Author: Cheryl
•10:58 AM



I feel that this is one product I am really qualified to review. If you don't remember, I have seven, yes, seven pets and one slightly messy husband (I'm being kind, cause he reads my blog and will torture me later about it).
Hi honey. :)

My bedroom carpet, oh my poor bedroom carpet. It actually took me 10 years after moving into the house to getting around to replacing the carpet that was originally in there. And when I finally got the carpet, she sure was pretty. A beige carpet with a very cool pattern to it. I even spent a little more on it to make sure it was sturdy and somewhat stain resistant. Yeah, the stain resistant people haven't met my cats.

My one cat is skitzy, and eats too fast and has a bad stomach. No matter what I give her on occasion she will vomit it up 2 minutes later if she eats it too fast or gets all jittery. And her favorite place to do it is my bedroom. So over the years I have tried different carpet cleaning methods to for quick spot removal. I've done Woolite, Carbona, Resolve and several other smaller brands. They did get up about 70% of the stain but left a half decent yet slightly faded stain that would never come out. And this was all for messes that just happened. Nevermind on old stains on the carpet.

Once I got Spot Shot the hunt was over. Spot Shot is not expensive, comes out with coupons all the time and goes on sale now and then at my ShopRite. Now with any pile of stuff (yuck) you have to pick up the initial amount with a paper towel. But for the rest that it staining the carpet just spray the Spot Shot on, you can actually see it look like it is getting into the carpet. I use an old rag and a brush to scrub the stain. I would say with most stains that have occurred, I have repeated this process maybe 2 or 3 times with the stain and it is all gone.

So for a woman who tries not to have brand loyalty to get the deals, I have to remain brand loyal to this stain remover. I do it for the sake of my beautiful bedroom carpet.
Author: Cheryl
•8:29 PM
I already spent our $50 grocery allowance this week. But I am very tempted to go back to ShopRite tomorrow to get more of the Perdue chicken on sale. It was such good prices for all of that product that I thought maybe I could spend a little more and stock up for weeks.

But doesn't that defeat the purpose of the budget? And when do you say when? What if another deal next week makes me want to go back and go over?

I think I may just stay home, but then I could change my mind in 30 minutes. What's your opinion? When is it time to just so no to some deals?
Author: Cheryl
•5:07 PM

Monday - Chicken Parmesan

Tuesday - Quesadillas with salsa, sour cream and re fried beans

Wednesday - French Onion Soup with cheese and bread

Thursday - Meatball sandwiches with cheese

Friday - Roasted turkey, rice and vegetables


Author: Cheryl
•1:01 PM

I was originally going to get the new Gillette Gamer razor in this deal. But dummy me didn't read the ad correctly. I get the store and can't find it anywhere. So I go and grab an ad in the front of the store and see in the writing below it, that it doesn't come out until January 30th. But the deal I did do was still good and I made ECB's which is something that hasn't happened for a few weeks.

5 Gillette shampoo's $4.99 each = $24.95
2 Dove beauty bars .99 each = $1.98

Total $26.93

Coupons
(5) $2.00 off any Gillette shampoo or conditioner
(2) $1.00 off any Dove facial product
(1) $3.00 off any purchase of $15.00 or more

ECB's used $11.93
Total oop .84
ECB's earned $15.00

Hey, I finally made some extra ECB's. Which is good cause I was getting painfully low.
Author: Cheryl
•12:20 PM

So my plan not to go to a million different places over my weekend worked out pretty well. I slept in Saturday and got up early on Sunday to hit the stores. I first hit CVS, more on that in another more, then ShopRite and the DollarTree to get my newspapers. Its been a few weeks since I got to spend my whole weekly budget at just ShopRite and I felt I did pretty well. They were having a big Perdue sale and got some good deals with coupons.

2 Old Orchard juices 2 for $3.00 - $1.00 off 2 q's = $1.00 each
6 boxes of Apple Jacks $1.88 - $1.00 q's = .88 each
1 box of Rice Krispies $1.88 - $1.00 q = .88 each
2 Breyers ice cream $2.74 each
2 Old El Paso refried beans .99 each - $1.1q off 2 q's = .44 each
5 French's mustard $1.29 each - .50q's = .29 each
5 boxes Totino's pizza rolls 5 for $5.00 = .35q's = .30 each
2 ShopRite shredded cheeses $1.49 each
1 rotisserie chicken $4.81
2 Wise cheese puffs $1.49 - .50q's = .49 each
3 packages of breaded chicken cutlets $1.99 each - $1.00 q's = .99 each
1 pack of Perdue chicken breasts $4.99 - $1.00 q's = $3.99
1 Perdue Sauce N Toss $3.99 - $1.00 q's = $2.99
2 packages of Perdue turkey meatballs $1.84 each
1 Perdue thin sliced chicken breasts $3.12
4 boxes chicken/beef broth .99 each
1 pack of coffee filters .99 each

Total $49.25

All this and under budget this week. Hopefully ShopRite has some more good meat deals over the next few weeks, so I won't have to run back to SuperFresh again. But then again, I can't believe I will be that lucky for long.

***I forgot to include that I got coupons for $7.00 off my next shopping trip at SR too. Earned $5.00 off for buying the 7 Kellogg's cereal and $2.00 for buying the French's mustard. SCORE.
Author: Cheryl
•2:18 PM

I get up for work every morning at 4:30am, yes, that early. I take the dog out, feed the pets, exercise for 45 minutes, eat my breakfast, get shower, get ready, drop the dog off at my mom's house and drive 25 minutes to work. Every day. Five days a week. Yes, I'm very grateful to have a good job, but it still gets tiring, I don't go to bed early enough and I don't get alot of sleep.

On the weekends I haven't been getting too much extra sleep due to wanting to be up early to go to SuperFresh on Saturday's and get some deals and the newspapers at the dollar store. Then getting up early on Sunday's to go to ShopRite before the crowds get there.

This weekend I have had it. I needed some sleep. So I've decided to skip SuperFresh and sleep in late. I got up at 9:30am. Which is late for me and I loved it. Then I got to exercise, make breakfast and hang out with the family. I am just going to get my whole $50 of my budget at ShopRite tomorrow morning like I used to. Sometimes you just have to cut a few of the bargain things down. Time is just as valuable as money, and rest is even more important.

I would love to do this every week, but SuperFresh just has too many good meat deals. So I've decided that when we need meat to just add them to my Sunday trip. Go to CVS first, then ShopRite, and then SF to keep my Saturdays open.

I also sent two big payments to card #4, so its slowly coming down. I hope to have it gone by the end of February or mid-March with our tax returns, plus some of that will go to card #5 too.
Author: Cheryl
•3:03 PM

(this was actually my work Halloween costume)

Was a beautiful day yesterday anyway with the inauguration. I think I watched any coverage I could from the minute I woke up until I was falling asleep on the couch at 10:30pm.