One Thrifty Thursday

Shaving With Savings (Plus Soup!)

I try to keep an eye on expiration dates, especially with my coupons and such.

It turns out, I had a dollar ExtraBucks due to expire today, as well as a coupon for razor blade cartridges that I had snagged a while back from coupons.com.  It didn't stay online for very long; I'm glad I printed it.

Anyway, since we needed milk, I had an excuse to leave the house before hours of homework...plus I could spend time with my husband!

So first we hit CVS.  Here I made use of the $0.99 Progresso Soup deal, plus a coupon that knocked 50 cents off of two, making them $0.75 each. (coupons.com)  Take the dollar off with that, and we got two cans of really good soup for $0.48... (however we bought some cookies, so our receipt wasn't that beautiful.)

Next we hit our local Walmart; I had previously discovered that the razor cartridges are significantly cheaper there.  So, I grabbed the $15 four pack replacement cartridges for my razor  that I purchased this past summer (love it!). With my $6.00 off coupon in hand I was already at least partially excited; then I noticed the shaving cream right below it.

What was so special about the normal-priced shaving cream?  It came with a free disposable razor. New product!  (Schick Hydro Silk, buddy!)  Can you say "travel bag"? (I love my travel bag...now it is complete!)

So, these three items cost me only 11.41!

I love saving money on things that I use anyway!

As a side note, I got some black and red yarn to make a little bag (case is probably a more masculine word) for my husband's new 2DS. Maybe I can get to work on it soon.

You have also now had a first glance at my desk.  Congratulations; this is probably what I see for most of the day.

Free Cereal from CVS!

I LOVE Free Cereal!

Yep, you heard me right.  With ExtraBucks, all three boxes were free.  Who doesn't want free cereal?

I got an e-mail with $3 ExtraBucks that I used on the $2.99 Honey Bunches of Oats (that generates $1 EB).

I also used $5 EB from a previous purchase on 2 for $5.00 Honey Nut Cheerios.

One of the boxes even came with coupons on General Mills products good until July 2014, so I should have paid attention and looked for another one.  Oops.  Rookie mistake.  I'm sorry.  I also think the Cheerios currently have a coupon available on Coupons.com, but I didn't print it before I ran to the store, so that would have cut down on my already less than a dollar I paid out of pocket.  I'm learning.

Anyway, as an avid cereal eater, I love this deal, and all I paid was tax (plus some on-sale candy I got for my husband).

Free Toothpaste!

CVS Run for Free Toothpaste

Do you love saving money?  Of course you do; that was a silly question for me to ask.  My husband came in from class yesterday with a CVS receipt, and I had planned to make use of the milk for $3.29 this week when I ran across a $2 off of 2 toothpaste coupon on his receipt.  They usually have some kind of sale going on toothpaste, so I looked up the online sales paper and GASP!  There it was: $2.99 Colgate Total with $2 ExtraBucks, redeemable twice!  In other words I could get two tubes of toothpaste for 99 cents each (without coupons).  I had $2 ExtraBucks from another purchase that were going to expire this week, so I could use them, too.  This is my husband's favorite toothpaste, so I win!
Math time:

• $2.99 Colgate - $2 EB = $0.99.
• $2.99 Colgate - $2 off of 2 Coupon=$0.99.
• Both of these generated $2.00 EB, so I get 4 dollars on my receipt.
• $1.98-$4.00= -$2.02 pure store credit. (not counting tax since I kept all of my stuff in one   transaction this time. Sorry, I know that's like CVS Taboo when you're talking about paying as little as possible).

Free toothpaste! Woo hoo!

Basically, CVS paid me to buy the toothpaste.

Was this the whole story? No, of course not.  We needed milk (very nicely on-sale) and I decided to make use of the Progresso Soup 2 for $1.50 after instant and manufacturer's coupon (coupons.com) for food storage.  We also happened to run across some Oreos at 2 for $6 generating $1 EB together, so the Oreos were technically 2 for $5, or $2.50 each after rewards.  Who can't resist cookies?

It's nice to save money on things that you need (and a treat to go with).

Leftover Brown Sugar Chicken and a Milk Story!

Basic Chicken Fried Rice, Anyone?

Sorry, folks. No picture this time, but I'm going to tell you about it anyway.

We had one piece left of the fabulous chicken and about three storage containers of leftover rice on Sunday.  (Late post; both of us started school this week)  So, we decided to chop it up and throw it in with the rice.  Easy recipe time!  Cooked chicken + cooked rice + soy sauce.  A wise lady once told me that it's not necessarily the complicated recipes that are the best, but the easy ones.  (I'm loving the whole easy thing).

The Milk Story

So, if you follow CVS, you know that they have their milk on sale this week for $3.39 for a gallon. Any discount on good milk is great, especially when you love to drink milk like me (especially when I wake up in the middle of the night).  Anyhow, we were planning on going shopping yesterday and I decided that I'd check my e-mail before we left...and whaddya know!  There was a wonderful little email from CVS with a $3 ExtraBucks Coupon!!  Bwahahaha! 

So, after a run to Home Depot and Walmart, we hit the CVS and I literally bought milk with TWO QUARTERS and got change back. (Now, I understand that I could have rolled the ExtraBucks by making use of another ExtraBucks deal, however we were out of milk, and not much this week interests me...plus the coupon expired in two days).

Life is good!