RETIRED: Target chit chat

ank, tomorrow is a new t day. take a small bite of that apple... sending you big windshield wishes!

Dia - do you have a dehumidifier? You may want to run one down there. Any cracks in the foundation? Is waterproofing up to date?

dia very tired so not going into detail, ... i have major mildew/mold allergies - there's a face mask with a fine filter that you can get at home improvement stores and use for reno/demo work. i highly recommend doing so.

I can't dig out the house and have them reseal the outside as it would cost in the tens of thousands and the house (which is about 70 years old) is just not worth that investment. I am trying to make it liveable without breaking the bank.

tm4d and m2c... this [amazon.com] is an awesome book with great tips and assignments on expanding one's digital photography skills. a talented friend bought it for himself after buying a highend dslr and despite all his innate skills, you could see the amazing jump in his photo quality. he then showed me the book and i fell in love with it!

meeshe so sorry hon! i totally agree with the advice given. you need to turn the tables. and you need to take time for yourself.
most of all you need to take back some power in this relationship so there isn't such a power imbalance and communication gap. you can do it! you are and smart!
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finally made it to Gainesville. Go Gators!! Oh, and there's a Target across the street....

Football + Shenanigans

Rachel - CONGRATS!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see your beautiful bundle of joy! Yeah you had it on Meesh's B-day
Qqueen - GREAT to see you!!! HUGS

I don't know about the padding ---- but here is the weirdest shopping trip ...

I went today and bought 5 glade (red & purple) the cashier tried several times to use the $3/3 coupon and it would NOT accept it ... kept saying that the value of the coupon exceeded something. She returned them to me. They were the FIRST coupons I handed to her so my total was over $100 - no issue with padding.

I bought 9 TGIF meals & 10 reach dental floss & other non-coupon items.

The TGIF MQ & TQ worked JUST FINE! The Reach MQ beeped of course, even though it is for the right item - she read thru and accepted it as the screen just asked her to verify the item was there each time.

We got to the end and I had my total - swiped my card and the whole transaction disappeared???? She tried to retrieve it but it was GONE!!! It didn't crash the system - it just disappeared. She got a manager to come over who went in the back and after about 15 minutes came back and said that the entire transaction had been voided and had to be rerung. I returned the glade GC and we pulled everything out of the bag and rang it all up again ...

This time it would NOT take ANY of the TGIF coupons --- it kept saying coupon exceeds something or other --- so she manually entered $2 for each of the 9 TGIF. This time no GC was issued for the 5 Glade (but I was so confused I didn't realize that til I got home.) The Glade still would not go through --- same message sas the TGIF. She did manually enter 1 of those. The Reach MQ beeped as always.

So what the heck???? Anyone ever had that happen? So weird!

PS - I hate mold/mildew .... spent the last 24 hours removing everything from a basement room including carpet and all --- I am itchy & wheezy ... and after I have done another scrub with bleach I am going to try and paint the walls and floor to keep the moisture out that comes in through them .... anyone had any success with this?

Keeping my fingers crossed, but maybe the GC glitch is fixed now. I did not need to pad my transaction this morning. Yeah.

It was closed for some reason, and then reopened. I didn't see an explanation.


Yep, we're pretty happy. Its kind of a bummer, because his company let his TS-SCI clearance expire just this past May. And then they found out in June that this new contract required just the secret clearance. grrrrrrrr... Oh well, at least its done with for now. In about 18 months, he can try for the polygraph again, and I hope he does. That way he can get in with a family member at a ... um ... agency that cannot be disclosed. Which would be awesome.



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Oh my word, that would make my poor aching head just about the happiest thing EVER!! I feel like such a dunce doing my runs, because keeping track of the overage, the gift card padding, the gift card deals, ugh, ALL of it just makes my head hurt! I've kind of just been flying blind, to be honest. So to cross one of those headaches off, that'd just be the awesomest ever.

