Another Safeway run this evening. My hobby is shopping...
5 gallons milk
5 Honey bunches of oats cereals
5 pounds tangerines
8 big bixes Ritz crackers
4 boxes Teddy Grahams
10 more Green Giant vegetable bags (the coupons expired at midnight which is why I went one more time!)
Got all of the above for $12! The milk alone was $2.39 each before coupons, so that is pretty good! My freezer(s) are stuffed, fridge is stuffed and shelves are stuffed. I'm not planning on a lot of other shopping this week, but there is a very tempting Albertson's sale and I know I can always donate a bunch of milk to the food bank if I need to make some room.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
These Sunday "all by myself" shopping trips are becoming addictive. I went to three stores today (and went in and out of Safeway 4 times).
Spent $42 and came home with $20 in coupons good off my next purchase of nearly anything, so $22 net.
The goodies: (no picture this week. It was mostly frozen stuff and I had to get it into the freezers)
At Fred Meyer
2 Purex Laundry Soap
1 green pepper (those three items were just four cents after some careful couponing at Fred Meyer.
At Safeway
1 bag of half price chocolate valentine candy for DH (the list of stuff he most wanted included smoked salmon... he got chocolate at least!)
1 bag animal crackers
1 Skippy peanut butter
1 Pillsbury toaster strudel
6 bags of Green Giant frozen vegetables the steam/microwave ones)
4 El Monterrey "Tornados" that look like rolled up tacos
Safeway Trip #2
7 Purevia sweetener
8 frozen Yoplait Smoothies
1 Old Orchard juice
Safeway trip #3
2 huge packs of Charmin (24 rolls each, supposed to be double rolls)
Safeway trip #4
1 Swiffer mop starter kit
1 Swiffer refill package
2 Febreeze air fresheners
At Food 4 Less
Mushrooms
2 avocados
2 cucumbers
2 tomatoes
bean sprouts
1 frozen chicken meal (family size)
2 Haggen Dazs bars (only fifty cents each, not even on my list. Even I splurge sometimes).
Total value of groceries before any coupons: $180.00
Not too shabby!
Spent $42 and came home with $20 in coupons good off my next purchase of nearly anything, so $22 net.
The goodies: (no picture this week. It was mostly frozen stuff and I had to get it into the freezers)
At Fred Meyer
2 Purex Laundry Soap
1 green pepper (those three items were just four cents after some careful couponing at Fred Meyer.
At Safeway
1 bag of half price chocolate valentine candy for DH (the list of stuff he most wanted included smoked salmon... he got chocolate at least!)
1 bag animal crackers
1 Skippy peanut butter
1 Pillsbury toaster strudel
6 bags of Green Giant frozen vegetables the steam/microwave ones)
4 El Monterrey "Tornados" that look like rolled up tacos
Safeway Trip #2
7 Purevia sweetener
8 frozen Yoplait Smoothies
1 Old Orchard juice
Safeway trip #3
2 huge packs of Charmin (24 rolls each, supposed to be double rolls)
Safeway trip #4
1 Swiffer mop starter kit
1 Swiffer refill package
2 Febreeze air fresheners
At Food 4 Less
Mushrooms
2 avocados
2 cucumbers
2 tomatoes
bean sprouts
1 frozen chicken meal (family size)
2 Haggen Dazs bars (only fifty cents each, not even on my list. Even I splurge sometimes).
Total value of groceries before any coupons: $180.00
Not too shabby!
Sunday, February 21, 2010
I went shopping alone today and spent about $10 for everything in the photo.I love coupons.
Here is the list:
3 Tide liquid laundry soap
2 Tide Stain release
2 Purex 3 in 1
24 Charmin TP
2 Iams cat food
4 Fresh express salad mixes
9 Purevia sugar substitutes
6 Pillsbury cookies
12 Pillsbury biscuits and rolls
4 Campbells soups
4 Nabisco Saltine crackers
40 Rice A Roni
1 Febreeze
3 Dawn dishsoap
3 Oreo cakesters
6 Nabisco cookie sacks
1 Swiffer mop
1 Swiffer refill
2 cans tuna
1 can catfood
I went to 3 stores and made a total of 5 runs. Came home tired but pretty happy with the savings. If I paid retail prices, I would have paid more than $200 for that. I misplaced one receipt, but it would have been $219 plus whatever that other one was. Wow. Did I say how much I love using coupons?
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Fun Safeway run tonight. I came home with all of this:
6 cookie doughs
6 boxes cheese nips crackers
4 six packs coca cola
1 real vanilla extract
4 progresso soups
2 frozen meals for lunches
Saved 95%
I spent $4.62 and got a coupon for $4 off my next order. That was fun!
I've been shopping at Costco more lately because we have been eating a lot more fruits and veggies and I like their fruits and veggies, but this reminded me to get back to work saving.
6 cookie doughs
6 boxes cheese nips crackers
4 six packs coca cola
1 real vanilla extract
4 progresso soups
2 frozen meals for lunches
Saved 95%
I spent $4.62 and got a coupon for $4 off my next order. That was fun!
