Hi, thickbluebug here.
In this blog we will chart our journey of the deals we are chasing and the rebates we are hunting.
Tossing in some daily thoughts and tips.
Of course there will be drama too. We are couponers and someone is always trying to pee in the cornflakes - so drama is a given. Deal jealous fools trying to spoil the fun.
In this blog we will chart our journey of the deals we are chasing and the rebates we are hunting.
Tossing in some daily thoughts and tips.
Of course there will be drama too. We are couponers and someone is always trying to pee in the cornflakes - so drama is a given. Deal jealous fools trying to spoil the fun.
February 2010 stockpile challenge
I am doing both challenges this month. The living off your stockpile and eating from your stockpile we do anyway to rotate the stock. The next challenge is the stockpiling Olympics.
Many of us are finding missing spaces in our pantries from participating in stockpile challenge #1. So I am participating in #2 because we are almost out of pasta. Plus I need to start back on condiment stockpiling. This is the time of year many mirs are found for things like hot sauce and salsa. Plus french's just put out their .50/1 q on yellow mustard.
Woo hoo bring on those 10/10 sales.
ETA
I am now joining the ranks and will run my month at the start of my pay period - which is the last (week) day of the month.
Many of us are finding missing spaces in our pantries from participating in stockpile challenge #1. So I am participating in #2 because we are almost out of pasta. Plus I need to start back on condiment stockpiling. This is the time of year many mirs are found for things like hot sauce and salsa. Plus french's just put out their .50/1 q on yellow mustard.
Woo hoo bring on those 10/10 sales.
ETA
I am now joining the ranks and will run my month at the start of my pay period - which is the last (week) day of the month.
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FEBRUARY 2010
stockpile challenges
I hit wags today.
Finally got in 2 deals today....no one seems to be restocking around here
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Got 10 bags of lays and 1 royal gelatin for 2.03 then I got a $10 rr back.
Rolled that onto the joint juice and 2 royal jellos and for 1.23 and tax a $10 rr back
Rolled that back on another 10 bags of lays and another gelatin 2.03 & got a $10 rr back.
Then I did one final joint juice and 1 royal jello.
Still have a $10 rr to play with
Piggly wiggly
I got 5 of the small bottles of franks redhot for .68....reg 1.09
Cashed 113.00 in mirs today
Posted 02-05-2010 at 02:52:42 PM by thickbluebug
- February 2010
wags
5 ester c
4 3 muskateers
.10 subt
tax
2.41
tt 2.51
saved 53.49
pig ( last mo not counted )
3.95
saved 15.00 in q's and 7x1.89 3x1.59
super dollar
16.27 tx 1.55
17.82
dog food
cheetos
chips
gr meat
banans
milk
dollar general
15.50 1.24 tx 16.74 dog food
produce store
20.78
Publix
12.61 tt
cure 81 ham and dry ice
sav 3.00
wags x2
joint juice
1.02
saved 21.98
monitor
1.16
saved 79.99
wags 10 lays & filler x2
oop 2.03
sav 40.88Posted 02-06-2010 at 09:48:41 PM by thickbluebug
Updated 02-22-2010 at 12:03:47 PM by thickbluebug - February stockpile challenge
Tues 2/16/10
5 pubs
got cat food and lysol trigger sprays
totals coming
oop was .24/.25 on each
2/18/10
We had a coupon lunch today.
Finally - I cashed 80.50 in mirs.
Our host paid for the lunch since she owned the restaurant. Very nice of her
So I saved 3.29 1.29 1.45
fast food
1.19
saved 1.49
We shopped a few stores today:
exact totals coming
pubs
9 cat foods 2 lysol
saved 47.08
5.31
3.14 subtt
pubs
5 cat foods
21.20 savings
sub 1.23
tx 1.01
tt2.24
pubs
7 lysol trigger
2.42 sub
tx .53
oop 2.95
sav 16.38
publix
less than $3 and got
4 lysol trigger sprayers
6 pure via
6 pastas forgot to ask 4 a rc and they are out of spaghetti....
6 franks hot sauce
1 2liter diet rite
1 20 oz diet sprite...(was negative total)
ra
got 3 monitors,
bread and milk with my $5/25
will get the $25 heart mir
ra#2
wags x 4
1 monitor
paid tax 1.20
sav 79.99
wags #1 & #2
needed to roll some rr's and didn't want to loose too much so I used the $2/1 x 4 man q's 1.50 candy rr and 10 joint juice rr
8 nyquil
4 airwicks
4 filler candies
4 ester c vitamin c's
winn dixie...found lots of tear pads
6 cure 81 hams bogo and $3/1 used 6 q's
3 4#bags of potatoes used $1/1 wt
2 packages of rolls ....no q
8 2liter .79 diet rites...reg 1.69 woohoo
38.xx
I got $60 in just hams....so I am ok with the total - really wished I had a 10/50 but it printed me one for next weeks.... so yea~!~
fw
10 marcals
Sat
wags
we found 8 more oil airwicks
& 2 at another
wd
got sodas
crackers
meat
and rc bogo cure 81 hams...the store accepted my expired q's with them. alright!!!!!!!!!!
