Another Steal at CVS!

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Hey, just a quick post from my phone, while I’m on the run.

I’m not an extreme couponer ’cause ain’t nobody got time fuh that , but I do love a good deal. I tend to focus my efforts on products and brands that I actually use. I’ll go deeper into this in a different post some other time, though.

I just scored 2 bottles of Flexamin Triple Strength tablets, normally priced at $47.99 each in-store, for a grand total of $40.75! To be clear, what would have cost me $95.98 before taxes, only cost me $40.75 AFTER taxes. How did I do it? Watch.flexamin1flexamin2

So, as I said, this item is $47.99 in-store, but the two $5 coupons that you see there are manufacturers coupons that were attached o the product. The $1 coupon was a stray ExtraBuck that I had, used in conjunction with this week’s BOGO offer on most vitamins and supplements at CVS this week, so if you need this, you’ve only got until tomorrow to take full advantage.

Talk to ya later!

CVS Deal Alert!

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Hey guys, just checking in really quickly w/a great deal that I got yesterday! Fellas, you might want to take this chance to get outta here, LOL.

I got two 16 count packages of Stayfree Overnights pads for four cents. Yes, FOUR CENTS for both of them.  Wanna know how? Well,  CVS has Stayfree products pads BOGO ( Buy One, Get One free) this week, ending  on January 12.  It just so happened that the coupon circulars this week had a  manufacturers BOGO coupon for any Stayfree product, good until February 6.  Savvy shopper know that a store BOGO sale (or coupon) + a Manufacturers = WIN.

 

Need evidence?
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Boom!

Now, if you don’t like or need this particular item, it’s a sorely needed item in shelters, so if you have the time and the means to take advantage of this deal on behalf of someone who needs it, please do so before time runs out!

I’ll have another sweet deal for you tomorrow, but I was waiting on CVS to email a coupon (they tend to do that on Wednesdays or Thursdays),  and it just came through; I’ll do my shopping before work tomorrow and share it with you, then.

Have a great day!

Happy Hump Day!

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Y’all alright? I hope so.

Just popping in really quickly to share a small project I’ve completed.

I’m a Pinterest fiend, but I’m also really unfocused. A fellow member of a message board that I frequent set up a 10-week challenge, and I chomped at the bit. We have 10 weeks to complete 10 projects based on our pins, and yesterday was the deadline on week 3.  I made fabric covered button earrings.

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They weren’t hard to make, at all; I just fought (with myself, mostly) to meet the deadline ( but I made it!). A couple of notes, though:

  • The larger ones are size 45 (1 1/8 inch or 28mm) and the smaller ones are size 30 (3/4 inch or 19mm).
  • The smaller ones  are made with sari fabric, and the metallic threads in the portion of fabric that I used were harder for me to work with. I ruined a purple pair, but thankfully I have more of that fabric to work with.
  • Going forward, I wouldn’t center the earring posts for the larger size, as it kind of covers  your entire lobe while wearing, and feels weird (to me, at least). I’d place the post at 12 o’clock and let it dangle below the lobe.
  • I used plastic ear posts and nuts.This is  my first time not working with metal jewelry findings;  I have sensitive skin and always buying gold-filled or sterling findings can get expensive if you’re not careful.  We’ll see how they hold up.

In case you were wondering, my Week 1 challenge was a success that I’ll be getting mileage out of throughout 2013  (homemade laundry detergent), but Week 2 was a fail (homemade hand soap).

Welp, that’s all I got today;  hope all is well.

So, Today’s That Day

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Despite my best effort to start this year off on an upbeat note,  I’m failing miserably.  My daughter’s father passed away four years ago today.  Opposite of how co-parenting relationships (especially among people of color) are usually depicted, we grew into a great relationship.

Although he wasn’t terminally ill,  I had started to mentally prepare myself for losing him  after observing certain changes .  I could have never prepared myself for how he left us, though. I especially didn’t know– I still don’t, actually- how to comfort my daughter. Every time that I think about him, I wish that I can take away the devastation and hurt of how the news of his passing was delivered to her.  Every day I still want to slap everyone who didn’t take a moment to think before texting or calling her, even out of concern. Note: people, please, give people and their families at least a day to  actually get the news out before offering sympathy–they may not even know about the death.  I still haven’t fully dealt with this myself.  It hurts me so much that he can’t be here to cheer on his baby girls (my daughter, and another from a later relationship) and his awesome nephews. I ache watching his dad and siblings miss him so much.  Although our romantic relations had been long over, we still had an open and fun (but innocent) flirtation with each other that I miss. I couldn’t comfortably do that with anyone but him; I still can’t.

So many people miss him for as many reasons; but  for us, his family… Man, listen.

Just had to get that out there.

Hey, Y’all

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So,  today I planned to be all ebullient with my enthusiasm for the new year, but something really crappy happened to me today. I don’t want to talk about the incident yet, but I’ll address it later.  I did want to hold myself to blogging today, though. But this is it. Mission accomplished. I’ll do better in the future, pinky swear.

P.S. If it isn’t obvious to you, this site is under construction. My design skills are buried under a decade of rust. I’m not one for a “noisy” design, so hopefully the changes you  see won’t be too hard on me or you.

P.P.S. What I’ll actually post about will streamline itself over time; my main focus for now is to just WRITE.  I’m glad you’re here, and I hope you’ll stick around.