Awesome Thrifting Find!

Look what I found at Goodwill for only $19.93!

It's a little chair and ottoman for a little girl. Perfect for the nursery! Just needs a little cleaning.

Giveaway Winner!

The winner of my first giveaway is Jenn! You have 24 hours to respond to this post or another winner will be picked. Congratulations!

Here are your random numbers:4
Timestamp: 2009-03-18 03:00:13 UTC

Thank You!

This thank you is long overdue, but a big thanks to Jamie from I Am A Money Magnet for awarding me the Kreativ Blogger Award!

The rules with this award are to name 7 things you love & pass the award to 7 blogs you love.

Things I love:

1. My family
2. My friends
3. My historic house
4. Saving money!
5. Being creative
6. Blogging
7. Sleeping


7 blogs I love: (In no particular order)

1. Hip and Stingy - Frugal Maven got me started blogging!
2. Treehouse Kitchen - The Treehouse chef has been a very supportive blogger!
3. Shea's Way of Life - Shea just started following my blog and her's is very interesting!
4. To Save A Penny - Amber is always posting something interesting and very helpful!
5. The New Frugal Mom - Marianne hosts the Let's Go Krogering Link-up every week and is very supportive!
6. Meal Planning Mommies - The ladies at meal planning mommies have given me tons of ideas for recipes!
7. Once A Month Mom - I haven't tried it yet, but the ladies at once a month mom show you how to cook a months worth of meals in one day! They help you buy groceries weekly on sale and do the big cooking day. They also do baby food, which I plan to do once my baby is born and is old enough to eat it!

That's it for now!

Cheap Diet Pepsi

If you like diet pepsi. Click here for a coupon to buy one two 12 packs and get one free! Could be a great deal this week. CVS and Kmart have pepsi products 4/$12 ($3 per pack) and Target has them 4/$11 ($2.75 per pack). With the coupon, it would be ($2.25 or $2.06 a pack respectively!)

50th Post Give-a-way!

I can't believe I'm already on my 50th post! Yay! It's so exciting.

In honor of my 50th post, I would like to do a give-a-way. I went through a few months worth of newspaper inserts and cut out all the pet coupons. I had to give the doggie ones to my sis and sis-in-law, but I saved most of the kitty ones.

If you are interested in winning a variety of 23 cat food & cat treat coupons, you can enter to win in a couple of ways: (You can enter all three ways for multiple chances!)

1) Post a comment. If you're not a blogger, be sure to leave your e-mail address to I can contact you.

2) Blog about this give-a-way on your blog and be sure to leave me a comment that you did.

3) Subscribe to my blog by e-mail or become a follower and be sure to leave me a comment that you did.

A winner will be picked Tuesday, March 17 at 6:00 p.m. EST. (Unless I go into labor!)

Thanks for reading!

Let's Go Krogering 3/10

Man, I spent a lot of money this week, but I feel like I got some pretty good deals. I could kick myself though, because I didn't realize until after I checked out that I only had 29 items for the Mega Deal, when I thought I had 30. So I only got $10 off instead of $15. Make sure you ask the cashier how many items you have before you pay! Anyway, here's how I did:

Value of Products: $156.11
Total Saved: $87.54
Total OOP: $68.57 (56% Savings)

Here are the highlights!

Active Lifestyle Bread - Manager's Special for $0.99 (put in freezer)

Healthy Life Bread - Manager's Special for $0.89 (put in freezer)
-used a $0.55/1 MQ
=$0.34

Quaker Rice Snacks - $1.29
-used $1/1 MQ
-$0.50 part of mega deal
=-$0.21 overage

Cheerios Snack Mix - $1.99
-used $0.60/1 IP
-$-$0.50 part of mega deal
-$0.89

Chex Mix - $1.99
-used $0.60/1 IP
-cellfire $0.60/1
-$0.50 part of mega deal
-$0.29