Dollar General
5 x 3.74 the p&g body wash deal
ra $8
tax on the monitors and $2 for the nuts I got...used the $5/25 and still ended up with 7.xx oop
Walmart
8.xx 13 seapak poppers
Cvs
used up $10 ecb about to expire
got 4 of the glade reed diffusers,.,,,,
several at the q lunch were raving about them.. Must say I like them too.
oop 4.xx
Need to get to the bank.....have a stack of cks to cash
Posted 02-18-2010 at 10:11:04 PM by thickbluebug
Updated 02-22-2010 at 11:59:06 AM by thickbluebug - February Stockpile challenge
2/22/2010
Cashed 142.00 in mir checks and stockpile trades
more spending totals to report
lunch for coupon meeting 1.96 & 3.26
wags
9 airwicks and filler candy
saved 72.44 oop 3.41
wags
3 airwicks and filler candy
saved 16.43
oop .79
dollar g
3 lotions
tt 3.05
saved 3.00
dg
3 lotions
4.42
saved $3
dg
4.42
saved $3
dg
3 lotions
tt
3.74
saved $3
walmart
59.75
office supplies
-26.97
wags
bayer scalpacin 3 msktr trufl
2.99 x 10 5.99 .69x2 .67 .62
saved 38.51
tt 3.55
wm x 3
5.17 pizza
5.58Posted 02-22-2010 at 11:53:45 AM by thickbluebug - February stockpile challenge
Incoming:
440.50 stockpile trades and mirs
food, drug store, fruit stand, dinning out:
253.33
Since I am keeping my mirs for my slush funds.....I won't be green
Shopping left:
pizza, seafood, steak and if a local store has triples....lots of processed junk.
Plus I have several mirs of salty snacks to do....the upc were thrown away. My area has just started needing them for the heine forms.
Posted 02-22-2010 at 09:35:41 PM by thickbluebug - February stockpile challenge
35.00 incoming x 3
Walmart
7 boxes of shrimp x 4
4.64
Dollar G
olay bodywash
? added as $20 - I have gotten 6 sets - all diff prices
3 were for 1.xx - clearance to 1.46 each and 1/1 coupons - nice deal
Produce store
23.xx counted as 24.00
Still trying to come up with a scenario for the ground meat at walmart. My mir calls for $20 worth - I am trying to double dip and use both the jennie o and the amstel one.....They both need orig upc's so I don't see how I can make it work.
Posted 02-24-2010 at 04:12:30 PM by thickbluebug
Updated 02-28-2010 at 01:08:02 AM by thickbluebug - Thickbluebug's February Stockpile Challenge
oop for papers
$15 and $15
have some ebay and pp trades to add up as well. This should have me caught up on trades
Good news my hair girl wants to barter stockpile for my cuts. I can now get haircuts again. She loves P&G stuff - razors, washes and lotions. Awesome~!~
Mother in law is taking us out tonight for dinner. Well 5pm, but that's technically dinner right?
Wow, Feb has turned out to be a great month for budget, stockpiling, and just good luck for this house. All the health tests are coming back negative - which is good. Thanks to the tax money we could even pay $525 before a test yesterday.
LOL, got to think positive!
More crt's I have missed this month:
shrimp poppers 4.06 tt 4.94 x4
saved $7 x 4
wags
tt 2.92
saved 47.32
fw
saved 16.90
2.37
wags
airwicks/papers
4.03subtt 6.43 tt
saved 104.50
wags
airwick dayquil ester c
4.45 sub tt 9.04
saved 89.45
Posted 02-26-2010 at 11:34:24 AM by thickbluebug
Updated 02-28-2010 at 09:47:11 AM by thickbluebug - Thickbluebug's Feb stockpile challenge results:
130.76 out
105.00 in
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prev totals
Incoming:
440.50 stockpile trades and mirs
food, drug store, fruit stand, dinning out:
253.33
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440.50 + 105.00 = 545.50
130.76 + 253.33 = 384.09 (over my budget of (365.xx)
81%
Should have been higher. Missing at least 4 (that I know of) monitors and 6 for airwicks .....both should have pushed my percentage rate on up
Best I can do - some of my saving figures from the crts are gone - mirs have been submitted and I can't reconstruct,Posted 02-28-2010 at 09:48:58 AM by thickbluebug
