Frugal Confessions Friday – Frugal Living

Posted on | August 13, 2010 | 3 Comments

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers!

For those of you new to this series, check out the introduction here.

Here is my confession of the week:

Have you seen the slew of new Febreeze products out on the market–the expensive ones, like the soy candle, the reed diffuser, and the paper shades? Well, I kind of wanted to try them out, seeing how I love the smell of febreeze.The only problem? They cost an arm and a leg.

When I opened up the Parade Magazine a few months ago, there were 3 coupons $5.00 off each of these products, so I clipped them and stuck them in my envelope of coupons I keep on me. While grocery shopping a week ago, I found lots of shoppers huddled around a cart of clearanced items. Lo and behold, all of the febreeze products were on clearance for $3.49 each. Not only did I get each of the products pictured below for free, but the coupons took $5.00 off, so I had approximtely $4.50 taken off of my grocery total as well! Hurrah!

What is your frugal confession of the week? I’d love to hear it!

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3 Responses to “Frugal Confessions Friday – Frugal Living”

  1. Aurora
    August 13th, 2010 @ 9:44 am

    Woohoo I love when that happens! Coupons + sales = awesome deals!

    My confession is about something I haven’t done yet, but will do this weekend. I like to keep boxes of instant oatmeal packets at my desk for days when I don’t have breakfast at home, I’ll have an easy healthy breakfast waiting for me at work. Recently I saw a blog post about making your own instant oatmeal packets and it was one of those “duh!” moments when I wondered why I hadn’t thought of it myself because it seemed like such a simple idea, and certainly will come out cheaper than buying the boxes of pre-made packets. Plus, I’m looking forward to playing around with different flavors.

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  2. Thankfully Thrifty
    August 13th, 2010 @ 1:30 pm

    I love when that happens!

    I have received two Chickfila receipts with a free chicken sandwich coupon on them in the last couple weeks! With pregnancy, I’m not loving chicken. (So sad… Chickfila has always been my fav.) But hubby is excited bc that means he gets both!
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  3. Amanda L. Grossman
    August 14th, 2010 @ 3:13 pm

    Aurora–score! Have fun and let me know if you have some good combinations:).

    Thankfully Thrifty: Hello! Congratulations–I didn’t know you were expecting. And free chick-fil-a? Awesome:). Thanks for the comment.
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