PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: Colgate Dental Deals

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Colgate Dental Deals

What a deal!

It was time to use coupons to get a great deal on toothbrushes, mouthwash, and toothpaste. I paid $2.82 for three bottles 8.4 oz. of mouthwash, four toothbrushes, and one tube of toothpaste.

About the mouthwash, the names of the flavors were off-putting. You may notice I bought one of each of the three flavors--Peppermint Blast (blue), Spearmint Surge (green), Wintermint Rush (lavender). I wonder why they have to have flavors, and I wonder why they have to have such names as blast, surge, and rush. I am not of the age that I have to be entertained or impressed by my mouthwash's physicality. I don't even need pretty colors. I bought all three flavors, hoping I might get one that is not gross.

I paid $2.82 for three 8.4 oz. Colgate mouthwash, four Colgate toothbrushes, and one tube of toothpaste. Retail price was $10.92.

Remember, I supply three adult children, dil, and four grandchildren with toothpaste and toothbrushes. So, this is not too much to buy. I don't have a garage full of dental care products, just half a garage filled. Plus, I will fill six shoe boxes for children at Christmas. My daughter in NYC donated some things I gave her to Sandy victims. So, dental hygiene items are continually being depleted here.

If any of the mouthwash items is gross, mouthwash will still kill germs...so, it will not go to waste. However, knowing me, I will just use it and be grossed out.

And, I found a penny on the ground, heads up!

Your turn

Have you had any great dental hygiene buys lately? Any great buys at all this week?

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JanetJune 23, 2013 at 2:02 PM
I may have previously mentioned this find but I am still excited about it.

My most recent wonderful deal was more than a week ago and didn't involve coupons. I ran across one of those once in a lifetime thrift store deals. I got a box full (42 pieces) of vintage FRANCISCAN dishes, IVY pattern in perfect condition for only $19.95! I will use them for awhile then most likely pass them on to my sister. She also collects this pattern.

https://www.google.com/search?q=franciscan+ivy+dinnerware&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=GUbHUeSRD9HZigK2mICABQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1437&bih=685

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LindaJune 23, 2013 at 3:38 PM
Janet,
I don't think I have heard this before. But, I know the pattern you mean. That was a good deal. Congratulations to you and your sister.
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Janie JunebugJune 24, 2013 at 1:42 PM
I got a very good buy on Colgate toothpaste recently, 99 cents for a large tube. I think lavender toothpaste sounds disgusting. I had a lavender Belgian chocolate once. It was like eating perfume. Loved all the other Belgian chocolates, though. The Hurricane got them for me in, of all places, Belgium.

Love,
Janie
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LindaJune 24, 2013 at 3:37 PM
Janie,
That is a very good price on a large tube of toothpaste. It was colored lavender, not the taste. I think that would be gross. LOL...Belgian chocolates from Belgium...how novel.

Basically, the toothpaste and toothbrush were free. So, I was happy.
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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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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Colgate Dental Deals

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