Frugal Ramblings- Super Bowl Edition

Well, I am finishing up my frugal rambling thoughts for the past week... while watching the super bowl.

• First off check out my new crockpot... only cost me $10! It's actually a replacement one from costco, because the plastic handle for the glass lid snapped off. We tried to superglue it back on.. and that FAILED miserably! So I returned it to Costco, a straight across trade would have been nice, although this IS a different model, so it ended up being exactly $10 more with the return credit. I am just happy to have a crockpot back with a usable lid, plus this one is slightly larger which is nice. Also I checked into buying a new lid, but crockpot didn't even offer a replacement lid for our model, and I am sure even if they did it would cost at least $10 + shipping anyway....

• I only spent $31 of my $40 budget on groceries this week and that includes about ~$17 cash OOP for veggies (brats), ice and chicken for the superbowl party. Luckily I was able to snag buns, beer and another pack of brats at safeway with my gift card funds, so NO $OOP cost. Oh and pringles at CVS! Plus we already had diet soda, BBQ sauce, some chips/dip, turkey sausage, etc on hand already. Our party was sort of potlucky, so people also brought over.... Plus I added the $6 in cash I got back from safeway from the overcharge on the beer, which left me with $15 extra to roll into next week's budget.. but as you see above I spend $10 on the crockpot, and I am taking the $10 out of that. So I have $5 to add to next week's $40 budget!



• I finished up filling out my Coors $15 rebates (and for my parents), and will be mailing them tomorrow so those funds (when received) will go to our Bonus/household funds to buy extra stuff not in the budget.



• I ordered 2 more $5 amazon gift cards this week from swagbucks! Which is perfect timing.. because I actually need to buy a b-day gift this week... which along with the other gift cards I have will wipe me out again... I need to get "swag searching" again!!



• I dropped off some Quinnie stuff to consign at RocknBabies this week, hopefully it will sell quick, so we have some credit over there. It's a super cute store!



• I finally snagged the blackout curtains and a couple curtain rods at Target this week for 50% off. I have been stalking these for Quinn and #2's room for a few weeks. I plan on returning the 2nd curtain rod (Quinn already has one) once we decide which one is best for the baby room and then keeping my fingers crossed that I can get away with a total of 3 curtains between the 2 rooms, vs. 5, so I can return 2 of them to the store!



• I snagged some super cheap dog food last sunday and and thanks to Teresea and Aimee @ PYP for a few extra Qs, I will snag a few more this week, these coupons were EXTREMELY short dated as they expire next sunday.



• Don't forget to enter my giveaway for a $50 Fiber One/Safeway Gift card provided via MyBlogSpark!

That is all for now.. at least that I can think of.. we have some yummy chicken leftovers among other things for this week which is nice and Quinn had lots of fun hanging out with everyone!