Tales from a frugal-centric, fitness-crazed, food lovin' gal.
Posted in Life on Mar 30th, 2007
I just emptied out my entire Paypal account on a new (to me) laptop on Ebay. I’ve been saving all my earnings from my Ebay sales in an allotted “laptop” fund. Since October, I have accumulated $762.76 from Ebay sales. And I have another $50+ in sales ending this week. Today I bought a Dell [...]
Posted in Life on Mar 30th, 2007
This week Target has Market Pantry Eggs, Dozen Large, on sale 2 for $1. The Target coupon generator website http://coupons.50webs.org/ , has a 50 cents off coupon for each dozen. So at the end you get 2 dozen eggs free. Great for Easter. Or for anyone on high protein diets
Posted in Life on Mar 29th, 2007
Use the following code at Handango.com to get Spb FreeCell for free: FREECELL82739. (Regular price: $4.95) Can you believe FreeCell doesn’t come as a standard built-in Pocket PC application? I’ve dusted off my Dell Axim X30 and am currently revamping it. I’m also reteaching myself to use the darn thing. What drove me to pull it out [...]
Posted in Finance on Mar 29th, 2007
Well, it’s been almost two weeks since my initial flurry of applications, and so far I have received 4 of the credit cards that I applied for in the mail. As you may recall, I was instantly approved for Chase Freedom and Citi Professional. Discover immediately followed up my application with a phone call to [...]
Posted in Life on Mar 28th, 2007
This shows how much I keep up with Reality TV these days. I was in the post office today and happened to catch the headlines of the local Ahwatukee newspaper. They boasted of an Ahwatukee resident’s recent win on You’re the One That We Want – yet another reality show in which America votes for [...]
Posted in Life on Mar 27th, 2007
Is there anyone else that is bugged by the fact that the various cash back programs (Ebates, Fatwallet, etc) don’t give cash back on Ebay purchases? Well, I’ve found a site that pays up to 36% of the seller’s fees whenever you buy something on eBay. It’s called BigCrumbs.com. Somehow, in my quest for a [...]
Posted in Life on Mar 22nd, 2007
It’s raining, it’s pouring, and Heather’s body is groaning…. After two weeks of inpenetrable record-high heat, this is quite an unexpected change of weather. Unexpected by all except me. I woke up yesterday to an aching-all-over body with a right hip that shot out in pain with every step. The reason? A slight change in [...]
Posted in Life on Mar 21st, 2007
Enter a recipe in the Pillsbury Bake-Off and get a $5 Bricks Coupon toward your next purchase at the Kroger family of grocery stores (this would be good at Fry’s Grocery Store for those in Arizona)!!! Also if you use your back button after the coupon prints you can print two of these. http://www.bakeoff.comThis year’s [...]
