I LOVE Target. I especially love Target the day after (and week after) holidays. The day after Valentines, the day after Easter, the day after the 4th of July, the day after Halloween, the day after Christmas...
Well I didn't make it to Target until Wednesday this week, but I stocked up on a little bit of 50% off candy and a few other 75% off things. Most things I didn't want to spend as much as they still wanted on them. Plus I figured I could get cheaper candy at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart had almost no candy. Boo! So, I went back to TWO Targets on Thursday to find some candy. Brand new Target: Not ONE bag! My usual Target: three full aisles of candy left!
Today, I wanted to go back one more time to see if the percentages had gone up... CLEARANCE! Candy was 75% off and everything else was 90% off! Score!
So now I present, the first picture of a receipt that I've posted because I bought a lot, but...

I got some toys for my prize box at school for 10 cents per package, some gifts for people, just some junk, and more CANDY! They had packages of peanut M&Ms for 67 cents each, and there was a coupon attached for 50 cents off now! Seventeen cents baby! So yay Halloween sale!
Now, I'm off to take down my Halloween decorations and put up Thanksgiving stuff. You know? Thanksgiving? That poor forgotten holiday that comes between Halloween and Christmas? It's in two and half weeks. Don't forget!

Posted in: awesomeness, candy, cheapness, Halloween, Target on Saturday, November 06, 2010 at at 2:52 PM 0 comments    

Over the past two weeks the fan blowing the heat and air in my car has been going out. It wouldn't come on when I started the car, but once I started going it would eventually start up. It finally called it quits around Thursday. My brother-in-law-in-law (Jon's sister's husband) has been known to fix cars before. He sees it as a challenge to figure out what's wrong and make it right. The motor that makes the window go up on Jon's mom's car went out and Wes went to the local salvage yard, picked it up for $30 and repaired it himself. That would have been $600 just for the part if she'd taken it to a repair shop. So I thought I'd ask him first.
He found the problem was that the "heater fan motor" had gone out. He pulled it out and we went on a field trip...
...to the U-Pull-It. It's just rows and rows of old cars that you can just go in with your tools and pull out whatever parts you need, take it up to the front, give them the money and go. It's all really weird and kind of creepy. We found one car that was the model before mine but it was really hard to get the fan out and he wanted to try to find a newer one so that the fan wouldn't be as used. So we went down a few more rows and found one 3 years newer than mine.

Here he is digging in under this already-very-torn-apart-car's dashboard to get the new fan.

This is the beauty that my fan came out of. And Wes peeking out.

I then realized we could look around for a new H. My H had fallen off/was stolen off the back of my Honda last year. It was just gone one day. Funny thing is that almost every Honda there was already missing its H. Eventually we found one and popped it off for me to replace mine. We took the motor and the H up to the front and it was only $20. We took it back to the house and Wes replaced it. He loves my chocolate chip cookies, so that's how I'm going to repay him for doing that whole thing in about 2 hours, me not having to give up my car for a day, and not having to pay a repair shop WAY more than $20 for the work done. Thanks, Wes.

Posted in: car troubles, cheapness, creepy things on Sunday, March 09, 2008 at at 11:23 PM 0 comments    

I got all of this for absolutely free at New York and Company. Thank you, day after thanksgiving coupons. I think I now have a slight understanding of how Pigs feels with all of her bargains.

Posted in: cheapness on Sunday, November 25, 2007 at at 10:19 PM 0 comments