Frugal Friday with Marsha--Shopping with Apps

Due to our financial situation, that I won't go in to, I am now responsible for earning all money to buy groceries and such.

I started out this week by using some of my amazon gift card credits to buy the cat food and cat litter.

This morning I have gone through my apps to make my shopping list.

Ibotta is full of any brand items that are on my list: bacon, pasta sauce, onion, bell pepper, cheese, eggs, milk, bananas.

The cheese, milk, eggs, and bacon are also on the Target cartwheel for 5% off.

The bananas are also on savingstar this week for the healthy choice offer as well as on checkout51.


Other items on my list are Reeses Puffs cereal with rebate from savingstar (which I have printed a coupon through swagbucks to earn back 10 swabucks for using it) and HoneySuckle White turkeypatties from ibotta.

Dr. Pepper is our vice and I can get it 10% off at Target through cartwheel (also printed coupons from swagbucks and inboxdollars for credit!). Also Cheez-Its are our favorite snack cracker and they are currently 20% off through cartwheel.


I have $20 in Target gift cards to spend as well as a $5 Walmart gift card and $2.88 on my Bluebird card from the Walmart Savings Catcher.

Can I buy everything on my list for the $27.88 that I have to spend? I will give an update next Friday as well as give you my new list.

p.s. Most of my gift cards I have earned from swagbucks, and also some from PerkTV.


In the meantime I look forward to the frugal type posts that you choose to share too.

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Writer's Unite 5/14/15

Getting back into the 'groove' after vacation last week.  I have done one of my reviews with giveaway so far but have one more review/giveaway, and 2 other reviews to get written on products that came in while we were away.
It's best for me to just ask you to wish me luck.  Re-establishing any kind of a routine since coming back home is proving to be a lot harder than it should be.

I do look forward to checking out any of your writing that you choose to share this week.

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WIP Wednesday 5/13/15

Last week we were on vacation.  The only sewing I did was in the car while hubby drove us to Branson, and while he drove us back home later in the week.
I'm sure glad I didn't forget to take something along!  I did, however, forget to put a needle in my box.  We found the first store along the highway and stopped to buy me some.


I made7 more yo-yo's.  All of these needed to be added to my yo-yo/hexagon storage box:

And, I sewed up a total of 48 hexagons!  These too will be added to the storage box.

I have yet to check what this month's color is with the soscrappy blog, but will do that today.   I will try to get some things made for the color, but I also MUST get my fractured pineapple quilt worked on.   I will make that my goal to have those 2 things to show you next week.

UFO's:

Rectangle quilt
challenge wall hanging
GoodNight Irene quilt/wall hanging
Emerald Island Fusique table runner
Five and Dime quilt
Fractured Pineapple quilt
Charming Stars quilt
Brown half square triangle quilt
5 sets of doll blanket, pillows and rug
Hexagon flower table runner
Wall hanging for quilt guild
Challenge quilt for quilt guild


2015 Finishes:

Locker Hook Rug
re-do binding on blue and peach patchwork
9 lined fabric bags
yellow crazy quilt lined bag
Pink hexagon table topper
Blue hexagon table topper
Yo-Yo Table runner

I am linking up with the following blogs:

Let Renuzit Pearl Scents Make Your Air Beautiful By Design (giveaway included)

 

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The new look of Pearl Scents is designed to accent and highlight your home decor as well as provide long lasting freshness.

Renuzit Pearl Scents comes in these aromas:

Blue Sky Breeze

Serenity

Sparkling Rain

Tranquil

Seductive Pineapple

I received Blue Sky Breeze scent and I really like it.  As you can see from this picture, the label comes off easily, making it very decorative in your home.

The scent is just right.  Not too strong, and not too light.  Very Pleasant.

The scent is designed to last over 30 days.

You can win a free coupon to try Renuzit Pearl Scents for yourself by entering using the rafflecopter form below.

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Disclaimer:  The Renuzit brand provided me with a sample of the Renuzit Pearl Scents in exchange for a product review. However, all opinions expressed are my own.

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Super Sunday Reviews Link Up

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Prof. Hacker's Dinosaur Canyon Golf

We are on vacation this week in Branson, Missouri.
For wordless Wednesday I wanted to share the miniature golf course where we stopped to have some fun last night.
It was awesome!

 

April 2015 Online Earnings

April was my best month so far this year.  I intend to keep making each month better!

My online earnings for April were as follows (money and gift cards received):

Swagbucks: $47.00 in Walmart, amazon and Target gift cards.
chatabout: $5 paypal
PerkTV:  $30 in Walmart, amazon, and Target gift cards
Lucktastic:  $50 amazon (this is a fun scratch off lottery ticket app and this is the 2nd $50 amazon I have earned plus I've also gotten a $10 check.)
Checkpoints: $6 amazon  (if you sign up, use code marsha32 for bonus points)
savingstar:  $5.67 paypal
apptrailers:  $6.30  (if you sign up, bonus code predictableuranus2 for bonus points)
Pinecone research $6 paypal
clixsense: $7.94 paypal
viewpointforum: $11.47 check
shopkick:  $2 Target

This is a total of $177.38 rec'd from websites and apps.
I'm going to keep on keeping on with a goal for this month to receive a minimum of $200 in!

How are you doing with your online earnings?

Frugal Friday with Marsha --Preparing for Vacation

Who knew that preparing for vacation was so hard? Well, it is for me. LOL
My daughter and her boyfriend are going to stay at the house to house and pet sit for us. Even though they are over here all the time, I feel the need to do a bunch of extra cleaning.
Yesterday I steam cleaned the carpets. Speaking of that, buying the steam cleaner is what I feel was a good investment. Just using it a few times more than covered what we would have paid to rent a machine. It was something we chose to buy 2 years ago with part of our income tax refund.

Today I am preparing for a yard sale tomorrow. I am going over to the little town where my middle daughter lives for their 'city wide' sales. City wide is a population of 1,100 people, but tons come in to town for the sales too. Cheap cost of just $5 donated to the 4-H to be on the map with an ad of what we have at our sale. So, minus the small amount of gas, a lot cheaper than trying to host and advertise one from home (it's just a 24 minutes drive from my driveway to theirs), plus I get the added plus of spending time with my daughter and grandchildren too.
Do wish me luck of actually selling some things though.

We will be gone next week on vacation, and I am also taking a vacation from blogging. I have a plan to do a Wordless Wednesday post with some pictures, but that's it.
And back to speaking of vacation----I have managed to earn $22 in Target gift cards that will help us take some of meal foods with us on the trip to avoid always paying to eat somewhere. Plus I also have a $5 Walmart card as well. With that we will stop and get some macaroni and potato salad from the deli. Yum!

Until then, I can't wait to see what posts you share this week to inspire and motivate us all to keep living frugally, saving money, do it ourselves etc!

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Writer's Unite 4/30/15

I can't believe it's already the last day of April!  Where did the month go?

As you already know, I am not writing anywhere except my blog and bubblews.  I've only been writing once a day on bubblews, with the exception this past weekend where I wrote twice about my nephew's wedding.  In fact, one of the posts that I am sharing in the linky includes 2 short videos that I took at their reception.

Are you still writing heavily, or have you backed down too?  Either way, I can't wait to see what is shared this week.

p.s.  We are on vacation next week so I will not be blogging next week except possibly Wordless Wednesday to share some pictures from our trip.

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