Watching prices like a hawk

With the cost of things always seeming to go up, I feel like I've been able to get some good deals on several things I purchase regularly, even if it's only once a year. I'm just really trying to watch prices on things and if I see if there's been a price drop, I'm grabbing it.

From April thru June I give our cat some flea and tick drops. We've never noticed fleas on him, but around mid April thru mid July, it's tick season here, and since he's outside some every day, I want to protect him from that. I buy the 3 dose pack and the drops are supposed to be good for 30 days, each dose. So applying thru mid June, gets him thru mid July (when it's then very hot and the ticks die off). I purchase a brand a little cheaper than Frontline, called PetAmor. It seems to work, he's never had fleas or a tick. Usually it's around $7 per monthly dose. I decided to get some ordered to be ready to start again next month, and saw that Chewy had it on sale price for $3.57 per dose! That's a great savings compared to what I normally have to spend, so I got it ordered.

While we were at Costco Friday I totally forgot to pick up some of their Kirkland brand of Miralax dh uses. It's the cheapest per dose, I've found anywhere. Even Amazon's Basic's brand is .41/dose, while Costco is .25/dose. I know they will ship this, so I decided might as well get some more ordered/stock up, while I still have the membership. It's on sale right now $5 off! Woo, even cheaper. That makes it down to .20/dose. I went ahead a bought 2, which should last dh through the rest of this year, for sure. Since dd has a Costco membership, in the future, when we need more, I can have her order online and ship to me, thereby keeping the cost for that at it's lowest. And I'll watch for when it's $5 off and only get it then ;) Costco certainly doesn't have everything we use cheaper compared to Amazon and Walmart. Dishwashwer tabs are about the same price. Omeprazole is more at Costco than Amazon. 

I'm hoping we might be able to make this a one trip grocery order this month. We'll see. The only thing I may run out of is milk, but I bought 4 gallons again, so we'll see if I can make that last 4 weeks. I drink/use a lot of milk. Dh doesn't drink it at all. He will only drink chocolate milk, if I buy it. I have a glass of milk every morning with my protein powder and a very small glass with dinner. If I skipped some of the dinner milk and just drank water, I could probably get the milk to last 4 weeks. This morning I am going to make blueberry muffins, so I will just have a small glass (like half a juice glass amount) instead of a full glass.

We had the orange chicken with rice for dinner last night. It sure is good, but for awhile there we were having it so often, I got tired of it, so I hadn't bought it at Costco in awhile. After dinner, the pre-made pie crust was thawed, so I baked that up, to get cooled down and then made the banana pudding for it. When dh came back in the house later in the evening, and hungry for a snack I said "do you want a piece of banana cream pie?" He says "do you have some?" I said "No, I'm just making it up" (rolling eyes LOL) and he says "where'd you get it?" "I MADE it!" LOL.  

I texted my half sis yesterday morning to ask her how it was going. She said it would take a phone call, so we chatted last night after dinner. Her stupid stepbrothers (men in their 60's) were literally arguing at the hospice place over junk in a shed, at their dads property, while he was literally taking his last breaths and died. She said she is so over dealing with all of them. She is also supposed to be co-execuctor, of the will, with one of the step brothers.  One of them has already told her he is going to contest the will (contest what? it's a legit will LOL). I told her just to decline doing it. Just let the one brother be executor and let him deal with his brothers. Good grief. She's already had 7 months of stress. I don't know how long will's take to probate in Canada, but if it's anything like the U.S. it's going to be 1 to 2 more years of stress dealing with it.