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Create precious holiday memories with family and friends in a clean and inviting home—with a Right@Home™ Holiday at Home gift basket.

Each gift basket is filled with your favorite products from the makers of Ziploc®, Glade®, Scrubbing Bubbles® and more, to help you keep your home ready for guests and full of cheer.

Each gift basket includes:
• 1 Ziploc® Brand Medium Snap 'n Seal Container
• 1 25-count box of Ziploc® Brand Storage Bags
• 1 15-count box of Ziploc® Brand Freezer Bags
• 1 pack of Ziploc® Brand Big Bags (with 3 different sizes of Big Bags)
• 1 package of Pledge® Natural Beauty Wipes
• 1 Glade® Scented Oil Candles Tin
• 1 Scrubbing Bubbles® Toilet Cleaning Gel

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THURSDAY QUICK AND EASY SUPPER

CHILI BOWLS

1 can Kroger Jumbo refrigerated biscuits 8 count ($1.50)
2 cans Hormel Chili (no beans: .66 cents for 2)
1 cup Kroger Value shredded cheese (.60 cents)
1/4 cup sour cream (.10 cents)
1/2 of a small onion diced (.15 cents)

Preheat oven according to biscuit directions.

Flip over a muffin pan and grease the backsides of 8 muffin cups.

Place biscuit over muffin cups and gently press to fit over it.

Bake according to directions on biscuit can.

Meanwhile heat cans of chili in saucepan.

Remove chili bowls from oven and gently pry off muffin pan.

Spoon chili into biscuit bowls. Top with cheese, sour cream and onion.

Makes 8 chili bowls.

Total cost to make $3.01
.38 cents per serving.

Tomorrow's supper: Quesadillas

Recalled Toys and Thrift Stores

Thrift stores are not allowed to sell recalled toys!! And never assume that they don't sell them just because of that. Things get overlooked. Today I was in Ohio Thrift and picked up the three boxes of Magnetix for Christmas for the kids. Take note of the photo above and enlarge if need be to see them. I had no idea til I got home to research their value to see what kind of deal I got on them. That's when I did a search and found out these toys were recalled as far back as 2007. The magnets were coming loose and children were swallowing them and caused some fatalities!!
While I know thrift stores do not offer a return policy I called them up and explained the situation to them. They are letting me return these items tomorrow!!
Check it out for yourself on the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Be well informed! Earlier this year there was a debate over the recall of China toys with lead sold in used stores. They almost kept thrift stores from being able to sell childrens toys and products. I was worried that they wouldn't sell them any more and read many articles and laws about it and was kept up to date since it would affect my lifestyle if they no longer sold them.
So knowing the laws is what helped to return these toys to a store with a no return policy!

THURSDAY

Here is a photo of the scooter I got yesterday for $3.93 at the thrift store along with Jonathan and his "new" Winter jacket that couldn't wait to wear it this morning.

We are a car family. One who likes muscle cars and racing. I thought it was interesting to learn this morning that they will stop making the VW Bug. They will only make about 3,000 more by 2010.

Does anyone remember having homework every night in Elementary school? I don't. Every day these kids seem loaded with tons of homework and they are in 3rd and 4th grade. What if you are a set of working parents who gets off at 5-6pm, by the time you get home and fight your way through traffic, make supper, do dishes, get baths and do whatever else needs done, it is bedtime. Teachers are wanting about 2 papers done each night along with 20 or so minutes of reading, sometimes they send home extra projects. Even when there are parent teacher conferences in the evening or lets says a holiday such as Trick or Treat night they still expect homework to be done that evening! This is crazy and I feel like we parents are having to pick up the slack of these teachers. It's too much!

My head is spinning with kid stuff. Due to Damien not having a vehicle at the moment me/Tony and mom have been driving him to and from work. Goes to work at 10pm and gets off at 7am. As if that ain't enough now we get to take the kids back and forth to school the next 10 school days. Ahhh! Remember me saying I am fighting a cold and get no time off to rest.

Today me and mom splurged and went to Bob Evans for breakfast. In order to cut back the costs of eating out we split a Pot Roast Hash.
Then off to Kohls to pick up her necklace she had on hold. She couldn't use her coupon yesterday due to the fact the coupon did not start til today, ahhh.
Then from there we went to another thrift store where I got the kids 3 toys.
Then off to the bank to deposit some checks.

The checks deposited were ones received from doing surveys online. If interested
check out Pinecone Research.

Luckily we live in an area where all these places are within a mile or so of one another. So it's not like we're burning gas running all over town.

