PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: Free Batteries

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Free Batteries

You know I am all about free, right? "If it is free, it's for me." Have you checked out the deals at Office Max? Today, with a sale and a coupon, I scored 40 free batteries. Do you have your MaxPerks card yet? If you are a teacher, get a teacher card, and deals are better. Recycle those ink jet and toner cartridges from ~~computers~~ printers or office copy machines.

40 free AA batteries

Coupon

Office Max had batteries buy one get the second for a penny. You get the rest of the second pack back on Max Perks card to spend later. Since I had MaxPerks credit already from recycling cartridges, my batteries were free--all 40 of them. With an expiration date of 2018, they should be good until then if I can keep them cool enough.

No coupon? You can still buy 2 packs of any batteries, NOT necessarily these, pay for both and still have the price of one pack to spend later. I did not pay for the extra pack, so one cent was all I paid.

Staples and Office Depot have reward cards and similar programs.

FYI: That is NOT my last name on the coupon. Someone heard me wrong when I spelled!

Your turn

Need batteries? This is your chance to score them cheaply if not free like I did. Have you taken advantage of this battery sale yet? Do you have your Maxperks reward card yet? Who is going to crown me Queen of Free?

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AnonymousAugust 18, 2012 at 5:07 PM
♥ FREE! I just blogged about some free stuff I received via reward pts :)
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LindaAugust 19, 2012 at 5:47 AM
Reward points anywhere are great! Good for you.
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Okay, hoping the annoyances have gone away.

The Cast

Fancy is my favorite hen. She is one of the three youngest hens I adopted. Because she is so gentle and friendly, she may be the one I rescued when she was being pecked to death after she could no longer stand. She got to live in the house in a box. Sometimes, I let her sit in my lap while she was convalescing. Now, she comes to sit in the swing with me, cuddling up to my body like a cat or dog. She died in February 2012.

Fancy follows me begging, complaining, needing me to do for her. She talks to me in various voices. She allows me to pick her up and carry her. When she became an adult, her head was a darker red and her body was light brown. Around her neck were tips of black feathers. It appeared she had a necklace of jet around her neck. When I showed this characteristic to a friend, he said, "Oh, you have fancy chickens and plain chickens."

Chessie has a broken toe. I broke it! She had a habit of jumping really high and almost sticking. A raccoon ate her in October 2009.

Thelma is the blonde. She is also the largest hen and the alpha hen. I suspect the gigantic eggs are from her. She often squats and presents herself to me. She is top hen, but I suspect she knows she had better be deferent to top feeder of the flock--me.

Louise is the auburn-feathered hen. She looks like the true Rhode Island Reds in pictures. She is almost as large as Thelma. Some days I suspect she is trying to be top chicken. When I got Pepper, I found out Louise is the Alpha hen.

Pepper came here from the same home as the first four. We were discussing putting red pepper on their food, wondering if it really would increase egg production. Pepper is the only name we agreed on. She is terrorized each day by Louise. Even after the worst was over, she was and is still filled with terror and very wary.

Linda is owned by four hens. They allow her to fetch for them. She loves them dearly, so she allows them to boss her around. Linda comes out in the rain to perform chores for them and make sure they have food and water. She begs scraps from all sorts of places to make sure they have fresh fruits and vegetables.

Parsimony is not a vegetable

Parsimony is extreme care in spending money. Stick around and learn about my random thoughts on accomplishing goals economically--dumpster diving aka safari, gleaning, do-it-yourself, sewing tips, recipes, and whatever is happening in my life.

Okay so maybe "parsimony" is not your thing. How about thrift, frugality or just plain saving money? I try not to go the tightwad route as that seems to imply others will suffer from my habits.

Some of my not-spending habits have very much been a part of my lifelong habits. Other habits are newly acquired and are an extension of my lifelong not-spending habits.

I am very imaginative when it comes to substituting or making instead of buying. I will tell you about making a heater for the chickens' water. Not one dime was spent since I had everything I needed right in my basement.

Practicality must rear its head alongside parsimony. For example, I will use the dryer in bad weather or because of allergies in the spring. But, I will not wash clothes in a tub as long as I have a washing machine or can find one.

You may hear more about my four Rhode Island Red hens than you care to hear. They lay delicious brown eggs.

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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Free Batteries

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