Brooke Geery

Next Level Shopping- June 26, 2011

First, I'm afraid blogging about this is going to make things worse. Now I have not only incentive to get good deals regularly, but the more entertaining/ridiculous things I do, the better for writing about. Enter today's shopping trip. Cereal is a couponing staple, although between matching up the best price with what you have a coupon for and which kinds you will actually eat is quite the challenge. There tends to be little to no organization among the brands, but for this deal, I decided to rough it. I left the store with 62% savings and a total out of pocket of $8.84, and *ding ding ding* a free…
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More Booze Coupons, Please!

This coupon business definitely requires some effort, and I was going to draw the line at sending in rebates, because I'm still kinda lazy, but then this little gem arrived. I'd say $12 is worth the cost of a stamp and envelope (unlike the Asprin rebate that would have gotten be back the 50 cents I paid.)
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Shopping- June 25, 2011

Today I dropped $14, which included buying this week's coupons (aka the Sunday Newspaper) and a couple things I totally didn't need but WERE GOOD DEALS, such as clearance iced tea mix. Total percent of savings was 62% and I got: -3 packs of Stride gum (1.28) -Another pack of gum I thought I had to buy to make the coupon work but totally didn't. (At least is was on sale for $.99) -Iced tea mix (1.44) -2 Spicy Brown mustards (.73 total) -A pork loin (only 3.50, but should have been 2.50 if the stupid ecoupon I loaded on my card worked) -2 bags of pistachios. (3.49) Plus I…
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Shopping- June 23, 11

I set out to buy stuff for dinner. I decided to cash in a couple catalinas I'd accrued buy buying the right things, including $5 off for buying $15 worth of batteries and $4 off lamb, (which I'm honestly not sure what I bought to get.) My actual needs were sour cream, potatoes (my first attempt a perogies!), a "nice cheese" and maybe some booze, but I spent $10.91 out of pocket (61% savings) and went home with: -a bottle of Pinot Grigio (6.99) -a lamb chop (never would have bought it but with the coupon it was $.05) -sour cream (1.99) -a thing of febreeze (only $.99) -1.77 lbs…
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Shopping – June 18, 2011

I figure if I'm saving over 50% I'm doing pretty well. I know on the show they get everything for free, but yeah, that's seemingly unrealistic for myself. My most successful trip so far has yielded 81% savings, and only consisted of SOME stuff I didn't need. For $4.25 I went home with: -a box of pasta (free) -a box of kleenex (.79) -two big bags of M&Ms (the difference) -two sticks of deodorant (one of which has already been donated to Party Time Nate) (free) -a big box of popsicles (.49) The kleenex cost $.79 and, the pasta and deodorant were free and the rest of the cost went…
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Yeah, I’m Couponing

If you know me well, you probably won't be surprised about my latest hobby, because I get into random, ridiculous things all the time. I'll be honest, I saw Extreme Couponing on TLC and said, that looks fun. I'm not doing it to save money or support my five kids on $150 a month, but I'm doing it because it sounded fun, challenging, and like that it came with small victories on a regular basis. I'm a few weeks in, and the jury is still out if it's actually going to save me money. In fact, I've bought a ton of stuff I wouldn't have otherwise purchased and even at…
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Viral Marketing Genius at Work

What have I learned recently? Giving kids free Tshirts is the best marketing, ever. Also, everything is more fun when up to 9 people at a time are watching it live on the Internet. We'll be doing a live webcast from Windells every session all summer long so if you want to be one of those live viewers, follow Yobeat on twitter, now. Right now.
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Hump Day Goes Couch Surfing with Madison Ellsworth

Sun, fun and snowboarding. Photo: Matt Alberts Facebook might be good for keeping in touch with people you never really cared about in the first place, but you really can’t deny the magic of the snowboard event for reconnecting you with old friends you actually want to see. That’s what happened at the Holy Oly, where I ran into Jason Speer, a friend from Baker and my college days at WWU. Jason happened to have a couch surfer by the name of Madison Ellsworth. “You should interview him for your site,” Jason told me, “ he’s an up and coming park rider and a pretty cool guy.” Being lazy, I…
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Holy Oly: The Ocho

The stuff Northwest legends are made of. Allister Schultz. Snow skates flying in every direction. Banana peels littering the ground. Cold cans of Olympia conveniently falling at my feet. It can all only mean one thing: it’s Holy Oly time! But wait, it’s April! Isn’t the annual celebration of Northwest Pride in February? Well, it turns out that bitch La Nina decided the Northwest didn’t need any snow in January, or February for that matter, and rather than truck in snow from afar as in years past, Krush at the crew at Snoqualmie decided to bump the event back a couple months in hopes of snow. It worked. When winter…
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