Move over Ryan, I found a new boyfriend. Sure, he may not speak English, but he frequently wears velour track suits and travels with large tour groups, so that’s a plus. And, did you see his hat? I’m a Rock Star? Be still my heart.
As far as my shopping went, it was a rather boring week, and so I only made two purchases. But, I did get a lot of canning done so in the end it all worked out.
Here is what I purchased this past week.
Fred Meyer – $6.00
I don’t normally buy chocolate milk. Latoya made me do it. Monkey Boy was rather happy and he drank the entire carton within 24 hours {of course he did, he’s a teenage boy, that’s what they do}.
Barter with my neighbor Mrs. Hillbilly – FREE
Barter with my neighbor Girly Girl – FREE
Girly Girl had just come back from a run when I called asking if she had any laundry detergent. I ended up trading her 4 rolls of free Albertsons Paper Towels for 1 bottle of Purex. The funny thing about it was, 6 months ago I had traded HER THE BOTTLE OF PUREX for something. Ha Ha Ha.
Safeway $20.85
Everyone knows the best time to buy fruit is when it’s in season, and this week I picked up about 18 pounds of cherries. I canned cherries, made a batch of cherry jam, and dehydrated a few batches. Hopefully it will be enough to tide us over until next summer.
So there you have it. I told you it was a boring week at the market.
How about YOU? Did you buy anything exciting? Did you get a new boyfriend?
Peace Out Girl Scouts, have a great week.
♥ Mavis
Total Spent This Week $26.85
Total Spent This Year $830.94
Total Spent This Year on Garden Seeds/Supplies $496.58
Total “Seed Money” donations received $23.00
Need a laundry hamper? Amazon has the Rubbermaid Foldable Laundry Hamper on sale for $13.54.
Denise says
What a hunky guy! Love the hat.
KK says
Mavis,
Is the girl with the white glasses in the Fred Meyer ad yesterday your daughter?? 🙂 She totally looks like you! 🙂
Mavis says
LOL… No. 🙂
Lissa says
It’s been quiet overall the last couple of weeks here. Picking up produce boxes today so hopefully will get some goodies! Otherwise, I am LOVING the Just4U program at Safeway! I have a 20% off any produce, unlimited amount so with the coupons in the Fresh Ideas newsletter/online + produce deals I have been SCORING.
$0.13 1lb bags of baby carrots (obviously, you are not buying carrots nowadays!)
$0.21 moneymaker bags of coleslaw
$0.79 bags of spinach.
and best of all???
Cherries for $1.19/lb! (they are 1.49/lb normally up in Seattle-land). Going to get at least 10 pounds
I am finally gonna start doing it. Canning. I am taking another page from the Mavis book and I have your cherry pitter, a water canner, and tool kit in my cart at Amazon. Just waiting for my latest Swagbucks gift card to come into my email box before sending in the order. Then I have plans to completely copy you and can cherries, make jam, and also dehydrate some for granola/trail mix/salads.
Susan says
I really like the Just4U program, too! I have been scoring the same deals this week.
You can print unlimited amouts of the 4 coupons – and they are good until August 31.
Lissa says
So, the final tally for the week @ Safeway?
13# of baby carrots
13 bags of coleslaw
4 bags of Spinach
1 Evolution juice (free)
1 Duncan Hines frosting flavor packet (free)
2L Pepsi next (free)
1 – 160z Safeway olive oil
10 lbs of cherries
For $16.63
Susan says
Nice!!
I got:
5 – bags of baby carrots
5- bags of coleslaw
1- Duncan Hines frosting packet
2- Pace Salsas
2-Mt. Olive Pickles – 24 oz.
2- Planter’s Nutricious Peanut Butter
$7.50
There are $1 coupons on the Nutricious PB . And a coupon at safeway.com. BOTH came off, making the PB .50 (with a Double) I haven’t totally figured it out yet…..but hey…if I get extra off…oh, well!! 🙂
Mavis says
You will be glad you did. I love sweet cherries in the winter!
LaToya says
LOL @ did we get a new boyfriend. Honey I get one every week.
I went doubling crazy at Walmart yesterday – they are matching the KMart doubling every day thing, and this store let you do unlimited doublers. Happy days are here again! Anyway, back to the boyfriend. It was 6am and I’m shopping the Walmart and realize I have no lipstick on. So I stop at the mirror in cosmetics and put some on (that I had in my purse, not ghetto Walmart lipstick) and some worker guy comes up behind me and puts his arm around me and tells me I don’t need any that I look good already. Holla! And then later, I’m hollering for my son who took off to see the live fishies and I called him “tiger!” and the same worker guy is there and asks me if I’m talking to him – heh. So yeah. As a matter of fact, I did gets me a new boyfriend this week – woop woop!
I got 18 free Milky Way bars…free nail polish for gifts…free pasta…free tuna….free Gain fabric softeners….free bath poofies…and a bunch of other stuff on the super cheap.
Have you used the $1 coupon from the Albies booklet to get the 9-cent ice cream cones? Since you make ice cream and all. I bought a case and then some. And I baked cupcakes in to them too.
Mavis says
Funny stuff! Yep, you have yourself a boyfriend alright.