Chattanooga Cheapskate Has Moved!
What are you doing at my old address pretty lady?! Grab the gals and come on over to my new home!
We are now at www.chattanoogacheapskate.com. Your bookmarks may be for http://www.chattanoogacheapskate.wordpress.com, and so you need to bookmark the new site instead! Come read, comment, rant, rave, and join in the Extreme Coupon Nerdiness on which we all thrive!!
Cheapskating through the Twittersphere
Okay, I’m not very tech-savvy, but I’m pretty sure there are great-grandmothers out there who twitter. So I figured it was time for Chattanooga Cheapskate to get itself Twitter-fied. I’m going to start out by putting up the RSS feed on the bottom of the sidebar, so you can see what kind of stuff gets tweeted. However, I’m kind of considering letting all of you have the password/sign-in info so we can be sort of a twitter-forum. Everyone could then drop their hints and news bits into one spot for all to see. What do you think? Any suggestions? Terrible, horrible idea?
Okay, in the meantime though- look for me on Twitter under the username: cheapskating
You can subscribe to my twitter updates for real-time tidbits about deals, freebies, and general couponing whatnots.
Some Sweet Coupons
Ovaltine and Juicy Juice coupons are pretty hard to come by- so although I think I’ve mentioned this before, I’m going to just throw it out there again: I got an email from Nestle today, and if you are a member (or if you quick join) their Nestle Family mailing list, you can print out $6 of great coupons! You should be able to print out 2 of each by using the back button- so that’s a nice little stash to tuck away for later. Here’s the goodies:
- $1/2 ANY Juicy Juice
- $1 Off Stouffer’s Family or Skillet Meals
- $1 Off Nestle Miniatures Bag
- 60¢ Off Ovaltine (Debbie, are you seeing this??)
- $2 Off Boost Kid Essentials
- 75¢ Off Nestle Tollhouse Morsels
Guys. I’m not going to lie. I actually had A DREAM a couple nights ago that I found the Family Is Its Own Reward coupon book. How sad is that? Well, let me tell you, it is S-A-D. I felt pretty pathetic for a day or so until I realized that apparently it was A PROPHETIC DREAM! While reading over the Southern Savers comments section, a beautiful glowing fairy named Jennifer dropped the news that she’d found the book at the Ooltewah Publix yesterday.
I stopped by on my way home from the Science Theatre today- and there it was….in all it’s glory. It is in front of the beer section, at the end of the popcorn aisle, in a cardboard display.
Now dear readers- lest you be so overcome by happiness that 10 or 12 coupon booklets “accidentally” slip into your purse, let me please remind you that
- There are alot of ladies around here who have been praying for that coupon book for a long, long time.
- It’s just not cool to take more than one or two.
- Publix has cameras to catch JUST THIS SORT OF THING. In fact, in talking to customer service, they have reported catching women on camera taking an armful of books, and confronting them before they left the store. Do you want that to happen missy? DO you???
Of course not! So take what you need, enjoy, and be thankful. And if you can’t get your hands on one…. well, I might just save my 2 for a little giveaway in the near future. Happy hunting!
-Jamie
Fun-Fridays at Rock Point gets “Artsy”
Every Firday at 10:30 AM Rock Point Books hosts a reading hour for the kiddos called “Fun Fridays”. This Friday, The Hunter Art Museum is coming and the focus will be”Jellies: Living Art”. They are also bringing artist Dale Chihuly with all the supplies to make artsy wire chandeliers with the kids!
New July Printables
Can I just take a momentary detour to say how much I love “Mad Men”? If you haven’t seen it, it starts up again in August. I’m just saying. Mad Men. Get on the bandwagon. Okay!
There are several good new printables out for July- and some will inevitably reach their limit soon. So let’s all give our printers a good old fashioned pep-talk and get ready for a coupon-printing marathon, shall we? Find the following at Red Plum & Coupons.com.
$1 off Keebler Cookies (has been reset)
$1 off Goody’s Ouchless
.55/1 Cheerios
.75/1 Multi-Grain Cheerios
$1.25 off DiGiorno
$1/2 Hefty Foam Plates (Makes SUPER-CHEAP plates at Bi-Lo this week!!)
.40/1 Suddenly Salad (great for Bi-Lo this week)
.50/1 Betty Crocker Fiber One Muffin Mix
$1.50 off Wanchai Ferry Frozen Meals
.40/1 Nature Valley Bars
$1 off Yoplait Fiber One (I’m sure this will make for 25¢ yogurt at Publix soon!!)
