Retro Classic Packaging on Some of Your Favorite Big G Cereals at Target!!

For a limited time Big G and Target will have available some super cool old school style packaging on select cereals. These will surely bring back fond memories of your childhood. As an added bonus there will be a coupon on the back of the box for $5 off Vintage Hasbro games.


I was very lucky and General Mills and MyBlogSpark sent me a wonderful giftpack including the following items.

Don’t forget to go online & print a coupon for $1 off 2 General Mills cereals before you head to Target!

Collect all 5 different throw-back packages that each include a $5 coupon for these vintage Hasbro® board games; available exclusively at Target® from March 15, 2013 to April 30, 2013 while supplies last. Coupon valid at Target stores from March 15, 2013 to December 31, 2013.

 

Participating Big G cereals include: Cinnamon Toast Crunch® (16.2 oz.), Lucky Charms® (16 oz.), Honey Nut Cheerios® (17 oz.), Cheerios® (18 oz.) and Cocoa Puffs® (16.5 oz.)

 

Participating Hasbro vintage board games: Clue® Vintage, Scrabble® Vintage, Parcheesi® Vintage or Risk® Vintage

 

I cannot wait to get some more of this retro looking cereals. I also have my eyes on some of the boardgames. My son is finally getting to that age where I can make him play these games with me!!!

 

***Disclosure: The prize pack, information, and giveaway have been provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark.

 

Breakfast Savings at Publix

I am a very, very loyal Publix shopper. I shop there on a weekly basis. So when I received an email from MyBlogSpark asking if I would be interesting in participating in this and receiving a $25 Publix giftcard, I jumped at the chance. Publix is having a Breakfast Savings Event from April 1st until April 10th. You can print some coupons for this sale here. 

Some good breakfast sales I see are the following:
General Mills Cheerios Cereal is buy one get one free
Nature Valley Granola Bars are 2 for $5 ( I love the crunchy honey kind)
Thomas Bagels buy one get one free
Keurig K Cups Coffee $6.99 (everyone seems to have one of these coffee makers these days)
Yoplait Yogurt 20 for $10  (which makes it only 50 cents each!)
Peter Pan Peanut Butter buy one get one free
6 count of donuts from the bakery for $2.99
Danish Pecan Ring $4.49 (would go good with some coffee)
Kellogg's Frosted Flakes or Krave Cereal buy one get one free
Nature's Own Butterbread buy one get one free
Dannon Oikos Yogurt 10 for $10
Kellogg's Eggo Waffles buy one get one free
Egg Beaters 3 for $5
New England Coffee buy one get one free

Using this link you can print some coupons for some of the above items.


I went and did my shopping at Publix today and used my giftcard to stock up on some breakfast items. Unfortunately, I forgot to charge my batteries so I don't have a picture to show you of what I bought. I did go over the $25 but I did manage to stay under my weekly $40 grocery budget (this is of course by using coupons and matching them up to sales). Since I used the giftcard for part of it I am ahead this week. Whoo hoo!! 

Here's some of the items I bought:
Thomas Bagels (I have so much cream cheese in the fridge so this was perfect timing)
Peter Pan Peanut Butter ( I was actually out of peanut butter)
Eggo Waffles which will make my son very happy!
Eggs
Yoplait Yogurt
Flour Tortillas for breakfast burritos
and a whole bunch of other items!!

**Important Disclosure: The good folks below were nice enough to send me the $25 Publix gift card but my opinions about Publix, General Mills and MyBlogSpark are my own.

The information, products and General Mills gift pack were provided by General Mills and Publix® through MyBlogSpark.

It's a Sad World We Live In

Here is a copy of a job posting. These are just some of the highlights. The salary ($13,000 yes, 13 thousand) equals to way less than min. wage and rent/housing here is very expensive here.

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

Base Pay : $13,000 /Year
Employee Type : Full-Time

Typical work hours vary between 8AM and 7PM. Job may require additional hours. Work hours may change at Management’s discretion with or without prior notice. Must have flexible schedule with ability to work evenings and weekends.

You would have to have a second job just to make ends meet. Though that would be difficult because of the hours and the fact that it sounds like your hours would change at a drop of a dime possibly with no notice. Also today there is no such thing as job security so working hard and working your way up doesn't happen anymore. As soon as they can they will get rid of you and hire someone cheaper or if they can send it overseas. It really leaves one with a very bad taste in their mouth.

I'm amazed it doesn't require a Bachelor's Degree since pretty much every job requires one these days. I don't know how many jobs I see that requires one and at max they want to pay you a whopping $13hr (if that).


I am in school now and I won't lie I am absolutely terrified about my future thanks to companies not wanting nor willing to pay a livable wage. It was so much easier in my parent's time they actually had a chance.

Happy Groundhog Day!!

Yay for spring!!!

ProgressOh! Contest

How would you like to win the following: Round-trip airfare for you and a guest to Los Angeles, California 4 day/ 3 night hotel accommodations A head-to-toe makeover, including hair, makeup and a blue dress to get you ready for your own ProgressOh! moment in Hollywood Two tickets to this season's live finale of The Biggest Loser $2,000 spending money Well the good folks at Progresso have a contest to win the above. Go here to enter. I know I would be super excited just for the makeover. I definitely need one!! Progresso has some new yummy low calorie soups out. Some of the new ones include: Light Beef Pot Roast Light Chicken & Dumpling Light Creamy Potato with Bacon Cheese Light New England Clam Chowder Light Zesty Southwestern-Style Vegetable Light Chicken Pot Pie Style and many more........... The good folks at Progresso and My Blog Spark provided me with a lovely gift pack. My thoughts on the products and both companies are my own. Thanks for reading!

