Frugal Friday 09/26/25

 

Happy Friday Everyone

It's been a rather frugal week for me. I hardly did any grocery shopping and haven't been to the drugstores in weeks. I know. Shocker! 😂

Here's my list of frugal things for the week:

• Picked up 2 free BBW b/w with rewards. 
  
  I've been diluting my BBW b/w for a few years now to stretch it. I've loved BBW for many years, but they've gotten wayyyyy too expensive to pay regular price for anything. So I dilute the b/w and it still smells great. Diluting doesn't work on all brands though. I tried it with the Old Spice and that didn't work well.
  
  
• Got a free shirt from Chicos with rewards.
  
  
• Got a free RR cheeseburger & fries with reward
  
  
• Redeemed Fetch points for a $25 gc
  
  
• Redeemed Microsoft points for a $10 gc
  
  
• We have lots of leftover food, so we're not getting any carry out this weekend. We'll just eat whatever's in the fridge to combat waste. 
  
  

As you can see, it's been a slow week for me. 

Have a wonderful weekend peeps!

Frugal Friday 09/19/25

Here's some frugal things I've done lately

• Redeemed CC points for $250 gcs that were 15% off. That saved me $37.50 in points
  
  
• Used one of those gcs to purchase something for myself and earned 15% back at Rakuten. I love when free money earns me more free money 😂
  
  
• Saw a post that IGC was working again, so I redeemed for a $25 gc. The site has been down for about a year and I had points to redeem. 
  
  Redeemed for another $10 gc on my other account.
  
  
• Redeemed Swagbucks points for a $25 gc
  
  
• Purchased a gift for DS for a brand that never goes on sale, nor offers any discounts and/or coupons, at 10% off. 
  
  
• Purchased RR gcs at 20% off. I still purchase the $10 burger & fries for DS, so that $14.99 burger costs us $8 after all discounts. That's an almost 50% discount on his favorites.
  
  
• I ran out of iron pills (something I need to take daily), so I searched for the best price online. Sam's had the lowest price, but the item was only available online. So I headed to Costco and got the pills for 49c less. I bought 2 containers. This is why I have a membership for both stores. Sams has moved many items to online only and shipping starts at $8. The Costco membership more than makes up for all these shipping costs.
  
  
• I decided to stop at the produce market (it's near Costco) to get minneolas for DS. The minneolas were 99c each and I was going to pay that price, until I spotted bright orange bags in their markdown section. Whaddya know! They had bags of minneolas for $1 per bag. I bought 2 bags. This bag contained 13 minneolas and 2 lemons. That save me almost $14 per bag. I wanted lemons too, but didn't want to pay 89c each. What a blessing this turned out to be. 
  
  
• Received a $30 WHBM reward. I let my last $15 reward expire, because the quality of things are so poor these days and I didn't want to spend extra money. I'm hoping I can find something good.
  
  
• Got BF some free athletic shorts with Kohls rewards.
  
  
• Saw that Jockey had my favorite undies for $15.99 (6 pack). I only wear cotton, so I bought 8 packs. I purchased enough to qualify for free shipping. I also earned a $5 reward and used it to order another pack. 
  
  I knew that I bought quite a bit the last time (a year or 2 ago) I posted about it, but with the poor quality and tariffs, I knew that I needed to stock up again. I'm so thankful I did that, because it's now sold out.
  
  
• Discovered that Aldi offers triple the amount of green onions that the grocery stores have, for the same price. I bought a package, used what I needed, then diced and froze the rest. I've been using it in our omelets every day. 
  
  
• I have quite a few rewards from various retailers available, but only take advantage of free shipping ones. I also don't want to spend extra money (we don't need anything), so I only purchase items that I can get for free or near free.
  
  

Have a wonderful weekend peeps!

Stockpiling item of the week - Detergent

Hi everyone

I had a different post planned, but wanted to share this one before the deal ends tomorrow (09/16/25)

Kroger currently has a weekly digital deal (limit 5) on Persil detergent - $8.99 with digital Q (must clip Q before going shopping).

Ibotta also has various rebates (cash back) on Persil:

$3 on 84-100 oz Persil (exludes Activewear) - limit 2

$4 on 84-100 oz Persil Activewear - limit 2

$4 on Persil Ultra packs (pods) - limit 2

Here's what I did

2 x 84 oz Persil Oxi $17.98

2 x 84 oz Persil Activewear 17.98

OOP $35.96

Earn $14 Ibotta ($6 Oxi, $8 Activewear)

Total cost after rewards = $21.96

This is the Best price I've ever seen. Sams currently has the 201.6 oz bottle on sale (monthly Q discount) for $20.98

Sams sale price per ounce = $0.10

Kroger sale price per ounce (after Ibotta ) = $0.07 (0.065)

My total savings = $11.76 compared to if I had purchased this at Sams (which was my original plan). These bottles retail for $13.99 each at the grocery stores. Yikes! I'm so used to purchasing everything on sale that I tend to get sticker shock when I see what things actually retail for. Paying $4.99-5.99 per bottle is wayyyyyy better than that $13.99 price tag.

I'm stocking up, stocking up, stocking up on all the great deals, because grocery prices continue to increase. I looked at our YTD grocery expenses and saw that we are $119 over per month (I average our monthly cost). This is not good! It gets worse, but more on that later. 

Please do yourselves a favor and stock up on the good deals, because prices will keep getting worse. Stay tuned for more.

Happy shopping peeps!

Great snacks deal!

Hi everyone!

Guess who's back! 😊 Summer was busy and just flew by. Life is still busy, but I'm making progress with everything that I need to accomplish.

So let's start off with a good national snacks deal. I actually discovered the rebates in my Meijer ad and worked on scenarios that works best for us. 

First up is this Kellogs Snack to school rebate. Spend $25 on participating items, earn $10 digital gc (ends 09/30/25). I needed to purchase snacks for DS, so this is what I did at Sams.

1 x 42ct Cheez it snap'd $13.98

1 x 36ct Pringles 13.98

Less Pringles instant Q (1.00)

OOP $26.96

Earn $10

This rebate has a limit of 5, so you can submit for this one up to 5 times. Please see the site for participating brands. All flavors & sizes are included. You can also purchase it at any grocery store. 

Then there's this Quaker rebate (ends 09/19/25) that ties in well with the current Meijer ad. Spend $20, earn $10 gc. Limit 1. Select sizes and products are included, so please see their list for more details.

Meijer

1 x 42ct Fritolay multipack chips $19.89

1 x Quaker instant oatmeal 2.69

OOP $22.58

Earn $10

Total OOP for 3 boxes of snacks = $29.54

Needless to say, both DS & I are happy. He got his favorite snacks and I saved money on it. Win-win!

I'll be back with more deals in a day or two.

Have a wonderful evening peeps!