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Lots of good stuff today!

We changed our minds and ended up going shopping today.

We ended up making $3 in RR after everything was paid for.

4 x Icy Hot

2 x Calcium supplements

1 x Wheat Thins

1 x Crackerfuls

2 x Off! clip-ons

6 x deodorant (3 x Right Guard and 3 x Dry Idea)

1 x BC Goody’s Powder

1 x Magnum double caramel bars

3 x Royal Jello

Cost for everything: -$3 (we made $3).

Our carry-over RR from last week that we used was $12.00, we spent $6 on taxes and out of pocket expenses, and we walked out of there with $21 in RR.

Cheers!

Scott

Walgreens Items:

Advil Pain Relief $4.99, Thermacare Heat Wrap $5.99; Get a $5 RR when you buy two
Use $5/2 Advil AND Thermacare

There is also a coupon at Advil.com.

There will be 1 x $5, 1 x $3, and 1 x $2 coupons per computer (and physical address).

Out of pocket will be $5.98 unless you use your register rewards to reduce the cost.

Scunci No Damage Hair Elastics $2.00, get a $2 RR When you buy one
FREE after RR

Complete Contact Lens Solution:

Start: $7.99

$1/1 Red Plum

Prints: $7.99 RR

$1 money maker.

The Attack:

1. We will buy one contact lens solution and 3 rolls of Tuf’s paper towles ($.50 each) and then use our $8 in RR from last week to make this item free.

2. We will take the $7.99 RR from the contact lens solution and buy 2 x Advil bottles and one Scunci. The cost will be pennies over free (and we will get $7 in RR).

3. We will repeat this process a total of 3 times. Since we have 3 coupons for the contact solution. Keep in mind that we will only have $7 in RR to use on the contact solution (if we don’t use the Listerine Catalina).

Safeway Items:

Friskies Tasty Treasures:

Normal price – $.70

With club card, they are 10/$5

Safeway had coupons – B1G1 free (and it took off $.70 per coupon). We used 10 coupons for a total of $3.00 for cat food.

Results:

Credits:

http://www.commonsensewithmoney.com/category/walgreens/

http://springsbargains.com

http://thekrazycouponlady.com

The Products:

Dove Men+ Care deodorant:

dove men+care deodorant 2.7/3 oz $3.99 get $3 rr

Use $1/1 Printable Coupon HERE (2 per computer)

Final cost: FREE (out of pocket will be $2.99 each, but you get that back in register rewards).

Colgate Toothpaste:

Smart Source (SS) has the following coupon in Sunday’s paper:

Colgate ProClinical 4 oz or larger $1/1 (6/4)

Walgreens has the following deal on Colgate:

Colgate pro clinical white toothpaste 4 oz get $4 rr wyb 2/$6

With 2 coupons this will come out to be FREE

Body Wash

Buy 2 Old Spice Body Wash, 16 or 18 oz $3.33 each
Buy 1 Gillette Body Wash, 16 oz $3.33
Buy 3, Receive $3.00 Register Reward, Limit 1
Use B1G1 FREE Old Spice Body Wash, up to $5.99 from PG 5/1
And Use $2.00/1 Gillette Body Wash, excluding trial size from RP 5/15
Pay $4.99, Receive $3.00 Register Reward
Final Price:  $0.55 each when you buy 3

Scotch Tape:

B1G2 Free

Use $1/1 x 3 coupons and you end up with $1.01 in excess!

The Attack:

1. Purchase 3 scotch tapes, 2 Old Spice body washes, 1 Gillette body wash, and one $.39 filler (dove candy bar).

2. Go through the line with a Dove deoderant and a Dove candy bar. Use the $3 RR from the first purchase.

3. Go through the line and purchase your Colgate and 3 x scotch tape. Use the $3 RR from the second purchase.

4. Repeat the process, but when you go through #1, use the $4 RR to reduce the cost (we had 2 x $4 RR from last week, so we started off with an advantage).

Notes:

You cannot use an RR on a purchase of an item that originally got you the RR. This is why the order in “The Attack” is important! If you need assitance, post a reply here or ask your friendly Walgreens employees.

Results

Credits:

This information is brought to you from:

http://www.iheartwags.com/2011/04/0515-0521-weekly-deals.html

http://www.commonsensewithmoney.com/category/walgreens/

http://www.simplycvsshopping.com/2011/05/smartsource-coupon-insert-preview-for.html

It has been a while since my last post, but I felt the need to write something about a book I recently read. I am currently overseas where my internet connection is extremely slow. For that reason, I cannot play very many video games, nor can I watch streaming tv online. To occupy my spare time, I have taken to reading.

My wife sent me a great Tom Clancy book, one of the Net Force series. I had read it once before, but the story was so good I couldn’t put it down the second time around. Feeling the need to read something else, I searched the web for something that I might enjoy. Fortunately for me, I stumbled across Terry Goodkind’s, The Sword of Truth, series.

Most of the reviews on Amazon were right on the mark. The writing style wasn’t spectacular, but the story was amazing. Due to it’s simplicity, it read quickly, yet it also offered enough description to where I could paint a picture of the world in which the tale unfolded.

The book tells the story of a woods guide named Richard who is thrown into a world of chaos shortly after his father is murdered. His journey to find his father’s killer takes him to lands he never thought he would see, and to lands that awaken ‘something’ within him. I can’t say much more without ruining the story. There are many characters in the book that I grew to love, some that I now loathe, but each one contributed to the shaping of each other’s lives.

Since there are a considerable amount of books in this series, I can’t wait to start the next one. However, the emotional drain from this last one may cause me to wait a day or two before I begin on another journey. A warning to anyone who enjoys reading to their children, though. This book has violence and content that is not suitable for anyone less than 16 years of age.

