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!)

Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a very happy Thanksgiving.

Mine started off with an EARLY trip to CVS for their "Black Friday" sales that start on Thursday!! I got up early, finished up my cooking, showered and headed for CVS. I made it home before 9 am, took my casserole out of the oven, and got Matt up. We loaded up the car with all the goodies and were off to his parents house in Spring. We made one pit stop at another CVS (yay!). Matt wanted to get his sister a B-day card and I totally took advantage of more free stuff!

Our Thanksgiving tradition in Matt's family is to go to the huge GardenRidge sale after we eat lunch. I LOVE GARDENRIDGE!!! I needed a new tree anyway, so it was the perfect place. (Our tree stand broke last year and the whole tree fell over! We had it propped up the rest of december, but trashed it when Christmas was over.) GardenRidge was packed, but we still had fun. I got a good deal on a Pre-lit tree (my first), some cute ornaments, and a few other items.

All in all it was a great day!

Money Makers

As I'm sure everyone is getting bored with the same ol' "this is what I got for nothing" posts, I thought I'd share a new concept. Not only getting things for free, but MAKING money on the deal! (disclaimer: for those of you who are math challenged, this might be a bit much! This is only for the true die-hards!)

Here are two examples from this past weekend.

#1 at CVS:

Two items "free after extra bucks" this week.

1. Maybelline mineral foundation $8.99 with $8.99 back in Extra Bucks.

2. Complete Contact Solution $8.99 with $8.99 back in Extra Bucks.

I purchased one of each of these for a total of $17.98. I used a $3 Maybelline foundation coupon and a $1 Contact coupon, making my new total $13.98. I added a candy bar so that my total would be $15. I paid for the items with the $15 Extra Bucks I received last week from the battery deal.

So in summary: I started with one Extra Buck coupon for $15. I ended with a maybelline foundation, a bottle of contact solution (no, I don't wear contacts!) and two Extra Buck coupons for $8.99 each. In essence, I made $2.98 AND got the stuff.

Example #2 from Walgreens.

I purchased 4 Bic soleil razors, two BionInfusion shampoos, and one christmas pencil (not pictured).

The shampoos were $10 each, the razors were on sale for $6.99, Buy one, get one free, and the pencil was $0.39. Total: $34.37

I had coupons for $3 off the razors, and even though they're on sale for Buy one get one free, I can still use one coupon per item. So that takes off $12.

Walgreens also had a coupon in their Easy Saver booklet for $3 off Bic Soleil Razors. These coupons CAN be combined with regular maufacturer coupons and when scanned, they will automatically deduct that amount for each one purchased. That takes off an additional $12.

In that same booklet there was a coupon for $5 the purchase of any BionInfusion shampoos. When scanned, it deducted $10, because I bought two.

Those discounts combined are $34. (Which, on a side note, is the reason I purchased the pencil. Otherwise my total would have been -$0.02, and that doesn't work!) So, after discount, my total was $0.37 (on my giftcard!).

Now, for the money maker part. In the November Walgreens Rebates (same booklet) there was a rebate for $10 if you purchased $20 in BionInfusions shampoos. That $10 will be credited to my gift card. So, I spent 37 cents and earned $10.

Cool?

Batteries anyone??

This weekend's shopping focused on a great deal at CVS.....batteries! I'm hoping to pick up some more during the week, but you'll at least see what I've gotten so far. I shouldn't have to buy batteries again for a REALLY long time!!

This weeks items (CVS only, no time for walgreens!)

Trip One:

2 Colgate toothpastes

1 Rimmel mascara

1 smart water

1 listerine agent cool blue rinse

1 Always infinity pads

1 Garnier Mousse

2 8-packs of AA batteries

1 16-pack of AA batteries

Total Cost of Trip one: $1.47

Trip two:

2 8-packs of AA batteries

1 16-pack of AA batteries

4 Glade Glass Scents Air Fresheners

1 Loreal Moisturizer

2 Candy bars

Total Cost of Trip Two: $0.95

Combined Cost: $2.42

Anyone need Batteries?

Shopping While Sick

As usual, I spent some of my weekend shopping. However, it was a little less fun this week because I was sick. :( I hate being sick. I don't like spending all day in bed, but if I get up, I feel worse. Hopefully I'll be better soon.

Of course, I did suffer long enough to make my trips to CVS, Walgreens, and Kroger. Here's what I got this week!



4 Progresso Chicken Noodle Soups
8 Carnation Evaporated Milks (mom will get some of these!)
2 Garnier Shampoo/Conditioner
1 Hershey's Chocolate Syrup
1 Kroger Syrup
1 Half Gallon Milk
2 Bryer's Ice Creams
2 Liter Smart Waters
3 St. Ives body washes
5 Yogurt
2 Toaster Strudel
1 Glade Air Freshener
2 4lb Sugar
1 Box cup cake papers
2 Betty Crocker Frostings
2 Boxes Hefty Storage Bags
3 Boxes of CVS Kleenex


That's a total of 42 items.






Now for the total.
At walgreens I put it on my gift card, so ZERO.
At CVS: 60 cents.
And at Kroger, $12.87.

So the combined total is: $13.47.

New Furniture & a Good Laugh

After months of searching, Matt and I FINALLY found some new bedroom furniture we could agree on. We both are pretty strong-willed and have some differences in taste, so everything takes longer with us. But, it paid off and we found something we could both agree on. Without too much reading....here it is.

I apologize for the poor pictures. There really was no good angle to get it all together.

Now, to close out this post. A laugh. Here's Matt's office-award-winning halloween costume. It was supposed to be Bush, but the resemblance was poor to say the least. Regardless, it was pretty funny!!

More Shopping!!

