GIVEAWAY - Aqua Spa Full Size Body Creme

$9.99 MSRP

12 FL OZ  / 355 ML

Lavish skin with an ultra-rich conditioning body lotion that banishes dry skin while diminishing the signs of aging with Marine Youth Complex. Relax body and mind with an aromatic blend of lavender and chamomile for calming relief.

• Formulated to help stimulate cell renewal, enhance skin elasticity, strengthen skin, boost collagen, and keep skin hydrated
• No parabens or formaldehyde donors
• Not tested on animals
• Proudly made in the USA

Win a full size Lavendar/Chamomile Body Creme from Aqua Spa! 

Giveaway starts at 3p CST, 7.8.14 - get your entries in before 3p 7.13.14

GIVEAWAY - Rimmel London Lash Accelerator

Rimmel London Lash Accelerator

Lashes look up to 117% longer in 30 days and up to 80% longer instantly. Advanced ultra-lengthening formula for beautifully long, remarkably strong lashes. Exclusive, natural GROW-LASH Complex with Procapil® extends and fortifies lashes. With continued use lashes not only look longer, but lusher and more numerous.

Win it now - Enter before 11p CST 7.7.14

Congrats to Krista Habig-Klee!! Check your email!

Take it off Tuesday - OK Magazine $0.30/issue

Love trashy mags? Go to Discountmags.com and put OK magazine in your cart. Use the discount code of KRAZY, and the price will drop to $14.99/year - 91% savings! You can select up to 3 years - Enjoy!

If OK magazine isn't your style, select any other magazine and put in the code KRAZY for 20% off.

'Take it off' Tuesday - 3.11.14 - FREE Suave body lotion (CVS)

Buy 4 Suave Body Lotion – $3 each

Total: $12

Use 4 -$2/1 coupon from the 3/9 Red Plum insert ($8)

Pay $4 and get $4 in  back

**Free after coupon and extra care bucks**

'Take It Off'Tuesday - 3.11.14 - FREE Almay Eye shadow (Walgreens)

Buy (2) Almay Shadow Softies Single Eye Shadows $5.98 + $2.99 (Buy 1 Get 1 50% off) 

Total: $8.97

Use $5.00/2 Almay Cosmetics Coupon (zip 77477)

$2/1 Almay Cosmetics and Makeup Removers (In the March Walgreens Coupon book) 

*Walgreens coupons will deduct for each item, so it will take off $4

**Free after coupons**

'Take it off' Tuesday - 3.11.14 - Colgate White MM (Walgreens)

Buy Colgate Optic White or Colgate Optic White Enamel White Toothpaste, 4 oz. ~~ $3.00 

Use (1) $1.50/1 Colgate Optic White Toothpaste, 3.4 oz. or Larger Coupon 
Pay $1.50 and get $2.00 RR (register rewards)
**Free product, with 50 cent money maker!**

*There is also a coupon from the Sunday paper for Colgate that would make this free, but with no money make

''Take it off" Tuesday -Heather's Target Run - 3.4.14

Hello! Heather again!  My steals are at Target this week!  This week was an awesome coupon week, for me. We are planning a trip and needed junk food, for the car, which I wouldn't normally buy (cookies!!), so not too much in the meal department, for me, this week. There's a high value $20 off $50 in household products at Target this week. You can get it in the Sunday ad, or by texting "stockup" to 827438. I also received a $5 gift card for deodorant, so I split my Target purchase into two transactions. First, so that I could make sure I met the $50 minimum, without having to fight Target employees on whether or not a product was included in the $20 coupon deal, and second, so that I could use my $5 gift card the same day.

Other Target mobiles are available by texting "offers" and "spring" to 827438.

