$2 Costumes at Old Navy

Wow, so glad Autumn let me know about this one. Are you in a last minute hurry for a costume? Head on over to the Old Navy near you for this sale. I don't know what is left, but might be worth a peek. If you are at Rivertown, don't forget to stop by their offices for a free tote of goodies and coupons. They could be handy with Christmas coming up!

Last Flick's Film

Celebration Cinema is hosting the last week of a Film Fest for Families. All the films are PG and free to those under 12. It is just $2.50 for adults. Visit celebrationcinema.com for theatres and showtimes. This weeks showing is Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.


October 30- Nov 5 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Wow, my friend Kelly posted about a bag of coupons and goodies that she picked up at the Rivertown Crossing Mall in Grandville MI today. Some of them even have a $10 off coupon in them. Then you can bring the bag back on their anniversary filled with canned goods for the food for the West Michigan Food Drive and recieve a $20 gift certificate for the mall. Fun find Kelly, thanks for sharing!

Complimentary Anniversary Tote Bags
10/26/2009 - 11/6/2009
Wow, my friend Kelly posted about a bag of coupons and goodies that she picked up at the Rivertown Crossing Mall in Grandville MI today. Some of them even have a $10 off coupon in them.
Visit the Mall Office Reception Center during weekday office hours from October 26 – November 5, 2009 for your complimentary Anniversary Tote!* Each stylish tote is filled with special retailer offers & anniversary giveaways and random totes are seeded with $10.00 Mall Gift Cards!

*RIVERTOWN CROSSINGS ANNIVERSARY TOTES. Receive one (1) tote per family while supplies last. Must be 18 years or older to participate. Customer need not have tote to donate to the ACCESS of West Michigan Food Drive.

LOCATION: Mall Management Office

TIME: 8:30am-5pm

CONTACT: 616-257-5000

ACCESS of West Michigan Food Drive Celebrate RiverTown Crossings 10 years in the community and receive a FREE Mall Gift Card when you donate to ACCESS of West Michigan! Fill your exclusive Anniversary Tote* with canned or packaged food items and bring it with you to the RiverTown Crossings Anniversary Celebration on November 6 to receive a free $20.00 Mall Gift Card*.

Tuesdays Table

First I went to Walgreens since I had some Register Rewards that were going to expire Tuesday if not used. I didn't have a big need or deal list, so I just picked up a couple items that would give me Register Rewards for the next time. These were free after Register Rewards. Since I used a RR to pay, my out of pocket was $1.80 and I received $5.50 to use next time..

My next stop was Meijer. Again I didn't have a huge list of deals this week. But I thought the Snuggle Fabric Softener worth the trip for .49 each after coupon. The 16 oz. Mini Wheats were on sale for $1.88. I had two coupons for .75 from the back of cereal boxes and one coupon from in a cereal box for $1 off fruit. And I knew if I bought 3 Kellogg's cereal I would get a coupon for a free milk. It was a good week to find a milk deal, since it is over $2 this week. Life was on sale for $1.79 and my husband said I could buy as much as I could afford. My cost without coupons was over $47 and my out of pocket was $29, plus I will submit a $2 rebate on the Palmolive.


The last leg of my mini marathon was Family Fare. They had Oreos for $2!!! We love oreos and I have school parties to send them too. So I used my $1 off of 2 coupons from a Kraft mailing on those.



Then to finish out my busy day I also went to 3 parent teacher conference, an Orchestra Concert for Half Buck, and took the car into the shop. Whew, it is kinda nice to be grounded at home for a day without wheels.

Flick's Family Film Fest

Celebration Cinema is hosting a Film Fest for Families. All the films are PG and free to those under 12. It is just $2.50 for adults. Visit celebrationcinema.com for theatres and showtimes. This weeks showing is Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

October 23-29 Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs
October 30- Nov 5 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

100 Free Pictures

See Here from Fuji Film is offering 100 free prints for new accounts and you have to pay shipping. I think I might be taking that Christmas Card picture of the kiddos today, opening my account and placing my order over HERE. It looks like you have to use the code Prints at checkout. Thanks My Frugal Adventures.

