FREE movie rental!

Here is the code for today's free movie rental at any Redbox location: 89ZQJ3
The code works only for today Monday March 30th!


When you select a movie and add it to your cart at the bottom of the screen there will be a tab saying 'add promo code' hit that tab and then enter the code and you're good to go!The code gives you ONE NIGHT free rental. If you keep the movie another night you'll be charged a $1 then on out.
Enjoy!

-M.

fire-safe candles...

A couple weeks ago my mom turned another year older. We work for the same company and are in the same office so I wanted to bring in treats for our section of the office to share to celebrate (she is my best friend, she is the woman and mom I hope to be). I made her carrot cake cupcakes and since we work in an office...candles tend to be frowned upon. So, I decided to make my own office friendly version.

I started with a sheet of candle design scrap booking paper I bought at Michael's. It was .39 on sale, and two different colors of card stock on sale for .49.

I then cut out all the candle shapes.


I then glued the candle shapes on to card stock. Then I attached them with tape to toothpicks.


Voila! Office friendly birthday candles! The whole project (minus the baking/frosting took me about 25-30 minutes)

-M.

friday!

I have about 6 different term papers to write, a fifty page journal to complete, research to start on policies for a volunteer position I am in, internship resumes to fill out, basic homework, GRE[graduate record exams...it's a placement test for grad programs] studying to do, a writing portfolio to complete, and a pile of laundry waiting for me...but dang it! I am going out; it's FRIDAY after all! My HW will have to wait till tomorrow afternoon :)

ENJOY THE NIGHT EVERYONE!!

ps: my DBF is playing in his band tonight and I am collecting the cover with my GF (guys tend to give extra when girls are collecting the cover) sooo the bar gives us free drinks. Can't beat FREE drinks and food :)
-M.

shopping trip

Tonight after work I ran to Safeway to cherry pick a few deal scenarios I had come up with...
I got all of this:

for $5.31 (oop) !

I have HW I need to start on (even though it is my SPRING BREAK) so I won't list all the details. But I just combined their promotion of buy ten selected items get $5 off your total with coupons. I am happy with this for multiple reasons. M. and I LOOOOVE peach cups, we are really trying to eat healthier and control portion sizes (mainly M. on this one, he was raised to always clear his plate. I was raised to finish when I was full). Fruit cups are ridiculously expensive when there isn't a good sale. I ended up getting 11 of them for 1.75! and the pasta-roni and rice-a-roni are usually $1 a piece here and re fried beans run about .90 a can. so it was a good trip. Before coupons/sales/promotions the total was $43.72.


-M.

juice galore

On Tuesday, I read about a deal from Safeway where an old sale was overlapping with a new one (by chance or by purpose, who knows!) which allowed me to get EIGHT bottles of OceanSpray juice and TWO packages of Capri Suns for...$6.00!!


(please forgive my curtains...they need to be steamed. which probably won't happen until finals are over. lol)

-M.

Kmart DOUBLE DAYS!

Kmart double days are back!

For the week of 3/22-3/28 they will double manuf. coupons up to $2! This means if you have a coupon for a $2 off a product it will be doubled making it $4 off the product! Go HERE to enter your zip code and see if your local Kmart will be doubling.

FREE movie rental!

Here is the code for today's free movie rental at any Redbox location: 2GR4N8
The code works only for today Monday March 16th!

When you select a movie and add it to your cart at the bottom of the screen there will be a tab saying 'add promo code' hit that tab and then enter the code and you're good to go!The code gives you ONE NIGHT free rental. If you keep the movie another night you'll be charged a $1 then on out.
Enjoy!

-M.

sample

click HERE to receive a free sample of All You magazine.

Select 'bill me later' and just write CANCEL on the bill and mail back. You are allowed to keep your first 'trial' issue at no cost! This magazine is always chocked full of coupons, recipes, and ideas.

-M.

target steals

this afternoon I made a quick run into Target.

2 Mott's all natural apple sauce
1.69 each (used target and manuf coupon) =.14 each = .28
2 Barilla spaghetti noodles
reg. 1.24 each clearanced=.86 each = 1.72
2 boxes South Beach Living bars
2.69 each (used 2 $2 off coupons)=.69each = 1.33
2 Market Pantry cream of mushroom soup
.54 each (used a .50 off 2 Target coupon) =.29 each =.58
2 Market Pantry cream of chicken soup
.54 each (used a .50 off 2 Target coupon) =.29 each =.58

TOTAL before coupons/sales =$13.30

TOTAL OOP= $4.44

tip.

For any of you out there that are new to the couponing thing a tip I have to offer is:

Ask for rainchecks!!

If I had not asked for a rain check on the cereal in the previous post I would have missed out on a free box of it! Try buying the item as soon as possible when the ad comes out/sale starts. Then go back at the end of the sale when you know the chances of the store being sold out of the item is good. This allows you to buy now and then stock up later with the sale price because some items go bad before you can use up multiple ones. I've done this with cream cheese...I bought some at the beginning of the sale and then went back later to get a rain check for the item (rain checks usually have NO expiration date or a pretty far-off expiration date.)

-M.

safeway.

safeway had a good ad this week so after work I stopped by for some free peanut butter and good deals!
here is a photo of the damage:

1 large box of mini wheat's reg. 3.99 rain check for .99 used $1off coupon= .01 PROFIT
1 peanut butter reg price 2.49 in store coupon =.99 then used .50 IP doubled= .01 PROFIT
2 boxes of spaghetti noddles regular price 1.85 on sale for 1.00 each = 2.00
1 carton of 18 eggs reg. price 4.19 in store coupon= .97
1 package of 12 string cheese reg price 3.99 in store coupon = 1.99
1 Safeway brand 8 wheat bread (M. loves chunky bread) reg 2.29 on sale =1.79
1 Foster Farms chicken price 6.52 on sale for .79lb =3.24
6 lbs of hamburger meat reg price 19.44 clearanced= 8.33
1 pound of tilapia fish reg 6.50lb on sale =3.71
2 litehouse dressings BOGO 4.69 each used 2 $1off coupons = 2.69

Total OOP= 24.69
Total savings= 38.20 so a savings of 61% -at least that is what the receipt says :)

I am really satisfied with this purchase. I got a lot of meat. The chicken is waiting to be cooked in the crock pot in the morning for dinner tomorrow The leftovers will be used as Sunday night's dinner as well. We ate half of the tilapia tonight and will eat the other half on Saturday. I already divided up the hamburger meat in to portions M. and I will use and they are in freezer. The eggs are the best price I have ever seen for 18. I intend on going back a couple more times to get the eggs and string cheese as they are limit one per transaction. Ya can't beat that cheap of protein!

-M.

mid-terms

well! i survived being really sick and having mid-terms coincide with the illness...it was also our month end process at work (when we balance our books) so i could not call in to work. i am sooo happy mid-terms are OVER.
(this crazy week and a half are evident in my lack of posting)

YYAAAAAAYY!