Here is a breakdown of my first transaction:

Alphabits Cereal $2.69 x 4 = $10.76
- 4 x $1.00 off one manufacturers coupon, printable on coupons.com
- 4 x $1.00 off one Target printable coupon
* I did need two printers to get two sets of the coupons.
Paid $2.76 for all four, or $.69 each
Archer Farms 3 count K-cups $1.49 x 2
- 2 x $2.00 off one Target mobile coupon
I used the mobiles on my phone and the link from my husbands, which I had him forward to me to use both of these.
Free for both

Market Pantry frozen vegetables $.99 x 2 = $1.98
- 2 x $.75 off one Target mobile coupon
- 15% Cartwheel
Again, used mine and my husbands
Paid $.44 for both, or $.22 each

Venus Razor $8.59
- $4.00 manufacturers coupon, from Sunday insert (PG 3.2)
Paid $4.59

Colgate Optic White Toothpaste $2.99 x 2 = $5.98
- $1.50 off one - available in Sunday inserts or coupons.com
- $1.50 off one manufacturers - available in Sunday inserts or coupons.com
- $1.00 off any optic white product Target printable coupon
- $1.00 off any optic white product Target printable coupon
Paid $.98 for both, or $.49 each

Up & Up Gallon Food Storage Bags $3.29
No coupon, needed these

Up & Up Mechanical Pencils $1.22
- $1 off up & up school supply Target mobile
Paid $.22

Market Pantry Cookies $2.08 + $1.32 = $3.40
- $1.00 off two MP cookies Target printable
Paid $2.40 for both

Up & Up Ibuprofen $.96 x 2 = $1.92
- $2.00 off two Up & Up pain relief products Target mobile
Free for both

Planters Peanuts $3.23 x 2 = $6.46
- $1.00 off two target printable
- $1.00 off two manufacturers, from Sunday insert (SS 1/26)
Paid $4.46 for both, or $2.23 each
There was supposed to be a 20% Cartwheel on these, but it didn't come off my order.

Secret Deodorant $3.95 each, buy 3 get $5 gift card
$3.95 x 3 = $11.85
- 3 x $1.10 off one printable from coupons.com
Paid $8.55 for three, plus received $5 gift card to use on my next order

Pepsi 3 for $10

All in all, I paid $46.33, after tax, deposit and redcard savings. I saved $46.02 on this order.

For my second transaction:

Clorox Wipes $4.99
- $.75 manufacturers coupon from coupons.com
Paid $4.24

Cascade $10.99
- $1.00 manufacturers coupons (PG 3.2)
Paid $9.99

Palmolive 2 for $5
- 2 x $1.25 off one Target mobile
I used my mobile and my husbands
Paid $2.50 for both

Bounty $14.99
- $1.00 Target mobile coupon
- $.75 manufacturers coupon at coupons.com
Paid $13.24

Charmin $15.99
- $1.00 Target mobile
- $.20 manufacturers coupon at coupons.com
Paid $14.79

My total before coupons was $51.96. It's important to give the Target coupon first, because it won't work once your total falls below $50. So,
$51.96
-$20
=$31.96
- $7.20 (total of my coupons)
= $24.76

                                              

With tax and redcard savings, my total was $25.89. I used my $5 gift card from the previous transaction and paid $20.89.

Between the first and second transaction, I paid $67.22, and saved $82.29.



Hope you get some great deals from Target this week!

~Heather

October 16th, 2013 - Family Fun Time

At the Poenisch house, most of our nights are spent getting into some mess or another.  So when my daughter asked if we could do an experiment, I grabbed the cornstarch, and figured we'd make something up.

 

The ingredients for this were:
- Cornstarch
- Water
- Bowl
- Something to mix with
- The space to make a mess

We talked a little bit about solids and liquids before we started.  My three year old was able to easily understand that water was a liquid and cornstarch was a solid.  We didn't get to complex with matter though.  We explained that liquids don't have a certain shape, and they flow.  We tipped our measure glass back and forth and watched the water move.  We talked about how solids have their own shape, and are hard when we touch them.  Then we poured some cornstarch in the bowl and touched it.  We spent a few minutes having Isabel identify other solids (her blocks, and her cat...well, close enough anyways) and liquids (her bubble bath and apple juice).

