Beyond the Rack $10 shopping credit

Beyond the Rack is offering a $10 shopping credit for signing up(I suggest you use your spam email because they email A LOT!).

Just click on the picture and register and then you will have the credit. They have many Melissa and Doug toys marked down to $10 so you would just pay shipping(shipping seemed high).

CVS run - Cheap Tampax Pearl, free Dawn, Rolaids, Charmin

CVS run was GREAT since they were nice enough to grace me with a $5/15 CRT coupon this weekend. Here is what I ended up doing:

7 Tampax Pearl $2.97 each - $2 insert P&G 6-6 = $6.79
5 Dawn .97 each - 4 $1 homemailers - 1 .25 insert P&G 6-6 = .60
1 Charmin 9 roll $7.49 - FREE wyb $25 worth on page 1 of ad - $1 home mailer = -$1
2 Rolaids Soft Chews $3.99 each - $4/2 insert 6-6 = $3.98
-$5/15 CRT
-$4.99 ECB
Tax: .01
Cost oop = .39 and earned $4 back for Rolaids, so overall cost was $$1.38

Got Blood? If you live near Houston, Kroger will PAY you for it!

Ok! Time for me to admit something to my readers! I am a BLOOD DONOR! Yay!

I know this is WONDERFUL news as so MANY are always in need(OMG, have you driven in HOUSTON traffic :0)
I have a confession though! I didn't start donating just because (I know SHAME ON ME!) I was a college student when I started and I have to admit I did it for the free t-shirt and the free Chick Fil A sandwich!

Well, I still donate (when they let me - I am "slightly" anemic!) While, they do not always offer free t-shirts or Chick-fil-A sandwiches, I do still try to donate on a fairly regular basis. Lucky for me, there is a blood center close to my work, so if I cannot donate during a blood drive at my work(because of my cycle), I do try to make an appointment to donate!
For those of you in the Houston area, you should check out the Gulf Coast Regional Blood banks website! They have GREAT info about a program called "Commit for Life"

I am actually a member of Commit for Life, but have lapsed in my donations as I signed up between kids and with being pregnant and breastfeeding, I was not elgible for a LONG time to donate. Luckily for me (and many in need of blood) I am elgible again(as long as my iron count stays HIGH) and I can help my local community! What is even better, is that I can earn points for my blood donations. I can use these points to earn rewards or even donate them back to my community.

One of the rewards that recently became available is a $15 Gift Card to Kroger stores!
Commit for Life donors who successfully complete two donations or a single double red cell donation between May 1st and August 31st 2010 will be elgible to order a $15 Kroger Gift Card from the Commit For Life Store, using 200 Commit For Life store points as a handling fee! (you earn 100 points per donation, 100 bonus for your FIRST Commit For Life Donation, and 100 extra for scheduling you appointment at least 24 hours ahead of time!)

WOW!!!!! So you can easily earn the 200 points for the $15 gift card for your 2 donations, but you can earn so much more than that by scheduling your appointments(and actually KEEPING them) and by signing up! (read more about commmit for life here)
What do you have to lose??????? Blood???? Well, what is GREAT about the human body is that it can replenish that blood in 8 weeks (just 2 months!!!!!) and if you watch the news (or those medical dramas) you know how much blood is ALWAYS in demand!!!!!!)

Please consider doing your part! For now, blood is ONE commodity we cannot "create" artificially.

Disclosure: I was NOT compensated in ANY way for this blog post. This is a post to hopefully encourage readers to open their veins for those in need :)

Honey Nut Cheerios - I love that BEE!

Ok, I have a confession to make...........................I live in a divided household.
I LOVE the BEE!!!!! The Honey Nut Cheerios Bee that is! I love love love Honey Nut Cheerios! My husband...........well, lets just say he was raised on the "OTHER" cereal!
That is right, he was raised on CHEERIOS (the YELLOW BOX) *insert your GASP! here.

So, we remain a divided household! Our girls are now 6 and 3.5 and guess what?! The debate continues......our oldest loves the yellow box and the little one cannot get enough of the BEE(mommy's little girl).
Anyway, I was SUPER excited that cellfire offered up a Honey Nut Cheerios coupon for .55! This is the ONE cereal I love actually eating and I was happy to have a loadable to get it cheap at Randalls (see my Randalls post below to see how I made this work for me!)

Ok, so if you have followed me this far, guess what?????? This is chance #2 at my giveaway for a $100 giftcard to the grocery store of your choosing!

I have closed the chances at entry #1 so EVERYONE is invited to chance #2 (YES that means EVERYONE that entered chance #1 too!). One entry on THIS post per person. If you don't have a google account and post as anon, I need some kind of identifier or your post will NOT be approved(thus making your entry void)
So what do I ask? Simple, is your house Yellow(plain cheerios), Gold (Honey Nut Cheerios) or Divided (as is mine!)