I've been shopping at Costco more lately because we have been eating a lot more fruits and veggies and I like their fruits and veggies, but this reminded me to get back to work saving.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Why Does Community Radio Matter?
Left to my own devices and patterns, I would listen to rock music more than anything else so when I first began to get involved with KSKQ community radio I couldn't have foreseen what community radio would grow to mean to me. Originally I think I had this notion that it would be mostly talk radio. I have since learned that it is so much more.
One of the most powerful by-products of Ashland's own community radio station has been an ongoing ability to reach out and connect with disenfranchised people. I think of the hours spent with a local homeless man, capturing some of his stories shortly before he died on the streets. My mind jumps to one of our longest running shows, First Nation Radio, which is produced by local Native American friends. In the morning news hour, you can often hear snippets of Prisoner Radio. There are young voices and elderly voices and everything in between. Music choices jump all around the globe, world music (From Dakar to Durban), Reggae, Jazz, Latin Music, Electronica and even a nod to the 1980's. Those are just a few examples of many that explore the myriad of voices we are listening to.
All of this creates a richness of exposure to new ideas and to new music, one that we would never be able to achieve individually, but when we work together and add our own passions and experiences to community radio we build a collective wealth. We learn from one another and leave with new ideas. Powerful stuff!
As KSKQ/KORV continues to grow and as we move toward full power (August 2010), we hope to continue to be a bridge for the Ashland Community at large. We invite you to join us in our quest to be heard. We're listening, are you? Visit kskq.org or call 482-3999 to add your voice to this evolving organization.
Left to my own devices and patterns, I would listen to rock music more than anything else so when I first began to get involved with KSKQ community radio I couldn't have foreseen what community radio would grow to mean to me. Originally I think I had this notion that it would be mostly talk radio. I have since learned that it is so much more.
One of the most powerful by-products of Ashland's own community radio station has been an ongoing ability to reach out and connect with disenfranchised people. I think of the hours spent with a local homeless man, capturing some of his stories shortly before he died on the streets. My mind jumps to one of our longest running shows, First Nation Radio, which is produced by local Native American friends. In the morning news hour, you can often hear snippets of Prisoner Radio. There are young voices and elderly voices and everything in between. Music choices jump all around the globe, world music (From Dakar to Durban), Reggae, Jazz, Latin Music, Electronica and even a nod to the 1980's. Those are just a few examples of many that explore the myriad of voices we are listening to.
All of this creates a richness of exposure to new ideas and to new music, one that we would never be able to achieve individually, but when we work together and add our own passions and experiences to community radio we build a collective wealth. We learn from one another and leave with new ideas. Powerful stuff!
As KSKQ/KORV continues to grow and as we move toward full power (August 2010), we hope to continue to be a bridge for the Ashland Community at large. We invite you to join us in our quest to be heard. We're listening, are you? Visit kskq.org or call 482-3999 to add your voice to this evolving organization.
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Holding Myself Accountable
This week I restarted an exercise regimen that helped me lose quite a bit of weight last year. I would like to add "and kept it off", but it seems that even when I am serious about something I still manage to backtrack. So, I have to start again. I remember that a couple of weeks into it last year I actually started walking around saying things like "I LIKE exercise". I am not really convinced that this could happen twice in one lifetime, because left to my own devices I would spend 99% of my time in a chair reading or sitting at the computer surfing and writing. Exercise is not on my list of "fun things to do with my time". And do you know what else? At 40 everything is harder! My metabolism didn't just slow down, she kicked back on the couch with a cold drink and an Oreo.
I've been doing one of the Biggest Loser workouts (Cardio Max) for a half hour each day. I woke up muscles that have been stagnant and my aerobics instructor Gracie (age 4) yelled at me because I "didn't use the new DVD you got for Christmas!" I figured I would start with the familiar and work my way into the Boot Camp one, but she was not exactly supportive of that idea. And nobody in this household is sympathetic to my complaints that my legs hurt! You think they could give me a empathetic look or something, but they all seem to think I need a little cheese to go with my whine.
What do you do that helps keep you on track, exercise-wise?
This week I restarted an exercise regimen that helped me lose quite a bit of weight last year. I would like to add "and kept it off", but it seems that even when I am serious about something I still manage to backtrack. So, I have to start again. I remember that a couple of weeks into it last year I actually started walking around saying things like "I LIKE exercise". I am not really convinced that this could happen twice in one lifetime, because left to my own devices I would spend 99% of my time in a chair reading or sitting at the computer surfing and writing. Exercise is not on my list of "fun things to do with my time". And do you know what else? At 40 everything is harder! My metabolism didn't just slow down, she kicked back on the couch with a cold drink and an Oreo.
I've been doing one of the Biggest Loser workouts (Cardio Max) for a half hour each day. I woke up muscles that have been stagnant and my aerobics instructor Gracie (age 4) yelled at me because I "didn't use the new DVD you got for Christmas!" I figured I would start with the familiar and work my way into the Boot Camp one, but she was not exactly supportive of that idea. And nobody in this household is sympathetic to my complaints that my legs hurt! You think they could give me a empathetic look or something, but they all seem to think I need a little cheese to go with my whine.
What do you do that helps keep you on track, exercise-wise?
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