Ebates

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They are free to join and they generally have a sign up bonus of $5 to $10 when you sign up. Go here for details.

Gift Card Rescue

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Win a Free KitchenAid Artisan Mixer!

Win an Amazon Kindle Fire!!

You can go here to enter to win a Kindle Fire. I want one of these so bad! This is not sponsored by me in any way, shape or form I am just reposting.

A's and B's = Bad Student Apparently

I took my last final exam and I got a 100% on it!!! So so far since I started college I have gotten all A's and B's. Which is why I am beyond upset that they are holding a class against me from almost 15 years ago that I had been told would not count because I was not a degree seeking student (they did not have my transcripts and was considered a non degree seeking student). I went to that class 2 times and discovered it so was not what I signed up for (it was a computer programing class and NOT a how to use computers class like I had been told). Thanks to the misinformation (as in told that class would not count and that class was a how to class) I have not been eligible for Pell grants and Student loans because of GPA and completion ratio. Completely sucks that I am being treated like I am a poor student (as in grades) when clearly this is NOT the case.

Win a Free KitchenAid Artisan Mixer!

Looks very different

Hmmm...so this is the new blogger or at least the new way it looks when you are composing your post. Anyhoo....I have been watching so much tv or I should say Roku it isn't even funny. I finished last week all of my assignments and tests (aside from 1 test which is not open yet) so I have had this week off. I would love to say I accomplished a whole bunch of stuff but alas I have not. I have been super duper lazy and have pretty much just watched loads of movies and am trying to get somewhat caught up on House. I have watched some interesting movies lately on Netflix (I am canceling after my 1 month is up - which I had to pay for since I had Netflix before- figured once school starts up again I won't have anytime to watch so why pay for it??). Here is some of the movies I have watched lately: In My Sleep -pretty good if you can get past the ridiculous shirtless moments - do guys really think girls like that look? ick The Shrine -somewhat scary not bad Inside Out - just finished watching this and it was quite good The Clinic - not a bad thriller High Lane - I hate dubbed over voices so it was hard to watch - also they didn't really need to turn it into a slasher film it would have been good if they had left it as a climbing trip gone wrong Carrie 2002 version - not bad for a remake Animal Farm - I watched this with my son and we both enjoyed it. Obviously, my son didn't exactly understand it but one day he will. The Passion of the Christ - talk about a massive tear jerker - even if you are not religious this is a gut wrenching movie Last of the living - ehhh...it was o.k. I suppose The Joneses - interesting concept Walk Like a Man - hadn't seen this since I was 14 and even today I think this movie had some really funny parts. My son liked it too. Gone - pretty decent thriller Sadly, I have watched all of these in less than 2 weeks. Like I said I have been super lazy. It is nice to not have loads of papers to write for school. So nice. I don't see an option for spell check on here and well, I took my medicine to sleep so you will have to deal with any bad spelling mistakes.

College, Seitan and Zombies Oh My!

I have been super busy with college, being a mom and all sorts of things the last 8 months. So far I have made all A's and B's in school. Unfortunately, I have gotten turned down for every single scholarship and grant I have applied for. We have been living off of one semester's worth of student loans/Pell grant which was for part time so not the max and we have been using them for my school fees, books, our rent etc. Also using tax returns from the last 3 years that I saved etc.(so, no I did not get that much $ for last semester - in case you are wondering).Still getting screwed over because of a class I took over 14 years ago which because of misinformation that the school had given me (that since I was not a degree seeking student that it would not count - they did not inform me that if I changed into a degree seeking student it would) I did not "officially" withdraw from it and that left me with an F which is haunting me now. So I haven't been able to obtain any more student loans etc. for this current semester and summer semesters are no longer eligible for them (thanks government!!).


Today has been one of those days. I tried making homemade seitan and it turned out like bread. :( So my place got about 15 degrees hotter for nothing.

I also attempted to use this Veet device which is similar to an epilady (remember those?) and now my legs are covered with tiny red dots. So not attractive. Not too mention it did not feel too nice. Also I still need to shave since it did not remove all of the hair.

I did just finish watching a really good zombie movie called Rammbock which I believe is a German movie. If you like zombie movies and do not mind subtitles you should definitely check it out.

I ended up getting Hulu Plus since with my Roku it gives you a free month. Wow, I have to say I think Hulu sucks. I will stick with Amazon Prime. I did decide to pay for a month of Netflix since I am finished with one of my classes and only have a test to take in another (in about 2 weeks). So I actually for once have some free time and then will have close to 2 weeks off before next semester. So I figured it would be worth paying for one month. Will cancel or put on hold when next semester starts though.

Was really hoping to get some sort of grant or scholarship to use for this coming semester. I have no clue how well school will work out with my son being home with me 24/7 since I will not be able to pay for daycare. It has been hard this semester with him only going 15 hours a week. This coming semester will be harder classes (could not for the life of me find any easy ones to take).

I am very happy that I had been stockpiling items for the last few years. It has definitely helped and I have not had to buy too many items for us. Of course that doesn't help with rent, electric, storage, car ins and gas, etc. though. I need to win the lotto. If only!!

Ebates

Ebates has online rebates and coupons for over 1,200 stores! This is one of those stores that you go through their link to whatever shopping site you choose and then you get cash back on your purchase. They also have coupon codes available on their site to help you spend less. They also offer specials where they double the cash back for certain stores.

They are free to join and they generally have a sign up bonus of $5 to $10 when you sign up. Go here for details.

Gift Card Rescue

Here is a way to buy gift cards for cheaper than their face value. You can also sell any gift cards that you do not want!