Monday, August 25, 2008

It's a Female Thing

This is a great week to buy female products from CVS...and while you're out buying your monthly products, why not sign up for some free samples.

Kotex - Free sample Kotex pack (box in upper right corner)

Tampax - Free sample of Tampax Pearl (middle of the page at the bottom)

Always - Free sample of Always Infinity (box on the right)

BeingGirl - Sample kit from Always and Tampax

o.b. - Free trial pack of the "mighty. small" tampon


CVS Shopping - August 24-28
1 Kotex Lightdays (16 ct): $1.49 (receive $1.49 ECB). Use $.75/1 coupon from 7/20 SS insert or $1/1 from the August issue of All You. Gives you a profit!

Playtex tampons Gentle Glide (18 ct) or Sport (16 ct): $4.99, receive $3 ECB. Use printable $1 off coupon from Playtex Sport site = $.99 after ECB

Carefree pantiliners (92-120 ct), o.b. tampons (40 ct), Stayfree pads (28-48): 2/$9, receive $5 ECB = 2/$4 after ECB. Available coupons: Stayfree B1G1F from 6/29 insert. Get $1 coupon from Stayfree website.

KY Liquibeads: $10.99, receive $5 ECB. Use $2 off coupon from KY website. = $3.99 after ECB

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Painting My Bathroom

I paid full price for a gallon of paint at Home Depot. I just hadn't considered there might be cheaper ways to get paint. I wanted a light to medium khaki color, but I wasn't too picky about what shade. I went to Sherwin Williams a few weeks later and discovered their Oops paints...for $3 a gallon! The paints are perfectly fine. An employee just messed up a little on mixing the color, so they aren't exactly what the customer ordered. They can't simply throw away paints, so they're sold for a fraction of the original price. I was shown a huge stack of neutral colored paints like the gallon I had recently bought.
I mentally kicked myself for not realizing this sooner, but oh well. I'll know better next time.