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.