Tales from a frugal-centric, fitness-crazed, food lovin' gal.
Posted in Deals on Dec 28th, 2011
The holiday season always has the best alcohol rebates. While this past month has been particularly busy, I still made a point to hunt down some rebates and stock up on better than free alcohol!! Here’s our stockpile: Not pictured is the case of Coors Light that Tony already finished off. We bought three 18-packs [...]
Posted in Life on Dec 25th, 2011
Posted in Life on Dec 2nd, 2011
From the very beginning of our wedding planning, we decided that photography was our #1 priority. We even booked our venue based on the lighting (it has the most awesome natural lighting for photos), and the availability of our photographer. We were originally considering a December wedding, but since our photographer takes off the whole [...]
Posted in Life on Dec 2nd, 2011
The last two weeks have been a total blur. Here’s a snippet: Friday before last, I drove down to Tucson with Tony so he could ride 111 miles in El Tour de Tucson. He finished in 6 hours, 5 minutes! He did really well, considering he had to change a flat tire too! I’m really [...]
Posted in Deals on Nov 21st, 2011
I made a trip to the grocery store yesterday to pick up baby shower supplies, and Tony gave me a very strange look when I came home with an 18-pack of beer!! (Don’t worry Janelle, the punch was NOT spiked!! haha) Then when I told him it was free, and I couldn’t pass it up [...]
Posted in Deals on Nov 18th, 2011
You all know how much I love to double/triple/quadruple dip whenever possible. When I was offered to write a post on Fry’s new holiday gift card promotion, I said you betcha! Because that’s something I already take advantage of! I don’t even need a super fancy promotion to do it — but quadruple gas rewards [...]
Posted in Life on Nov 15th, 2011
Just thought I’d pop in to say hello! Yes, I’m still alive, barely. :) Wedding planning is exhausting. Here are some fun pics from my girlfriend’s wedding last month: In just 59 days, it will be our turn! In other news, I have a fun giveaway coming up, so stay tuned!!
Posted in Travel on Sep 30th, 2011
The first sweep of bonus miles from the 2011 Grand Slam have posted to everyone’s accounts. They were released in waves over the 29th-30th. I got nervous when some FT members had received their bonus miles yesterday, and I didn’t get mine, but I woke up today and the bonus miles had posted. Apparently some [...]
