04.06.10 / Uncategorized / Author: TWGranE / Comments: (0)
Did you get your P&G coupon in Saturday’s Ottawa Herald?
Here are this week’s coupon match-ups with Country Mart & Walgreens.
Country Mart April 7-13
* Dawn dish liquid soap 99¢, P&G coupon for 50¢ , FINAL PRICE – 49¢
* Charmin 9 roll $3.88, P&G coupon for 25¢ (CM will double this). FINAL PRICE $3.38.
* Tampax Tampons or Always Pads: 2 for $6. P&G Coupon Buy one get one free. FINAL PRICE 2 for $3.
* Pringles Potato Crisp: On sale 2 for $3. P&G coupon $1 off 4. FINAL PRICE 4 for $5.
Walgreens Advertised Sale Prices, good April 4-10
* Tide Laundry Detergent: on sale for $5.99, P&G coupon $1 off. FINAL PRICE $4.99.
* Pampers Diapers: on sale for $8.99. P&G coupon $1.50. FINAL PRICE $7.49.
* Natural Instincts on sale for $5.99. P&G coupon $3. FINAL PRICE $2.99.BEST DEAL OF THE WEEK?
Country Mart’s Dawn dish detergent 49¢ with coupon.
If you stocked up on Joy last coupon round, you should be about ready for new detergent!
03.30.10 / Uncategorized / Author: TWGranE / Comments: (0)
Tags: Children, garage sale, math, school, Wizard
At my last parent-teacher conference the teacher was pleased to announce that my first grader is a MATH WIZ. Really? Math, you don’t say? That’s nice. HOW?!
It’s not like I’ve worked with her with flashcards since her high-chair days (Oh, those commercials drive me nuts, pleeaaase!).
The teacher continues her excitement, “Yes! She is the only one in my class that has a full grasp on money and change.
Oh, I get it now! Perhaps this teacher doesn’t realize how many garage sales this poor little girl has had to endure. I did the dragging, but little Miss Math/Garage Sale Wizard did the shopping! This one ain’t shy. Before I can browse through a box of book titles, she is up at the card table asking if they would take a quarter for a toy, shoes or anything that sparkles.
She found out early that mama wasn’t going to buy her everything just because it was cheap. Really how many Little Pony’s do you need? That’s when she started taking (and buying!) little purses to throw all her found change in.
We started early.
At first she would need help identifying coins (The quarters are the big ones.). Then we worked on how much each was worth, followed by adding and making change.
She has it down, sometimes even assisting the poor little lady who is adding items with her industrial-sized adding machine next to her muffin-tin change organizer.
Last week my daughter was all excited saying that she had to get some old toys priced and, “Oh, could you make some cookies and maybe some granola bars?”
I’m thinking I must have missed something on a school note. It’s not like the teacher uses flashcards with us parents. I’m lucky to read school notes half of the time. But as I’m going through the assortment of gold star math papers, I find verification of my Little Miss Math Wiz demands — A Math Class Garage Sale.
Each child is to bring 25¢ in dimes, nickels and pennies along with low priced items. A math class garage sale! How ingenious! I wonder where are on earth the teacher came up with such a brilliant idea.
She’s a garage sale wizard
There’s got to be a twist
A garage sale wizard
She’s got a coin purse on her wrist
How do you think she does it?
(I don’t know)
What makes her so good?
She ain’t got no distractions
Can see the bargains and deals
Doesn’t let high stickers stop her
Pays only in small bills
Always gets a bargain
Never over-pays at all
That Math/Garage Sale Wizard
Sure has a bargain ball!
03.18.10 / Uncategorized / Author: TWGranE / Comments: (0)
Tags: Baseball, Dress, Fashion, Garnett, Thrift
Ever hear of triple tags?
In baseball triple plays are rare. In thrifting it’s even rarer, but when it happens it is worth celebrating with a warm bag of peanuts and an oversized beverage!
Last week it happened to me. I found myself shopping in the quaint little village nestled between three lakes otherwise known as Garnett.
Garnett also has something else going for it. A nostalgic square. With a three-story antique store, a natural food store, several unique gift shops and a new coffee shop, it is thriving now more than ever. Nestled in all this commerce is the good old ARC Thrift Store.
The ARC Thrift Store is run by fellow Granny-type volunteers. The gem of the store is that anything not marked is $1.50. This makes it enticing to do a quick browse every week or so.
Last week, I snatched a complete outfit, new with tags. The dress was a knee length cotton design with a modern bold flower design, the bonus was the loose-fitted calf length leggies that came with it.
Here’s the the Triple Tag Play – it had the original store tag on it ($50), a Goodwill tag on it ($5) and here I was stuffing it in my cart for $1.50.
