Please note: there are no pictures of blood in this post! It’s safe to keep scrolling.
1. I worked the CVS deals for some conditioner
I was out of the Maui Moisture conditioner that I use, so, I combined my Carepass with some other discounts. I paid $3.20 for two bottles, and got a $4 Extrabucks reward in my app.
Soo, that was a pretty sweet deal!
2. I got blood donation freebies
My hospital sent out an email yesterday saying they were desperately low on all blood types, so I popped in to try to donate blood.
I say “try” because sometimes when I have tried in the past, my iron has been too low.
But this time I was good to go. Yay!!
I would donate blood if there were no freebies involved, of course. But I was not about to turn down what they were offering. 😉
In return for donating, I got a coupon for a free cheese pizza and also a free lunch at my hospital cafeteria. Sweet.
I feel a little bit tired after donating blood, but I remind myself that I do not feel nearly as bad as the people who need my blood!
3. I went into greens-eating mode
I realized I had quite a backlog of greens in my fridge. So, I made sure to add a bowl of salad to my breakfast as well as dinner.
And here I will put a vote in for greens at breakfast; I’m not ready for ranch dressing at that hour, but some greens with a light vinaigrette (especially a sweet type of vinaigrette) are easy to eat with some eggs and toast.
Another advantage: you will feel obnoxiously virtuous if you eat a salad first thing in the morning.
You ate greens before 9 am? YOU ARE UNSTOPPABLE.
4. I used my canned cherry juice
I finished up a jar of sour cherries from Aldi, and I mixed the leftover juice/syrup in with some sparkling water. Tasty!
5. I got paid for attending the phlebotomy class
Not only did I not have to pay for the class, I got paid for attending! We just clocked in like we would for a shift and got paid for learning how to do our jobs better.
FYI: This is fake blood. It is just red fluid; I promise I’m not gonna post pics of blood. I can look at blood all day and not feel the least bit queasy, but I recognize that is not true for everyone.
As a college student, I am used to having to pay for all of my education. So to get paid for learning feels rather miraculous indeed.
Jayne
Tuesday 24th of December 2024
Merry Christmas!!!
MB in MN
Tuesday 24th of December 2024
1. Saved 15% on a pair of sneakers for my husband at DSW using a code I received for signing up for texts (I’ll stop those shortly).
2. Received a delicious clementine cake from a niece and her family. Will bring that to Christmas Eve dinner (with the other side of the family) along with a salad.
3. Will bring Christmas brunch fixings to my sister’s place to use up more of our provisions before heading out of town for five weeks.
4. As usual, kept our bread frozen so none of it went bad.
5. As usual, picked up hair binders off the ground, washed them, and repurposed them as rubber bands. I come across an amazing number of hair binders.
Joyce
Tuesday 24th of December 2024
Obnoxiously virtuous! That cracks me up. I eat brussels sprouts and/or broccoli every work day for breakfast along with eggs on the side. I guess now I will think of myself that way. Lol
auntiali
Tuesday 24th of December 2024
A very Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah to you all!
My frugal things: 1. My son and daughter-in-law are here from Seoul so that's a great present in itself. Daughter is home from school too. 2. Have had about 3 homecooked meals and one birthday meal out for the boy. 3. Got the prime rib on an excellent sale at the grocery store. Big coupon off $14? 4. Hubby has been a Christmas cookie making machine. 5. Snowed a bit in the last week but fortunately not the night we went to get son and dil from the airport. So it looks like a white Christmas for us with about 2 inches of snow on the ground.
Frugal fail - hubby also got a top round roast to make a pot roast in the crock pot. He put it in at 7 and we ate at about 6 and it was so tough and stringy. He used my sister's Campbell's Soup pot roast sauce but it didn't help. I think it cooked too long. But I shed a small tear at an $18 roast being a failure. We ate it, I picked and dd ate it like it might be her last meal, lol!
Chrissy
Tuesday 24th of December 2024
Giving blood was/is important to me, too. Up until my 30's I had given 5 gallons. Then I was permanently deferred. The only thing different I had done health wise during that time was receive a flu shot. I had testing done at my physicians office to rule out any real issues and was all clear. I cannot think of anything out of the ordinary that is frugal except as difficult as it is, I volunteered to work four hours this evening. We have a shortage of nurses and filling the holiday schedule has been tough. Bonus pay for today's hours is $15.00 per hour. Truthfully, it just throws the taxes off and ends up not being a very good incentive for me. I saw this coming earlier this week and began working it out in my mind that I was available and able to do at least four hours so that the Adm. and DON et al could celebrate with their families. I am single, and my niece is coming over tomorrow and we don't have "set in stone" plans. Plus she works in an "on call" situation and understands. I "batched" errands this week. I distilled my own water. I read a book from our nursing home library. Gas is $2.76 in our town this week and $2.79 in the town where I work. (For several weeks, it was the opposite in cost.) I drink chai latte at home rather than getting it at the coffee shop. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!
Kristen
Tuesday 24th of December 2024
That is so odd! What in the world was their reasoning for the deferral? My hospital requires us to get the flu shot every year (and so does my school), and I can't imagine why that would be a problem for blood donation!
Good on you for filling a shift need. :)