Amazing Trip to CVS ( Spent $9.85 )

I don't know about you ?? I always have a happy dancing when I made a great deal in the store !!

Today one of those days. I don't do couponing as much as I used to. I have a good amount of pile stock in my linen closet. So I need to slow down a little bit from those couponing. I went to CVS to buy a couple of things to add up my pile stock. This week CVS have a good deals for detergent and shampoo.

I did 3 transactions to get all of these 11 items for $9.85 OOP including tax. Total before coupons $43.19

Transaction #1

The foundation and lip gloss wasn't on my shopping list but I got coupon for Revlon from red machine $3 off purchase and $4 off $12 any cosmetic purchase also I have $2 printing coupon for foundation plus $8 ECB from previous purchase. When spend $15 on Revlon you will get ECB $6 back. So I decided to make this deal first because I figured I will spent the same amount of money and get more stuff.

Transaction #2

They have Tide on sale 2/$12 get back $4 ECB. Also I have 2 coupons for Tide.

Transaction #3

While I check Pantene shampoo they have 75% off some of them and some for sale 2/$7 Instead of just get 4 for $14 I go ahead and mix them. With this transaction I used 4 coupons : $2.50 off any shampoo with $12 purchase from red machine; 2 of $2/2 Pantene from coupons.com

Also I received $2 ECB for next purchase to CVS. Yay....happy dancing happen here.

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Our Weekend

Happy Monday All !

I hope you had a wonderful weekend ! Ours was wonderful and a little busy. Between our niece birthday party and my husband good friend's wedding. Also, we made time went to farmer's market to buy some goodies fresh food.

We slept in until around 8:30 and I made waffles for breakfast. We were thinking going to football training camp but it didn't happen. We figured will be to much for us.

 

We bought this yum home made ice cream from farmer's market. Oh..my it taste so delicious.

Had a blast at Miah's ( our niece ) birthday party. She had a beach theme party with slip and slide, snow cones, sand box. She had a blast with all her friends.

In the evening we went to one of my husband growing up friends. The ceremony was simple and nice. Also, they serve Greek food and Carolina BBQ style. We had a great time there.

Today I sold one of my project through CL. Yay....what a great day to start the week. Hope you all have a wonderful week ahead !!!

Weekend Blessing

Country Road in Charlottesville, VA

Psalm 32 :8

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye

Why I Love Dumpster ( Shopping Cart ) Diving #2

Happy Friday !! I hope you had a wonderful day ! I had an amazing day today. Got to chat with my high school best friend via Skype  this morning. Thank you to the Skype founder what a blessing. I use this application a lot to talk to my family back in Indonesia. It is very economical. all you need is a good internet connection, Skype account and you are good to go. Talk for hours and hours without any charge. I can see their faces too and vise versa  :)

Back to my post title. This time I got a lot of goodies. I think this trip was much better than shopping cart diving from last time. You can read about it  here. If you read the post you will know where I go for dumpster ( shopping cart ) diving. I go to Goodwill Outlet and Auction. My husband and I go here at least once a month searching for auction furniture for our next project.

On this trip, I didn't think I would get much, but patience paid off. I just hang around in the parking lot for about an hour, waiting for people to bring their cart out to see what goodies are left inside { I know... I keep asking myself "why would they do that" :)} Also, thanks to my patient husband ( waiting patiently inside our car in 90 plus degree weather ) while his crazy smart frugal wife is digging up all the goodies.

Let's see what I found from those lovely dumpster { shopping cart :) }

Beautiful nicely detailed frames

A lot of good things here. These stuffed animals are still in very good condition. I can put them in my Operation Christmas Child boxes. Slushy Magic Kit I thought my niece would love it along with the little bag, and the pencil bag. Raffia for some craft projects.

Kitchen toys I will give these to my niece as well. The basket came from the dumpster too.

 

These wreaths will be handy for this coming Autumn and the other one for Spring next year. I just need to add some little decorations and I will have a festive fall wreath hanging on my door :)

Books, I will sell them on eBay except the Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult I will keep it for now in addition to my books collection. And the little Christmas tree it will be handy in our bedroom this Christmas to hang some sentimental ornaments that we have.

Euro Chopper still in very good condition I don't have one of those so I will keep it. I was thinking of spraypainting the shell all white and use as a decoration on my coffee table. I will give the fall decorations away.