So after three days of freezing weather, I can’t wait for it to warm up a bit. Hopefully it does soon…however, seeing as how I will be in Maui next week, I can’t really complain. How cold is it where you are?

Today Megan and I went to a yard-sale on Canton Road. On the way there, we had been talking about getting Sushi or some other fish-type meal. Now, Megan typically does not eat sea food, but she has been really giving it a go lately (last week she did a whole pound of snow crab). As we got near this Thursday evening yard sale, we passed the Marietta Fish Market. It was packed…! We decided to try it.

We started off with Oysters Rockefeller. I have never had such finely cooked oysters. They were not slimy (and yes, I do enjoy them on the half-shell), and they were HUGE!

Megan got the clam chowder and I got seafood bisque. The flavors were perfect and brought back memories of eating at a nice seafood restaurant on the West Coast on a chilly day.

For the main course, I went with their “healthy meal.”

Lightly floured grouper, shrimp, scallops, spinach, linguine noodles, mushrooms and artichoke hearts. The scallops were cooked to perfection: neither hard nor soft, and delectably succulent. The sauce had a hint of lemon and cream, and the portions of seafood were balanced so that no individual flavor overwhelmed the rest of the sdish.

Megan had a GIANT meal.
Between the snow crab legs, the stuffed crab shell, the stuffed clam, and two four-ounce stuffed lobster tails, she had her work cut out for her.

Now you must be thinking…these people must be ginormously fat! We aren’t. I do need to lose a few pounds, but we ate just enough as to be full, and we have plenty of leftovers for the upcoming weekend (which will take us on a 90-mile long yard sale).

Lastly, we got a piece of Baklava Cheesecake to go…we will let you know how it is when we finally get a chance to eat it!

Here is the website to the restaurant:

http://www.mariettafishmarket.net/

This same company happens to own the Marietta Diner which was apparently featured on the Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives.”

http://www.foodnetwork.com/diners-drive-ins-and-dives/index.html

The night after Megan and I became engaged, we decided to go out to eat at a nice restaurant for a special dinner. My son was with us, and I am always trying to get him to eat new foods (it will teach him to learn to try different foods when he is older). I have eaten at Roy’s in San Francisco, and, when I heard there was one in Tampa, we decided to go.

What we ate (Menu):

1. Roy’s Canoe Appetizer for Two
2. Edamame
3. Gabriel:
   • Children’s pasta
   • Ice Cream Sundae
4. Megan:
   • Hawaiian Opakapaka Scallop & Waterchestnut Dumpling, Purple Tatsoi, Crispy Pork, Watercress Emulsion
   • Some sort of pineapple cobbler
5. Scott:
   • Blackened Island Ahi Spicy Soy Mustard Butter Sauce
   • Roy’s Melting Hot Chocolate Soufflé Flourless Chocolate Cake with a Molten Hot Center served à la Mode

The entire meal was delicious. Megan’s fish was perfectly buttered while my blackened Tuna was tastefully seasoned on the outside and rare in the middle. Gabriel snacked on everything (including some kimchi that he spit out when I told him it was shrimp [I had contacts in and it looked like it from where I sat]). The edamame was more difficult to get him to try, but once he did, he loved it. First he tried the pea, then I explained that the pod had salt that added to the flavor…He then licked the crusted green shell and decided he wanted to strip the peas out with his teeth, as is the way you eat them…SUCCESS!

I was very proud of him, but Megan was the winner that night. She is not a big seafood fan and she still went with the Hawaiian Pink Snapper (Opakapaka) and tried everything else to include beef and other meats she normally doesn’t touch.

All in all, the meal was great. The service was just as nice, and the decor created an atmosphere worthy of a special night out on the town.

Well done Roy’s!

Still questing for the perfect dish,
Scott

It has been a while since my last post and I wanted to let you know what was going on in my life. By you, I mean the rare readers of this hidden blog on the net…

The weekend of April 18th Megan and I went down to Tampa, Florida to visit with my son and my Sister and her family. I wanted to propose to Megan on the beach while searching for shells (she loves to fossil hunt and collect beach “treasures,” so what  better way to do it than that. We had some home-made strainers that we would fill with sand and then swish back and forth in the water (just a little water) to see what remained. Now, I was terrified to lose the ring, so I had a death grip on it.

In my pocket I had a shark tooth that Megan had purchased online (she had tons of them), and the ring. While she was looking down, I took them both out and had them in my hand. She knew there was something in there, but as she continued to stare downwards at the shells we were finding, I separated the ring from the tooth.

First, I planted the tooth and she thought it was cute that I pulled the same trick on her as I had on my son and my nephew. She gave me a kiss and we laughed for a minute. However, she didn’t look down! Holding the ring (still had a death grip on it) at the bottom of the sifter (it couldn’t fall through the fine chicken wire), I asked her if she saw anything else…

She froze for all of one millisecond and then put out her hand. I took it and said, “I have to say something first…” I gave her a little speech I had been practicing and then I asked her to marry me…she said YES!

Here are the photos from that day. Please keep in mind that we are both pasty white and that I am more chunky than I usually am (shin splints have kept me from running like I normally do).

Proposal Pictures

We got the ring from Windsor jewelers in Augusta and the folks there were amazing (no they aren’t advertising here, but they deserve a little shout-out as they really worked to help us choose the perfect ring).

I have a fondness for hole-in-the-wall restaurants serving authentic Mexican food at ridiculously low prices.  Health code schmealth code.  Located at 5114 Wrightsboro Rd in Grovetown (conveniently next door to a laundromat), Taqueri Mi Rinconcito offers some delicious lunch specials for hard-to-beat $4.75.  Chips and salsa are complimentary, of course! 

Goznito, you may want to go for the Speedy Gonzalez special, but just know it’s going cost you about $3.95.  You’re a high roller.