 

 

We poured some cornstarch in, and added a bit of water.  Isabel stirred it until it was too stiff for her to stir, so I took over.  I mixed it until it was thoroughly mixed.  Then we talked about solids and liquids again.  We poked and prodded the cornstarch water mix.  We talked about how it felt solid when we touched it.  We even squeezed it in our hands, and watched it go from solid to dripping.

 

 

At this point, she asked what would happen if we poured more water in, so I told her to go ahead and pour more water into the bowl.  She mixed it up, and was less than thrilled to see that the cornstarch suspension seemed to have lost it's magical half solid, half liquid properties, and was now all liquid.

 

Her papa's explanation of how the molecules are no longer lining up when she touches it, and that's why its not firm anymore did not help her.  So this is where it gets interesting.  Isabel turned and asked, 'Mama? How can we make it feel hard again?'  I figured this was a great time for the scientific method, and so off we went on our adventure.  Here is the simple version of the scientific method we use with our little lady.

 

Isabel has asked the question - how to make it firm again, and sort of did the research backwards (prior to asking the question.)  We reviewed what we had learned already about the suspension of cornstarch and water.  We talked about how each had felt separately, and how they felt when we mixed them.  Isabel described what it felt like to poke, and to squeeze after we had mixed the two, and the again stated her dismay at the cornstarch turning all liquid when she added more water.  Her next step was to come up with a hypothesis - a proposed solution, and then to test that idea.  Her hypothesis was to squeeze the mixture.  This was a pretty good idea, since with the first round, when it is squeezed, it becomes firm.  We were proud of her for thinking of it.  She dug her hand in, and squeezed.

 

No dice.  She was not impressed when it ran out of her hand like water.  Her conclusion was that squeezing it was not a successful solution to make it hard again.  Though, I think she put it something like, 'well. That didn't work. What now?' So she thought some more.  Her next solution (hypothesis) was to pour more of the cornstarch in.

 

So, we poured some in, and she mixed it up.  Then, when it got too stiff for her, I mixed a bit.  She tried touching it, and...

Success!

Her second hypothesis was successful and correct.

She was very proud of herself, and so was I (she's my only smallie :) ) and because we were now satisfied with our experiment, we spent the next twenty minutes or so just playing in the mixture.

After we finished playing in the cornstarch water mix, we called in the troops (daddy) to help clean it up.  Everyone had a lot of fun, and it was a great hands on learning experience for our little lady.

 

Enjoy!

~Danielle

October 15th, 2013 - Frugal Living, Budget pt. 3

Hello again!! This week, we are working on the functionality of your budget.  You've had a week now, to think on things, and see how they are going.  What you will need this week if your spreadsheet, and your check book, or however you keep track of expenses. 

First things first, look through your budget once more.  Make sure you are meeting all your needs - and make sure you are paying yourself.  Some people like to put aside a certain percentage of money each month, and some people select a dollar amount.  At our house, we have set dollar amounts that go into our emergency savings, 3 month savings, then our 'whatever we are saving towards right now' and our daughters savings account.  Those don't vary, and if need be, we cut from other areas first before cutting from savings.  We also put the grace money that isn't used into our savings each month. 

After you make sure you get your savings sorted out, go through your budget and consider where you can make cuts.  For instance, maybe you go out to eat as a family once a week - eliminating one time out to eat, or even two, can often add $50-$100 to your ability to save each month. I know in our budget, we were able to cut our gas costs by a third each month, just by altering our work schedules so that my husband could drop my daughter and myself off each day and pick us up.  We also cut down eating out to twice a month, as well as started meal planning, which has saved hundreds of dollars alone. 