This post will be open for entries until I decide to make my #3 chance to enter my little contest, and this 2 will come to an end! Enter while you have the chance (trust me, I took MANY years of statistics and it is to your advantage to enter EVERY chance you get :)

Safeway run - free Yakisoba, cheap Honey Nut Cheerios.....

Did a BIG run at Randalls to get some great freebies with my loadables and manufacturer coupons. Here is my breakdown

These items are part of the buy 8 get $4 off (you don't have to buy in groups of 8, you just have to buy AT LEAST 8 and the .50 comes off each item- price listed is the AFTER promo price):

1 Chex Mix $1.49 - .50 cellfire - .50 IP = -.01
2 Betty Crocker fruit snacks $1.49 each - .50 cellfire - 2 .50 shortcuts - free wyb 3 GM cereals peelie(took off 1.99) = -.51
1 Nature Valley Granola bars $1.99 - .50 cellfire - .40 shortcuts - .50 IP = .09 (box also had a coupon for a free reusable bag to cut out and get at Randalls :)
1 Cheerios $1.49 - .55 shortcuts - .50 insert 5-9SS = -.06
1 Honey Nut Cheerios $1.99 - .55 cellfire - .55 shortcuts - .55 IP = .34
1 Trix cereal $1.49 - .55 cellfire - .55 shortcuts = .39
1 Kix Cereal $1.99 - .55 cellfire - $1.50/2 IP(no longer available) = -.06
1 Nature Valley Nut Clusters $1.99 - $1 cellfire - $1 IP = -.01
1 Betty Crocker Warm Delights $1.49 - .50 cellfire - .50 shortcuts - $.50 IP = -.51
6 Ozarka Sparkling water .49 each - bogo insert 5-16 RP?(took off $1 on 2 and $1.09 on one) = -.15
1 Cheetos Giant $1.49 - .50 peelie = .49
15 *Yakisoba .49 each - $1/2 insert 5-16 SS = -.65 (I purchased 16, but my receipt only reflects 15- last coupon DID beep)
1 Sunsweet mixed antioxident fruits $2.99 - free homemailer(took off 3.49) = -.50
5 Chinet Plates $2 - $1 peelies = $5
1 Kraft dressing $1.49 - $1 (50% off sticker took off based on $1.99 BEFORE promo price) - .35 peelie = -.56

Not part of $4 off 8 promo:
5 Chinet cups $1.99 each (if you buy 3 or more) - free peelies wyb any other Chinet product, each auto took off $3) = -5.05
2 Lucerne cheddar cheese blocks $3.99 each - $2 each for 50% stickers - $1/2 from Dairy book = $2.98
1 O Organic milk $4.99
1 Halls sticks reduced .62 - .50 tearpad(adjusted to cost) = FREE
1 Ovaltine $3.99 - $2 and $1 loadable - $1 IP = -.01 ($2 loadable no longer available)
-$5/50 grocery coupon from Entertainment book
Tax: -.36
Cost oop: .81

Cellfire Giveaway! $100 to the Grocery Store of your choice!

*Bumping this for any other entries (hint hint, I might be closing this blog post soon for entry #2, so if you have not entered yet, you better do it soon!)

Cellfire is offering me a $100 grocery gift card to give away to one of my lucky readers!

You already know how much I LOVE cellfire! I get a ton of freebies or really cheap goodies by loading their coupons and I hope my readers get the goodies too.

I already see that I definitely will be loading the Fiber One Yogurt coupon to my Randalls card (these are currently $2 at Randalls)

I also really like the Wheaties Fuel (these are currently $3.99 at Randalls) loadable for $1 and the .55 for Honey Nut Cheerios!

This is a month long contest and you will have 3 chances to enter. BUT, you will only get ONE entry per post. I will have 3 separate blog posts this month with a chance to enter. You can only enter ONCE on each of these 3 posts, so I guess you are gonna have to read me for the full month to get a chance for ALL 3 entries.

Ok, for this blog entry, I want you to tell me a funny story or a neat recipe you have for Wheaties Fuel or Fiber One yogurt.

If you post as anon and do not leave a name or contact information, your entry will be deleted. You will have until the next time I decide to post entry chance #2 to enter for chance #1. At that time, I will close the comments on this post and open up the comments for #2 (I told you, you better read me all month long, lol)

To start out I will share a funny story/recipe using Wheaties. Mine is not neccessarily for Wheaties Fuel because it didn't exist back when I was a kid. Anyway, my dad used to use Wheaties and peanut butter to bait is fishing lines and he actually would catch fish!!!!! Apparantly fish like the breakfast of champions too!

Don't forget to load all your cellfire coupons before heading out shopping! You never know what might be on the 50% rack that you can score cheap/free if you have those coupons loaded to your Safeway card.