Stealing The Legal Way! Make $205.85 in An Hour: How $238.61 Worth of Items Cost $32.76

As I mentioned in my last blog, many stores are having great clearance sales right now because they are getting rid of excess inventory before they count their inventory for taxes. "Tis the season! 

All the items seen here on my Amish bench I picked up today for a total of $32.76 and that includes tax! Some of this will be used right away, some will be stored for later use. 

Here is a rundown of what I purchased and next to it, the regular price:

Wal-Mart:

3 packs of a 2 pack of culinary dish towels for .75 each/ regularly $4.88

2 packs of kitchen set (oven mitt, pot holders, kitchen towels). $1.00 each/regularly $4.97

Pioneer Woman 2 pack dish drying mat. $1.00/regularly $9.96

3 piece BBQ tool set $1.00/regularly $4.96

2 2 pair packs men's work gloves $1.00 each/regularly $5.94

2 pair women's gloves $1.00 each/regularly $9.97

1 pack Fish Crisp Coating Mix $1.00/regularly $4.96

Hair Polisher Heat Protector $1.00/regularly $7.27

2 Pure Silk Shaving Cream .50/ regularly $1.98

6 CocoLopez Cream of Coconut Cans $1.00 each/regularly $2.49

3 60 inch black grill cover $1.00 each/regularly $14.96

Men's Hanes Camo Pants $1.00/regularly $9.97
4 Placemats $1.00 each/regularly $2.00

Goodwill (brand new, never used)

3 Real Tree Men's Shirts .49 each/regularly $9.99

Tru-Fit Fleece Jacket $1.99/regularly $24.99

Men's Tru-Fit Button Down Shirt .49/ regularly $6.99

Totals $32.76 vs $238.61

 These items will all be used one way or another. I try not to buy anything I don't think I will use. I just *know* someone will read this and say "Why did you buy three, count them, three BBQ covers??" So, I will answer before anyone gets the chance! Last summer, I bought a BBQ cover. I bought it for full price and it's a nice one. However, after only one year of being on the deck, it's faded and I can see that, in the wind etc., it will be no time and it will need to be replaced. I figure that these three will last me a number of years just like the outdoor flags I got for free. I got about 6 free flags one time and, year after year, I have a fresh nice new flag outside my house. Fortunately, I do have space to store them. 

Here are some more examples of the items I picked up today. 

 It took me about an hour (if that) to look over the clearance aisles and choose these items for purchase. One thing I like to do after buying clearance is to consider in hours how much time it would have taken me to work and make the same amount of money saved. This only counts if you will actually use the items and would have purchased them (or something similar) anyway. 

 The total saved is $205.85. At my rate of pay, it would have taken a number of hours to make this up! These kind of sales are more likely to happen this time of year. See what you can find! See what you can save.

Happy Savings! 

Hubby Caught the Bug: All This Clearance Candy for $9.15 !!

Sometimes, you have to be careful what you teach people! My hubby came home with all this clearance candy for $9.15! It was 75% off. What a deal! I used to buy clearance candy like this, but have cut back in more recent years to try and keep some sugar out of the house. So, I was both joyed and cringed when he walked in with this, but I had to tell him he did a great job because he sure did find a good deal! He loves Reese's peanut butter cups, especially  the large egg ones like are shown here.

You can almost always, after holidays, find great deals on candy like this. If you don't mind storing it and eating it later (not on the holiday) you can save a lot of money on candy this way.

Happy Savings!

My After Christmas Deals

I expect I will get more than this for after Christmas Deals, but here's a start! The food goes fast. I got some marginally healthy stuff in here too!

Zipping Through the Store

Once in a while, I just need to zip through the store with no pre-planning. I zip past all the clearance stuff. Here is what I got today:

Marked down meat. These drumsticks are all natural, no antibiotics etc. The brats, well....:) But the yellow tags mean they are marked down. If you look closely you can see the amount saved.

Almond milk, regular buy. Yogurt was on sale for $2.00 each so I bought two.

Yellow tagged baked goods. Don't need these but bought them anyway. You can see my double-mindedness on health food. LOL!

Sugar was on sale at $1.48 each. I got organic decaf coffee on clearance for $4.00, Regular priced canned soup. Healthy tomato soup on clearance for $1,50 a carton.

These were on sale for .25 each. Half price.

When I can't buy eggs on sale, I get these all natural ones. Today they were $2.38. 

So, now you can see my confessions of a person who tries to eat healthy but kinda falls off the rails. Oh well. Anyway, you can see that I just zip through and save as I go!