Tuesdays Table

Yay, another good week at Meijer. I spent $21 earlier this week getting milk and some basics at Aldi's. I can't believe it, but I'm about at the end of my 30 boxes of cereal stash and needed to pick up a couple kid favorites over there until I find another stellar deal. In the meantime, I was able to get my pickles with a rain check from last month. The Ore Ida and the Jello had Meijer Mealbox coupons as well as manufacturer ones. Then as a bonus, I found one more Ore Ida coupon that had printed from an order before me from the Catalina machine! I needed the Q Tips and so I looked it up on Savings Angel for the best price and a coupon and didn't end up at full price on that item. If you buy 5 Stove Top Stuffing at $1.09, then you got $4 off Ground Beef for your next purchase. So for $5.78 I got 2 lbs Angus ground beef and 5 Stove Top Stuffing (and yes, I use this in a recipe of chicken my family loves). So my out of pocket today was $18. 84.




SavingsAngel.com ™ - Meijer list

Flick's Family Film Fest

Celebration Cinema is hosting a Film Fest for Families. All the films are PG and free to those under 12. It is just $2.50 for adults. Visit celebrationcinema.com for theatres and showtimes. This weeks showing is Monsters vs Aliens.


October 16-22 Monsters vs. Aliens
October 23-29 Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs
October 30- Nov 5 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Bread Making

Okay, what is this all over my counter? Bread mixes made by me.: Winter cometh and I am longing for stews and soups and crockpotty type dishes with homemade bread. Do you still have that bread maker on a shelf somewhere? This is what I do with mine. I make my favorite mix up ahead. Since I had scored some flour at .99 and the season is right, it was time to mix some more up. How many do I do at a time? Well that is decided by how many plastic bags or how much ingredients I have. I was hoping to use up the last of my whole wheat flour but ran out of plastic bags. If you notice that the bags all look different, I have a confession to make: I wash out my ziplocks untill they are dead (so now you know how frugal I am :). Here is my favorite recipe:

Whole Wheat Bread - large loaf

Bread Flour (I use regular) 2 1/2 Cups
Whole Wheat Four 1/2 Cup
Salt 1 1/2 teaspoons
Sugar 3 Tablespoons
Dry Milk 1 1/2 Tablespoons

All the above into the ziplock bags.

Warm tap water 1 1/8 Cups
Add the bag
Dry Yeast: 1 teaspoon for bread setting, 2 tsp for bread rapid setting
Butter 1 1/2 tablespoon

Tuesday's Table

Meijer had a lot of deals with money off on your next order (or ONYO) that I wanted to get. The Cream of Mushroom were for .65 and if you bought 5 with any Pepperidge Farm Bread, you got $5 off your next order. Be sure and look for the lowest price bread to increase your savings. The Ziplock gave me $2 and the Swansons gave $1. All of course were on sale and had coupons. So I did all this in one order at self check out for $10.22 after coupons. There is also a rebate for ziplocks.


I then did this second order, using those discounts from above. I paid just over $5 for this order, including 5 pound of pork roast (I had them cut it up in chops). The catalina machine also gave me one more $1 for the Swansons broth. Below you can see my Meijer list from Savings Angel. Sure hope some of you got over there to visit during their open house last week. Drop me a comment and tell me what you thought.



SavingsAngel.com Meijer Shopping List

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Walgreens

I'm finally really excited about Walgreens deals this week. I went early so the shelves would be stocked. If you buy 8 items of Skippy or Ragu, you get $8 in register rewards. Each item was $1.67, so even without coupons, this was a great price...provided you don't let that register reward expire. So I took my Ragu and Skippy out to the car and came back in and bought $10 worth of Granola bars with some coupons and used the $8 register reward to pay for them. And for spending the $10, I got $5 register reward. I was going to use that toward the Huggies deal going right now: 2/$18 with a $4 register reward. There are $2 printable coupons out there, making this a 2/$10 deal. So I will be going back to do this later in the week. Since I used some register rewards from a week or so ago, everything below was around $8 out of pocket. You can check out my Savings Angel list here:
SavingsAngel.com Walgreens List

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Okay, I went back for those diapers and paid just over $10 out of pocket and got $4 register rewards for another day!