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

It's late and I'm sitting here debating about a possible Christmas gift for Christopher.
Tony didn't think Christopher would like it as a Christmas present but I found a round about way to ask him to see what he thought. He liked the idea.
Christopher has been complaining to me that his bed is uncomfortable. Today at the thrift store I saw a really nice bed with a really nice pillow top mattress. I think it was oak and 3 large drawers that went underneath the bed ( I hope they were drawers and not a trundle bed as I did not look closely at it) and seemed really sturdy. While I don't really need the bed I probably couldn't afford a nice mattress like that if I bought it new. It was $89 for the complete set, bed/frame/drawers and mattress. I'm hoping to go back to the thrift store tomorrow and see if it's still there. Don't ask how I would get it into mom's truck but if there's a will there's a way. It'll be a lot of work to get it but it's something needed. Hauling it out of the store, out of the truck to mom's basement, hauling back out of basement and into truck Christmas eve and into the house for Christmas morning. Whew! I'm tired just thinking about it. But it is practical and something needed and should last a long time!
Their beds now I got 10 years ago from the Salvation Army Thrift store for $50 for the complete set, mattresses, bunk boards, frame, ladder and headboard/foot board.
I have already replaced Jonathan's mattress with a nice one from Freecycle. And I think I replaced Christopher's with another one but it wasn't as durable as Jonathan's.
So I'm gonna sleep on it and see what tomorrow has in store for me. Right now I am fighting a cold. Mom's don't get days off so I try to keep going even when sick! I just hope I make the right decision on the bed since $90 is a lot of money to me! We have only purchased 2 pieces of new furniture in our house in the last 10 years! A kitchen table and chairs and a bed frame for our bed with head and foot board. No mattresses as that was given to us by my brother who invested about $1200 in it and decided he wanted a sleep number bed. Must be nice! Some of it don't have it that easy! He buys his kid a $500 or so firetruck bed and doesn't bat an eyelash. And I will be up worrying all night over a $90 bed.

WEDNESDAY SHOPPING AT THE THRIFT STORE

The first thing I take note of when walking in the thrift store is to see what items are on sale. They usually have two colored tags that are 50% & 75% off. Most of the clothes bought were these colored tags!

I spent $29 at the thrift store.
I probably wouldn't have gotten out of Kohls without spending that much on ONE pair of jeans! So I did good with everything I got!

I got the boys:

6 pairs of pants/jeans
-Old Navy pants .99 cents
-Chef Wear pants .99 cents
-Chef Wear pants .99 cents
-Jeans .99 cents
-Jeans $1.00
-pants $.99 cents

7 long sleeve shirts
-Hanes sweatshirt .49 cents
-Eddie Bauer thermal shirt .49 cents
-Old Navy Athletics shirt .99 cents
-Xtreme Gear shirt $1.00
-Faded Glory thermal shirt .99 cents
-Land's End thermal shirt $1.99
-Reebok shirt .99 cents

-Big Chill Winter Coat $1.99

I also got:

Cars (the movie) battery operated race track. Batteries were included!
You use regular Matchbox cars and battery operated wheels spin the
cars around the track.
(already bought Matchbox type cars at Walgreens when they were .50 cents each!)

A new in package window decal of a baseball looking like it smashed through a window. Jonathan will like this since he's into baseball. .90 cents

A Hot Wheels back seat organizer for the car. .50 cents

A nice larger riding scooter with inflatable tires and handle bar brakes. $3.93

a 4 pack of new sponges .99 cents

And another new in the box gift that I won't mention on here and spoil
it for Christmas for them, lol. $3.99

I'll get more pics of everything tomorrow since I left some stuff at moms.

WEDNESDAY SHOPPING KOHLS & CATHERINES

Mom wanted to go shopping today. She received a $10 off $10 or more coupon for Kohls. She found a necklace to give as a gift that was originally $20 marked down to $13 then used her $10 off making it $3.
No photo to go with this.

Next we went to Catherine's store. Mom had another coupon for $15 off a $25 purchase. She would not get something for herself and made me pick out something for myself. I hate being put in that situation. I
like to buy for others not others buying for me especially new stuff!! So I shop around the store looking for the best deal and something practical. I find a jacket that's practical and can be worn days on end unlike a shirt or pants. Yeah it's 1X and I wear about a medium but it's comfy. Catherine's is a store for plus sized women. It's $46.00 see photo above. Then they had a 50% off sale making it $23.00 still not enough to use the $15 off $25 coupon. So we look around for something cheap and found a pair of earrings. They were normally $12.00 marked down to $8.99 then marked down again to $3.99. So the total is now $26.99 minus $15 coupon made it $11.99 for $58 worth of stuff!!
I still cringe that a jacket and earrings were bought for $12 but what can you do when mom's paying and using coupons, sales and markdowns? She still did really good on new items!

My head was spinning shopping in these stores and seeing prices that were ridiculous! So after mom got done with her shopping spree I wanted to head to the thrift store so I could feel better, lol. No actually I needed to get the kids some more Winter clothes not that it is getting colder out. People are crazy to buy kids clothes new when they outgrow them sooo fast and when you have boys they are so rough on their clothes with stains and tears! I mend and hem the clothes until there is no more life left in them.