Air Fresheners

One of the rebate items at Walgreens this month is the Glade Sense & Spray air fresheners. If you have the right coupons, they can be free. I certainly didn't NEED anymore air fresheners, but for free I'll take them!

I bought four at $8.99 each. Total before coupons: $35.96

I used two Buy One Get One Free Coupons (printed from the Glade website) so that took off $17.98.

I also used two $4 coupons (from the 2/8 sunday paper) on the ones I was "buying," taking off $8.

So, my total was: $9.98. I paid that with my walgreens gift card.

Now I'll enter my receipt number online and at the end of the month the rebate amount, which was $4 PER item, will be added back to my gift card. So, I paid $9.98 and I'll get back $12!

Yes, if you don't have a gift card you'd have to actually pay the ten bucks to start with, but I had a gift card from previous rebates so it didn't cost me any real money.

On an totally unrelated note....

The camera batteries are charged now, hence the air freshener picture. So, I'm including one of the new aquarium. I know its not a good one, but its the best I could do. If Matt were to see it, it would definitely NOT be up to his standards! He'll ask me why it wasn't centered and point out that it is blurry. Oh well.... here it is anyway. :)

Free Diet Coke

It took me a while to plan it, but I figured out a way to work this week's diet coke deal at CVS. I'll save you all the boring math and just tell you what I got and how much it was.

SIX 12-packs of diet coke
2 Herbal Essence Shampoo
1 Gillette Mens Shampoo
2 Boxes of Macaroni and Cheese
2 Tubes of Colgate Toothpaste
1 Venus Embrace Razor

(As previously mentioned, camera batteries are dead....try to visualize)

I really just wanted the diet cokes (and the razor is nice too!) I just got the other stuff because it helped me get a better deal on the diet coke. I know that's hard to understand for all of you NON-CVS people, but just try to trust me!

Grand total: 75 cents!

YAY!

Updates

I know.....it's been forever!

This post will explain how things ALWAYS seem to work at the Greenfield house....

Matt and I decided to get a new fish tank recently. One that was larger and nicer than the old one. So, we head to petsmart and find just what we're looking for. And, wouldn't you know, we were lucky enough to get the very last one they had. We got it home and got started setting it up. It's a nice 36 gallon bow-front tank that has its own matching stand. We put it in the living room. (On a side note....did I mention how glad I am to have the old one OUT of my piano room?!?!)
Ok, back to my story..... I'm upstairs doing laundry when Matt calls me downstairs. He's found a crack in the glass of the brand new aquarium! So, we call petsmart, but of course, they don't have another one. The closest store that has one is on 45 in spring. We load it back in the truck and head out. When we get to that store we see they have three in stock. We check it out thoroughly and make the exchange, then drive all the way back to atascocita and resume the set-up process.

Matt tells me there's a crack in that one too! Then he says, "just kidding." But, he was SO believable. Maybe he should have been an actor! Later, he REALLY DOES see a crack! We were SO mad. We looked over every inch of that tank while we were at the store. How could we have missed it. Now we've decided that there must be some major flaw with this particular tank if we've had TWO that are cracked. So we don't even want the thing now!

Matt decides maybe its not a crack. He'll try to scratch it off with a knife. No go. What about some goo gone? Long story (semi) short, it was something on the glass, maybe a glue, and the goo gone got it off.
Now for the real kicker. We're sure that's what was wrong with the first tank. Not a scratch.....some kind of glue. And, we drove all the way to spring to exchange it!

So, we now have a nice UNcracked aquarium in our living room....NOT in the piano room! And, because the camera batteries were dead, I don't have a visual for you. Sorry.

I'll hopefully post another day about all the fish Matt is putting in the new tank as well as his plans for ANOTHER tank.......