Sunday, April 26, 2009

Hey gals!

Well, my sisters-in-law have me hooked on dumpster diving!

We had a great haul this evening, and I've been busy sorting through my new inserts and preparing for the last few days of Randall's Living Well (LW) promo.

Here are a few scenarios that I found at HCW that I plan to do (and can do because of retrieving coupons from discarded newspapers:)

Ziploc brand Freezer bags
12*$2.50
12*-$.80 (3/15SS, and my Randall's will double ALL 12 $.40/1 MQs)
OOP:20.40 (I will use LW catalinas and Pillsbury catalinas to pay.)
THEN
-$10 LW OYNO
-$7.50 OYNO for the Ziplocs!

Grand total: $2.90 for 12 ziploc packages!!

Pillsbury refrigerated crescent rolls 4-pk or $1.39 Sweet rolls:
3*$1.29
3*-$.75 3/15SS, 02-08-09 GM,
OOP $1.62
Receive $3 ONYO cat!

Grand Money Maker Total: -1.38!!! for 3 packages of crescent rolls ;)

Check out Super Coupon Girl's awesome Dumpster Diving how-to here!

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Fun on Fourth Street

What a great night! Karl and I just returned from a live performance by Diane Birch compliments of the One to One Network.



We left a teary-eyed Henry and sleeping Clare with Rebecca the sitter, and headed off to Austin's La Zona Rosa.

Right away we were both very impressed by Diane's ability to sing while playing the piano. We know first hand how difficult it is to play and sing simultaneously--and she did it with flare! Her band had a bluesy-gospel feel comprised of drums, guitar, brass and Diane on piano and lead vocals. She shared music from her debut album Bible Belt.

I really appreciated that I could pick out her lyrics even the first time hearing a song, and that her tunes were memorable. In fact, I visited her MySpace page last night to get an feel for her music. With just that one cycle through--Diane's songs were already familiar at tonight's concert.

Another mark of a good musician--her cover of Haddaway's "What is love" was unique to her style, yet retained enough of the original that I was still able to sing along and didn't cringe that it wasn't the same.

Diane bid us all adieu and gave up the stage to James Morrison, but promised she would return soon for more Texas hospitality and Austin brisket!

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Deals 4-12

Lots of clearance deals at Walgreens! Clearance candy that is free after ESrebate. Clearance degree deoderant, you may still be able to do the razor deal from last week--be sure to scan the prices before checking out...my tags read 7.99, but rang up 8.29!

Check out my google doc (link above) for details.

Softsoap bodywash and Sensitive toothpaste free after ECB at CVS. Make sure that your ECB for the items prints in the full amount--my cashier had identified a problem earlier in the day and manually printed an extra $1 ECB for the bodywash.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Free at Randalls

Softsoap liquid hand soap 7.5oz --on sale for $1. Use your $.35 mq from the 3.29ss for free soap! Depending on your store, they usually triple one like coupon per transaction.

Purchase it with a few other items to absorb the overage and take advantage of the $.99 butter super in ad q.