Flick's Film Festival

Celebration Cinema is hosting a Film Fest for Families. All the films are PG and free to those under 12. It is just $2.50 for adults. Visit celebrationcinema.com for theatres and showtimes. This weeks showing is Night at the Musuem.

October 9-15 Night at the Museum
October 16-22 Monsters vs. Aliens
October 23-29 Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs
October 30- Nov 5 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Financial Peace

Well, the Prof and I have been faithfully going to our class and completing our homework in the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace class. It has been challenging and helpful. We are now usin a Zero Sum Budget for October. Basically we made a budget that accounts for all the money we are spending this month. If we need to change things, we need to talk about and make adjustments together. I was wondering what could possibly come up that didn't fit a catagory of this fairly thorough budget. While a couple unexpected things have come up, the one we couldn't find a catagory for was the Tooth Fairy for Two Bits lost tooth. The really "Duh" moment for me was: we need to make a new budget every month. We have made a budget every year or so through our almost 20 years of marriage. And they have helped us with the big general plan. But there is always something coming up that surprises us, something that shouldn't: insurance bill, school photos, Christmas. Little things like that. Hopefully doing this each month will help us be more prepared. Now just waiting for one of the colleges to start paying us after 5 weeks in class!

Tuesday's Table

I didn't need any of the Meijer deals this week, so I had fun at Family Fare instead. They had $5 back on a $15 Pillsbury purchase. And in addition, if you bought 6 refridgerator items, you go $4 back as well. So I have $9 off my next purchase there and my out of pocket cost was $8.34. Yep, that is a profit of .66 for buying the items in the photo. You can also take these coupons and do the deal again! I might have to see what my printer can do. If you click below, you can see my Savings Angel list for this trip.


SavingsAngel.com ? - cut your Grocery Bill in HALF through Enlightened Shopping! ?

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Today is the first day of a free peek at Savings Angel! If you are wondering what I'm so jazzed about, come and take a look over the next 3 days. You can visit from October 6th through the 8th. Just head on over to savingsangel.com.

My latest way to make use of Savings Angel is to have a grocery list all set up with all those hard to find a sale items on it. Each week I can just peek at my list and see if it is time to stock up on my favorite laundry detergent. They show me where to find the coupons and what the percent off is.

Contract Testing

If you are in the Grand Rapids area and would like to make a little pocket money, I have an idea for you. I have been tast testing or prodcut sampling products for Contract Testing for several years now. This has become a nice little money maker for our family. We have helped to review cereal, fast food, diapers, tissue, and toliet paper as well as hand wipes and granola bars. The company is called Contract Testing. They pay $20 and up for 45 minutes of your time or more. I have been paid up to $50 for going in twice in one week! Of course, they don't say it is pay, merely a “co-operation fee” that is not intended to pay you for your time but rather is given to you to emphasize the importance of the research, but it is cash baby! You can check them out and register online HERE. We have had lots of opportunities because so many new products are directed at children. So they really seem to like the 8 to 12 year old set. I think the only one in my family who hasn't tested something is our 5 year old Cents. So give it a go and leave me a comment about how you like it.

Saving's Angel Open House Tomorrow!

Just click the picture above and check out the open house Octber 6th through the 8th. I would love to know what you think.

Flick's Family Film Fest

Celebration Cinema is hosting a Film Fest for Families. All the films are PG and free to those under 12. It is just $2.50 for adults. Visit celebrationcinema.com for theatres and showtimes. This weeks showing is Aliens in the Attic.

October 9-15 Night at the Museum
October 16-22 Monsters vs. Aliens
October 23-29 Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs
October 30- Nov 5 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Halloween Coupons

A buck at Wendy's will get you a booklet of 10 free Frosty Jr.s! Or you can take that buck over to McDonald's and get 13 free items including apple dippers, hamburger, icecream, milk, and juice.

Savings Angel Open House

Okay, if you are a little curious about Savings Angel, it sounds like a great chance to take a peek. Savings Angel is having an open house October 6 - 8th. Just head on over to savingsangel.com.

I have been amazed at how much I save through this site. You can make up a list for your store, with the coupon match up and print links right there. Items are listed by the percent off. You can search by item, coupon, sale, store. They have community pages where the diehard share the other deals they find at the grocery store and elsewhere. Come and see what it's all about.