Here are some of the sweeps for the week. Most of them can be entered daily so make sure to keep checking back for the chance to win more great prices.
Instant Wins
~ Red Robin - until 10/14.
~ Lysol "fact or Fiction?" Until 11/3
~ Ban - How I chill - until 11/15. More HERE
~ Oreo Double Stuff until 12/1
Just Plain Sweeps
~ Circuit City - Ongoing
~ Woman’s Day Magazine. - Many Ongoing
~ Home Magazine - Many Ongoing
~Enter the Redbook get everything you want Until 1/15. More here
Monday, October 6, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Expired Coupon Reminder
Just a reminder its that time again.
Time to clean out the expired coupons from our books and send them off to military families who can use them for up to six months after they expire.
This month I'm sending mine to:
Family Services Program
18 MSS/DPF
Unit 5134, Box 80
APO AP 96368-5134
Osan, Korea
18 MSS/DPF
Unit 5134, Box 80
APO AP 96368-5134
Osan, Korea
Remember it cost the same amount to mail a letter to a military base that it does in the US. We normally end up spending 80 cents to a dollar, but its a heavy envelope.
And make sure to claim $0 when you fill out your customs declaration as coupons aren't worth anything until used.
You can check out my original post HERE for more directions.
Where are you sending your expired coupons this month?
Cvs 10/5/08
Sorry about not posting yesterday, I was engulfed in a great book (more on that later).
Anyway, I thought this week was going to be so-so CVS week so I almost didn’t go but now I’m so glad I did. They had the Breeze monitors for a $10 money maker. Which when I made my scenarios the first time I wasn’t going to buy, they I was, then I wasn’t, I finally decided I’d pick one up to donate, but when we got there today the shelves were empty. Isn’t that how it always goes?
Here’s what we were able to pick up
1 Colgate Freshmax @ 2.99 (earn $2 ecb)
1 Vitamin Water @ 1.59 (picked up the wrong size)
1 (120 ct) D – Vitamins @2.99 (earn $2.99 ecb)
1 Bic Soleil Razor @ 5.99 (earn $4 ecb)
1 Always Infinity @ 4.98 (earn $4.98 ecb) - Looks like this is actually a limit of 2
2 Schick razors @ 1.98
Total before coupons: $ 20.52
Coupons Used:
$3/15 cvs coupon
$2 Bic Soleil Razor
$1 Colgate Freshmax
$2 Schick Disposable razors
Paid with $12.54 in ecbs and 2 cents oop (tax)
Earned: $13.97 in ecbs for next time
Matt also printed a $10/50 coupon from the scanner but I don’t know when I’ve ever had a total anywhere near $50 so I’m not sure we’ll be able to use it. Even though I purchased the wrong size vitamin water and didn’t earn the ecb’s (don’t shop with a huge headache), we still made out well and I was finally able to locate where everyone gets the Schick razors for 99 cents.
In the end I ended up making $1.43 to shop at CVS this week, it would have been a bigger money maker if I could have picked up the monitor and purchased the right size Vitamin water, but free money is still free money right?
Year to date savings: $368.96
Friday, October 3, 2008
Friday Find
On most blogs out there Friday is known as freebie Friday, the time during the week when bloggers highlight the best free finds of the week. I tried to keep up with this trend, I really did, but there are so many great blogs out there listing their freebie finds I didn’t want to rehash the same material since they’re already doing it so well. To see a list of great freebies stop by Freebies4Mom, Mommies with Cents and MomAdvice.
I want to do something different and start using my Fridays to highlight a great post, craft, or money saving tip I’ve found on the web during the course of the week. I have so many great things bookmarked, my list is filling up. I figure it will be kind of like Momsadvice’s notebook entries but I won’t ever be able to list as many as she does considering she has a great list every week.
Today I would like to highlight a blog I found this week Joys of Home. It’s full of decorating ideas and cheap projects all supplied from thrift and dollar stores. Joys at home is the next Martha I swear. I spent two hours looking through all her archives so don’t click on the link unless you have an afternoon free. And keep checking back I plan to steal borrow some of her amazing decorating ideas in the near future.
