Good Bye For Now...

Good Evening Clippers.


It is with a very saddened heart that I write to you tonight. 


At this time I am resigning as The Constant Clipper. 


I have been praying on this for several weeks and feel that right now I need to close some doors and focus on the few paths that I feel God is calling me to focus on. Mainly that of which is my education. Often I find myself blogging when I should be completing homework assignments. At this time I am wrapping up my associate degree and moving forward into a more rigorous schedule to complete my bachelor. I feel that it is vital for me to set my distractions aside for the time being to focus on the successful completion of my programs. 


I have sincerely enjoyed working with every one of you for the past year and a half. It has been fun and I cannot explain how much I will miss posting daily. I am pretty sure this will be one of the most difficult things I have ever done. Giving up a sincere passion and enjoyable hobby, only to be replaced by school work. However, it is necessary. 


Please follow one of the blogs below to stay up to date on sales, coupons, deals, samples, freebies, etc. Each one of these women also maintain a Facebook page for even faster updates.


Eastern Shore Mom
Coupon Chix
Couponing to Disney
I Heart Publix

Again, thank you so much for your support! I can only hope that when my schedule is more established and I am closer to being done (or completely done) with school, that I will be able to pick up where I left off. 


Best of luck and happy clipping!


Gabriele Jones

Extra Red Plum Insert in today's Press Register

Today's Press Register included an extra Red Plum insert, making the total inserts (2) Red Plum, (1) Smart Source and (1) P&G. Here is what was included. 

$1/24 cans of Fancy Feast Gourmet Cat Food

$1/1 3 lb+ Bag of Fancy Feast Dry Cat Food

$1/4 2 oz trays of Fancy Feast Appetizer Cat Food

$1/18 cans of Fancy Feast Gourmet Cat Food Elegant Medleys 

.50/1 box Minute Maid Rice

$1/1 Any Marcal Small Steps Product

.50/2 cans of Carnation Evaporated Milk

.55/1 Coffee Mate Natural Bliss Coffee Creamer

$2/1 Stouffer's Multi-Serve Entree 

$2/1 large Digornio Frozen Pizza

Buy 4 cans Chef Michael's canine creations and get 2 free

$2/1 4.5 lb+ bag of Chef Michael's dry dog food

.75/1 6 lb+ bag of Purina dry cat food

$1/1 4 lb+ bag Purina dry dog food 

$1/1 7lb+ bag of Tidy Cats litter

$1/2 pkgs of Purina Whisker Lickins Treats

$2/12 single cans or (1) 12 ct pkg of Purina Mighty Dog food

$1/1 Purina T-Bonz dog treat

I am very excited about the $2/1 Stouffer's meals because we love their lasagna and they often go on sale at Publix for very cheap.

Sunday Coupon Preview 1/29/12

Sunday paper is great this week. I would recommend picking up both the Pensacola News Journal and the Mobile Press Register this week. Remember coupons vary city to city so some higher-value may be included in one paper and not the other. 


There are three inserts this week.
(1) P&G
(1) Smart Source
(1) Red Plum

The P&G will include a $3/1 Iams dry dog or cat food coupon. Currently Target has a $3 trial bag on the shelves. This means free pet food. For those of you who do not have pets, stock up and donate to your local animal shelter. 


For those of you who live in Baldwin County I encourage you to donate to the Baldwin County Humane Society. With the recent cases of extreme animal neglect that has taken place in Summerdale and Robertsdale the Baldwin County Human Society is in need of tons of food. 


I imagine thee trial size bags will clear shelves pretty quick so head out to get your paper early and then head straight to Target. If you wait until the craziness dies down (usually after a week) just remember this coupon is valid for 30 days only. 

Guest Post: What's your homes hazard score?

By Alisha Carlo



Most people don't think twice about the different products on our supermarket shelves.  Heck, if they are being sold, they have to besafe right?  Or, if there is something to worry about, surely the label will carry a warning.  Well, sometimes those warning labels aren't as obvious as we'd think.  There may not be a gigantic symbol flashing at us.  Perhaps the warning is only the ingredients list. And if this is the case... who knows what half that stuff is anyway? Not me!

Over the last couple of years, I have learned that most of the products that are offered in the United States are not necessarily as healthy or safe as what is being offered in neighboring Countriessuch as Canada.  The United States is a bit more loosy goosy on it'srestrictions.  Whether it be household cleaning products, hygieneproducts, food, or even cosmetics, they may contain more than webargain for.

Canada's “Health Canada” commission publishes a product ingredient “hot list” annually or as new data becomes available. The list contains ingredients considered dangerous, and should not belegally used in products being sold in Canada.  Here is the mostrecent Canadian Cosmetic Hot List.

While the United States Consumer Protection Agency also requires labeling, it is much more limited to only include those products thatare an immediate danger. “Toxic, corrosive, an irritant, a strong sensitizer,flammable or combustible, or generates pressure throughdecomposition, heat or other means, AND  may cause substantial personal injury or substantial illness during or as a proximate result ofany customary or reasonably foreseeable handling or use, includingingestion by children.” Products with possible long term carcinogenic or nervedamaging affects are overlooked and often ignored. 

A great resource to see just how “toxic” your favorite products are, can be located at: http://www.ewg.org/skindeep  This website allows you to scan virtually any product on the market (that comes in to contact with skin).  As an example I ran a search of baby soaps. The products with the highest amount of toxins include: Baby Magic, Johnson and Johnson, and Huggies, all rating a 6or 7 on the hazardous ingredients scale. (7-9 considered HighHazard). 

