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Cheap Views The River Park Cinemas is only $5 on weekends for the first matinee. The best deal around, though, is Post Falls Theater which is only $4 for showings before 6 pm on weekends.
Save Money Where Your Mouth Is
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Saving Money in the Valley Horizon Furniture A friend of ours recently purchased new high quality dining and living room furniture for $10,000 from Horizon Furniture. She said she shopped for a long time locally and on the Internet and finally determined that Horizon saved her hundreds of dollars. |
Triple A, A Great Gift
No one should be without AAA. For roughly $40 a year it has saved our distressed butts repeatedly through the years. Beyond roadside emergencies such as dead batteries, no gas, locked-in-keys or what ever they also give you discounts at hotels.
A Triple A membership makes the perfect gift for any single woman in your life, especially if you are the one that she would be calling to rescue her.
We gave it to our son for Christmas at a cost of $31 and received near immediate payback when he broke down in Wallace last week on his way back from skiing at Lookout. How much time and money did I save by not having to drive over there in the middle of the night just to tell the knothead his radiator cap was loose?
Golden Rule In More than Name
You are always looking for repair places that have a heart and Elaine found one last month at the Golden Rule on Pines when she needed to get her brakes done. The quote the manager gave her over the phone after inspecting her car was fair and so Elaine agreed. When Elaine mentioned that the cost was really going to hurt the old pocket book, he told her he would give her a $100 coupon that the store had been running even though it was one the customer was suppose to bring in themselves.
On top of that, he reused as many of the old parts as he could to do the job even lower than his original quote.
Bargain Sports Gear The School Is Cool
The Bargain Hunter located at 15303 East Sprague behind the Paul Mitchell Beauty School is a great place to check out if you need anything related to the outdoors. They have a huge store full of items for fishing, camping, hunting, archery and horse riding.
Half of the store goods are consignment, a quarter is liquidation items and the other quarter are new wares direct from the manufacturer. They have a "wish list" where customers can let others know what they are looking for.
Owner Jeff Wright said they opened in March 09 and have been growing ever since. They plan on turning their expansive second story into an archery range.
The new Paul Mitchell Beauty Salon school on Sprague in the old Kmart building is a great bargain. We normally pay $20
to get our girls' hair cut but there it is only $9.
Beside a shampoo and cut, they also give you a little massage!
Get a Load Off Cheap
The other day I tore the stucco off a wall at Halpins and was dreading taking it to the dump because it was so heavy. A friend of mine told me the landfill at Chester had opened back up so I went there. Judging by the pull the trailer put on my truck, I would guess I had at least a 1,000 pounds which would have cost about $50 at the dump but they only charged me $5 at the landfill.
They take glass, asphalt, concrete and clean dirt and are open 8:30 to 4:30, Monday through Friday. Just go down Bowdish past Dishman-Mica and they are located on the second curve past the store.
Less Dough for the Doughnuts
When the lights are a flashin' don't bother knockin' at Crispy Creme Doughnuts, just go in and buy a dozen glazed doughnuts for $5. Usually around 8 pm on weekdays and 8:30pm on weekends the store will start flashing the lights on the roof, not the red doughnut sign, to let people know they are ready to sell the day's surplus doughnuts at $4 dollars off per dozen.
| Carpet Remnants If you need to carpet a room it is a good idea to go to the back of Lowe's and check out their selection of remnants. We recently carpeted a bedroom with good quality carpet that we found there for $66. |
Meat Lovers Special
The Finder's Market
There is a new thrift shop in the Valley next to Spokane Art Supply at 14401 E. Sprague. Pam Hansen just opened up March 12. She has a lot of great stuff with prices that reflect that she understands that this is the Valley and not the best of times.
Some of her pieces are on consignment, others she has skillfully and tastefully reconditioned herself. When I found the place I saw two things right away: The prices were great and Elaine was going to love it there.
Minutes after I told her about it, Elaine was there and made her first purchase and was scheming how to buy this odd tin pig as soon as she could. The next day she was back to take her little piggy from the Finder's Market but she had to go wee, wee, wee all the way home because it was already gone. So the moral of this place is finders keepers, losers weepers.
The store is open Tues thru Sat 10-5. Her phone # is 435-1560.
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Saving Money in the
Valley Horizon Furniture A friend of ours
recently purchased new high quality dining and living room furniture for
$10,000 from Horizon Furniture. She said she shopped for a long time locally
and on the Internet and finally determined that Horizon saved her hundreds of
dollars. |