Enjoy the City Coupon books on sale 5 for $25 plus FREE shipping

by A Thrifty Geek on 05/18/2012

I love getting coupon books for my city.  We love eating out, going to events and shopping.  These are great to help stay in a budget.  Right now you can get the Enjoy the City coupon book for 5 for $25 plus FREE shipping.  This is  a 75% discount.

There is grocery coupons in the front of the book that will save you tons of money not to mention the restaurants, stores and attractions. You will just have to check the list out.   I love these kind of books.

I purchased all 5 from Louisville because I am giving 3 of them away to family and friend, but I bet you could do it for multiple locations if you wanted to.

Here is my receipt that I just purchased.

Here is what you need to do to get this deal too!

Go here and select your state and then the city.
Put 5 Enjoy the City books in your cart
Use the coupon code MAY
Fill out the billing and shipping info.
Check out.

At the checkout, you can put email addresses of friends and family that you want to share this deal with.  If they are not already on the mailing list and have not purchased before you will get rewarded.  You can read more about this on the referral page.

The links in this post is not a referral link. I just wanted to share this great deal with you before it is gone.

This deal is good May 17 – 21st, 2012 .  Allow 1-3 weeks shipping.

 

 


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Come Visit My Town, Louisville KY Awesome Weekend getaway

by A Thrifty Geek on 05/18/2012

picture from Globalimages.net

I lived the first 30 years of my life in a little town called Dalton, GA. Didn’t really even know anything else ever existed. In 2000 my husband and I moved our family to Louisville Kentucky for him to attend school. We fell in LOVE with our new town. We fell in love with it so much that we tried to move away and with in 2 years we were back.

There is so much to do in Louisville.  I wanted to share with you why I think you should carve out sometime in your life to come to Louisville and enjoy my town.

This is Derby country and our city has the flavor of fancy hats, southern charm and mint juleps but there is so much more to our city.  So much rich history and fun activities.

The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory.   If you head west on Main street, you will not miss the HUGE bat that is all one solid piece leaning up against a building.  This is the Louisville Slugger Museum and where they make the bats that supply the baseball players all over the world.  You can actually tour the factory and watch them being made.  When you finish the tour, everyone gets souvenir bat to take home.

Churchhill Downs & the Kentucky Derby Museum.   This is what the city is best known for.  Horse racing.  It is a beautiful place to visit and to watch the horses race.  You can get so close to the horse and it is amazing to see the strength and size of them.   At the museum, you can learn the history of the derby and the races.  To get into the races it is actually a very inexpensive thing to do (they make their money off of betting). We enjoy going down to the track and watching the races and only spending about $5 to do so.  We never bet because we know we will loose.

The Brown Hotel.  In the 1920′s the Brown Hotel was the rip roaring place to be.  Still today it holds that flare and elegance.  This is the place to get the original Hot Brown to eat.  If you have not tried a Hot Brown, you are missing out.  The Brown Hotel is a wonderful place to go and have lunch, dinner and if you want, you can splurge and spend the night.  Such a beautiful place.

Louisville Stoneware & M.A. Hadley Stoneware.  The artisan district of Louisville is large.  These two pottery places, I am sure you have heard of. They are distributed all over the world.  Both have been in business since before the 1920′s.  You can visit these locations and help design your pottery, create a one of a kind. or just pick up some pieces that are in the gift shops.

Waterfront Park.  This is a huge open field right at the Ohio river.  It is a great place to picnic, walk , play ultimate Frisbee, ride 2, 3 or 4 person bikes that can be rented or play on the play grounds.  There are restaurants in walking distance. The park has summer concert series to enjoy.

We have several sport venues.  Louisville Bats Field that host the minor league Reds team, the YUM Center that host the Louisville Cardinals Basketball and other events, and the Skate Park.

We have wonderful communities with open air dinning, shopping and AMAZING coffee shops.  {Favorite to this day…. Quills Coffee, a must have cup of java}

Come visit my city. I think you will fall in Love with it too!

 

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Summer is here!!! Are you already hearing, I’M BORED?

by A Thrifty Geek on 05/18/2012

Summer is here. Is the words I’m bored already coming out of their mouths? With this economy, many families are looking to do activities that are FREE or inexpensive while doing a staycation or even when they are traveling to their vacation. Even the families that are traveling for vacation are taking time this year to look at activities that are available in that location that would be FREE or cheap to do. Here is a few suggestions on what your family can do this summer that hopefully will not put a big dent in the budget.

Free Events

  • Home Depot Kids Workshops. Home Depot offers how to clinics for kids the first Saturday of each month. The kids get to create a great project and get a free Home Depot orange apron. Click here for more details.
  • Lowes Build and Grow workshops. Click here to see if your Lowes is providing this in your area. Right now in our area, our Lowes is doing Pirate Ships and Treasure Chest. What kid would not love to build their own Pirate Ship.
  •  Bass Pro Shops Family Fun: Your children can enjoy activities such as the shooting range, s’morse cookout, the laser gallery and so much more. You can visit their site here to get more details and find the nearest Bass Pro Shop to you.
  •  Apple camps: Does your kid love computers? Apple is doing summer workshops for kids ages 8-12. Apple has several workshops, Movie workshop, music workshop, photo workshop and presentation workshop. Click here to find out more and register.
  •  Kid’s bowling: Kids bowl for free is a program that allows kids to bowl two games a day at selected bowling alleys for free. Click here to see the nearest center.
  •  Fee Free Weekends at our National Parks: Our national parks are giving a Fee Free Weekend once each month. Click here for more information.

