Fred Meyer Founder’s Day Sale

Fred Meyers Founder’s Day Sale runs May 8-14. Everytime you use your rewards card between May 8 and May 14th you could win a $500 gift card!  Here’s some of the great deals you’ll find this week:

Tillamook  cheese 2 lb – $3.99 each, with in-ad coupon, limit one

Propel – $0.50 cents
$1/2 Propel 2/13/2011 Smart Source Insert (exp 5/31/2011)
Final price = FREE

Mom’s Best cereal – $1 each
$0.75/1 printable coupon (you’ll need to register to print coupon)
Final price = $0.25 cents each

Kettle chips – 3 for $5
$1/1 Kettle Brand Potato Chips 3/20/2011 RP Insert (exp 5/14/2011)
$1/1 Krunchers Kettle Cooked Potato Chips 2/27/2011 SS Insert (exp 5/27/2011
$1/2 Kettle Brand TIAS! Tortilla Chips

Final price = as low as $0.67 cents a bag!

Purex liquid detergent – $1.99 each
$1/1 Purex Laundry Detergent 5/1/2011 Red Plum insert (exp 6/12/2011)
Final price = $0.99 cents

Darigold butter, 16 oz  – $2.33 each

Check your local ad for other great deals.  And don’t forget…Fred Meyer now accepts competitors catalina coupons! and you can add e-coupons to your Fred Meyer rewards card from the Fred Meyer site and from Cellfire.com..

Make your own rooting compound

The first hormone discovered to cause root growth is called auxin, and the synthetic version is what we find in commercially sold rooting compounds today.

The willow plant is a natural source of auxin. Therefore, it can be very easy to make up a fresh batch of rooting compound whenever you need to plant some new cuttings.
Gather a  handful of willow branch tips,
chop or mash into smaller pieces,
fill small container with branch tips and water and allow to sit overnight.
Dip cuttings into water then put into your soil or potting mix.

If you don’t have access to a willow tree, aspirin is made from willow bark so it has the same effect as willow water. This is what I did. I used plain aspirin and dissolved two tablets in a quart jar of water overnight then used it to dip my cuttings in..

Welch’s juice only .49 at Safeway

I ran to Safeway yesterday morning and picked up some juice.

Buy 4 Welch’s Essentials Juice for $2.49 each Get $4 off automatically when you buy 4
Use (4) $1/1 coupons from 5/1 SmartSource

Final price: $0.49 each when you buy 4

This is a good example of why you should get multiple copies of the paper delivered for coupons.

Still a good deal even if you don’t have four coupons.

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3 essential house plants for fresh air

These three plants can provide a human with all the fresh air they need indoors to be healthy.

The three plants are the Areca Palm, the Mother-in-law’s Tongue , and the Money Plant.

The Areca Palm (or Chrysalidocarpus lutescens) does great air cleansing work during the day. About 4 shoulder height plants per person should do the trick.

The Mother-in-law’s Tongue (or Sansevieria trifasciata) takes over by converting CO2 to O2 at night. You want about 6 to 8 of these waist high plants per person.

The Money Plant (or Epipremnum aureum) does the job of filtering out removing Formaldehyde and other VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds).

I read about these interesting plants here.

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Let Your Voice Be Heard

Recently, I contacted two companies:  Johnsonville and Kraft.  I emailed Johnsonville letting them know that we enjoy their sausages and asked if they had any coupons.  They sent me two $1 off coupons.

If you were in our last coupon class at the Burien Community Center, you heard my story about Velveeta cheese.  I was making cheesy potatoes for our Easter dinner and wanted to use Velveeta.  I went to Safeway and was shocked at the $8 price tag on the large loaf of Velveeta.  I couldn’t bring myself to pay that price, so I bought the store brand.  I emailed Kraft letting them know that I wouldn’t be buying Velveeta at that price, and today in the mail was a coupon for one free loaf of Velveeta up to $9.

That’s $11 in coupons from two simple emails. It pays to let your voice be heard..

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