In case you’re thinking that dress must have been ugly to have been passed down so many times, I don’t think so. I received a near-record number of compliments when I wore it, and not one time did I reveal my cost. Sure, folks may have been being kind to the Granny in a $1.50 outfit, but my co-workers and friends are often brutally honest!
The only way this outfit could break it’s current record is for someone to buy it when I grow tired of it at my garage sale for a quarter!
Then, TAG – You’re it!
02.11.10 / Uncategorized / Author: TWGranE / Comments: (0)
Good news for Herald Subscribers.
This week’s Saturday paper was the debut for a new coupon saver insert — P&G brandSAVER with savings of more than $121!
Here are this week’s coupon match-ups with Country Mart & Walgreens.
Country Mart February 10-16
- Charmin 9 Roll: on sale for $3.98 ea, P&G coupon for 30¢ (CM will double this!), FINAL PRICE – $3.38
- Tide Stain Release: on sale for $4.99, P&G coupon for $1, FINAL PRICE $3.99. You can get this product free with the purchase of Tide detergent.
- Joy dish detergent: On sale for 99¢, P&G coupon 30¢ (doubled 60¢). FINAL PRICE 39¢
- DayQuil liquid or liquid gels: on sale for $3.99, P&G coupon $1.50. FINAL PRICE $2.49!
Walgreens Advertised Sale Prices, good February 7-13
- Swiffer Sweeper Starter Kit: on sale for $9.99, P&G coupon get FREE Refill ($5.99 savings).
- Febreze Air Effects: on sale for $2.50, P&G coupon $1 off. FINAL PRICE $1.50. Note: If you buy both of these products for a total of $11.49, you receive an extra $2 in REGISTER REWARDS.
- Scope: on sale for $3.99, P&G coupon $1 off. FINAL PRICE $2.99.
- Gillette Fusion Razor: regular price $8.99, register reward $4, P&G coupon $4 off, like paying 99¢.
- Prilosec OTC: on sale for $24.99, P&G coupon for $3. FINAL PRICE $21.99.
- Metmucil: on sale for $9.99, P&G coupon for $3. FINAL PRICE $6.99.
- Nice ‘n Easy Perfect 10 hair color: on sale for $9.99, P&G coupon $5. FINAL PRICE $4.99 Note: Buy 3 of the three products above and get $10 in register rewards!
- DayQuil: Forget it, cheaper at Country Mart
- Cover Girl Make-Up: Walgreens special, Buy one, get one half off. P&G coupon – Buy one get one FREE.
- PROx: on sale $42.99/$62.99. If you are going to lay down the dough, go ahead and pick up your FREE body lotion and deodorant (P&G Coupon).
BEST DEAL OF THE WEEK?
Country Mart’s Joy dish detergent 39¢ with double coupon.
I hate spending any money at all to buy something that you need for a chore!
01.07.10 / Uncategorized / Author: TWGranE / Comments: (0)
Tags: clearance sale lay a-way Christmas bike cold bargain blessing
I witnessed an after-Christmas blessing.
A couple days after Christmas, I started the cold engine of my cold car on a very cold December evening to pick up my daughter at her workplace. Did I mention it was cold? And snowing.
Well, having a white Christmas is magical; going out in it at night not so much.
Anyway, I arrived just in time to see the last shoppers exiting the store. You know the ones who are escorted out while the lights are being turned off behind them, while the money drawer is being taken out and the locks are being turned as they proceed out the big double doors.
I am parked right up front in the official “Your mom’s freezing out here, hurry and count your drawer” lane. I have the perfect vantage point for watching these late-night shoppers.
They are cute, a little old lady and a young boy about 8 years old. Oh, how sweet. A grandma and a grandson — and what are they struggling with? A bike!
It’s then that I notice their expressions. Both the grandma and the grandson are absolutely bubbling over with excitement. I would go so far as to classify their expressions as pure joy. They are smiling from ear to ear, beaming like on an Orbit gum commercial.
They are flitting around her rather small car, quickly rejecting the trunk then moving on to the backseat, working together from both sides of the car to wedge the brand new silver bullet bike behind the front seats. I can’t hear them, but I can see they are talking rapidly.
Seems like Granny and youngster make a pretty good team because they are out of the parking lot before my daughter is clocked out.
She said: “Thanks and sorry you had to wait, but I set up a lay-away (Yes, Virginia, lay-away still exists in small town America) for that lady and her grandson, but then the bike rang up at clearance price of $36 and she had a gift certificate for $20, and she said, ‘Oh, we can buy that bike today!’
“So I had to call in a supervisor to cancel the lay-away and then start the process all over. But it was all worth it, because they were so happy. I think that little boy would have ridden that bike all the way home if it weren’t dark and snowing.”
Yes, finding a good deal is exciting, but watching someone else be blessed with a bargain is heartwarming.
