Great Deal On Charmin

I read online that the 12 pack double roll charmin, in the red package, was being clearanced at all Texas walgreens. So, I had to check it out. The first walgreens I went to had a clearance sign up, but they were all sold out. :( At the second walgreens, there was no clearance tag, but there were tons of packages. I had read that some stores didn't have signs posted, but that it SHOULD be on sale. So, I had the pharmacy girl price-check it. Sure enough, it was on clearance from $9.49 to $2.39! The little pharmacy girls got even more excited than I did! Between the two of them and me, we bought ALL the charmin. Here's how it worked out.



I bought:


3 Charmin 12-packs ($2.39 each)

2 Scotch paper cutters $1.50 each)

1 Clearance folder (25 cents)






I had $1 coupons for all the charmins and the two paper cutters. My total was $5.81. I paid with a $5 register reward from a previous purchase. The balance was 45 cents!


The pharmacy girl ringing up my order got so excited about my total that she announced it to all the other pharmacy people!

Starbucks Frappuccinos

I found out about a great deal at CVS on the starbucks frappuccinos in a bottle. Now I do not like ANYTHING coffee, but Matt loves these things.

They are regularly $2.69 EACH, but they were on sale for $1.50.

AND, when you bought two of them, you got back $1 Extra Buck.

AND, I found a coupon for a dollar off. So, here's how it worked out.

I bought four:




So, $1.50 each times four = $6.

Minus $2 in coupons (all you can print.) = $4

And for each pair you buy receive $1 in extra bucks.

So, I paid $4 (in extrabucks) and got back $2 in extra bucks.

Total cost: $2 for four frappucinos. 50 cents each!


I'm not sure how long this deal is good for. There's a possibility it will end tonight since today is the last day of the sales week at CVS. It's an unadvertised deal, so there's no way to know until someone reports it no longer works.

Matt says we're going back later tonight to get more. :)

More Nivea

I stopped at walgreens again today to get another free bodywash. Here's what I got.

1 Nivea $4.99 minus $1 coupon

1 Campbell's Soup 59 cents with in-ad coupon

5 highlighters clearanced to ten cents each







I paid with my $5 RR from the blood monitor mentioned previously and had a balance of 8 cents left. I paid that with my walgreens gift card.


Received a $5 RR for purchasing Nivea.


Total Cost: $0.08

Happy Birthday To Me

For my birthday, I told Matt I wanted a new stove. He wasn't so sure, saying he couldn't see anything wrong with our current stove. (Of course he couldn't.....he doesn't cook.....) He agreed and we went to look at a few models. We found some we like and came home to make a decision. That was last weekend.....

On Thursday night as I was cooking dinner, long story short, our current stove freaked out. There was a loud popping sound and then the light was on saying the stove was on....but the stove was NOT on. It couldn't be turned off....even though it wasn't heating. About an hour later, the top was still warm even though it was off. I was afraid it might burn down the house or something, so we had to just unplug it.

So much for nothing being wrong with the stove.....

This added the needed motivation to actually BUY the new stove...

Without further ado....

Walgreens

There are some nice deals to be had at walgreens this week. Here is one trip I made today.

I walked in the store with a $2 RR (register rewards coupon) and a $5 RR. I left with:

3 12-packs of pepsi

1 Nivea Body wash

1 Rembrandt toothpaste

1 Double sided tape (for Matt)

2 Pens

1 Contour Blood Glucose Monitor

I paid $2.54 in actual cash because I forgot my giftcard and walked out with a $3 RR and a $5 RR.

Considering Matt's double sided tape was $3, I thought I did pretty well.

And for those wondering: No, I'm not diabetic. I had a coupon to get the monitor for free, and when you buy one, a $5 RR prints. So, I let them PAY ME to take the thing. My dad is diabetic, so he'll use it!

99%

More deals....

This week at Kroger is full of freebies! I had my best-ever trip today. Here's what I got:

1 Suave Deodorant

3 Angel Soft 4-packs

1 Steamfresh rice (not pictured)

1 Special K Cereal

1 Sierra Mist 2 liter

3 Pillsbury brownie mixes

I had expected my total to be about $1.50 because the only thing I was actually paying for was the cereal. Everything else was free with my coupons. But, for some reason, the cashier scanned some other coupon at the end for an additional $1 off (I don't know why) and then he told me that my total was FOUR CENTS! Can you believe that?? Four cents! At the end of my receipt it says "Total savings, 99%." That's clearly my highest ever!!!

