Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, I have spent most of the day with my husband and one of my little men, Blakey. We have been out shopping and trecking the wild roads. It is crazy out there. Anyway, I hope if you go out today that you be careful it is cold and crazy out there (at least it is over here). If your not local and you have no snow, I'm jealous!

Anyway, I did manage to do a shop today and saved $101 and only spent $1.03! Oh, and I got a $3 Catalina back from the Pillsbury promo. Yep, I did that at Albertson's, but we are in a mad rush to get things put away (well......my husband is, I'm sitting here blogging). :) So, anyway I am not able to get a picture. Anyway, if you are doing the promo on the back page of the ad and you are doing it with some Pillsbury "stuff," make sure that your $5 comes off. I have tried it at two different Albertsons and it does not want to come off. They can manually make it come off for you, so just keep an eye on that.

So, my dad is coming into town this afternoon and will be in town all weekend, so I will not have time to blog as I will be spending the next few days with my family, although all my family is not here. We have family in Oregon, Arizona, and Wyoming still. So, we will definitely miss of all them, but we will get to see most of at Christmas, which we are super excited for!

This is just a time for "me" to really think about what "I" am thankful for and really really make the most out of what "I" have and the awesome life that "I" have. "I" really really am very lucky!

So, please, yes, go get some good deals, but also take the time out for "yourself," before everything REALLY starts to get busy and "remind" yourself of what you have to be thankful for. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in "our" lives that we need to be reminded of how "great" we have it.

When I get like this, for some reason (maybe it has to do with one of my little brothers), I tend to think about all of the men and women over in Iraq and all of those crazy places "fighting" for us and the way that they have to live their everyday lives. I tend to think about how I get to sleep in my own bed, get to be annoyed with my own kiddos, get to drive in this crapy weather, get take a nap when I want, work in the comfort of  my own home with my kids around me, get to drink coffee when I want, heck I can even work in my PJs if I want which I often do, and celebrate Thanksgiving with most of my family. I think about how they would give to do all of the things and then some of what I just listed.

Well, many many thanks to those men and women who are "fighting for us," and many many thanks to their families for sharing them with us, so we could go on about "our" lives like we do. THANK YOU!

I just want to take this time and tell you all (all of my supporters) and your friends and family HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I hope you all have a wonderful, happy, and safe Thanksgiving! Try not to eat too much. Can I just share that I'm not doing so well in the eating department? Can I just say that I LOVE FOOD?!

Thank you all for supporting my blog and taking the time to read what I have to share with you!! THANK YOU!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Cheryl

My Husband's Recent Shopping Trip and mine too.....

Remember yesterday, when I had said that my husband had done a shop for me. Well, let me explain a little first, before I show you what he did.

I went to Albertsons the night before (didn't have time to take a picture because as soon as I walked in the door hubby started putting EVERTHING away). I had saved $97 and WAS SUPPOSED to spend around $5 or so. Well, I ended up spending $10-something. Something did not seem right, but I was in a hurry and thought that I would just figure it out when I got home. IT WAS WAY TOO COLD outside and roads were slick. I just wanted to get home.

Okay, so I bought (all on one transaction and no picture)
20-Green Giant Frozen Veggies (I LOVE these and I can have a whole box of Cauliflower with cheese sauce for ONLY 3 points!) 5 for $5, but when you buy 10 you save an EXTRA $0.50 off of each one (Thanks Tammy!)
-10 various coupons from the "older" $70 in savings Safeway book and from the "newer" $60 in savings Safeway book
=FREE!

16-Cans of Green Giant Veggies $0.47
-$1/4 from Safeway book
=$3.52

2-Pillsbury Sweet Rolls $1.49 (part of the save $5 when you buy 10)
-$1/2 from Safeway booklet
=$1.98, making them $0.99 each!

