Saturday is the Eric Clapton concert, which I am very much looking forward to…but it is also FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! I grew up on Archie’s and Spiderman..I remember when you could buy a comic book anywhere - these days, not so much.
Saturday, comic book stores across the nation give away free comics to encourage readers everywhere to join in the wonder of a great comic. My local store is going to have some great writers and artists in the store, so after I finish up on the treadmill at the gym, I will be making a trip there Saturday morning to check it out.
Yes.
I am a grown woman and I read comics.
I have a thing for the Green Arrow.
Sue me.

We closed on Mom & her Husband’s house today!! YAY!! Very happy to be done with that, and remove another burden from my task list! Now I can officially re-set Stepdad’s budget to a lower amount - the financial burden that went with the house is gone as well!! Brother & Stepdad went over to the other side of the state for closing, and they stopped to visit Mom’s gravesite while they were there - as we don’t know when we will be able to get him back over there to see her.

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When I was going to go to a blogging convention last November, I ordered business cards for my blog to pass out and network with other bloggers. They were cheap, and easy to order. There are a lot of sites out there that do the same kind of work, only you can get very detailed with your custom logo design on some sites as opposed to others, of course, you are going to pay for that - but remember that your business card is your first impression on the customer.

Some people think coupons are a waste. Others think they are not worth the time it takes to clip them…saving 25 cents here, or a dollar there won’t make a difference. Well, I am here to tell you that I am a coupon cutter from way back, and if you combine them with sales and clearance items, they are VERY worth your time. Especially in today’s economy…every few dollars I save at the grocery store, is a few more dollars I can put in my gas tank, or savings account.
Allow me to share a few of this weeks savings:

Publix

Purina Beggin Strips on sale 2 for $5
I had 2 $1 off 1 pkg coupons, making my final price 2 for $3 - or $1.50 per bag!

Health Valley 10 oz cans White Meat Chunk Chicken on sale buy one @ $3.59, get one free.
I had 3/ .65 cents off 2 cans coupons, so I got 6 cans for $8.82, or $1.47 a can!

Quaker Breakfast Cookies/Fruit Bars/Muffin Bars on sale buy one @ $3.19, get one free.
I had 2 $1 off 1 box coupons, so I got 2 boxes for $1.19, or .60 a box (TEN CENTS A BAR!)

Target
Two pack of Colgate Total toothpaste on clearance for $1.38.
I had a $1.50 off any size Colgate Total coupon, so they paid me 12 cents to take home 2 tubes of Colgate Total! HA!!

I get my coupons from the Sunday paper, assorted flyers in the front of the stores, shelf flashers at the store, in my free samples that I get in snail mail, emails, company website, or an internet coupon site. If I need something and I don’t have a coupon for it, I will usually do a quick internet search and find one!

Give it a try and see if you can save some money the next time you go shopping! You’ll be so happy at saving money you’ll want to jump up and down on a mini trampoline!

I have a wish list of things I still want to upgrade in my condo. Complete kitchen redo with new cabinets & appliances - that’ll be about $10 grand please! Not in the budget I can tell you that, I guess I’ll do that the same way I do every big ticket item in my life - save up enough to do it 1 piece at a time. I think a new fridge is probably going to be next on my list. Everything else is pretty much done, I already installed tile and carpet throughout, new A/C and water heater, new shower stall, and upgraded bathroom lighting in both bathrooms. Maybe I’ll win the lotto and then I’ll have the money for the kitchen……..

Now that I have my new TV and TV stand all set up, I had to basically redecorate the living room so that it looks right, and I need to get some sort of DVD stand, hopefullly with extra shelves for my pictures that used to be on my old entertainment center! This weekend I am going to fix it all up nice, and do the deep clean of the whole house - spring cleaning ya know…vacuum baseboards, scrub floors and grout, and bathroom faucets..all the stuff that needs to be done and you put off until “next time”!

I got my new HDTV today!! I have been researching this and saving my pennies for 6 months….I wanted the right TV, for the right price!

Sony Bravia 32″ HDTV

In store price $789.99
Minus competitor’s price match guarantee = $697.99
Plus tax = $746.85
Minus Reward Coupon, and Gift cards from my Birthday and Christmas = $376.85 OUT OF POCKET!!!

Nephew hooked it all up for me this evening and it is sweet!

No, not me! Yeesh, that would be a nightmare!
My latest Netflix was Knocked Up, and I thought it was a good flick….good story, and dern funny. Boy meets girl at a bar, they get trashed and have a one night stand, and oops - one slipped by the goalie and girl is preggers. The roommates were hilarious, they smoked enough weed to send them all to one of those drug treatment centers, and dropped a lot of F bombs…but still an enjoyable movie. I was talking today about how much I enjoy my Netflix subscription, for $8 a month I am watching a movie a week, I could watch more if I had the time…..I love the convenience of just keeping my list updated on their website and mailing the movies back….I usually forget what was on my list, so each week the movie is a surprise.

I set out for a community yard sale this morning, just to see what was there…..and came home with a personal best bargain of the year!
Kenmore 120v Bagless Vacuum WITH all attachments for $2. Yes, you heard me right….TWO DOLLARS!
I asked the woman selling it what was wrong with it, and she stated that it worked fine, she recently bought a Dyson (Which are priced at $300-$500) - and just wanted to get rid of it!
Well. Allow me to take that off your hands, and have a good time with your FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR VACUUM! HA!!
I took it home and gave it a test run - it works great, is nice and light, and I never had a bagless, I am loving that you can SEE what it has picked up!
I’m going to give my old vacuum to Stepdad, as he does not have one and only has a small area that is carpeted, so it will be fine for his current need.

On the way home I stopped at Wal Mart and got my FREE reusable shopping bag they were giving away this morning.

And, the new Rally gas station up the road is now offering 5 cents off per gallon if you use thier prepaid cash card!!

That is a good day!