cents per item).
reg. Albs Prices of all items: 223.76
Sale Albs prices of all items: 134.26
Paid OOP for all items: 45.13

A week in FREE...or pert near

So if you know me at all, it may seem that my ultimate goal in life is something for nothing. Better yet something for a possitive return. This week I began to reep rewards from my ever flattening butt in front of my laptop, mostly to the credit of the new freebie website. I have recieved free Blue Bunny ice cream bars for the whole family, two digital converters with antennas, Oscar Mayer BEEF hotdogs(they are around $4 a pack, we rarely get the all beef), free Hershey's candy, free root beer floats, and a $25 Restaurant.com certificate for $5 to Brick 29 in Nampa. (p.s. If you have not been to this Bistro, it is a must try!!) Also, to the credit of Yardsalequeen.com, I stopped by my Walgreens and they had bubble wrap on clearance. The rolls are regularly over $5 each, got the skinny ones for $1.09 and the fat ones for $1.39. The best part, didn't really pay anything since I still had a gift card from their rebate program. HA! Thanks for the FREE!!

Shameful Little Mermaid

You might remember way back when the Little Mermaid Movie came out, there was some hype about a phalicy hidden in the picture on the cover. I had never seen it and didn't really spend the time to find it on my VHS copy either. Well I was gathering up my VHS movies today to list on Ebay and decided to see if I could find a pic on the internet. Is was easy since I am the Google queen. Guess what, my copy has the unchanged phalacy. Guess I am keeping it as a collector. :)

www.freestufftimes.com

Check it out. I've gotten free tacos, icecream, and supposedly a $20 Starbuck's card is in the mail.

Button, button, who's got the button?

I've got it! In fact over 400. Some shell, glass, bakelite, plastic, etc. I counted and sorted a jar of buttons this morning that I bought at a yardsale for 25 cents. We'll see how they do on Ebay. I will start them out at $4.99.

FREE

My new favorite website www.freestufftimes.com . I got 5 freebies today. There's no hitch to these. Free Del Taco, coupon for free barbecue sauce, free Jennie-O tonight and free Digiorno!!

Only in Idaho

Recently broadcast on a local radio station, a northern Idaho 3rd grade teacher was preparing her class for a standard exam. She was shocked when 67% of the class gave the same wrong answer.
The question was, "Name the seasons in any order."
The correct answer, *Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall*
The majority of the class all said, *Salmon, Deer, Elk and Duck* Duh!!

Free Food-Quiznos

If you have a Quiznos nearby (and a printer), go to http://www.millionsubs.com/ and sign up before it's too late to get a free small sub. Thanks to Yardsale Queen's Blog where I read about the Free Quizno's link. Quiznos is giving away a million subs and the promo will probably be over within a day or so. The coupon is good for 5 days after you print it.

Deals Discovered This Morning

I stopped by Winco this morning downtown and the vine ripe tomatoes on the vine are, as of this morning, 98cents a pound! WOW! Also the Hamburger Helper Twin Pack is 98cents too! That's like 49cents a box!! Find some coupons and it is less. I stopped on the way home so was not prepared. I know Hamburger Helper is bad for you, but in a pinch, it's a good thing :) When I got home I opened up the paper and Kmart is doing double manufacturer coupons up to $2. You can use 25 at a time. Good thing I called my mom about Kmart, she doesn't get the ad in her paper. More later when I do my shopping.

Albertson's Doubles your coupons through Tuesday

In this weeks Alb's ad there are 2 coupons to use with up to six of your mfg coupons. All the ads in the foyer are gone, but when I went today they still had some at customer service.

Try Old Spaghetti Factory Cheap this month

Some very special pricing during January
40% Off Monday & Tuesday Celebration Dinner Menu
January 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 & 27, 2009

http://www.osf.com/menu/annv-40Off-menu.pdf

My Movies to See List

Let me know what you thought of any of these.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Yes Man
Doubt
Bedtime Stories
Seven Pounds
The Soloist