Kroger has a limit of three like coupons (per transaction) that will double or triple and since I had more than three of most of those freebie coupons, I did make a couple different trips. Total, I got 4 deodorants, 4 brownie mixes, 4 steamfresh rice bags, and I'm up to 8 of the angel soft. I have a few coupons for the toilet paper left so I'll still be getting more of those.

Isn't free stuff fun!?!?

My First Trip to Randalls

I heard that Randalls had some hot deals for the GG this week, so I decided I would go ahead and sign up for a Randalls list in addition to my Kroger list. In the grand scheme of things its only an extra $2.50 a month....why not? And, if there are many weeks like this one it'll be more than worth it.

Here's what I got today. I'm so excited!!

4 Kraft Salad Dressing

3 Pudding 4-packs

4 Hall's cough drops

1 softsoap

1 Duncan Hines cake mix

1 Suave body wash

1 Vanity Fair paper plates

My total was $3.53 and I was a little confused because I thought it was going to be less than that. All the way to the car I was doing math in my head trying to figure out how I had messed it up, but I still couldn't come up with three dollars worth of stuff. So, after a careful look at my receipt I realized that only three of my FOUR $1.50 coupons for the salad dressing had come off. So, I went back in to customer service to have it fixed. Now, I realize most people might not go to that trouble for a dollar fifty, especially since I only had to pay three fifty for the whole thing. (and, that's probably what the CS lady was thinking too...) But, the dollar fifty was nearly HALF of what I was charged. If it was a fifty dollar order and you got charged $90, you'd go back, right?

So, long story short, she found my coupon that hadn't been scanned and rang it up for me. Ironically, I got back $1.62 for that $1.50 coupon. I guess tax or something? So, after that, my real total was $1.91!!!

Yay Randalls! I'll be back!

More Great Deals!!

Today has been a great day for shopping at CVS, Walgreens, AND Kroger. Its so great, in fact, that on my way to or from (or maybe both) a baby shower today I will be going by walgreens AGAIN. I'll explain why at the end.

Here what I've gotten SO FAR today between those three stores.

3 softsoap body washes

2 Quaker rice cake snacks

3 softsoap hand soaps (these weren't on the GG list, but they are free this week at kroger)

1 yogurt

1 juicy fruit gum

1 snickers candy bar

1 easter pencil

1 skintimate shave gel

2 chapsticks

1 bounty paper towel

1 johnson's travel size lotion

1 20ft reynolds wrap

1 sense and spray

2 softsoap ensemble refills

2 easter egg coloring kits

Total spent after coupons: 32 cents in real money. 72 cents on my walgreens gift card.

If you like softsoap body wash, now is the time to get it. There's a deal at walgreens this week: if you buy one (with a $1 coupon of course...so $2.99), you get a coupon for a free one after you pay. So, essentially buy one get one free. However, when you redeem your coupon for your free one, ANOTHER coupon for a free one prints. So, buy one get MANY free. :) It's not supposed to work that way, but for some reason it is.....so far. It may be stopped at any point, but I'm going to keep redeeming my free coupon until I don't get another one. :)

3 so far.....and counting.

HURRY.

EDITED TO ADD: As expected, the problem with the Softsoap promotion has been fixed. It is no longer printing the extra coupons. So, if you do this deal now, be aware, you'll only get ONE free one. You've gotta be fast to get the good stuff!!!!!!

Total, I managed to get eight before they stopped printing.

Hail Storm

This Friday afternoon the weather was so strange. It went from being sunny and cool to sunny and raining to HAILING. Matt was driving home and called me to tell me it was hailing and it was only a few minutes before it was coming down at the house. I watched in amazement! I've never seen hail like that before. It was hitting the ground and bouncing back up. Huge splashes were coming from the pool everytime one of those ice cubes would hit it. In just a matter of minutes, the entire yard was spotted with white dots of ice.

Here's a picture of two really big ones we found in the yard. My hands were FREEZING while Matt was trying to get the perfect shot! LOL

Spring Break

In past years, my mom has flown to Houston for spring break. This year it was me who did the flying. I flew to New Orleans where my mom, aunt and uncle picked me up and drove me back to my aunt's house in Gulfport, Mississippi. My mom had driven there to meet me. We treat it sort of like a half-way point, even though its not even close to being "half-way." My mom and aunt (dad's sister) LOVE to shop, and since I do as well, it works out pretty good!

I flew in Monday afternoon so we could shop Tuesday and Wednesday, and then I flew back home on Thursday.

