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Valley  Drug  Wars

   We learned it really pays to shop around for prescription drugs recently. Last month Elaine went to Walgreens and got a prescription filled for $426 and we were only getting generic. The real stuff was over $900! So when it ran out after a month,she complained to the doctor that it seemed rather expensive.
   On the doctor's advice she called around and found that Costco price was $216 and Wal-Mart was $202. As she stood in line at Wal-Mart, the elderly man in front of her said
that he was going to switch to Costco for his prescription
because Wal-Mart's price was $49 after co-pay and Costco's was $19. But when he asked the Wal-Mart pharmacist to transfer his prescription to Costco, he was told they would match their price.
   "When I asked the guy why they didn't let me know this before," the old man said, " he said it was because I hadn't
asked before!"
  

Consider Classy Rack for used cars
   We have a frugal friend who has done a lot of horse trading for cars in Spokane and his favorite place to start looking is at the Classy Rack at Sprague and Union.
   After buying 3 cars there in recent years, he pointed out that all the cars are donated and usually come from estates where they were driven by elderly people who drove them sparingly and maintained them well.
   The Classy Rack is non-profit and they donate all proceeds to the Union Gospel Mission.
   Our friend says they clean them, fix them and put gas in them. He said he has often found that some used car lots neglect to do.

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.

 Fix Fido For Less
License your pet at S.C.R.A.P.S  on north Flora and they will give you a voucher to have your pet sprayed or neutered at Petsavers on Trent for 70% off.
  
 Here's the Deal on Cereal     The escalating price of groceries always seems to have cereal breaking the trail, boldly charging more and more per box than anyone thought possible. I believe the problem lies in packaging and advertising. We spend a lot of money to buy that comfortable box with the Sugar Bear or the Leprechaun smiling back at us. And I believe  the answer lies in thinking inside the box. That's where the bag is and that is how you need to buy cereal.

   Malt-O Meal and Western Family make all the popular cereal types for less than half the price. They come in a bag and have goofy names, but they are just as good.

   At Rosauers, for example, Cap'n  Crunch with Crunch Berries ( my favorite as a kid) costs 35.2 cents an ounce while Berry Colossal Crunch costs 14.4 cents.

A Break at Breakfast
   While Denny's Grand Slam breakfast choices are often sale-priced and hence a good bargain, they have always been the breakfast of gluttons. You have to put in a 10 hour day of hard labor to work one off, which is difficult to even begin because you are too stuffed to move. The "light eater's choices" on the menu at the Cottage Cafe is much more reasonable, calorie and penny wise.
  For $4.95 they give you three selections. One features hot cakes,a meat and an egg, another has french toast. My favorite is half a Belgium waffle, a one egg cheese omelet and hashbrowns. The best part is you leave totally satisfied without having consumed 2/3's of your daily calorie allotment.

Percy's Lounge Has the Deals
   Throughout the year Percy's has the best appetizer specials between 4 and 7 and then later between 9 and 11 when everything on their amazing appetizer menu is half price.
  Things really get good for Monday Night Football when you can have all you want for $3. The lasagna and bread pudding they served one night was the best we'd ever eaten.

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.

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 if she did not have it.
   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 fond 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 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 Sportsgear
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.

   Owner Jeff Wright said they opened in March and have been growing ever since. They plan on turning their expansive second story into an archery range.  

The School Is Cool
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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.