(3) Freschetta Pizzas - $4.99 each
-used (1) $1/1 MQ and (2) $0.75/1 MQ
-$0.50 part of mega deal
=$3.49 and $3.74

(6) Toaster Strudels - $1.99 each
-used a variety of coupons mostly $0.35/1 coupons
-$0.50 part of mega deal
=~$1.14 each

Gorton's Fish Fillets - $2.99
-used $0.40/1 MQ
-$0.50 part of mega deal
=$2.09

Hormel Pepperoni (small package) - $1.99
-used $0.75/1 MQ
=$1.24

(2) Betty Crocker Potatoes - $1.49 each
-cellfire $0.40
-shortcuts - $0.35
-$1/2 MQ
-$0.50 part of mega deal
=~0.09 each

Planters Nut Bars - $2
-used $1/1 tear-off coupon
=$1

(2) Quaker Instant Oatmeal - $2 each
-used (2) $1/1 MQs
-$0.50 part of mega deal
=$0.50 each (did not produce catalina's like I thought they would?)

(2) 1/2 gallons of milk - $0.99 each!

Chuck Roast - Manager's Special - $3.63 (made in crockpot!)

(2) Little Smokies - Manager's Special - $2.09 each
-used $1/2 MQ
=$1.09 each

Whole Tyson Chicken - $0.99/lb - $3.60

(6) Welches Aqua Juices - 2.99 each
-used (3) B1G1 Free
-part of megal deal - $0.50 off
=~$1.00 each!!!
(Some of these juices had try me free hang tags, but I feel wierd mailing them in unless we really don't like it. What do you think?)

I received a $1.50/2 Aqua Juice catalina! I hope we like the stuff!

OK. That's it for the highlights. I hope I didn't mess any of it up, I can't find where I wrote everything down and tried to do the coupons from memory! Yikes!

See how other's have done at The New Frugal Mom's blog at her Let's Go Krogering Link-up!

Fabulous Thrifting Today! Shoes Galore!

I found a ton of great shoes at Goodwill today. They were only $3 each! The only sad thing is that half of them were in my sister's size! So, she lucked out too!

Here' are some black peep toe with white trim Laura Scott's.

Here are some off white slip on Antonio Melani's.

Here are some black GAP wedge thong sandals.

Gianni Bini thong sandal flats.

GUESS black with turquoise trim wedges.

I also found this interesting thing. I got it for $3 and it's selling on e-bay for $9.

That's it for now. Get thee to Goodwill!

FREE redbox Rental Today!

The code for today, Monday, March 9 is: F3T9L6

Good for today only!

Special FREE Wednesday Redbox Code for March!

Redbox is doing free codes on Wednesdays for March Madness.

Today's code is: 75EA16



Good for today only!

Let's Go Krogering!

Here's how I did at Kroger this week: (Pretty well I think!)

Total: $94.71
Total Saved: $52.91
Total OOP: $41.80 (56% Savings!)

Here are the highlights:

*This week Kroger had a Mega Deal. Buy 10 of participating products and get $5 off your order. So, I just take $0.50 off each participating item!

**I also had a $3 oyno and $1.50 oyno from last weeks shopping! (Thanks Pillsbury!)

(3) Freschetta Pizzas - On Sale $4.99
-used (3) $1/1 MQ from 3/1 insert
-part of Mega Deal - $0.50 off
=$3.49 each

(2) Armour Meatballs - On Sale $2.49
(2) Kroger Pastas - $0.99
-used (2) Buy Meatball get pasta free
-part of Mega Deal - $0.50 off
=$1.99 each plus free pasta!