We went to the gulfport outlet mall on tuesday as well as some stand-alone stores. I bought some clothes (for Matt, too) and some household items. On Wednesday, we went to the Biloxi mall and a few more stand-alone stores. I found some great rugs for my kitchen!!

I had packed up a suitcase FULL of "freebies" to take to my sister. And, since you can't take liquids on planes, I had to pay the $15 fee to check my bag!! I hated that, but I decided that my free stuff was worth well over $15 AND I had saved way more than $15 by "buying" it. So, all in all, I guess it wasn't too bad of a deal. Then, upon arriving in gulfport, I gave the freebies to my mom to take home to my sister which freed up a lot of space in my suitcase to bring home stuff that I was going to buy! I thought it was a great plan!

So, Wednesday night when I was packing up to come home I realized that I had bought so much I could barely fit it in, even in the place of all that free stuff. And, to top that off, my new rugs were the foam kind, so I had to be careful not to bend them because they could break. Clearly, they weren't going to fit in the suitcase. I had to roll them and carry them on the plane in a shopping bag. Haha! I was carrying my suitcase, stuffed FULL, the rugs rolled up in a plastic bag, and my purse. But I was determined to carry-0n all of it so I didn't have to pay that $15 again. It worked. After an hour delay at the New Orleans aiport and another half-hour delay ON THE PLANE due to fog in houston, I made it home. It was 2 hours late, but I made it.

Fun was had by all. :)

This Week's Deals

Both CVS and Walgreens had some good deals this week. Here's what I got:

2 small packages of Ritz

1 small Bleach

1 Bounce fabric softener

1 downy fabric softener

1 travel size Act mouthwash

1 Slimquick energy shot 2-pack (tried one of these --- GROSS!!!!)

2 Carnation Instant breakfast

2 Colgate toothpastes

2 Blink eye drops

2 Vaseline intensive rescue lotions

2 easter candy-eggs

Total after coupons: $2.01. Of course, that's not two dollars of REAL money...that came from my Walgreens rebate gift card! :)

I bought the candy eggs for matt. As I was writing this entry I realized Daisy was not here with me. When I called her she came SLOWLY up the stairs with her ears down, which tells me that she's been doing something bad. My mind immediately goes to the candy eggs that I left sitting on the counter. I rush down stairs and what do I see? ONE candy egg on the counter.....not TWO. I still haven't found any evidence of that missing egg. I guess she ate the wrapper too! I guess its a good thing she's a huge dog, otherwise I'd be worried about the chocolate intake. Hopefully one chocolate egg won't have an adverse effect on an 80-pound dog! And if it does, hopefully that package of peppermint antacids that she ate yesterday will keep her stomach calm.

Disclaimer: This photo was taken BEFORE daisy ate antacids OR the chocolate egg. She's not sick, just TIRED. She's never been one to sleep comfortably.

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.......

This Week at Kroger

Kroger is having a "mega sale" (that's their term, not mine) this week. Certain items qualify and if you buy any ten of them, you get five dollars off your order. Here's what I got.


1 Kleenex - $1.59 - 50 cent coupon, doubled = 59cents

3 Rotel- 90 cents - 30 cent coupons tripled = free

4 Propel Waters - $1 each

1 Frank's Hot Sauce - $1.49 - 35 cent coupon tripled = 44 cents

1 Kraft cheese - $1.99

5 Rice cake snacks (not part of the deal) - $1 - $1 coupons = free

6 Reese's whips (not part of the deal) - 2/$1 - $1 off two coupons = free

1 dove beauty bar (not part of the deal)- $1 - $1 coupon = free

Total = $7.02



But remember, I get $5 off because I bought ten participating items. So my actal total was $2.02. Pretty awesome!!! I'll be going back and doing this deal (or something similar) numerous times this weekend!

Fishin'

Matt and I spent part of our day off today fishing on Lake Houston. I must be a good-luck charm because we had a pretty successful day! And, to top things off, not only did I catch the MOST fish, but I caught the BIGGEST one too!!!! I must give credit where credit is due though. Matt did tell me what bait to use and take my fish off the hook whenever I caught one. He fished in between all my needy moments and managed to do pretty well himself.

Here are pictures from the day!

10 white bass total. I caught 6, Matt caught 4.

Here's Matt with his largest fish.

Here's Matt holding MY largest fish. (We were already home and I was clean....and holding the camera.)

Just for comparison.....and to prove mine was bigger!



On a side note... Don't you love the silly faces Matt makes!!

And one more pic. Matt did win the award for the smallest fish of the day. Check out this little guy!!!

