I hate staying home because the gas money thing is a big drain on our income. Like we decided it's not feasible to enroll ds in a twice a week martial arts class because of the gas (I've been taking him a few weeks as they had a free trial class for homeschoolers this summer). The actual class fee is reasonable. I've researching all these apps to save money. I guess every bit helps. So in the past week or so dh and I started using ibotta, ebates and I'm toying with the idea of signing up for others like ReceiptPal. One Walmart receipt could be scanned into Savings Catcher, ibotta, and ReceiptPal I think (have to buy qualifying items for ibotta).

Any opinions on the Cosori pressure cooker? 6q 7-in-1, but not Instant Pot name brand. Lightning deal.

Did they ever check the lenses? I know this is crazy and highly unlikely given that he had issues 3x, but one time my eye doctor's office put the left lens in the right and the right lens on the left (different prescription). I was like, "these are not helping" and they shooed me out of the store saying, "you need to adjust." I was ticked with these useless glasses for a couple weeks until I went back and the dr noticed the lenses were in the wrong sides. Now, my personal experience is very limited, but we went to two optometrists and an ophthalmologist recently for the kids. I got the optometrist's info from covd.org. I suggest you look there. Ours does vision therapy at one of her other offices which one or both my kids need. Maybe there is more going on with him than just prescription. I don't know.

I was on a waitlist for some ultra thin sharpies and I got them. It's the little things :lol:

I've been watching these Calico critters on various sites. They are cheaper on WM and Target or Toys R Us sometimes. The Lakeside Lodge is currently not on sale at Target, but it is listed as $28.49 so I am very skeptical when Amazon shows an old price with a slash through it.

With the 20% off at Toys R Us, they undercut a few of the Amazon prices. Maybe not on major products, but on the toys I got. I signed up for ebates which currently offers a $10 WM gift card or Paypal credit right now for new members once you make a qualifying purchase (I think it's $25 you have to spend). Well, TRU says you can get $5 back when you do store pick up of qualifying purchase ($29 or up). So I ordered some items there, chose store pick up, and now my Walmart $10 GC is pending. My total was slightly under $29 at first so I just added some sale Crayola items.

I noticed different prices on the townhouse. Well, Walmart had two side by side with one stating "with gift set" so it comes with extra stuff. What, I'm not sure. Good to hear. I don't even need a fan to sleep like dh likes, but I'm sick of looking at the ugly broken one LOL. We're actually going to see if we can get credited for it or not (we rent).

Only the 8qt is on sale. Last year there was a 6qt for around $70? I've been tracking that one all week. I really don't want to spend $90 on any version of the IP even though this is normally over $100.

I thought items that said price reduction showed during checkout regardless of how you pay, but maybe I'm thinking of similar deals. Dh bought the fan I posted a few posts up and the 25% price reduction wasn't reflected til further into the purchasing process. I don't know if it happened as soon as it got in the cart or later. I also noticed the TRU sale. I put a few items in my TRU cart and it automatically applied a 20% off deal. It brought the 3 bunk beds to $6.39, but I don't know if I'm going to buy them or not. We still need a house LOL. I am thinking of skipping the calico brand homes and getting this to assemble and paint myself: https://www.amazon.com/Greenleaf-Corona-Dollhouse-Kit-Orchid/dp/B000X4MQ6O/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1499756373&sr=8-18&keywords=dollhouse I've been eying the Calico cherry car that seats 5 (Target and TRU are similar in price after the TRU discount). The van is just so much money (7 seater). Ahh these items are so cute lol. I hope you figure out the discount thing. I would hope they would discount you for using the card.

Maybe not be a "prime day" deal but I think these were more expensive last time I looked (earlier this week). Calico critters Hopscotch bunny family https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0011MTFUM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The last few times I have ordered steak it was not made correctly (seriously, Cracker Barrel. Get it together) or I had a bad experience because of my ignorance (I did NOT know that prime rib was something cooked in a gravy BLECH). Medium rare rib eye for me, thanks. Dh does not like steak so I don't really go to steakhouses and have told him that I really shouldn't bother unless we go to one.

Well I think you should embrace it. I do everytime I whip out an educator card at the store :laugh:

I like to know if homeschoolers are included before I attend events for teachers. Like Barnes & Noble had some event we went to... I think it was specifically for homeschoolers maybe? Or maybe we were just included. I remember we were included, though because the email went out to the homeschool community and/or I called the store. The way this is marketed I would not want to show up. In general I do not like to go places where I do not feel invited.

For markers I make dd (toddler) use Color Wonder. But the problem is making sure the caps get paired back with the markers and keeping them organized! I buy the Color Wonder coloring books when they are on clearance. I got some recently for 50 cents each. One year MIL got us a sharpener for the wall. We didn't care for it much and didn't want to install it on the wall or other surface like desk top. During the school year ds said the class sharpener broke or they didn't have one at all and kids were supposed to use a small one at their desk. We just donated the wall mounted one and they installed that. Hopefully it worked well enough once mounted. Ds seems to have some fine motor struggles so I don't know if he'd do well with the mini sharpeners. I bought an electric one for the house after that.