So ... I went to our Target's Starbucks to get the BOGO holiday drinks. The barista tells me that you have to have a postcard (all Gold members got it). Um, nope, that's not what the advertising said. She encouraged me to call Starbucks because of the false advertising. So ... I get home and immediately call Starbucks to find out what the deal is. The CS rep says no, no physical coupon is required, its for all customers, but perhaps its only in actual Starbucks stores. He pulls up ALL the info about the promo, reads through all of it, and discovers that no, its supposed to be valid at all licensed stores, which means every Target store should be participating. He is sending me free drink coupons, which is all fine and well, but what about this Starbucks? He says he'll start the ball rolling to inform the store, but that it probably won't be done until after the promo is over. Um, what good is that??

So ... I get off the phone with him, and call the Starbucks at this Target. The barista answers, and I let her know that I just spoke with Starbucks CS and her store IS supposed to be participating. She then asked me for all the details of the promo - they had not received ANY information about it at all. She thanked me and they will now be participating. Oh my gracious. Why does a customer have to be the one to set people straight???

if anyone has access to the TQ's can you PM me? I've lost my link.

Hi everyone!!! Its been so long and I just wanted to pop on and say hi. Miss you all, but just in a SD rut right now and haven't been on as much. Hope you all are doing good.
Saw that Cuponk will be $2 next week (short ad) so thats a good deal to come back to...especially with the $5 GC coupons for toys!

I hope to be on more so I can hear all about you guys!






Doesn't it make you feel so good to do things like this. I just put 2 awesome gift boxes together for kids to be sent to my son's school that they will distribute to those less fortunate. I loved it! And it was all goodies from slickdealing...





So nice to see you Thrift! See what happens when I go away for awhile!

Ok, so DH and I just pulled all the toys down from the attic that are being donated. I am so proud of my loot! I cannot wait to give them all away.

hey l2b, I'm waiting on the dr. to call with my 2nd set of results. My hcg was 549 on tuesday and progesterone was 7.9. The progesterone is low but the dr. doesn't want to supplement until after today's results come back. She's a weirdo and thinks that if she gives me progesterone and it's ectopic the baby will grow super-fast.

Anywho. I'm tired of waiting and nervous.

She didn't test my progesterone this time. gggrrrr

My HCG came back at 830 which is a doubling time of 59.86 hours. I don't know if that's bad or good. She wants to repeat it monday and if it comes back over 1000 wants to do a sonogram.

Meesh - Sorry your b'day didn't go as planned..But girl you need a break...Dump the kids and your DH for a day and do whatever you want to do...

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Meeshe - I know you love him, but gosh darn he deserved to get that dinner in bed alright.. over his head

What a poo poo head..

Lots of love and hugs and hope tomorrow is a good bday for your son..

Morning, everyone! Today's another busy day. Lots of shopping to be done! Now if only the Target cashiers will cooperate...

Meeshe, I am sorry hubby didn't cooperate for your birthday. Sounds like you guys need a nice date night, without any kids, and talk about how you feel without any distractions or interruptions. At the very least, *you* need a break! Take care of yourself, girl.

So I am now hosting Thanksgiving dinner for my family and my sister's family! I am a little nervous, but mainly because the house is a wreck and nothing I can do about it until after my flea market is done tomorrow. I haven't even shopped for any of it. Haven't even bought the turkey. But there's only going to be four adults, so it won't have to be a big one. I'm thinking 8-10 lbs. Does that sound right?

Also, the big news for this week in our household - hubby got his clearance!!!!! This means his job is now secure (the new contract required everyone to have at least a secret clearance), and now we just wait for his boss to come through with the raise, which will most likely not be until March or April at the earliest. But that's ok. We are doing ok, not great, but ok. I'm just happy we have the clearance - it was looking dicey actually. They were investigating some supposed incident from a couple years ago, and *nothing* happened in our family at that time. The only thing we can think of is something was going on with another family member. Anyway, its done and that monkey is off our back.

Off to print coupons, get dressed, get the kids dressed, and run out the door!!

