PRINTER CARTRIDGES

Are you tired of going to Staples and paying $50 to $60 for HP toner cartridges? I was, so I tried this place I found on ebay. It is called toneronsell and I was totally impressed with them when I ordered my HP replacement cartridge.

When I ordered it, it came very quickly. Unfortunately, my cartridge was broken so I contacted them via email and told them. Because my ebay account is tied to an email address I never look at, I didn't know they were going to send a replacement out. During that time my husband threw out the box not knowing I would need it to send the old one back. UPS showed up at my door a couple of days later with a RMA. I had to send him away because I didn't have a cartridge to send back because I didn't have the box. I NEVER expected to get a replacement cartridge from UPS the next day. I had thrown my cartridge out NEVER expecting to get the customer service I did.

To make a long story short, I e-mailed toneronsell and offered to pay for the new cartridge. Their customer service was outstanding and I would recommend them to anyone looking to buy their printer cartridges. By the way, I only paid around $20 for a new cartridge!

NEW BARCODE ON COUPONS

Have any of you noticed the new longer barcode, called the DataBar barcode on your coupons? You may have noticed that some of your coupons look different and you may have had problems with them scanning at Publix. I know it happened to me. The cashier simply had to cover up half of the barcode to make it go through.

What this tells me is that Publix does not have the new updated system in place yet. I believe they have 6 months to get their computers updated. When they do, it will actually make the checkout process easier. When the coupon is scanned, it will encode a great amount of information like expiration dates, product specifics such as size, weight, etc.

When this is in place it will eliminate the need for the cashier to look at every coupon to see if it is expired. This should make your checkout experience quicker.

RIB EYE STEAKS AND RIBS

Rib Eye Steaks...my favorite and the only steak I will buy. Winn Dixie has them for $5.99 per pound beginning tomorrow. Make sure you buy the bone-in steak as it has a much better flavor.

While you are there, pick up some cherries at $1.99 per pound. We won't be seeing those prices for much longer and it will inch its way back up to $3 per pound and higher.

Oh!! Another good buy is the pork spare ribs at Food Lion. I must admit that I love ribs and no one makes them better than my hubby. He could open a restaurant and serve his fried shrimp and ribs! They are $1.99 per lb. and there is a $2 off coupon HERE for ribs! I just love it when we get meat coupons!

CVS 8/1/11

A girl always need more lipstick. The Revlon lipstick sale plus my ECB's burning a hole in my wallet drew me in. Since I am working off two cards, I did it in two transactions. My first transaction was 2 lipsticks, Sensitive Toothpaste, Razors, and 2 Dawn dish detergent. My OOP including tax was $3.90 and I received back $13.00 in ECB's.

I was able to take advantage of the $3 off $10 Beauty purchase as well as a $5 off $25 that printed from the magic coupon machine.

I then did the lipstick again by itself with my OOP being $2.10 including tax. I received a $6 ECB back for it.

Isn't it fun when you can get items for yourself and your famly for pennies on the dollar?

WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

This morning was hectic as I was trying to get out of the house to go to work. Before I left I was trying to think of something to have for dinner with 2 cups of leftover baked chicken. What do you do with 2 cups of cooked chicken?

I looked in my pantry and mixed the chicken with 1/2 cup salsa, 4 oz. velvetta cheese, a can of drained black beans. 1 tsp. chili powder and 1/4 tsp garlic powder. I then put one of the two flour tortilla shells in the bottom of a round casserole, put 1/2 the mixture on top, another flour tortilla and topped it with the remainder chicken mixture.

I must say myself for something that was thrown together in 5 minutes, it wasn't bad at all. I was able to use items that were from my stockpile and use the leftover chicken at the same time.

Next time I just have to figure out how to use peanut butter and Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes in the recipe as I have quite a few in my stockpile!

What are some of the creative dinner ideas you come up with for dinner with your pantry items??

COSTCO DELI MEAT

With school starting in about three weeks, use this $1/1 coupon for Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Bread from coupons.com to make a sandwich your kids will think is cool!

Speaking of sandwiches, has anyone noticed the price of deli meat? Buy a lb. of turkey and you can pay $8 per pound. If you have several lunches to pack we all know this can get expensive. My husband went to Costco last week and came home with pre-packaged deli meat. If I were there, I would not have bought it. But let's face it, when I am not there, a few more things end up in the cart.

This was one of those items I was glad he brought home. I was shocked at the price of $3.99 per pound. Each package had just over 1 3/4 lbs in it and it basically was the price of one pound if you purchased it at Publix! He bought the ham and turkey and I was pleasantly surprised!

Let's weigh the options:

1 lb. deli turkey at Publix $7.99 lb.
1 lb. fake deli turkey at Walmart $6 lb.
1.85 lb.s deli turkey/ham at Costco $7.38

Bottom line is when you go to Costco pick up some of the deli meat. It was good and it is such an awesome price. Don't pick up the granola in the bakery department because you will end up eating the whole thing!!

SCOTCH-BRITE SPONGES

Ladies, check your coupon binders for a PDF coupon for $1 off a 3-pk of Scotch-Brite Sponges. This coupon is no longer available to print but has an expiration date of 9/30/11. If you are lucky enough to have this coupon, you will get a 3-pk of sponges for $1. Yippee!! I printed four of them!!

This will go on sale with the new ad beginning on Thursday.