Gazelle Vaccuum Cleaner Review

A couple months ago I bought the Gazelle vaccuum at Walgreen's when it was on sale and I had extra RR and it was on ESR rebate as well. I have finally gotten myself together to use it and here is my review:

I think this vaccuum is FANTASTIC! It's small, light-weight, doesn't need a cord because it plugs in. The list goes on about how wonderful this is. It is also bagless, which is awesome. I have used it twice this week alone, I almost feel like I could vaccuum everyday because it's that easy to use. It pivots very easily and since it's so small can go into many crevices and it even has a detachable part that turns into a little dustbuster thing. I think I will use it on the car next week.

(The reason I wait till next week is because I will be going to Colorado Springs, CO tommorrow and will be gone till Sunday at a conference- which I didn't have to pay ANYTHING FOR!)

Make Money After Rebate on Palm items!

I found this over on couponingcraze.blogspot.com:

Here's the link to the palm website... just copy and paste the names below to find the product.
Here's a 20% off coupon code also! PLMREG
Free Ground Shipping on all orders over $49 or $2.99 for 1 item.
Mobil™ Travel Guide DVD Make $6 AR/AC
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Franklin Thesaurus Card Make $5 AR/AC
Mobile Starter Kit Make $5 AR/AC
Handmark® Zagat To Go Make $4 AR/AC (note: only one Handmark rebate per household)Palm® 2GB microSD expansion card with miniSD and SD adapters Cost $2 AR/AC (this one does NOt seem to be showing on the site?)
Palm® 512 microSD expansion card with miniSD and SD adapters Make $4 AR/AC
Sudoku Deluxe CD Make $4 AR/AC
Palm® 1GB microSD expansion card with miniSD and SD adaptersMake $2 AR/AC
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Make $3 AR/AC

I bought all the things listed, except the 2GB I couldn't find on the site, will be making a nice chunk since shipping was free, came out to $111ish, rebates should show up in 6-8 weeks it said.

What is wrong?

I haven't been to CVS or Walgreens in weeks! What's wrong with me? I think I am just on burn-out for a while. I actually have over $100 expired ECBs and $16ish expired RR at that...

I think I just need to get back in the swing of things.

my husband and I auditioned for a musical on Sunday, we haven't done anything like that in a LONG time, but we thought what the heck, we didn't make callbacks, but that's all right. We did well, except aren't loud enough in our singing, we need to work on this. Yesterday we both auditioned for a play, there were only 4 men and 2 women there! And the night before apparently only 3/4 women! The show has 5 men and 2 women, I hope we both get parts! There are more auditions tonight for another show, but he doesn't want to audition, I do, we'll see what happens:)

Meijer

Meijer has these mealbox coupons things, it's great! I went to the store last week and bought a cart-full of groceries for about $84. The funny part is I got a bunch of vitamins, probably totalling $40, so half my bill was for six bottles of things!! That's annoying, of course, but still!

I need to update my totals for spending, but don't really feel like doing that right now, lol...

Getting back in the saddle

I actually haven't been to CVS in a LONG LONG time, probably almost a month, I have so many expired ECBs. I hope I can find a store that will accept them, we'll just have to see about that.

This week at CVS they have a deal going on Nivea buy $10 get $5 ECB, I'm definintely going to be doing that deal for my husband; he needs shaving cream. That's something that I don't find deals on too often, but this time I am going all in for it!

Another deal I will be doing there is on the General Mills products. It's buy $20 get $10 ECB, so I am going to try the Fiber One cereals, haven't tried them before, but will report back once I see how they taste :)

Been a While

Well, it has been a LONG while since my last post!

I was participating in a city-wide garage sale on one Saturday and made some awesome cash! I then had a sale on that Sunday as well and the next weekend and on a Monday and a Friday for a couple hours. All in all, I'd say it rocked since I made about $1000!!

The last couple weeks have been awesome!

Well, last week I was in FL with a friend. We went to Pensacola and Destin, basically the panhandle area. It was BEAUTIFUL!!

I also managed to go to Walgreens since I had over $100 RR expiring last Sat from the P&G promotion (can't wait for their next one either!)

This above photo is the stuff I got in FL, and the photo below is what I got in Battle Creek while I was walking around waiting for my husband to get outta work :)

I actually found a GC for WAGS I didn't know had money on it, over $60!! It was awesome, so I actually did not pay anything out of pocket for these purchases, just the RR and the GC I had found, and it still have over $30 on it!

Also, worth mentioning is that the vacuum that's on sale ESR was on clearance for $49.99, awesome!

WAGS trip one:
RR Used: $82
(I think I won't factor in the amount used on the GC because I didn't add the GC to my totals below to begin with, since I randomly found it in my stuff, also, I will not add the amount left in to the totals to see how that will work for me...)
Amount I should get back with ESR: $20 for vaccuum, $1.69 for bulbs= $21.69 +10%= $2.17= $23.86
PLUS: I will get $10 GC for buying the Polident stuff :)

Second trip to WAGS when I was in FL:
RR Used: $109
All final prices were put on GC I found, so no need to tally it in
Amunt I should get back with ESR: $1.69 for bulbs, $2.50 for Pert Plus, $1.99 for WAGS Ultra-thin, $3.29 for Kickers Energy, $8.99 for Nexcare, $4.99 for Orajel, $9.99 for Ear Rinse, $4.49 for Oral-B= $37.93+10%= $3.79= $41.72
Plus, I earned $12 from the Crest deal, and had $3 RR left over (although it is expired, will hope some WAG will take it!)

Now, I can update my totals as well :

(I'm still not sure how to calculate in RR and GC ECB etc... any suggestions would be appreciated!!) I did NOT add in anticipated GC totals below.

Total left to spend: $580.49 (subtracting RR, since I added it previously, add in new RR)
Total Saved: $1985.35