Update: gone! Dealster is another daily deal site, and today’s deal is a $10 CVS gift card for just $5. I love deals on things we’re spending our money on anyway! This will be a paper gift certificate that you can print and carry with you in your CVS pouch or in your coupon binder. Hurry- just in the time it took me to write this post the # available has dropped from 1809 to 1746! Be patient, the Dealster {Read More}
Clear the Digital Clutter Challenge Part 3
August 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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Week 3 of the challenge is here. By now I hope that you’ve totaled up the # of e-mails in all your inboxes set a goal for how few you want to have left at the end of this challenge unsubscribed to several e-mail subscriptions you weren’t reading and had no real desire to read deleted e-mails older than a month from several other e-mail subscriptions set up filters for these e-mail subscriptions In doing these 5 things I hope {Read More}
Dishing It Up Dinner Recipe Chicken Biscuit Casserole
August 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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Thanks for stopping by today on our progressive recipe hop I hope you enjoyed the French Toast Souffle over at Mama’s Money Tree. If you haven’t checked it out yet, be sure to head on over before getting your dinner ideas. This week we’re focusing on casserole dishes. We’ve got some great dinner recipes for you: 3 main dishes and 3 side dishes, along with 1 fabulous dessert to hopefully give you some inspiration as you plan your menu for the {Read More}
FREE Expo Markers!
August 8, 2011 by
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Wow! Here’s a Q to combine with school supply sales this week- especially at Walgreens. $2 off 2 Expo Washable Marker Packs will yield you some free dry erase markers! (the 2 pks are just $.99 this week–the coupon will beep for adjustment down to $1.98) Thanks to Super Coupon Lady for the tip! Want to get Thrifty Texas Penny matchups and scenarios as soon as they’re posted? Go here to follow me on Facebook or here to sign up {Read More}
$5 Dinners Week of 8/8 $4.67 average cost
August 8, 2011 by
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My goal is to provide dinner for my family for an average of $5 except on special occasions. We don’t have to eat beans and rice to accomplish this goal! I shop the grocery sales each week. Then I plan my menu based on the foods I have already at home (at a great price). I balance more expensive meals with less expensive ones. We typically only cook a main dish 4 or 5 times a week. Each main dish {Read More}
Savings Review 8/6
August 6, 2011 by
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The household budget for our family is $500 a month and includes all groceries, household products, diapers, health and beauty, clothing, gifts, decorations and newspapers. A little on the lean side? Perhaps, but it works for our family. Whether your number is $300 or $1000, you should do what works for your family. CVS and Walgreens spent $6.78, saved $70.51 Spending: Brookshire’s spent: $12.97, saved $14.35 A friend shopped for me $2.80, saved $9.18 CVS spent: $0.00, saved $31.36 Goodwill {Read More}
Goodwill Finds 8/2
August 6, 2011 by 4 Comments
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I’ve mentioned several times that I like to shop at Goodwill. Back home we would shop at Salvation Army until their raised their prices and I could do better with clearance sales. Turkey did get his very own set of pots for Easter from Salvation Army though. Here in Tyler there is a massive Goodwill store that’s in an old home improvement store and I like to stop in whenever I’m over that direction. Sometimes I leave empty handed and {Read More}
May and June Savings Review and Mid Year Stats
August 6, 2011 by
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The household budget for our family is $500 a month and includes all groceries, household products, diapers, health and beauty, clothing, gifts, decorations and newspapers. A little on the lean side? Perhaps, but it works for our family. Whether your number is $300 or $1000, you should do what works for your family. In June: I spent: $224.24 I saved: $389.47 Extra money I made: $616.22 Total impact to my family in April: $1289.35 of Hubby’s salary saved! In May: {Read More}
CVS Scenario 8/7 $28.48 for $1.48 OOP
August 5, 2011 by
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Last week I didn’t write a scenario for CVS because there just weren’t enough deals worth buying. I had several of you write or comment that you were looking for them, so I’ve written this scenario but want to stress that I don’t feel like these are fabulous prices!!! (except the Pampers, but many of you don’t have babies) I do appreciate that you all were looking for the scenario though, because I know someone is actually paying attention to {Read More}
Walgreens Scenario 8/7 $36.00 for $2 OOP
August 5, 2011 by
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Walgreens Rules in a Nutshell: You may only do each deal once per transaction. You cannot use the RR from one deal to pay for the same deal if you want to get another RR. You may not use more manu Qs (including RRs) than the number of items in your transaction. A RR cannot pay tax and it’s value will not be reduced. For a more in depth explanation of these rules, you can read my post “How to {Read More}