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$100 in coins!!!!!!
So as many of you are undoubtedly aware, for the past year or so (okay, okay, it’s been exactly 380 days according to my nerdy detailed spreadsheet), I have been trying to find $100 in coins. Well, actually it started out being just coins but I expanded it to just any found money. I went…
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Outhustled to 6 cents by an 80 year old man
Yup, I was outhustled yesterday afternoon. I had stopped to get some gas, and after filling up, I did my normal jaunt around the pumps, checking for coins. I went one way, and then I was coming back to my car when I spotted a nickel and a penny on the ground. But so too…
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I tried to save the environment!
So I was trying to be good – trying to save the environment by combining trips. I’ve had a few things that I’ve needed to do for awhile but was just looking for the best way to combine them. Yesterday it seemed like it was all going to work out. But…. it didn’t turn out…
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In which I invite the lady behind me in line at Staples to shut right up
So I took the kids out to the mall-ish area this evening to give their mom a break. And to look for coins of course!!! (6 quarters, 3 dimes, 1 nickel and 8 pennies – the coin cycle baby!). Also I wanted to stop by Staples. I had gotten a $10 off $10 coupon for…
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Another change spotter
Check out this article from CNN. A Staten Island family has found over $1100 in 3 1/2 years. I did look at their blog, which is at changepot.blogspot.com, looking for ideas, but didn’t find any. I’m sure they get more just from being in NYC where there are just more people.
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Good vomit story
So – classic story that I want to share. We have recently been sick in our family, of the vomitous variety. As many of you undoubtedly know, one of the downsides of having multiple children is that they all get sick. And they don’t even have the consideration to all get sick at once. Nope,…
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So I may have been mistaken for a homeless person
First of all apologies to those of you I’ve already told this story. But yes, I fear I may have been mistaken for a homeless person yesterday. I was out at the mall last night with my 2 older children. I had gone there to walk around because I was in a pedometer challenge (who…
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Milk weirdness
So I’m a comparison shopper as you can probably imagine. I regularly go to 3 or 4 stores during the week. Since all of our grocery stores are within a mile or so, the dollars you can save by shopping at the places with the lowest prices on the various stuff are more than worth…
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I love when grocery stores pay me!
So there was a deal at Kroger this past week or so (actually I think it has been going on for the past 4 weeks but I just found out about it – it ends today). Buy 6 Powerade Zero 32oz and get a coupon for $4 off your next order. Since the Powerades are…
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Where have all the nickels gone?
So it’s been awhile of change finding for me and I thought I would give some reports. My Internet friend Carey has been tasked with creating a website to track change finding and I am pleased to report that this morning he made some good progress on it. In the meantime, I am just using…