"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[CackedNut]

Obama can bail you out.

Maybe I just need to have a few more kids?

 

[CackedNut]

Uh, what's a shelby?

 

[foreverlearning]

Uh, what's a shelby?

A very rare brand of car. My dream one sold for 2.5 million in January. The cheapest you can get one is $250,000. for a reproduction of the late 60's models. The only reason I noticed was because the person was in line in front of me and when we left and I was gwaking at the car. It's not something you would think to see often much less at a walmart with the driver spending stamps. I was traveling threw Texas at the time and it is only the second time in my life I had seen one in person. It had the standard blue tranny and even if it was a really good reproduction it still costs a pretty penny.

 

[CackedNut]

The only "Shelby" I know of is a girl I went to highschool with that had big thighs and super tight spandex.

Lol.

I use to work at a store where the owner regularly traded food stamp cards for half their worth in money. Food stamps don't buy crack.

 

[foreverlearning]

What?! You don't think they should pay 9-18 dollars a pound for meat? I've learned to be so"tight" with my meat budget. Since I haven't been able to work a job I pretty much consider helping us eat well for cheap is MY JOB. I have been dying for some good smoked pulled pork for about 2weeks now! Just drooling over it. But I haven't seen any under $2 a pound. Finally today I saw in the Super1 ad that starts tomorrow for $1.39 a lb. They sometimes out then on sale for 99cents a lb. Then I buy a few for the freezer.

I just bought 8 pork shoulder roasts for $0.88/lb at Brookshire Brothers. They had a limit of 2 so my cheap butt went threw the line 4 times. Ran out of cashiers to go to and they really frown on that practice but it put cheap meat on my table.

 

[CackedNut]

A very rare brand of car. My dream one sold for 2.5 million in January. The cheapest you can get one is $250,000. for a reproduction of the late 60's models. The only reason I noticed was because the person was in line in front of me and when we left and I was gwaking at the car. It's not something you would think to see often much less at a walmart with the driver spending stamps. I was traveling threw Texas at the time and it is only the second time in my life I had seen one in person. It had the standard blue tranny and even if it was a really good reproduction it still costs a pretty penny.

 

[LemonMeringue]

I just bought 8 pork shoulder roasts for $0.88/lb at Brookshire Brothers. They had a limit of 2 so my cheap butt went threw the line 4 times. Ran out of cashiers to go to and they really frown on that practice but it put cheap meat on my table.

I do that! Lol! And sometimes my kids "help" I can honestly say I learned it from my Mom when we had hard times as a kid when my Dad was laid off.

 

[foreverlearning]

I have always been "poor". We made do with what we had but didn't have extra luxury items. This has lead me to being cheap even if I have a little extra in the bank. I used to just shop around for great deals, but now I have started the price matching thing. Someone gave me a free copier/printer/fax/scanner combo and extra paper because the ink cost too much and they bought a new one. Well I went on Ebay and found a 2 pack of the inks (re-manufactured) for $8 with free shipping and started printing out ads for all over the state. Walmart honors anything within driving distance and I assured them that I will drive anywhere for a really good deal. I am nice and have everything in order with the ad before checkout but still need a csm turn key because the savings are always over 50%. They seem to remove a lot of sale items about the time the ad comes out, that's when I go to the poor people working the meat dept and ask them to pull it from the back. Super 1 was my favorite when I lived near one. They had pilsbury biscuit 4 pack 10 ct tubs on sale for $0.01 because they were soon to be out of date. I bought 4 pallets (all they had) of them for $9.66. Since I didn't have the freezer space I stopped at every house that looked like they had kids and gave a lot of them away. After I explained that you could freeze them many people took them. It was summertime 2 years ago and what kid doesn't like biscuits? They took a copy of my receipt and posted it on their wall because of the savings. They were going to throw all that good food away if no one bought it. Isn't that a shame, food banks would be more than willing to take donations but most stores don't think about that.

 

[LemonMeringue]

That was one awesome biscuit deal! I recently figured out that my local Super 1 marks down their gallons of milk that are the day of expiration to $1.99. I haven't gotten a bad tasting one yet!

 

[foreverlearning]

Wednesday mornings between 8-11 am seem to hold the best deals for them. Always look back by the dairy first, that's where I always find my deals. I also got a pallet of those huge yogurt containers in plan, vanilla, and strawberry for $0.05 each. It still had 2 weeks before expiring and I told everyone to freeze it. Same comment all around: Can you freeze yogurt? Won't it spoil? Then I would ask have you ever heard of frozen yogurt? It was like a light bulb for them Yea, I eat that...oh! You would be surprised what people won't buy because they think you can't freeze it. I used to buy milk like that too. I froze the extras but had to remember to shake it once after defrosting as milk does tend to separate in the process.

My mother is the only one that didn't like my biscuit haul. I was living out of state then and drove all the way to her house (2 doors down from me now) and filled her chest freezer (the size of my SUV). Mostly she hated how excited I was and kept trying to show her the receipt.

I also used to stock up on land o lakes? I think lunch meat often. It seemed that every 2 weeks they would have the 1lb package (normal $4.98) on sale for a dollar (overstock). Then most of the time they would have a manufactures coupon for $0.55 off one stuck to the package. That's $0.45 for a pound of lunch meat! What I didn't use for my household I donated to a local church that hosted a pick your own food bank. The food bank had a once per week limit and one full paper sack per person. People got to choose a certain number of each type of item reducing waste on something they wouldn't eat. They took no government funds and because of this, no names helping more people. A mother of 4 would get 5 bags! that you can survive on. This is why I liked giving them stuff for their shelves.