Archive for the ‘Holidays’ Category

Happy New Year!

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

New Year's Eve 2011

I just wanted to wish all of my loyal Super Coupon Girl readers a safe and happy New Year! I hope you have a great time tonight, however you choose to celebrate. 2011 has been a tough year for me with my health issues, but I’m so excited at the progress my knees have been making thanks to physiotherapy and can’t tell you how relieved I am to be able to slowly ease back into my normal activities. I’m excited for 2012 and really looking forward to resuming all the things I’ve missed out on this year – like using coupons and scouring out deals! Here’s to a new year and a new start!

Happy Easter!

Sunday, April 24th, 2011

Happy Easter

I just wanted to wish my readers a happy Easter! This is my last week in England, so I’ll be spending the holiday with family. 🙂 I hope everyone has a great day, whatever your plans!

Anatomy of a Frugal Christmas Card

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

Anatomy of a frugal Christmas card

This is the frugal Christmas card I sent out this year! The festive stamps came from my Zazzle.com order, and I won the cute return address labels in a giveaway.

Envelope

I ordered 60 custom photo cards with envelopes from SeeHere.com for $4.32. The shipping was hardly “Overnight”, but it still got here in enough time so it didn’t really matter! I was pleased with how it turned out:

Our 2010 Christmas Card

The photos came from our engagement shoot earlier in the month. I bartered for the photo session, so it cost me no money!

My Frugal Stocking Stuffers

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Jai's stocking

This Christmas, I stuffed a stocking for Jai very frugally. It consisted of a 50-pack of disposable cups that I got through a review on Contest Corner, a little gift set I had won in a giveaway, and a 4 GB Santa Flash Drive and a Retractable Cross Over Cable which I got for $1.98 total after coupons on Mwave.com.

Stocking stuffers

Remember the Bluetooth Audio Transport that Mwave offered for free after rebate in November? Well, because I purchased it, I received a $1.00 gift coupon towards my next purchase. A few weeks later, they also sent me a $5.00 gift coupon towards anything on their site. The Santa flash drive was marked down to $4.99, so after using the $5.00 coupon I paid just .99 cents for shipping. I then used the $1.00 coupon for the Retractable Cross Over Cable, which was on sale for $1.99 with free shipping – so once again, I paid just .99 cents. Jai runs a computer repair business – and just loves gadgets in general! – so these were both things he needed.

I also gave the Bluetooth Audio Transport to Jai for Christmas, as well as the free-after-rebate LG Bluetooth Headset from NewEgg. These actually turned out to be nicer than I thought – the LG headset is wireless, making it much more convenient to use than his other bluetooth headset, and the audio transport came with some handy extras, like a universal USB charger and cool earbuds.

What frugal gifts did you give for Christmas? I’d love to hear about it in the comments!

Happy New Year!

Friday, December 31st, 2010

Happy New Year!

2010 is almost over! Whether you plan to go out to celebrate New Year’s Eve or opt to stay home (Like me! ;)), I hope you have a wonderful and safe evening. Enjoy the last few hours of this year – I’ll see you in 2011!

Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

My Christmas Tree

This week I’ve been very busy wrapping up work and preparing for the holidays. I will be taking tomorrow through Sunday off to celebrate with my family, so I wanted to take a moment to wish you all a very merry Christmas! See you Monday!

Happy Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Happy Holidays!

I just wanted to take a moment to wish all of my US readers a very happy Thanksgiving holiday today. I hope your day is filled with food and fun!

Grocery Shopping – at The Pumpkin Patch?!

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Super Coupon Girl dons a Power Ranger costume!

I hope everyone had a happy Halloween yesterday! Jai and I spent the afternoon at The Pumpkin Patch in Sauvie Island. Not only do they have a pumpkin patch, but free hayrides, a corn maze, an animal barn, and more. The photo above is me wearing my Pink Power Ranger costume, getting ready to pick the perfect pumpkin!

The pumpkins were a great price – the ones we chose were only $1.00 each. The Pumpkin Patch also offers a produce market, which had a wide variety of lovely fresh produce grown at their farm. The prices were good, and since my fridge was still bare, this was the perfect time to re-stock!

Produce from The Pumpkin Patch

Total spent: $10.15
View receipt (We paid for the pumpkins separately in the pumpkin patch, and did not get a receipt for that.)

Got:

2 pumpkins – $1.00 each, final cost: $2.00
2.97 lbs of apples – .89 per pound, final cost: $2.64
1 head of green onions – price: .50 cents
.54 lbs of red onion – .99 cents per pound, final cost: .55 cents
1 head of red leaf lettuce – price: .99 cents
6 ears of corn – I used this coupon from their website to get these 6 ears of corn for $1.00.
1 large stalk of Brussels sprouts – I’ve never seen them sold this way before! Price: $2.49

We had a very fun day – and stocking up on produce was a nice bonus!

My pumpkin

My finished pumpkin!

How did you spend your Halloween, readers?

Happy Labor Day!

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Happy Labor Day!

I just wanted to take a moment to wish my US readers a happy Labor Day! I’m taking advantage of the long weekend to get some rest – however you plan to spend the day, I hope it’s a great one. See you Tuesday!

Happy 4th of July!

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Fireworks

I wanted to take a moment to wish my US readers a happy 4th of July weekend! I’ll be spending the day with friends and family – I hope your 4th is great, whatever your plans!