Dh just ordered us this ceiling fan (ours is broken). :D https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ED7YQ06/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

currently there are Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils, Manga Colors, 23-Count for $8.13 but I don't know if that's even a great deal. Not that cheap looking at camelcamelcamel. It was shared as a deal, that's why I noticed it.

I missed an Instant Pot deal!! :crying: On my facebook feed a site posted deals and one was for the Instant Pot 9-in-1. That wasn't even on my radar. I had been looking at the 7-in-1. Well, I noticed the post about a half hour or so after the deal was shared. The sale had expired and I asked what it had been. It had been $45. These deals are too fast!! I also followed a link to a $5 12pk of ultra fine sharpie pens but when you go to the cart it goes to full price. I refreshed that page a few times and got 3 different prices but the cart always had the high one.

Businesses do throw lots of things away so it doesn't surprise me too much, but it doesn't make me less upset about it. I hear about people dumpster diving in some areas (the laws vary). I think for some items a store will save them for the following year. In other cases I guess they don't have the storage or don't want to send the items back to a warehouse or something?? Not really sure. I remember after Christmas I bought some items that had been reduced. Some items did not qualify and I think the reason was they were going to just put them out at full price the following Christmas (Family Dollar I think). Janeway, do parents have to buy supplies through the PTA? I would hate that. I am a bargain shopper and can usually stretch my money further myself for small ticket items.

whoa whoa whoa so they also take some of the supplies and package them as a set to sell to incoming students? or rearrange them and sell them as just genetic "back to school" supplies sets? Either way that seems messed up.

Wow. I would try to find out more and address it at a PTA meeting or something. Talk to other parents first so you know if they feel the same way. I don't think that's right. Mission trip sounds religious to me and being that it's a public school that seems like a conflict. But not just that, many parents don't want to overspend. I thought the list was overkill for ds last year (private school if it makes any difference). Like 3 containers of Clorox wipes per child? I don't know, maybe they were spread out across the school. Each boy in the class had to bring thermometer covers and girls had to bring some insect bite product. I am guessing those were for the whole school. I found the thermometer covers online and the box had a lot. Also, they had to bring a pack of paper towels. I think it was a 6pk. I looked online and the requirements for his grade have changed, but other grades have the Clorox wipes and paper towels. So yeah, I think they just did that to spread around the school. He had to bring a couple boxes of Kleenex last year but since he has allergies and got sick a couple of times I sent him with extra on occasion. He would say, "Mom, we already have tissue" and I'd say, "didn't you go through almost a whole box yourself?" lol. Over the summer I kept asking when we could drop off the supplies (they were supposed to have a day we could) but they didn't get back to me so I ended up having to help him carry all that junk inside with toddler in tow when I dropped him off. He was going to ride the school van that day and the bus driver admitted there was no room for it all. I admit I didn't send all his notebook paper to school. I just refilled his binder over time. I thought the binder was too full with all the paper, but in hindsight I should have put it in his cubby hole so he didn't run out and come home telling me two days later he'd been borrowing paper. He frequently lost track of pencils. He did get to bring home his pencil box which had some items left in it like markers.

Since you started this thread I researched ibotta again. I don't know when it started but now they offer a gift card as a payment option. There are different GC choices (such as Wal-Mart and Amazon). I told dh about it and he signed up. We got an initial $10 at sign up and he scanned several receipts we had. Some were probably too old lol. Sometimes it required you to scan the product, but one guy's youtube channel I watched said you don't need to anymore so I don't know. That confused me if it was based on the receipt date or what. Anyway, he also referred his sister and she signed up so we should get some credit ($5) but I'm not sure what steps she has to complete for us to receive it. I don't know how much we'll earn using this app, but since I can't scan my Sam's receipts for Savings Catcher, I at least have an app that we can use our Sam's receipts with now. We can use the WM receipts for both apps. I don't think I mentioned Shopkick. I also use that app. It's not much, but I get a few bucks here and there. I redeem them at Target and Walmart.

Ooh, came across this today: https://www.target.com/p/rolling-toy-storage-cart-with-paper-veneer-gray-circo-153/-/A-15650459 I like the look of it better than traditional library carts because the sides are deeper.

That was my point, that you can still say no to people even if they do it at their house all the time. If I had adults coming over and didn't have my children in the home I do not know how I would handle it.

We could always shift it to smoking cigarettes. Just because people do it in their own home doesn't mean you can't ask them not to do it in yours. And probably something I'd try to find a way to warn them about in advance as well.

not illegal everywhere so is it harmful to you because of the law or because of the substance?