Beat It!

Ok, here's the video of the Mariachi "Beat It"


ENJOY!!

New Design

My friends have cuter blogs than me, so I copied them. This new design comes from http://www.thecutestblogontheblock.com/

Thanks Jenna, Kerry and Amber!!!

Holidays

I know its late, but Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Matt and I had a great couple of weeks off. He was actually off three weeks and I was off two. Even though we've gone back to the real world of work now, we had a nice time while we were off!

We went to Alabama for Christmas, WITH the dogs, and had a great time. Surprisingly Daisy did just fine in the car; it was Roxanne who was annoying. Daisy just sat on her pillow with a weird look on her face the whole time. Roxanne was all over the place. They were both in the back seat, but Roxanne wouldn't stay on one side. She was constantly stepping over Daisy, checking out what she could see from the window on the other side.

Our family Christmas was on Christmas eve with my parents, sister, and nephew. We had a great time opening gifts and then played our annual card game afterwards. On Christmas day my parents, matt, and I went to my mom's brothers house for lunch and then we all went fishing in my uncle's pond. It rained off and on, but Matt was the only one who caught anything. It was pretty big bass, but he put it back. :)

Mom and I went shopping the friday after Christmas while dad took Matt fishing again, this time in their neighbor's pond. I joined in on the fishing fun when we got home and turned out to be the only one to catch anything. TWO big bass!!! And, although I grew up fishing, I'm one of those people who doesn't bait their own hook or take the fish off when I get it in. When I caught the second one, which was larger than the first, Matt wanted to take my picture. I explained that I do not touch live fish. He insisted and reluctantly I agreed. So, it was my first time EVER to hold a LIVE fish!

Here's the proof!!!

The highlight of the Alabama trip was going out to dinner with some of my friends from high school. We went to the local mexican restaurant when they happened to have their mariachi band playing. I was pretty skeptical since I live in texas and have heard some good ones. Not to mention that I'm a trumpet player, so I tend to be a little critical as well. However, this was like no mariachi band I've ever heard! When we got there, we walked in and could hear the last few bars of, get this, "Hotel California!" As we sit down, Danielle rattles of a list of songs she's heard they play and I'm quite intrigued. So they come over to our table and ask for request. Then they list a bunch of songs, but not what Danielle wanted. She mentions "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" and they play that! Matt told them to come by later for another song. As they left, I told everyone that I was pretty sure I heard them say "Beat It" when they were listing songs. (They did have a pretty thick spanish accent, so my dear alabama friends were having a hard time understanding!) We discussed how funny it would be if I was correct in what I heard, so when they came back we asked. Yes, I heard correctly. The mariachi band played "Beat It." I can not explain to you how hysterical it was! And, not half bad either, if you can imagine Michael Jackson with a Mariachi twist! Danielle videoed it, I'll add it if I can get her to send it to me. Send it to me, Danielle!

We made the 10 hour drive home the following day, with the dogs. The rest of our time off seemed to fly by. We didn't do a whole lot. I managed to do some serious damage to CVS and walgreens, and got some much needed rest as well.

Thanks for reading this insanely long post and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

This and That

I can see I haven't updated the blog in a couple of weeks. I know everyone is just dying to know what's been going on with the Greenfield's! Well, not a lot.

I've got one more week of school left before the Christmas holidays. I've been super busy with Christmas concerts and field trips for the month of December, but its all coming to an end fast.

Matt's last day of work for the year was this past Friday, December 12th, so he's all set for a week here by himself while I work. I'm hoping I can get him to do some honey-do projects! We'll see.

We are getting set to take our yearly trip to Alabama for Christmas which I'm super excited about! We've had quite a difficult time trying to find someone to watch the dogs though. Usually Matt's family does it, but they're going out of town too. We found out it was going to cost nearly $300 to board them while we're gone and I wasn't okay with that either! I know both of them will be totally miserable while we're gone and I can't see spending all that money for them to be sad (and me to be sad because I know they're sad!) So, after lots of "they'll be good!" promises to my mom, they have agreed to let us BRING them to Alabama with us! I'm so EXCITED! I took Roxanne to Alabama 5 years ago and it was a ton of fun. Daisy, on the other hand, hasn't been in a car for 10 hours at a time yet! I'll let everyone know how they do!

Finally, I thought I'd share a picture of Matt from earlier today. He and Ryan went fishing this morning and, unlike most of their fishing trips, he caught something photo-worthy!! Here he is with his fish, "monster." (Matt named it!)