Walgreen's and CVS both have terrible deals this week. Had it not been for some store-issued money-off coupons I wouldn't have even gone. But, since I had Register Rewards (Walgreen's) and Extra Bucks (CVS) that were about to expire I figured I should find some way to spend them! See how they suck us in!!!!

Anyway, since those stores were so disappointing, I'm including my Kroger trip into this post. Here's a quick breakdown of what I got, just in case you don't get it all from the picture!

3 healthy choice dinners
5 yogurt
5 12-packs of diet coke
2 Quattro disposable three-packs
3 power toothbrushes
2 rolls of tape
2 Herbal Essence shampoo/conditioner
2 Almay mascara
2 pound package of strawberries
2 smuckers jams
3 powerade zero
3 packages of ground beef
1 Soy sauce
4 mighty dog can dog foods
2 bags of dog treats
1 Dozen Eggs (not in the picture)
1 box texas toast
1 cake mix
1 special K cereal (the big box!)
1 pilsbury cinnamon rolls
1 Downy





Now, for the part you're most interested in....the price. Right?

Well, for the items I got at walgreen's, I consider those free since I paid with my gift card that I got from the montly rebates. The mascara is a rebate item for November, so I'll be adding some money to my gift card for that.

I was supposed to have a $2 E-coupon on my Kroger card for the herbal essence shampoo, but that didn't work. So, I overpaid $2 on that deal. The real killer is that I was only getting that shampoo because that $2 coupon was going to make it FREE. The last thing I need is more shampoo, especially shampoo that I have to actually PAY for.

And, finally, I took advantage of a fabulous glade promotion last time I was at Kroger that gave me some nice coupons to apply to my purchases today. $16 worth of coupons if you'd like me to be specific.

So, with all those disclaimers aside, I spent a grand total of $12.51, even with the shampoo.


Happy Shopping!!

This Week's Free Stuff

On the weekends, I like to get as much shopping done as possible. This weekend was especially busy due to some nice deals at Walgreen's. Luckily for me, CVS was having an off week! So here's my loot, as I call it, from Walgreen's this weekend. :D



1 Bounty Basic Paper Towel

1 Package of paper plates

7 Halloween Pencils

2 Packages of Extra Gum

3 Mac and Cheese

3 Alka Seltzer (only cause they were free!....any takers?)

1 Fusion Power Razor

4 Oral B toothbrushes

3 St Ives Elements Olive Cleansers

2 St Ives Elements Olive Scrubs

7 St Ives Elements Protective Cleansers

4 Dove Beauty Bars

2 Lysol Neutra Air (the big ones)

1 Airwick Freshmatic (the big one.....this was supposed to be a lysol one, but apparently I grabbed the wrong thing!)


And the picture :)

Total Cost: $4.79

Technically it didn't cost me anything though because I used my new Walgreen's gift card that I got for sending in the montly rebate!! So FREE!!! Plus, I'll get another $3 Walgreen's Rebate from the lysol air fresheners. (only one though)

On a side note, I had a great trip to Kroger too! Yay for coupons!

Yes, a New Post....Finally

I know its been FOREVER since I updated this, but Jenna talked me into it. :)

I was so happy with my shopping trip today I thought I would share. For those of you who aren't into the whole couponing thing yet, shame on you. Here's what I did with my coupons today. I went to Walgreens and CVS and this is what I got.

Halloween pail

4 Bags of Brachs Candy Corn

Oral B toothbrush

Crest toothbrush

Crest MaxFresh Toothpaste

3 Listerine Agent Cool Blue

3 Kleenex 80 count with lotion

5 Mac and Cheese

2 Fusion Power Razors

Alka seltzer Cold 20 count

6 Excedrin

If you need a visual.... here:

Thanks to some nice coupon programs at CVS and Walgreens, as well as my obsession with cutting coupons, I got all this stuff for only $2.13.

How cool is that? Granted, some of it I probably wont use, but I can always give it away. The razors and mac and cheese will definitely be used and would have cost far more than $2.13 themselves. Oh, and Matt totally digs the Listerine Smart Rinse I got free a few months ago, so I'm betting he'll make good use of this Cool Blue stuff too! :)

Dog update

It was recently brought to my attention that there has not been a dog update in quite some time. As you can imagine, I've gotten quite lax in my picture taking. So, today I got the camera out and tried to get some new shots. Here are some of my favorites!

Roxanne was looking very photogenic in this pic. If you can't tell, she's lost some weight. Yay! She had gotten a little chubby after she was spayed, but she's back to her skinny self now!

Here's daisy posing for the camera. She is now ten months old and has finally reached a slow in her growth. She's weighing in at about seventy pounds, which is double roxanne's 35 pounds!

Now, for my personal favorite. No dog pictures are complete without the close-up snout picture. Check out those whiskers!! Isn't that the cutest dog?

Racing

Matt asked that I include some pictures from his racing event. I have no comments because I know nothing about this. So, here are the pictures. :)
Oh, and Matt's car is the red one with the blue tape on the bottom!

Happy Valentine's Day

I have to take the opportunity to brag on my sweet husband. He does valentines day so well! For the second year in a row, he's send me not one day of flowers, but three. That's right, THREE.

On Tuesday, two days before valentines day, I got a lovely arrangement of red tulips sent to me at work.

Then yesterday, Wednesday, he sent to me at work my very FAVORITE stargazer lillies. I LOVE stargazer lillies!!!! Aside from the fact that they look beautiful, they smell SO good. They also came in the most adorable white vase with polka dots in various shades of pink. It is too cute!

Finally today, Valentine's Day (officially), I got a dozen red roses. Nothing says February 14th like red roses.

I know some people don't really care about getting flowers and honestly I wouldn't be hurt or anything if I didn't get them....but I do love them.

Thanks Matty....I love you!

Ok, brag session over.... :)