Christmas time

I have been shopping the past few weeks but haven't really done anything really great. I am very busy this time of year with my ebay sales-though this is the last year of that. After this Christmas I am going to try and get rid of all my inventory and stop with this ebay thing. Sales have not been good this year (though I still made a profit) so enough is enough. Plus with my $26 listing program, $16 stamps.com program and my $25 Ebay store, that certainly isn't helping.

We have sold some of our Disney DVDs that we bought around 2000 some of them brought a pretty penny too (Disney DVDs usually do). Also I found one of the hot items this year "The Office Clue" and managed to find 4 of them. I kept one (paid $24.99 at JC Penney's) and sold the other 3 first one for $46.99 second one for $48.99 and the last one for $54.99 all within 12 hours. I also was smart and went to BiLo first and bought $600 worth of Gift cards
$450 in Kohls
$100 for Penneys
$50 Old Navy

I paid off my Kohls card with the gift cards, used the Penney's to buy the Clue games and the Old Navy to buy my kids some "fluff" under the tree (I have boys they don't care about clothes!). For each $200 I got a $10 Bilo Gift card...so I have $30 to spend at BiLo just for buying my gift cards there first.

Also this week at Lowes Foods there is a good deal going on with the McCormick Spices. Buy 3 get a $5 FRC and if you buy 4 you get a $3 OYNO catalina. They are also 30% off too. It ends up being a money maker even without coupons in hand. I haven't done it yet, I was waiting for coupons but they aren't here yet and by the time they come IF THEY COME in Monday's mail I only have until Tuesday evening to use them. Also you can only get $20 in FRC (a rule they just came up with imposed by the registers)... am sure there will be another deal in the future anyway and my coupons are good until April 2010.

I have also decided I will make my formal dining room into a huge pantry. We are going to buy Metro shelves (which are commerical type shelving that restaurants use) and put them in that room and move in both freezers. It would be better for the freezers in there during the summer anyway. Both Freezers are full and my shelves that I currently have are full too.

In past weeks I have gotten
40+ bags of Science Diet Naturals Cat food
6 boxes Marcal Kleenex
30+lbs of boneless skinless chicken
4 whole chickens
4 Marcal Napkins
20+ bags of Nestle chocolate chips
20lbs of sugar
30+ 2ltrs of soda
10+lbs of ground beef
15 cartons Breyers Ice Cream
plus lots more that is not coming to mind this second. Also if HT has triple coupons again (which there is rumor at the end of this month) then I need more room. I have found the shelves on Craigs list for $50 each...and at Lowes they are $75 for the same size. I have a bunch of the kind on the walls that needs to be removed now that I won't be doing ebay, hopefully we can sell that and use that money to pay for some of the shelves.

Learnin my friend

Today I went over to my friends house to help her list her stuff on Ebay and Craigs list. I am not sure what happened but we ended up at Lowes Foods! She wanted to take advantage of the $1.49 chicken breast. I helped her with coupons and what is a good deal. Trying to make sure we stuck to what is on sale and what she/I had a coupon for and the only thing in this entire picture she didn't have a coupon for was the baking soda and the buttermilk (which I was supposed to buy but it got put in her cart by accident).

She got all this for $52 and some change. There is more there than it looks too...
She got-
1 Karo Syrup
2 Olive oil
2 Cheerios
2 Cinammon toast crunch
3 LF cheese4 packs of chicken
4 packs of meat about 1lb each
3 Tennessee Pride Sausage
2 Rice Krispies2 Fruit Loops
3 Toll House chips
4 Hershey chips
1 Hershey syrup
1 qt buttermilk (that was mine and I accidently put it in her cart)
1 condensed Milk
1 Smart Balance Oil
1 Small crisco
8 different Pepsi products
2 Chocolate Chip Waffles (yay they were back in stock!)
1 LF baking soda


YAY Denise YOU GO GIRL!

Lowes Foods Round TWO!

I went to Lowes Foods so I could get more chicken, soda and rebate forms. Luckily they had all that!