All kind of vases. I collect them and when I get up to 10-12 pieces I will sell them on CL ( which I did once already :)

These 2 kitchen appliances were an unexpected find. I was looking in this shopping cart sitting in parking lot and saw them inside. I started to roll the shopping cart away and some lady said : " that cart is belongs to so and so " I said :" I'm sorry !" and left it where it was. Suddenly the daughter ( about 13-15 years old) of so and so said : " No that doesn't belong to us " So I rolled again. This time another man said the same thing as the lady. I left it again. The daughter said the same thing for the second time :" No that's not ours " This time I rolled the cart for good to our car and these 2 appliances belong to me now :)

Not really sure if we want to keep both of them. I was thinking to donate both of them to the church for our free yard sale day ( give away stuff that donated by congregations to the neighbors ) but we didn't do it this year.

Those are my finds from dumpster ( shopping cart ) diving adventure :)

Have a great and blessings weekend friends !!!

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Huge Coffee Table Makeover ( Almost Gave Up )

I hope you all have a nice day ! It is the middle of the week already ! Wow...how time just flies by... without realizing it we are almost done with this hot but lovely summer.

While the weather is still hot, sometimes it is nice to stay on my balcony to paint and makeover furniture that I have now. I enjoy every minute of it.

This huge coffee table is one of my projects. This one was really huge and heavy 60"x60"x24" and around 50-60 pounds. I'm so glad that someone already claimed it as their own through CL. But I want to share with you the pictures of before and after....

After we put the first coat of Red Cherry Stain

This table was a long project. After we put the first, and second coats of stain. We put Poly on it and to our surprise it turned all white. We were so disappointed and confused about what went wrong. We searched on the internet and discovered that it was probably the humidity. So we re-sanded it back ( yes we did it again ) to take all the white from the chemical reaction. And we redid it all over again. This time we put it inside the house to avoid the humidity but still... it gave us the same reaction...all white. This was the second time and we were almost ready to give up and just put this table into the dumpster or just paint the whole table with regular paint. I wish I took pictures of those white ugly spots all over the table. But we give it another try. This time we just give up to put Poly on it ( we left it without the Poly ).  We never figured out why. My thought is that the type of wood probably doesn't work with Poly. Or you might know..?

Despite all the crazy chemical reaction. Finally, the top was done and I was happy with it. I painted the base with Valspar Woodlawn Colonial Gray. I reused all the original hardware... cleaned them and spray painted them with a bronze color.

After I finished painting... about 3 coats. We sprayed it with Lacquer to give it a nice finish. Oh, thank God !! We were so happy with the final look. It took us more than a month between sanding and staining over and over again.

 

What project have you done and almost given up on it ???

 

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Dinner Rolls ( Our Favorite )

Hi All !!

 

This recipe is our new favorite dinner roll. I haven't make any dinner roll before. My husband love to have dinner rolls once in a while at dinner table. I went to Google a couple of dinner rolls recipe and found this recipe from Food website. I cut the recipe in half because I want to keep it fresh. The first time I tried this easy dinner rolls it turned out really good. Since then, I have used it for a few times and we always love it.

 

This week I made it again and thought to share on this blog. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do :)

 

Yum...Fresh from the oven :)

 

Before go to oven !

 

Don't you want try them after you put butter on :)

 

Easy Dinner Rolls

 

By MizzNezz on September 19, 2002

Prep Time: 15 mins

Total Time: 32 mins

Yield: 24 rolls

Ingredients

1 cup water ( 110 degrees F)

2 packages yeast ( Do not use the quick rising in this recipe)

1/2 cup butter, melted

1/2 cup sugar

3 eggs

1 teaspoon salt

4 1/4 cups flour

Directions

Combine water and yeast in lg bowl; let stand for 5 minutes.

With wooden spoon, stir in butter, sugar, eggs and salt.

Add flour, 1 cup at a time and beat in as much as you can.

(you will probably be able to use all the flour) Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or up to 3 days.

Grease a 13x9 baking pan.

Turn dough out onto floured surface.

Divide into 24 equal pieces.

Roll each piece into a smooth round ball.

Place in rows in prepared pan.

Cover and let rise for 1 hour; until doubled.

Heat oven to 375*.

Bake until golden brown, about 17 minutes.

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Weekend Blessing

Crabtree Falls in Virginia

Hi All ! I hope everyone has a great and blessed weekend !! I will start the series Weekend Blessing on this blog and share with you the bible verses that bless my husband and I. And prayerfully will bless you as well !!

Today I will share my husband favorite verse to open this series !!

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not

 

Galatian 6:9