Frugal Schmugal

              Frugalness Series

We are HUGE Sooner fans.  My 13-year-old son's room is a Sooner room(wish my whole house was Soonerfide.  But, I'm trying to show restraint. :)  I'm always on the lookout for neat items to put in his room without it costing an arm and a leg.  Below is two examples of how to be frugal.  One cost $25 dollars and one costs $3. 

I first seen the red nutcracker(on the right) at Hallmark close to Christmas.  It plays music and moves up and down.  I liked it until I seen the price tag.  $50.  I set it back down and waited. After Christmas, it went on sale for 50% off.   For me, something different that's OU and $25 was a good buy.  I bought it and put it away to give at his birthday.

The basketball player on the left was recently aquired at a garage sale for $3!  It doesn't do anything special like the one on the right, but it is numbered on the bottom 100/500 and in great condition and my son loves it! Who knows how much it originally was.

There's many ways you can be frugal. These are just 2 examples. With Christmas around the corner, now is a great time to start looking for sales at garage sales, stores, etc.  You never know what you may find!

              Freebies and Printables

Crest Pro Health Gum Sample
Glade Sense and Spray from here
Free Pringles Extreme from here
Coupons.com has new IP's up.
$1/1 Clorox Wipes for liking them on FB from here
$1.50/1 Pillsbury Sweet Moments from here  These are yummy!
Free Sample Quaker Life Soft Baked Bars from here
.75/1 Mom's Best Naturals Oatmeal or Cereal from here *This will make the small container of oatmeal for free at Homeland and cheap at Wal-Mart*
$1/1 Quaker Oatmeal on Redplum.com *This will make for free or cheap oatmeal at Homeland*
$5/5 Kraft Cheese coupon has been reset. Go here
$1/2 Scotch Brite Pads for here *Free or cheap at Homeland*
$1/1 Keebler Coconut Dreams from here
Free Cottonelle Flushable Wipes from here

                 CVS-Made $3!

Here's a quick 15 minute run I did on the way home Sunday night at CVS.

Aqua Mist 4/$10
-2-BOGO from SS 8/8
Plus 2-$1/1 from here
= $3

Nivea Men Body Wash $4.99
-$1/1 RP 8/29
=$3.99

Tylenol Precise Heat Patch $5.99
-$2/1 from cvs.com coupon
-$2/1 SS 9/12
=$1.99

Skinitmate Shave Gel $3.99
-.75/1 SS8/1 or 8/22
=$3.24

Alive Multi Vitamin $9.99
-$1/1 from here
= $8.99

Brach's Candy Corn(Not in the pic) 99cents

SubTotal before coupons $35.95
Sub Totatl after coupons $22.18
Sub Total After ECB used 23cents!
Total ECB's I recieved back $16.98 How did I make $3??  I did 2 trx.  I started with only $14 in ECB's.  I made $1 on the  Alive Vitamin, and $2 on the Air Wick Mist.

Confused??  Super ClipSmART Class coming in October.

         Buy 4 Less

Looks like I'll be doing some price-matching at Wal-Mart!

Hiland Yogurt 4/$1

Era Detergent $1.88
-$1/1 SS 8/22
=88cents

Cabbage 25cent/lb

Hiland Sour Cream or Dip 16oz $68cents

Potatoes 10lb $1.98 (I just ran out.  Woo Hoo!)

Libby's Canned Veggies 59cents
-$1/3 Parade or RP 8/29
=77cents for 3 cans!

Green Bell Peppers 39cents each

1lb Bag of carrots 2/$1

Sleeved Celery 89cents/bag

Hiland Skim Extra Milk $2.77/Gal

      Homeland Advertised Deals 9/15-9/21

I'm not to excited with this week's sales, but you can ALWAYS get something for free. :) I'm highlighting the deals in red which I feel are must do's.  If not for yourself, then to give to a neighbor or to the pantry especially the detergent. It only costs us 50cents, but to alot of people, they have a hard time affording detergent.

Red River Rivalry But $25, Get $5 OYNO Special.
I can't come up with a scenario to make this an AWESOME Deal.  Here's what I got.

Ball Park Franks $2.99
-.75/1 IP from here
= $1.49

Farmland Smoked Sausage $2.99
-$1/1 or .75/1 or .55/1 Home Mailer
=99cents, 1.49 or 1.89

Pringles $1.69
-$1/4
=$4.76 *This is not a good price.  Especially when Crest has them on sale 70cents to $1 all the time.

Lawry's Marinades $2
-.50/1 Seasoned Salt from coupons.com
=$1

Reynold's Wrap 55ft $3.99
-$1/1 IP from here
or -.75/1 SS 8/8
=$1.99 or $2.49

Pace Picante 2/$5
-.50/2 SS 6/27
or .40/2 SS 8/29
=$4 or $4.20

This comes to $25.42 pre-tax and pre-coupons.  $14.43 after coupons and $9.43 after the $5 ONYO

For me personally, the ONLY thing I will be buying out of this is the Reynold's Wrap.  55ft for $1.99, I'm good with that. Especially since the Holidays are right around the corner.

If for some reason you need cereal:
Kellogg's Cereals $2.50
-$1.50/2 from here
=$3.50 for 2 boxes.

Hiland Cottage Cheese $1.69
Jonathan Apples 79cents

Hamburger Helper $1 -Why do we call it Hamburger when it has no ham in it??
-.75/3 GM 9/12
=$1.50 for 3 or 50cents each. -If you love HH, then 50cents a box is pretty sweet.

Hormel Always Tender Pork Sausage $2.39
-$1/1 SS 8/1
=39cents-This is a great buy.

Tyson Anytizers $3
-$1/1 SS 7/25 or 8/15
=$1 Great afterschool snack!

Bumble Bee Pouches 99cents
-.55/1 SS 9/12
=Free!!

Colgate Toothpaste $1.79
-.75/1 SS 8/29
= 29cents-Great price if you need toothpaste.

Era 2X Detergent $2.50
-$1/1 SS 8/22
=50cents

These also have store coupons inside the flyer.  None, I'm impressed with except the Kraft Cheese.  After coupon, the cheese is 99cents you can also use the $5/5 coupon from here.