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Here are my two receipts from yesterday and today. First one is from yesterday, 79% savings. That purchase included 10 boxes of Rice Krispies, 5 bags of M&Ms, 5 reusable grocery tote bags and 3 catalinas for a FREE gallon of milk. Plus, I’ve already clipped the UPCs and have submitted my $10 rebate.

Then, today’s weekly trip:

I always aim for 50% savings on my weekly trip and usually land between 30-50%. But, look at the item count-78 items. Then, if total the number of store coupons, mfr coupons etc., it comes to 86. That means that I had at least one deal-a sale, store coupon or mfr coupon, for every item. That’s right, if it’s not on sale or I don’t have a coupon, unless it’s absolutely necessary, we don’t buy it. I had several produce coupons this week too (look for peelies on the Kellogg’s!) which helped boost this along.

I’m having a great week there. I have plenty of food, plus I stuck to my budget-I aim for $100.

Contest Catch-Up

Regarding the contests I ran this month, I think I am all caught up with either mailing out the prizes or arranging for them to be mailed. If I haven’t contacted you to let you know the status, please contact me.

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Comcast Logic

That’s an oxymoron I suppose. Nothing they seem to do is logical.

We’re getting rid of cable tv. We don’t need it and currently we’re paying about $120 for both tv (just basic) and internet.  So I called them today to drop the tv part, just keep internet. Of course they don’t want to lose me as a customer, so I was given these two options:

Drop the tv-internet only will cost us $59 month plus taxes/fees

I can sign up for some special 6-month plan, rate is only good for 6 months; both tv/internet will cost us $69 month plus taxes fees. This is $40 less than the $109 per month plus taxes/fees I am currently paying.

I chose the six month plan. Because…..we purchased a hdtv antenna, but with all this winter weather, Dan hasn’t installed it yet. This will at least carry us through the spring, even though it’s $10 more, we are still saving $40. We had planned on just doing without network tv, any shows we want to watch we can find online. The only thing we’d be missing is news and morning shows. I was ok with doing without them, but keeping them is nice too.

But here’s a thought…..hey stupid Comcast, why can’t you give me that $69 rate all the time, why just for six months? Of course they’re banking on me not calling in six months and cancelling, and conveniently and quietly my rates go back up to $109. Ha, they don’t know who they’re dealing with.

Call Comcast at 800-comcast to negotiate yourself a lower rate.