These are just a few suggestions that you can do with your child this summer. Take advantage of these great activities and enjoy your time with the family.


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Freezer Cooking = Breakfast Burritos

by A Thrifty Geek on 05/14/2012

I have learned that if I don’t have something quick and easy in the morning, I am not going to take time and make breakfast.  So I try to plan ahead.

I have come across this recipe for sausage, egg & cheese breakfast burritos that are wonderful to freeze and eat and so easy to make.

I make two batches when I make these and it will make 15 breakfast burritos.

What you will need:

  • 2 rolls of sausage.  (I use the mild but I have heard the hot sausage is great.)
  • 2 -  8 count flour tortilla.
  • 12 eggs
  • 3 cups of casserole cheese
  • Salt & Pepper to taste.

I make mine pretty plain but you could add, mushrooms, green peppers, chilies, etc.

Here is the a series of pictures that walk you through the process of making these.

When you take these out of the freezer, you can pop it into the microwave for about 1 1/2 minutes until warm all the way through.  You will be able to tell if it is warm by the softness of the burrito.

I did a rough estimate of how much it cost to do this. It was right at $14.56 for the total batch.  I made 15 burritos.  I could have gotten a couple of more but we like ours really full.   These are .97 cents each.

This is much cheaper than going through a drive through on the way to work and I think they taste better than the fast food version.

Enjoy!

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Hospitality Bags for your car- A way to use your stockpile for others

by A Thrifty Geek on 05/08/2012

If you have been reading my site lately, you would have read the post I did the other day on Matthew 6 and how stockpiling is Biblical.  I ran across this great Pinterest idea that is a Blessings Bag .  I absolutely love this idea.

You can fill your quart size or gallon size bags with items that you got for FREE.  What a great way to bless others and it not cost you nothing but the cost of the plastic bag.

I don’t go a day with out seeing someone walking on the side of the street that I know is homeless or in great need.   In Matthew 6 it says 2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

What a strong passage.  I want to be pleasing to the Lord.  I want my reward to come from the Heavenly Father and not men.  And I see in this scripture it doesn’t say, if you give to the needy, it says WHEN you give to the needy.  This is a command from our Father.

What a great idea to use your stockpile to give to the needy.

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Creating a Patio Garden {Part 2}

by A Thrifty Geek on 05/08/2012

The other day, I posted about our daughter’s adventure of creating a patio garden.   It was so much fun to spend the evening with her getting it set up.  I wanted to continue sharing with the “how to” of creating this vertical garden.

From the last post you saw that we went to Home Depot and got all the stuff.  That was fun.  We headed back to her apartment and started putting it all together.

  •  We had to prepare the wood pallet.  Sanding, sanding and more sanding.  Sand the edges to where you don’t get splinters in your hands while you are caring for your garden.
  • Cover the back side of the pallet with the landscaping fabric.  We put two layers on the back of it to secure the back.  {hint, choose which side will be standing up and put the top part of the fabric on first. That way the dirt doesn’t fall through the cracks. }
  • Lay the pallet down to where all you have to do is lift the one side and slide it up to a vertical position.

    Sorry, it was getting really dark outside.

  • Fill the pallet with dirt.  We used a mixture of garden soil and miracle grow soil.  Pack it in and fill up every corner.
  • Layout your plants on the pallet to plan out how to plant them.  We put the plants that vine toward the bottom and the plants that bush in the middle and top.
  • Plant the plants according to the directions on the tags.  Make sure you allow the allotted amount of space between each plant.
  • Water really well.  {hint: you will need to water this in the morning and in the evening because it will drain and dry out quickly. }

This is how the garden looked the next morning.  As you can see we also planted some flowers and herbs in pots too.

The vertical garden needs to lay flat for 2 weeks to let the roots set and the dirt to set also.  Be careful with raising the garden.  It will take 2-3 people to do it.

And this is a couple of  pictures I got today from her.  They are growing beautifully.

Tomato

 

Strawberries

 

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Janie’s Cakes Review and Giveaway Ends 5-6-12

May 7, 2012

ShareWE HAVE A WINNER!!! Joshua Turley!!! Lauren, you have 24 hours to contact me to claim your prize.  Email me at thethriftygeek{at}live.com and give me your Full name, address & phone number. I am so excited to offer you a chance to win this awesome “Italian Jane” pound cake. Watch the video for the review! I am [...]

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Stockpiling….. Right or Wrong based on Matthew 6

May 6, 2012

Share The past two weeks our small group at church has been studying Matthew 6.  We have walked through these scriptures verse by verse.  I have read this chapter many times over but during this time of study, it has spoke to me and challenged me in areas of my life.  I wanted to share [...]

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HOT! Wolfgang Puck Cold Brewed Iced Coffee Coupon $1 off

May 3, 2012

ShareOn Facebook you can get a $1 off Wolfgang Puck Cold Brewed Iced Coffee.  Kroger and affliates sometimes run these for $1 so it would be FREE. Print before they run out and hold for a sale.   Thanks Money Saving Mom! Tweet

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Keurig Vue House Party was a blast!

May 3, 2012

Share I was selected by House Party to host a Keurig Vue House Party.  I was so excited when I received the notice that I got chosen to host one. I actually did two house parties for this product.  I took it to a couple of small groups events and volunteered to bring the coffee.  [...]

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