4-Pillsbury Cresents $1.49 (part of the save $5 when you buy 10)
-$1/2 from Safeway booklet X2
=$3.96, making them $0.99 each

4-Blue Bonnet margarine $0.49 (part of the save $5 when you buy 10)
=$1.96

3-Theraflu $4.49 each (Part of when you buy $15 worth of certain cold medicine products you get a $5 Cat back)
-$2/1 Any Theraflu product X3 (you will need more than one computer)
= $7.47

-3 doublers
-$5 Catalina from previous purchase
-$5 Reward
-$5 instant savings X2 (should have been three). Two for the frozen Green Giant Veggies and one for the Pillsbury and Bue Bonnet. Apparently the one for the Pillsbury and Blue Bonnet did not come off.  (Thanks again Tammy)

Any my total should have been $5-somethin', instead it was $10-something. Plus, I got back a $3 Cat for the Pillsbury and a $5 Cat for the Theraflu. So, after getting my money back I actually made money on this transaction. So, now, after getting my money back, I actually saved $102 and spent $5-somethin'!

Okay, so, since my husband has been off, he has been taking little Faithy to school, which works great for me 'cause then I can just keep workin'. So, I knew I had a big day ahead of me yesterday with trying to catch up on my work before being "off" today (still not off, still trying to catch up). So, I asked my husband if he would do a run for me before coming home AND HE DID!

So, I sent my receipt with him and explained to him about what had happened with the $5 not coming off of my order. Well, after deal with the rude customer service. You know she sat and argued with him that he was wrong and that it happened because he used coupons so the total was not up to $30. WHAT?! $30?! WHERE IN THE WORLD DID SHE GET HER INFORMATION?! She's not even spouting out the right information! He tried showing her the ad, but she instead asked 10 other people or "told" 10 other Albie workers why they cannot give him his $5 back. Really?! I am so amazed that these people even have jobs. Really?! This is how you treat people coming into give your store business so you can make a paycheck?! My husband is much like me and is very patient and respectful (I think he is more so than me, shhh), so I KNOW he didn't give a 'tude. Well, actually, when you go into this Albertsons you don't have to give tude at all, because they have enough for you and your neighbor. Anyway, after one of the managers walks by (the 10th person she is asking/informing), they tell her "no, it doesn't matter how much money he spends, it's the items." Which is what my husband was trying to tell/show her before she ran off. She totally acted like he was not there. Anyway, long story short, he got my $5 back! Yay!

Then, he went and did these two transactions.......

Here is transaction #1:

20-Green Giant Frozen Veggies (I LOVE these and I can have a whole box of Cauliflower with cheese sauce for ONLY 3 points!) 5 for $5, but when you buy 10 you save an EXTRA $0.50 off of each one (Thanks Tammy!)

-$1/2 10 various coupons from different sources

=FREE!

18-Cans of Green Giant Veggies (corn) $0.47

-$0.50/2 ordered from Ebay a while back X9

=$3.96

2-Hefty foam plates at $2 each

-$1/1 Hefty plates from Safeway booklet X2

-2 doublers

=FREE

After looking at the receipt, it looks like they doubled $1 instead of $0.50, so we got $0.50 overage on this order.

Also, I still had $1 left on my gift card that I won from their Facebook promo. So, TOOP was $2.02! He saved $71.64!

Transaction #2

10-Ragu $.99 each when you buy 10 (part of the buy 10 save $5)

-5 $1/2

-3 doublers

Total out of pocket on this one was $1.90. He saved $14! So, between the both he saved $85.64 and spent a total of $3.92 OOP! Wow, he did AWESOME! PLUS, he got my 5 bucks back!

Wow, I think I have enough frozen veggies! These come in real handy for my lunches during the day. I think I amset for a while now.

You know, I'm thinking you could combine the frozen veggies with the promotion on the back page of the buy 10 save 5. Maybe get some frozen veggies, Ragu, and some Pillsbury. Get two Ragu, two Pillsbury, and 6 frozen veggies. Use the $1/2 from the booklets or from other sources for the Ragu, Pillsbury, and frozen veggies. Maybe even try to throw in the "free pasta" coupon when you buy two Ragu from recent insert and score some free pasta too! Use three doublers and it should be FREE with maybe $0.04 overage! That might work! I really don't see why it wouldn't work. :)

Thanks!

Cheryl