Another thing that helps is setting an allowance of sorts for everyone.  We don't have a lot of weekly costs, so we each take out $20 a week for discretionary spending.  It is much easier to turn down lunch out at work when it will use all of your spending money, versus just swiping a card.  Keeping daily discretionary spending to cash only is a fast, efficient way to cut down on spending.

Now that you have freed up some money, gather your cc's.  If you have none, that's great. If you have some but maintain a zero balance, even better!  If you are like most of middle America, you are fighting a losing fight to pay down the debt.  So, sit down, and write down all of your cards, their balances and their interest rates.  Pick the one with the highest balance, and pay as much as you can (while still paying yourself first) towards that card.  Maintain your minimum (or higher, if you can) payments on your other cards, and just move towards carrying a zero balance on all cards.

One last tip. Make sure your spouse is on board.  Budgeting and becoming debt free can be very stressful and frustrating - don't shoulder it alone if you have a partner. They helped you get where you are and they will help you better your position in life.

Hope this helps! Enjoy!

~Danielle
  












 

October 14th, 2013 - Match ups

A few match ups today - the best deals we saw!

Target

Buy 2 Del Monte Seasoned Vegetable Cans $1.49, regular price
Use two $0.75/1 Del Monte Seasoned Vegetables from RP 10/13 (exp 12/8)
And use $1.00/2 – Del Monte Canned Seasoned Vegetables
Final Price - $0.24 each, when you buy 2 



Vaseline Lotion, 20.3 fl oz $4.99, regular price
Use $1.50/1 Vaseline Lotion, 20.3 fl oz or larger,  Limit 2 identical coupons in same shopping trip from RP 9/29 (exp 10/27)
And use $1.00/1 – Vaseline Lotion, 20.3 oz or larger (target)
Final Price - $2.49 



Huggies Little Movers Slip-On Diapers Jumbo Pack (reg $8.99) $7.64, clearance price
Use $2.00/1 – Huggies Little Movers Slip-On Diapers, NO doubling
Or $2.00/1 – Huggies Little Movers Slip-On Diapers
Final Price - $5.64 

Walgreens

Buy 3 Gas-X Extra Strength, 20 ct $4.99, sale price through 10/19
Use $2.00/1 Gas-X Gas Relief Product, 18 or 20 ct Walgreens Coupon- from October Walgreens Coupon Booklet
And use $10.00/3 Prevacid 24hr, Gas-X or Benefiber Products from SS 10/13 (exp 12/31)
Final Price -  Free, when you buy 3


Cottonelle Fresh Care Wipes, 42 ct $4.49, sale price through 10/19
Buy 1 Cottonelle Cleansing Cloths, 42 ct, Earn up to $1.50 with Ibotta 
Use $1.00/1 Cottonelle Upright Dispenser from SS 10/13 (exp 11/16)
And use one $1.00/1 Cottonelle Fresh Care Wipes, 42 ct from Walgreens October Savings Book (exp 10/26)
Pay $2.49, Submit for $1.50 Ibotta CreditFinal Price - $0.99 


Advil PM Pain Relief, 4 ct $1.00, sale price through 10/19
Or $1.00/1 Advil PM Product, Limit 4 like coupons in same shopping trip from RP 10/13 (exp 12/12)Final Price - Free  


Reach Access Flosser $2.89, regular price
Buy 1, Receive $2.00 Register Reward through 10/19
Use $1.00/1 – Reach; Total Care Floss, Gentle Gum Care Floss, Dentotape or Access Flosser, limit one coupon per person, limit 4 coupons of any kind in same transaction, redeemable at Walmart 
Or $1.00/1 Listerine Whitening Rinse, 16 oz or larger, Smart Rinse, Pocketpaks or Pocketmist, 72 ct or larger, any Reach Floss or any Rembrandt Product, Limit one coupon per person, Limit 4 coupons in same transaction from SS 10/6 (exp 11/3)
Pay $1.89, Receive $2.00 Register Reward
Final Price -  $0.11 Moneymaker 



Enjoy!
~Danielle