I want to do something different and start using my Fridays to highlight a great post, craft, or money saving tip I’ve found on the web during the course of the week. I have so many great things bookmarked, my list is filling up. I figure it will be kind of like Momsadvice’s notebook entries but I won’t ever be able to list as many as she does considering she has a great list every week.
Today I would like to highlight a blog I found this week Joys of Home. It’s full of decorating ideas and cheap projects all supplied from thrift and dollar stores. Joys at home is the next Martha I swear. I spent two hours looking through all her archives so don’t click on the link unless you have an afternoon free. And keep checking back I plan to
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Organizing Our Cupboards to reduce cost
Take your cupboards from messy to efficient in a few easy steps
I won’t lie Matt and I are not good about eating at home. I think our monthly budgets and fast food spending show that. With our current work schedules we often choose fast over healthy most days.
Another reason we find it hard to eat at home is half the time I don’t even know what food is actually in our cupboards. They used to look like this.
I’m embarrassed to say we would end up throwing a lot of food away sometimes a year or more past its expiration date. We just didn’t know what was up there. During our No spend weekend we took some time to clean out our cupboards and rearrange them. They are now much more organized and make it easy to see exactly what products we have. 
First we went through all our food and threw away the expired items then I organized our boxed items by type and date as you can see. To keep it simple for us I wrote the expiration date on the front of each box for easy reading. This will help us see what foods we have available and let me know what items I need to stock back up on when they go on sale. I actually thought we had Hamburger Helper coming out our ears and didn't buy any the last time it went on sale, in reality we're down to three boxes. If I wouldn't have realized this we would have run out and I would have ended up buying it off sale. We will also always know when our food is getting ready to expire. By putting the closest expiration date in the front we can make sure we’re eating our stuff before it goes to waste. What’s the point of saving money on food to just throw it away two years later?
Eating what we have on hand before buying McDonald's is an easy step to becoming more frugal for my household.
I won’t lie Matt and I are not good about eating at home. I think our monthly budgets and fast food spending show that. With our current work schedules we often choose fast over healthy most days.
Another reason we find it hard to eat at home is half the time I don’t even know what food is actually in our cupboards. They used to look like this.
I’m embarrassed to say we would end up throwing a lot of food away sometimes a year or more past its expiration date. We just didn’t know what was up there. During our No spend weekend we took some time to clean out our cupboards and rearrange them. They are now much more organized and make it easy to see exactly what products we have. 
First we went through all our food and threw away the expired items then I organized our boxed items by type and date as you can see. To keep it simple for us I wrote the expiration date on the front of each box for easy reading. This will help us see what foods we have available and let me know what items I need to stock back up on when they go on sale. I actually thought we had Hamburger Helper coming out our ears and didn't buy any the last time it went on sale, in reality we're down to three boxes. If I wouldn't have realized this we would have run out and I would have ended up buying it off sale. We will also always know when our food is getting ready to expire. By putting the closest expiration date in the front we can make sure we’re eating our stuff before it goes to waste. What’s the point of saving money on food to just throw it away two years later?Eating what we have on hand before buying McDonald's is an easy step to becoming more frugal for my household.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Soemthing Wicked This Way Comes - Book Review
I read Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury a few weeks ago, but have taken this long to write a review because I just don’t know what to think of it. I’m still processing at this point. Something Wicked is about two young boys and their adventure when a mysterious carnival arrives in town in late October. I really like mysteries and suspense and I suppose this would fall in that category. Also weird, creepy, crazy. The style of writing used can make it hard to figure out what's going on at times.
I borrowed this book from a friend, but had it been mine I would not list it on paperback, although I won’t be buying it either so I’m not sure how much help that will be with my rating system.
You Look Awfully Like the Queen - Book Review
A quick read You Look Awfully Like the Queen: Wit and Wisdom from the house of Windsor by Thomas Blaikie is full of quotes and stories from the royal family.
There are some funny incidents inside and it’s a quick read. As in an hour or two. Its 112 pages but they're really only a quarter of a regular sheet and its an easy read.
I probably would have kept his book but someone was waiting for it on paperbackswap.com so I went for the easy credit.
There are some funny incidents inside and it’s a quick read. As in an hour or two. Its 112 pages but they're really only a quarter of a regular sheet and its an easy read.
I probably would have kept his book but someone was waiting for it on paperbackswap.com so I went for the easy credit.
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