Again the Sierra Mist automatically took off $1.99 (of course you want that scanned before any other Pepsi Q). I also used 4 of my Samuel Adams $2/$8 off meat coupons, making sure to get packages of chicken that were over $8 PREsale price (so I paid only $.60-$.80 per pack!). The nestle chocolate chips were $1 after Q and I was down to my last couple of bags a few weeks back so I am stockpiling those babies too. The Rice Krispies were $.09 after $.75 Ip. Olive Oil was only $3.99 and I don't have much of that and I had a $1Ip so I figured why not. I also started out the check out buying a $25 GC so I could qualify for a $5 rebate.
I also took this receipt for $23 and combined it with another one which qualified me for a $20 basket ring rebate too!

I just found a recipe for McDonald Style Chicken nuggets and I am excited to give them a try. That would be great if I could find a chicken nugget recipe that my 2 kids would eat so I don't have to pay so much for the frozen ones with who knows what is in them.

12/2 BiLo and Lowes Foods

This is a very interesting week at the grocery stores. Harris Teeter has some good bogo and so does Lowes Foods and BiLo. There were more things that I found interesting at BiLo and Lowes Foods though I went to HT too, but I only got a few things (bacon, mini wheats, lean cuisine).

First stop was BiLo I really wanted the sausage that is bogo of course they only had one left.

all prices are after Q
sausage is less than $1
Steamers were free
Keebler was $.34 each
Cheez Its were pricey $1.79
Hot Chocolate was $.69 each (beeped)
Lol was $.50
sugar wafers (oh how I love these) $1.14
Nivea was $.99

My catalina for the $10 to mail in didn't print. I went to CS and they just gave me cash. I will send in receipt for $10 calendar rebate. So my net will be less than $5. That was also the last package of sausage they had. I got a raincheck BUT they now have a limit of 4 on rainchecks-I only had 3 q left anyway. All my steamers were IPs. They are really checking the expiration dates too. I think they are really trying to stop loosing so much money to try and stay afloat.

Lowes Foods, it had to take a great sale to get me in there. I was just so fed up with their not so nice cashiers and their lack luster coupon policy (IMO BiLo has the BEST coupon policy!). However I really needed the chicken plus $1.49 lb for skinless, boneless chicken breast is the best I have ever seen it. I was in a hurry by the time I got to this store so I will be heading back to get more chicken and soda.

2 Sierra Mist (used bogoQ got $1.99 credit!)

2 Pepsi Max (used $.55/2Q)

4 Sunkist (used $1/2)

4 Comet Rice (used $.55=free!)

4 Tennessee Pride rolls (used $.55/1=$.39)

2 Mushrooms (evic $.79 each)

12 packs of chicken breast ranging in price $2.21-$2.70 (used $2/$8 meat)

4 about 1lb packages of ground beef

1 1.8lb ground beef (used $2/$8 meat)

1 Crisco $3.99 (used $.55/1 Q I really needed this)

I paid $36.43 oop And I will get $20 back in rebates.... I should have used more of my $2/$8 meat coupons but I suddenly decided to split my order when I got to the register after finding a $10/$20 meat rebate.

BiLo 12/1

This is from BiLo
All this with a total of $3.52 out of pocket, but I can mail in for TWO $10 rebates!!!!


Highlights all prices are after discount and coupons
Dole Frozen $.73/2
Dole Can free
Sweet Sue free
Krusteaz crumb cake $.35
Meow Mix $.45
Dial Soap free
Fruit Loops/Apple Jacks $.66
Tone .50
Toll House chips $1
International Delight $.40 (coupon beeps)

In all fairness I guess I should confess I did purchase $500 worth of gift cards to get $20 in BiLo gift cards and used that to pay for most of this.
But I will also mention that those 2 purchases I made for the gift cards I will also get back $10 twice since I have 2 seperate rebates for them too!
This gift card offer is good until the end of December. The gift cards I purchased were used to pay down some credit card debt at Kohls. I have $400 more to go and hope to get that before Dec 18th when it is due-and get 2 more $10 Gift cards PLUS be able to send in 2 more rebates each for $10....It is such a fun game!