goldenblaise:

I spent $14.59 out of pocket and used $107.55 worth of coupons. Let me tell you this made me feel great!

WOW!! Way to go cyn!!!

 goldenblaise,

Fantastic! May I ask where you get all those coupons?

 Where I live, the Albertson's stores have just beens old & become "Fresh Market" stores.  Today I stopped in on my way home & theyw ere clearing out all the apple juice with the Albertson's name on it for $1 a bottle (usually $2.99. I bought 10, because that is all I had $$ and room to store.  I also bought 2 tubs of spreadable cream cheese for DH from a bargain basket, for half price - again, they had the Albertson's name on them.  I suspect in the next few weeks, there will be many more unadvertised, in-store bargains like this as they switch over from Albertson's brand to Western Family everything.

Our local Macey's grocery store had paper towels for 38 cents a roll as a loss leader, along with yogurts for 33 cents each.  I bought 10 of the paper towels & 21 of the yogurts, since DH uses them for lunches at work. They also had milk for $1.67 a gallon & I bought 2.  Cream cheese was 97 cents each, & I bought 10, for upcoming holiday stuff. I can't make pies very well using the gluten-free flours, but I can use the MiDell gluten-free ginger cookies for fake graham cracker crusts, so  cheesecake is the new pie for holidays at our house.

So last night I was online shopping for a wedding shower gift.  Kohl's had a buy one/get one sale.  My sisters and I are going in and thought about $75 would be a good amount to spend.  So I picked out a $60 item, figuring that we'd be getting $120 worth of stuff.  SO anyhow.  I place the order, using a 30% off coupon.  With tax and shipping, the price was $54 something.  So then 10 minutes later, I'm thinking with the great BOGO sale, maybe I should buy their wedding gift.  Go back tot he site, only to notice everything is HALF OFF!  WITH the BOGO!!  It apparently was a glitch because it wouldn't give me the BOGO in my shopping bag after I had canceled the first order.  I called back and they said it shouldn't show up but they would honor it.  Long story short, Got the same two $60 items for $31 including tax and shipping!  YAY ME!!  My sisters were pretty excited too!

I had a pair of great, old, sneakers that had very thick, cushiony rubber on the bottom but the rubber on the top in the front had split from wear.

They've still got a lot of use to them so I had just glued a piece of leather over the hole but then I saw a site where they decorate shoes and bags so I decided to do something to these.

I glued individual strips of ribbon on the front (keeping the leather patch to seal the hole) and I embroidered a wider ribbon and glued that along the sides and I embroidered a small design on a new pair of shoelaces that I had in the house so now they look better than new!

cycler:

I glued individual strips of ribbon on the front (keeping the leather patch to seal the hole) and I embroidered a wider ribbon and glued that along the sides and I embroidered a small design on a new pair of shoelaces that I had in the house so now they look better than new!

That's so cool!  Can you post a picture of them?

 I'll see - now they're all black except for the laces so I don't know if any of the detail will show.

I put a up new shelf in my kitchen pantry closet today. I finally had the time to paint all the parts yesterday & the day before, & today the shelf went in.  Lots of labor, but the finished product cost NOTHING!!    There was 29" of empty space above the top shelf, & this house has very little storage, so an extra shelf adds 25% more shelf space in this closet.  On Saturday I hope to put another shelf in the top of the coat closet.The parts are already painted.

The shelf boards came from freecycle about 5 months ago, leftovers from installing shelves in a child's bedroom. The small support boards came from the same freecycle batch,& the white paint came from freecycle about 8 months ago.  I have used the paint on a wall in the dining room, a wall in the library, & now on these shelves.  The 5 screws I used were leftover from putting up the fruit shelves in one side of the cubby 2 years ago, & I already had the paintbrush. 

There is space for 2 more shelves in the pantry closet, under those that came installed, to hold home bottled food. I would like to install those, but they will have to wait until I find more wood on freecycle.

seaturtle:

Fantastic! May I ask where you get all those coupons?

I'm signed up at Food Lion for the're weekly email. It has coupons for store brand foods. I look around the internet for coupon that go with the bogo sales. I get a free news paper in my town every week that has some coupons for the local produce market and 2-3 grocery stores. And I get adverts in the mail, they come in a pack together and have mostly Pizza or Buger coupons but sometimes it will have coupns for food stuffs or toothpaste ect. Some of the grocery stores I shop at will print coupns off when your done shopping, sometimes for products or money off with a purchase. I try to save all my coupons up for the sales.

cyn

goldenblaise:

And I get adverts in the mail, they come in a pack together

I signed up for the grocery flyers when we first moved here, &they come in an advertising pack, too.  Ours come on Tuesday becasue the ad change date is Wednesday.  If I work Sunday nights, sometimes I can snag a newpaper at work before they get thrown away. (The hospital provides them to each patient.) DH brings home a couple of different newspapers every night when I ask him to - since he works at a university, they have the NY Times, the local paper & the univeristy paper available to him.  Oldest DD heats with a wood stove & doesn' t take her local paper, so we save them in a box & take them over when we visit. Keeps the papers out of the trash & puts them to good use.

Last night I finished the black/white sock #3 & started knitting on socks #4.  I work a shift at the Family History library today, & am on-call tonight, so I won't have a lot of time to knit today.