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Subject: Cheap thrills for APRIL Thu 03 Apr 2008, 1:58 am

I reckon it's time to start off a new month Smile

I'm not expecting to get many this month, unless it's household essentials related since that's all I'm allowed to buy on my 'no spend' month, not sure if I'll have many...we'll have to wait and see.
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Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Thu 03 Apr 2008, 8:55 am

Went to the grocery store this morning before work.

I got 2 boxes of Pizza Rolls for $0.20 each after sales and double coupons.

I also got 4 boxes of Green Giant Gourmet frozen veggies and frozen rice with veggies for $0.50/each with sales and double coupons.

The total bill for all of this at Giant Eagle: $2.80

Then went to Walgreens and got 2 gallons of milk for $2.69/gallon.

The items from Giant Eagle will remain in a bag in the freezer for our vacation in 1 month. I thought the pizza rolls would be a great snack for Todd, and the gourmet veggies/rice could be for dinners with red skin potatoes and a meat (chicken cordon bleu, steak, stuffed flounder, etc. we are planning on cooking to save money on vacation).

~M
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Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Thu 03 Apr 2008, 1:49 pm

Great deals M
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Gayla

"They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little."

---Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Thu 03 Apr 2008, 3:26 pm

great deals M-

I got 2 $100 gift cards to Safeway from someone in my Church?
People in the church brought us dinner on Tuesday night and tonight
I am being taken out to dinner tonight by a church friend
Got a $10 coupon off my next shopping order at Safeway
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Vicki

Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Thu 03 Apr 2008, 4:05 pm

Wow Vicki thats awesome! What is Safeway,,a grocery store?

My name came up at work and I won 50.00 Gift card to Krogers grocery store! I was so surprised! I pick it up Friday after work,,which has come in handy since we are pinching pennies this week!
But then again,,,when wouldnt a free gift card come in handy! LOL

Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Thu 03 Apr 2008, 5:07 pm

Great deals M.

Vicki, you have some very thoughtful and kind friends, enjoy your dinner too, you deserve it.

Donna, nice win!!!
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Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Fri 04 Apr 2008, 6:09 am

Yes Donna. Safeway is a grocery store. It tends to be expensive so I usually only shop the sales paper and look at the discounted meats. They also have a gas station where if you use you card they give you $.03 off a gal. I used part of my gift card for gas yesterday and was able to get it for $3.22 a gal
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Vicki

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Great buys M!!

I am very happy for you, Vicki Smile

Donna that's great about your giftcard.

I went to my MIL house and she was cleaning out her basement and she gace each kid a toy, I got 6 awesome old fasioned mugs, plastic old fasioned looking cups for the kids, and she gave me and old cookie jar she had out when Rob was a kid...
Also, my brothers apartment burned down ( the same brother who's house burnt down! ) so for them she gave me a nice set of drinking glasses, pots & pans, toaster oven, 2 small casserole dishes, and I have some more stuff for them...But I was thrilled!

Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Fri 04 Apr 2008, 4:22 pm

Nice thrills Kim, very generous of your MIL.
I'm sorry to hear your brother had another fire at home, very scary, do they know how it started?
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Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Fri 04 Apr 2008, 9:01 pm

Kim you got some good things again. Yeah!! I am so sorry to hear about your brothers place again
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Vicki

Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Fri 04 Apr 2008, 10:37 pm

Kim that scary about your brothers Place ..

Vicki you have a wonderful church family .
what a blessing
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Gayla

"They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little."

---Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Moderator Age : 27 Joined : 12 Oct 2006 Posts : 1693

Thank you...my brother and his wife are pretty shaken up.

Yesterday DH loaded us all up in the van for a day of fun! We took the kids to pizza hut to use thier book-it's and long story short we ended up with %25 off our bill b/c of a mistake they made...funny thing is we didn't even know they made a mistake...our waitress told us...lol.. THEN he took us to a cool auction type store where he bought me a beautiful cast iron hot plate..and we got stuff for our church classroom...didn't spend much of anything...THEN..he took me to a store called Mountain Momma;s it's WAY WAY up on the mountain...and this woman has a store...it's the COOLEST store ever! It's like stepping back in time,...it was so cool! I got a pair of cutains...they go to the floor and have a vintage cross stitch pattern that COVERS the whole curtain...it will take me years to finish them, it looked like something my Grandma wou;d have owned so I had to buy them! And also got a cool candel holder and candle for $3~ it was awesome! Then we got incoted to play at my best friends house~
Oh yeah and the day before my best friend took me to an Amish community and we went to shops, but this is not your typical Amish commmunity like in Lancaster, this was back roads and "real" people, dirty, poor, and the NICEST people you could ever meet! I got to learn about quilting from an Amish woman! I talked about canning and things with the ladies from the shops...it was GREAT!!!!

Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Sun 06 Apr 2008, 8:42 am

Sounds like you had a really fantastic time Kim with quite a few thrills! Smile

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Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Sun 06 Apr 2008, 9:53 am

Wow great start to the month with the gift cards and other bargains...and Kim, what a wonderful experience with the Amish ladies Cool

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Subject: Re: Cheap thrills for APRIL Sun 06 Apr 2008, 10:26 am

Kim that sounds like so much fun,,Id love to go there..my brother used to go to amish place also,,Lancaster was one of them.