.50/6 Yoplait Cups
New Publix Coupon Book
If you’re heading out this week- check for the cardboard display carrying the new Curves Coupon Book. It’s called “nothing Goes to Waist” and it looks like this:
And speaking of waist- it’s pretty skinny on the coupons, if you catch my drift- Looks like about $106 of that “$112 of Savings” is some waived fee for joining Curves. Pllthh. HOWEVER- right off the bat you can go ahead and use that $1/1 McCormick Spice coupon to get McCormick GrillMates at Publix this week for FREE!! The Spicy Montreal Steak Seasoning is awesome on EVERYTHING….
While you are in Publix looking for coupons, here are some other recent books to keep your eyes out for.
Want even more coupons? Sign up for this Kraft/Nabisco book HERE, and the Home Made Simple Book HERE to get some coupon goodies in the mail box!!
4th of July Events Planner
While I would love to attend one of these celebrations, we’ll probably be staying at home guarding the house from the bottle-rocket toting teenagers who like to do drive-by’s in our neighborhood. A couple years ago they burned down one of our bushes, and we’d like to not risk the same fate for our house…
July 2- American Pride Concert in Collegedale:
Collegedale is hosting it’s annual American Pride Concert and Fireworks on the Collegedale Greenway (at Veterans Memorial Park, Apison Pike) this Thursday(July 2) at 8 PM. The East Tennessee Symphony Orchestra will be performing several patriotic pieces, and the fireworks will begin at the end of Tchaicovsky’s “1812 Overture”.
If the greenway is too packed, feel free to park your lawnchair in the Ooltewah Middle School Parking Lot or some of the parking lots in the Four Corners Intersection!
Admission is FREE, call 580-4999 for more details!
July 4- Pops On The River in Chattanooga:
On July 4th, head on down to Coolidge Park with your lawn chairs and picnic blankets for some more patriotic music and fireworks. The concert will begin at 8:00 PM, featuring The Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Orchestra and including such acts as The Dismembered Tennesseans and father/daughter duo Tim & Sara King who will sing songs from recent Disney movies (i.e. Pocahontas and Beauty & The Beast). The Chattanooga Fire Dept. Color Guard & a T-34 military flyover will present a salute to the red, white, and blue. Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture will finish off the night with a fireworks display over the river.
For more details, especially bus and parking information, read all about it HERE!
July 4- Soddy Daisy Lake Festival:
I’m just going to warn you guys, this festival sounds like the cutest thing ever. You might just get cuteness overload from the write-up alone. This sounds like the one to take the old folks to!
The city of Soddy Daisy is presenting it’s annual 4th of July celebration at Soddy Daisy Lake on Saturday. This free family event will start at 9 AM and last all day, ending in the city’s fireworks show at dark. The high-school marching band will lead a parade down Dayton Pike…and there will be cake! Local firemen will test their ladder and strength skills in the annual Fireman’s Muster competition!! (Does this celebration just get more and more adorable, or what??) Wander up and down Dayton Pike and enjoy the car show/swap meet, food and craft vendors at the ball field, and a kids area with inflatables.
Lots of local bands (Bluegrass, Rock, Christian, etc..) will be entertaining the masses, including “Elvis” (Gene Hodge) and rising Nashville Star Barlee Norton. “Dancing is encouraged”!!
For any questions, call Laura Oaklet @ 842-0379
Kraft/Nabisco $55 Coupon Book!!
Dudes and dudettes- it is imperative that you sign up NOW for this great Back-To-School Coupon booklet from Kraft/Nabisco. It says “While Supplies Last”- so that means they will probably run out soon. Lunchbox treats aren’t cheap!
July 1st = Time to cash in your CV$ $PRING REWARD$!
We’ve all been busy little Coupon Bees this spring- and more than likely you have racked up some CVS rewards along the way. If so, then surprise-surprise! Today’s your lucky day! July 1st is the first day to print out the ECB rewards bucks you’ve earned in the last few months. To see if you have any, and to print them out, go HERE and have your card number ready!
If you don’t have a printer, just go into any store and swipe your card under the magical coupon machine- it’ll print out. If your store is magical coupon machine-less, purchase something you need anyway, and it will print out with your receipt!
I’ve got $2.50 to print out….not much, but I’ll probably be able to stretch it pretty far!
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