Baltimore - FREE sandwich at Chick Fil A

Wear an Orioles shirt to chickfil A tomorrow and get a FREE sandwich or entree from 11 am to 7 PM!!

Bring your own cup day at 7-11

Today and tomorrow, bring any size cup and fill it with a Slurpees for just $1.50 at 7-Eleven.

Tax free shopping on clothes and shoes in Maryland

If you live in the state of Maryland the tax free shopping on clothes and shoes ends tomorrow August 20, 2016.

They run this special every year to allow parents to stock up on back to school clothes.

Any clothing or shoes item less than $100  is tax free!

This applies to individual items, not the total sale at checkout.

Stock up!!

Two more FREE kindle eBooks

These two books are free to download for the next few days.

Get them free while you can!

Some Penny Items at Dollar General

The following items were purchased for a penny at Dollar General.

As always YMMV at your store.

Happy Penny Hauling!!









The perfect slicer, As Seen On TV

How to get items for a penny from Home Depot, Dollar General and Michaels

I wrote this book to teach people how to find things for a penny at some of the major retailers like Home Depot, Dollar General and Michaels. Yes, this is real, you really can get things for only a penny!! I've done it and gotten tons of cool things!!

You don't need to own an Amazon Kindle to read Kindle ebooks

It was recently brought to my attention that many people think that you need to own a Kindle in order to read Kindle ebooks. Well, let me set the record straight. You don't.

You can download the Kindle app for your tablet, phone or computer and read books from there. Then go to Amazon and log into your account and follow the directions to link your app to your account.

I post free ebooks that are on promotion and I don't want my readers to miss out because they don't own an actual Kindle device.

Two FREE Kindle cookbook ebooks

These two books are free from Amazon to download from Kindle.

Get them while you can!

High efficiency washing machines are not worth it!

For me, it all about the money. What is going to save me the most money. Or cost me the least amount of money. So I had a front loading machine which cost me a couple thousand dollars. At the time, my justification for buying this machine is that it would save me money since they don't use as much water or energy to wash a load.


These savings would also offset the cost of the machine and the cost of the HE soap, which is generally more expensive.

Even though I have well water, it is the environmentally friendly thing to do...Right?

WRONG!!!

Then my machine broke. Only three years after I bought it. I called a repair man and he told me that it would cost more to repair it than it would to replace it. How could that be? Well, he told me that it was the shocks that holds the barrel to the frame. With these front loaders, ie HE machines, you can't load them very much or else they bounce around and break the shocks. He also said that the front loaders never last very long. He was the one that suggested a top loader for my next machine. He said you can load them up a lot more.

So there went all the savings of my expensive HE front loader right put the window.

I found out later that 99% of the energy savings of the HE machines was that it took less energy to heat the water. Well, I wash all my clothes on cold, so where's my savings? Even if I got a HE top loader, which they have now, I would never benefit from the energy savings.

I also found out that you have to own a HE machine for 10 YEARS before the energy and water savings offsets the cost of the machine!! I only had my machine for 3 years!! So, I paid more for the machine, more for the soap, I wasn't getting the energy savings because I used cold water and I wasn't getting the water savings because I can't load the machine very much and have to run more loads. Also, I have a well, so I don't get a water bill anyway.

All that added together turns out to be nothing more than a big hustle! I went out and bought a $400 top loader that was NOT HE and now I load that sucker up with clothes for me, my husband and my four kids and use the cheap soap, or the expensive HE soap that I get for free using coupons.

Half Price milkshakes today at Sonic

Today there are half priced milkshakes at Sonic.

Two new FREE ebooks on Amazon Kindle!!

These two books are now free on Amazon for the next few days!!

Get them while you can!!