The website details each products ingredients list, and potentiality for health concerns.  The Baby Magic scorecard shows the overall hazard as moderate, but when listing out individual concernsit is noted that the developmental and reproductive toxicity hazard is high. The detailed scorecard can be found here.

Great, one more thing to worry about right?  Many of us will say “well, I always used it, and my kid is fine.” OR “My Mom used it on me, and I'm fine.”  This may be true for now, however it is the long term affects that should be considered. Perhaps illnesses like Fibromyalgia and other recently commondegenerative nerve, and immune system disorders may be the result ofyears and years of toxic chemicals leaching into our systems. This of course is only my opinion and will probably be up for debate by many.  But it is something to consider.

We quite obviously cannot eliminate all hazards andtoxins from our environment, it's virtually impossible.  By merely breathing, we are taking in foreign particles every second.  So, am Is aying we should sit in our homes, plastic wrap everything, filter our air and water, remove all chemicals, eat only food grown inorganic atmospheres, and meat that is range fed and never given ahormone- oh yeah and don't immunize your kids either...
No.

But the truth is, everything is outgassing (or off-gassing as some call it). Our carpet, our car interior, the chemicals under our sink- you name it, if it was built, produced, or grown it likely contains somethingtoxic.  So, how about just starting somewhere.  Eliminate something.

Here's a great start, and it's easy!  Take all of your harsh cleaning products from under your kitchen sink and put them in a sealed rubber maid tub, and back under the sink. That's it.  Each of these chemicals, as they sit under there, are outgassing. They are putting gaseous fumes from their ingredients into our homeenvironment.  Guess where these gases sit?  Low. The gas particles are heavier than the air, therefore they hang low in our environment. So who is taking the brunt of these fumes? Yep, our babies and our pets. 

This post is not intended to be your “Debbie the Downer for the Day”.  I just hope to enlighten a few people, and give them tools to make better, healthier purchasing decisions. What about you?  Can you suggest a healthy alternative that you use andrecommend?  I'd love to hear them!

~Alisha
http://sprkme.blogspot.com (don't mind the mess, we're still under construction!)

Get coupons for 7 Free Voskos Yogurts plus Granola

Voskos just announced on their Facebook page that you have the opportunity to earn coupons for 7 free Vosko's yogurts plus granola.

Watch this YouTube Video, about 30 seconds long and write down the 3 captions shown.
Then email your name, mailing address and the 3 captions mentioned in the video to fb@voskos.com

Now wait. You should qualify as long as you email them before 5 PM however I think they may get overwhelmed with response so the sooner the better.

Good luck!

Meal-Over Monday on Tuesday

Hello Clippers!

Sorry for the delay on posting Meal-Over Monday specials and ideas. We celebrated my grandmothers 77th birthday last night (photo attached) and after that I was TIRED!
So this week I Heart Publix there are some great deals, starting with the Ragu Pasta Sauce!


Ragu Pasta Sauce BOGO $2.19.50 off 1 jar Ragu Pasta Sauce (Family Dollar Coupon-Publix accepts as competitor at Gulf Shores and Orange Beach locations), apply (2) = .59 cents each, AMAZING!

A1 Steak Sauce BOGO $3.25 $1/1 A1 Steak Sauce found in 1/22 SS insert, apply (2) = .62 cents each, AMAZING!

French's Classic Yellow Mustard BOGO $1.87.30/1 French's Mustard found in 1/22 SS insert, apply (2) = .63 cents each, yep better than generic!

Campbell's Healthy Harvest Soup BOGO $2.49$1/2 cans of soup found in 1/8 SS insert, apply (1) = .74 a piece

Nabisco Nilla Wafers and Newtons BOGO $3.99$3/3 Nabisco Newtons found in 1/8 SS insert, apply (1) = $1.00 a piece

Plus tons more! I just bought Q-Tips last week, not on sale and boy I am sad since this week they are on sale. I am also noticing tons of Summer items coming through which is unusual but with Super Bowl right around the corner it sort of explains it.

Here is what my menu is looking like this week:

Monday: Family Dinner...off night for me.
Tuesday: Pizza...thanks to Pizza Hut I can enjoy American Idol
Wednesday: Chicken Stew and Biscuits
Thursday: Spaghetti and Garlic Bread
Friday: Blackened Mahi Mahi, Green Beans & Mashed Potatoes

FREE Sambazon Juice...Yes more than 1 bottle!

I know tons of you have wanted to try my favorite drink…Sambazon Juice.

The drink is organic, 100% vegan and is jammed packed with fruits from the Amazon. The best part is they also have a fair trade partnership that creates jobs for 10,000 family farmers and the company helps to protect the rain forest. This drink not only tastes good and does good but it has helped boost my energy level.

 So now is the time to try this drink for FREE. Publix has the 10.5 oz single servings of this juice marked down to $1.99 now (reg. $2.99) and there are tons of coupons that you can take advantage of to score this baby without paying a penny (even though it is worth every penny you spend). Check out the links below to the available coupons.

$2/1 SambazonJuice 10.5 oz or 32 oz (use zip code 90210) print 2x

$2/1 SambazonJuice 10.5 oz or 32 oz print 2x
FREE SambazonJuice when you share with a friend via Facebook

If you do not live near a Publix, check out the other retailers here.