Walgreens #1 Super Savings

I made my first real trip to the new Walgreens (WAGS) Thursday. Since it's a new store I don't think they had gotten in everything in their flyer, which made me toss my list... I did get a rain check for the $1.99 domino sugar.
I left with 3 bags, mostly of school stuff. Can't beat a 10 pack of pens for 9 cents! The only thing I grabbed that wasn't on my list was 2 4 packs of dry erase markers for $1.99. The kids are LOVING the dry erase letter boards I got them, so much so the pens that came with them are drying out. Oh darn, the education... LOL!

I also took advantage of the Pert/Sure rebate that was in the coupon flyer this past weekend. Buy $5 worth of Pert & Sure & $5 of school supplies get $5 rebate by mail.

• 2 10 pack pens
• 4 2 packs pink erasers
• 2 10 pack mechanical pencils
• 2 4 pack dry erase markers
• 2 20 pack pens
• 1 4 pack highlighters
• 2 index cards
• 2 packs fill paper
• 2 pencil sharpeners
• 4 10 packs sheet protectors
• 1 6 pack koolaid drinks
• 1 pert plus
• 1 sure deodorant
• 1 degree for men

All for $25.67 after tax. Not too shabby! Most of it was just to stock up. I still have a few things from the list to pick up (they were out of the markers & crayons). They were also out of anything remotely useful in the buy $10 of Kellogg's get $5 in register rewards. I was hoping to stock up on the poptarts, but there wasn't 1 box in the store.

But, I still have the $5 rebate to mail in too! SO my total will be $21.09 figuring in the stamp! Not too bad for my first trip!

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10 Fun Things to do Before Labor Day

10 Fun Things to do Before Labor Day


1. Run under a sprinkler.
~Check! Washing the car was good for a soaking too!!!

2. Sleep outdoors.
~ It hasn't been dry enough to set up the tent outside, maybe I'll set it up in our dinning room!

3. Have a sunrise picnic in the garden.
~We have spontaneous picnics all the time, maybe I need to plan one!

4. Take a spin.
~Not for me... The kids have spun plenty!

5. Ring a bell.
~I'd need to get a bicycle first...

6. Eat most of your meals outdoors.
~Check! We have too, we moved the old dinning room table out on to our screened porch. We are getting a new table from my Grandma, we just have to go get it.

7. Eat a campfire treat—indoors.
~Check! We do s'mores every chance we get.

8. Stay up late for some stargazing.
~ Check! Goes hand in hand with the campfires!

9. Sing campfire songs and tell ghost stories.
~Not sure the kids are ready for creepy campfire stories, they are sensitive buggers!

10. Get a new flag and let it wave!
~Check! We bought a new one for Memorial Day.



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Blog the Recession

I read about this first at Adventures in Baby Wearing and then again today at 5 minutes for Mom.
The concept created by Mother hood Uncensored (and she is BTW!) is simply to click through your feeds & visit the site! Like she says, a jump in page views will at least boost egos!

Hey while your there browse a little, I try to click the adsense if it's there, I don't really do "donate" buttons, but a little PPC can't hurt anyone, right???

Enjoy the challenge & we'll get through this "recession" together!!!

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From my Feeds #4

Make it From Scratch Carnival

Vote yes for anti-procrastination, please!

Root & Sprout update

Simplify your life use GOOGLE READER. I just got into it more as part of the Thirty day challenge and don't know how I ever lived without it!!!

Part 1 of "The 6 Keys to a Disorganized, Unproductive Day at Home."

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Random Submbling around

Funny Metaphors used in high school essays.

Taste Spotting, or as some might say food porn LOL!

Writer's Block



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Household Budget

It's time to start analyzing our finances again. I have been avoiding this chore like I avoid weeding on a 90 degree day...

I started going through my receipts for the year so far. I entered all my 2nd quarter numbers into a spread sheet. My categories are Eat Out, Groceries/Household, Kids, Adults, House, Gas.


I am sure the gas and eating out numbers are off, hubby is terrible about keeping receipts. Spreadsheets like this are helpful to me because I can look and see that in May we were spending money 6 out of 14 days, 3 in a row, eek! I am pretty sure we were doing a project on the house, but still, we could have planned our trips a little better!

I am encouraged to see that we only spent $951.29 in the Grocery column. I included all household, toiletry and gift items in here as well. Most of the Kids purchases were baseball related.

I don't have any amounts for the bills we paid yet, that's step 2! Most of them are paid online, so it won't be hard to assemble that data. Then I can combine the numbers and paint a better picture to create a real budget, with a plan and everything!!! I am doing this now because I want to really cut the extras out, so I can start birthday and Christmas shopping.

Some helpful budgeting links:

Free Budget Forms

Simple Debt Free Living

Create a Budget

Kiplinger's Budget Tool

The Day My Personal Financial Statement Talked To Me


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Parade of Weekly Adventures 8-4 to 8-10

Mini Camp MTW 6-8

Zone 2 Kitchen missions
~Scrub down counters
~Clean out under sink
~Declutter Food storage, plastic stuff
~sweep & mop
EXTRAS
~ 27 fling boogie
~ wipe down outside of fridge, fingerprints, ewww

CVS/Walgreens/shopping lists
Check the school supplies

Daily
~Laundry
~Dishes
~Dust something
~Vacuum something
~Cook
~mail/file
~swish & swipe bathrooms
~email/30DC/Blog

Library program Monday - making tiles
Library program Wed - dance

Summer Rec M-W
Golf Th



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30 Day Challenge

30 DC day 3 transcripts are up.


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Recipe Links from 8-4 MPM

Won Ton Tacos

Salmon Turn Overs & Pretzel Chicken

Biscuits and sausage gravy

Pumpkin Dinner Rolls

Over Night Sticky Buns (Thanks to Organizing Connection)




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Menu Plan Monday

Picture is of our first LEMON cucumber, weird but tasty!

This week will be a busy one for us the Prince starts football mini-camp today. So that's 3 evenings we have to eat early

Things I will be making this week:


Main Meals:
Bubble Pizza Instead of refrigerator biscuits I will try the frozen homemade bread dough I have on hand. I use it for crusts, so why not. I'll just let it rise a little longer before baking.

Crockpot cream cheese chicken

Beef Pot Pie - using canned stew and pe crust

Grilled Walleye


Side Dishes:
Summer Squash - Fried Puffs

We have a lot of canned veggies so we'll be doing the veggies & rice thing a lot this week.

Snacks:
Peanut Butter Cookies


Check out other menu plans at Organizing Junkie

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I need a new toaster

I say "need" but it's more of a the one I have is only half working now so I'd better start shopping around...

Dream toaster (not even, for $200 it should have a timer and get the bread out for you!)

Viking 4-Slice Toaster

Toaster
The one at the top of the list so far...
4 Slice Classic Toaster- Black

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It is August first right?

My wisteria vine has gone nuts! It is blooming right now, as I type. I just found about 5 more buds ready to burst.



It's neighbor is just trying to take over my porch.


Pay no attention to the mating beetles, I need to spray again.


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The 30 Day Challenge is underway

30 DC day 1 videos are up.

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Root & Sprout

The August edition of Root & Sprout is up.

I finally got around to writing an article for the Flourish Frugally section!


You can still submit articles for the September edition
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