Pork Chops on Manager's Special $2.69

(2) Pillsbury Toaster Strudel - On Sale $1.99
-used (1) $1/1 MQ
-used $0.35/1 printable (doubled)
-used $.50/1 cellfire e-coupon
-part of Mega Deal - $0.50 off
= $0.49 and $0.29

(2) Gorton's Fish Sticks - On Sale $2.99 each
-used (2) $0.40/1 MQs from 3/1 insert
-part of Mega Deal $0.50 off (doubled)
=$1.69 each

(2) Dole Iceberg Salad - On Sale $1.72 bogo
-used $1/2 Dole Salads
=$0.36 each

Planters Nut Bars - On Sale $2
-used $1/1 MQ tear off
=$1

Sara Lee Cheesecake - On Sale $2.99
-part of Mega Deal $0.50
=$2.49

Kroger Baby Wipes - $1.99
-used $1/2 Kroger Q from mailer
=$0.99

(2) Kroger Hamburger Buns - Manager's Special - $0.85 each
(will freeze these!)

(2) Pop-Tarts - On Sale $1.67
-used $1/2
=$1.16 each

Diet Dr. Pepper - $1.25
Used free coupon requested from website
=FREE

(4) Rite Guard Deoderant - On Sale $0.99 each
(seemed cheap, so stocked up for hubby!)

Cottonelle 4pk Toilet Paper - $0.99
-used $0.25/1 cellfire ecoupon
=$0.74

Kroger Baby Wash - $2
-used $1/1 Kroger Q from mailer
=$1

Carefree Pantiliner - $1.02
-used $1/1 MQ from magazine
-$0.02

Be sure to check out The New Frugal Mom's Kroger Coupon Match-ups and Let's Go Krogering Link to see how other's have done!

How did I do at CVS this week?

Pretty good I think! It was a major baby stock up this week. Here's how I did:

Pampers Easy-up - On sale $10

(2) Desitin - On sale $3

J&J Baby Wash - On sale $3

Playskool Baby Wipes - On sale $2.50

Kotex Pantiliners - $1.49

-used (2) $1/1 Desitin printable

-used $1 /1 J&J Baby Wash printable

-used $1/1 Kotex Pantiliners CVS CRT

-used $/1 Pampers MQ

-used $2/1 Playskool Wipes

Total Before Coupons = $20.49

Used $4.99 ECB's

Total OOP = $6.60 (68% Savings!)

Received $5 ECB's

Monday's FREE Redbox Code!

Today's code is MS72K3. Good for today only!

Quick Kroger Trip - Couldn't Resist

So, I've been reading about all these other bloggers getting this Pillsbury deal and I couldn't resist to stop into Kroger one last time this week to get it. I could kick myself that I forgot to do it in separate transactions, so I only got one $3 on your next order catalina! But I found a ton of Manager's specials, so it wasn't all so bad! Here's how I did:

(6) small Pillsbury biscuits - $0.59 each
-used (2) $0.75/3 coupons from blinkie

(6) small Pillsbury cinnamon rolls - $1.00 each
-used (2) $0.75/3 coupons from blinkie

Hot dog bun/rolls - Manager's Special - $0.79 (will freeze)

1/2 gallon skim milk - Manager's Special - $0.90

1/2 gallon chocolate milk - Manager's Special - $1.15

(2) 4pk. Danimal Yogurt Crush Pack - Manager's Special ($0.75 and $1.19)
-used (2) $0.55/1 coupons from blinkie

Total before Coupons = $14.32
OOP = $10.22
Received $3.00 oyno catalina
Spent = $7.22 or 50% Savings!

Note: If I would've done the Pillsbury's in two transactions I could've saved $3 more...annoying!!!!

Great Rite Aid Coupon - Good for Friday and Saturday Only!

Click here to print a $5 off $20 purchase at Rite Aid. Good for Friday, February 27 and Saturday, February 28 only.

Update: I just got back from Rite Aid. Decided to get my Pull-ups there that I needed. Here's how I did:

(2) Pull-ups - $11.49 each

(3) Snapples - $1.39 each (I'm obsessed with these for this pregnancy!)

-used $5 wyb $20 coupon above

-used (2) $2/1 Pull-ups coupons

OOP = $19.78

Will get $2 rebate on Pull-ups and $1 rebate on Snapples

Total = $16.78 or 38% Savings (That's about $6 for each pull-up pkg.!)