Nicole, that's just crappy. Maybe on his next birthday you need to be too busy to make a big to-do about it.

You sound like my husband. When called last night (he was out of town) first thing he said was, "I hear our yard looks like a winter wonderland". I was telling him that I had intended to see if I could find info on the box to call and ask them to send me beaks. He wasn't particularly optimistic about that but said, "no big deal, we can make beaks and scarves". Apparenly, his idea is to carve penguin beaks out of styrofoam and paint them yellow. So, now I get to add "carve beaks" to my to-do list. Oooohhh, come to think of it. I think I have some styrofoam that will be about right. Just opened a couple boxes of Christmas candles with a tray thing that had styrofoam blocks at each end.

When we tiled our basement shower, we bought the cheapest little electric wet saw that Menards had. It was $80 and it worked great.

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Hi all, life is keeping me occupied lately. Just stopping by to say a quick hiya!

Meesh - you sound like an amazing woman! I don't know how you get all of that done with 8 kids.. I work part time, and have 4 kids but only one little one, and I struggle to get my housework done and even think of shopping. You seem to juggle alot and you most definitely deserve a nice birthday.. If nothing else, you need a Saturday to pamper yourself.. Shopping time alone with a nice mani/pedi.. Sorry your DH was being a jerk I can't imagine. I don't expect a big fancy party, but I do expect a nice dinner out each year for my birthday!


Sorry that the weather is abusing your hard work.. It sounds so nice.. I love Christmas decorations. My DH is great about doing the tree, but won't do outside decorations. One year we had lights in all the windows, but that was a one time thing. Last year I got some of those spiral trees, but I think he did something with them and I can't find them now..
I would love to get a nice nativity scene for the yard!

I still needed padding today. I had $20 in GCs and as soon as my OOP was $40, the MQs started beeping and prompting for price when cashier hit accept anyway. He entered them as $3...register beeped that coupon exceeded value and would not budge.

I had a wonderful new team member today at checkout. I almost thought he was going to be too new to be trained when he asked me where to find the GCs. But, he passed with flying colors!

From what I have read it is only the Curel Gift Card deal that does not require padding. I know that is what I bought. I only had 2 Curel in my transaction and my total was less than $5. and all coupons came off. I had one of the smaller Curel and the TQ had to be K1'd.

Would T fix one GC deal and not the others? Does it have to be programmed one at a time?

Really, because the gmail method never worked earlier with Kohls (atleast for me)...Setting up a new account right now...

I do run a dehumidifier - but in the spring/summer it can't keep up .... there are no HUGE cracks but some small ones. I am sorry I don't know what you mean by is the waterproofing up to date?

My plan is to paint the walls & floor with the Killz anti-mildew sealant. Then a second coat. Then I am getting that Epoxy stuff for cement floors *they show a happy person easily spreading the thick stuff on the floor * it is supposed to fill in the cracks and be thick enough that it leaves a smooth surface that you put all over the floor and up the wall about an inch or two. I don't know if it behooves me to let that dry and do a second coat????

Anyway - then I would paint the wall with a nice colored paint ... and get a throw rug for the floor.

My concern is that I do all this and it doesn't stop the water coming up. (Not like a huge flood of inches and inches ... just wet puddles.) I can't dig out the house and have them reseal the outside as it would cost in the tens of thousands and the house (which is about 70 years old) is just not worth that investment. I am trying to make it liveable without breaking the bank.

Spent the day reading TCC, cleaning, and trying to get some Qs ready for some Target runs tomorrow. Hope DH and the family cooperates and I can go alone for some quick and fierce shopping.

meesh, your DH needs a kick in the pants. How dissapointing, but a familiar sounding story. I think he and my DH are similar in lots of ways.

Rachel, congrats on the baby, how exciting! Get as much sleep as you can, sleep when the baby sleeps.

I think the Curel needs some padding, I had a small order with some Curel and while the Curel MQs went through one autoed for $1.32 and my Ca[ri Sun MQ would not work at all.