Movie Review; Hangover 2

If you did not like the first movie, you certainly will not enjoy the second. There were many times throughout the movie that equaled awkwardness with the audience. Many times laughs by the audience were half paced and much of the pushing jokes were ill.

Discontinuity error:The sequence where Stu (Ed Helms), is singing a song with a guitar on the boat was out of place. It was almost like the director thought it was just too good to not keep it in the movie. Where did the guitar come from? All the guys seemed in good spirits?...why, the scene before they were not.

The singing by Tyson was terrible, and poorly put together. It would of been a better mastery of writing to include Tyson in the underground seedy Bangkok scene vs. having him paid to sing/rap at the movie end.

While it was fun to see the "gang" back together again, it kinda takes away from originality of the first. The audience did not get a lot of the Bangkok jokes, let alone pin point where it is on a map.

Pro: Paul Giamatti is such a great actor

Con: The Character of Doug, yet again gets the worst on scene time of the group. If you are going to do a group movie, then include the whole group. Many of the photos that are in the movie credits were distasteful.

Star Rating: 6/10

Extreme Couponing: Operation Gillette

Ok, a few weeks ago there was a MEGA PICK of coupons in the sunday paper. We purchased 8 to 10 papers that weekend, inside was this great coupon: Buy 1 Gillette Body Wash, Get 1 Gillette Deodorant Free. Now at the time, we hit up other operations (such as old spice, nivea, and irish spring) of great deals, which can be seen in our blog. But I knew at some point this coupon would be golden, and when the right deal would show itself, we would strike like a eagle striking a lake trout.

This sundays paper (TODAY), they distributed 2 Gillette Coupons.

Coupon1: Get 2.00 off a Gillette Body Wash

Coupon2: Buy 1 Gillette Deodorant Get 1 Free.

So lookie what we have here, a combo deal of the century. By utilizing my coupons from a few weeks ago and todays golden tickets, we can score something fierce.

Now, the third angle to this triangle is where we score the deal from, and in todays flier from Walgreens stood the answer. The deal was, Buy 3 Gillette Body Wash, for 10 bucks and receive 1000 Bonus Points! Wow, that is great, but what else was Walgreens doing, they had a buy 1 Gillette Deodorant, get 1 half off! Holy Toledo, the Sun, the Earth, TheMoon are in line. Let's take them to the cleaners!

Basically the single deal was this:

1. Buy 3 Body Wash, for 10 bucks, get 1000 bonus points.

2. Use 3 Coupons for 2.00 off each body wash, net cost (4 bucks).

3. Utilize my buy a body wash, get a deodorant coupon (3 free deodorants).

4. Utilize my buy 1 deodorant, get 1 free (use 3 coupons- 4 max per shopping trip) But since I already had a one on my ticket from point (3), my purchase price was half off of 5.50 to 2.75! But my coupon removed the retail price from the bill.

Net cost per cycle it was 7 bucks for 3 body wash, and 9 deodorants. Of course, I had to pay taxes on the entire total, but at these savings I am fine with that!

I did this shopping cycle 3 times today and scored 9 body washes, and scores (26 or 27) of gillette deodorant.

Funny, these deodorants are 5.50 per stick and my normal price point for old spice has always been 2.50-3.25 per stick. So you could say I am living high on the proverbial good smelling hog tonight!

Now getting back to these bonus points, according to my walgreen account, 2000 or 2500 points can be turned in for 5.00 of store credit! So, with these purchases today, I am very close to netting 10 free walgreen bucks! As the now unemployed Charlie Sheen has coined, "Winning, Duh".

Horse Betting Fail: 2011 Kentucky Derby

This was my first kentucky derby to which I had laid some cash down while in Las Vegas. I made a bet, a 3 horse exacta box bet. With Midnight Interlude, Mucho Macho Man and Animal Kingdom....

Well well well, Animal Kingdom came in 1st and Mucho Macho Man came in 3rd. But Midnight Interlude decided not to place. The bet was that if either of my 3 horses came in 1st and 2nd, I would win. As you can see, I missed out on winning about 500 dollars due to Mucho not sticking out his head far enough for a 2nd place victory.

Not bad for my first derby bet~! Although, I would of loved the 500 bucks.

Being at a sportsbook was almost as fun as being at a sporting event. The crowds are cheering, booing, it is a real fun time.

Red Rock Park: Outside of Las Vegas

Here are a sample of the photos I took out at Red Rock Park. It is a gated park that costs 7 dollars a day, or free if you have bought a National Park Passcard. The park follows a circuit of over 15 miles of roadway that is paved and 2 lanes. We went on a hike that took under 2 hours to perform. Once we got to the end of the trail (see bottom photo), we turned around and marched back to the car. It was hot, but not humid. But sunscreen is certainly required, and water, lots of it.

The 200th Post

This is the 200th post. Great deals still to be had at Walgreens: Lysol Kitchen and Anti Bacterial Spray Products, buy one, get one, then use coupon for 1.00 off of 2 products, same for CLR, and Lysol Wipes. Each product clanks out to be about buck a piece!?!?! Yeah, it is true, all of it! Why won't you people get off your hump and clip the coupons? The savings are ready to be had! Get off your duff and clip it!!

They have this awesome promo discount on a 13 dollar razor, with their in store discount it goes down to 9 bucks, then the 4 dollar off coupon in the paper, brings it to 5.89. You pay that amount, then they print you a 5 buck gift certificate on your next purchase, net cost 0.89 CENTS!

People! What a deal!

It's Grrrrreat.

Extreme Couponing: The Big One!

Total Retail: Around or at least 378.00

Paid: 109

Savings: 269: 71.2%

Total Paid Percent: 28.8%

Extreme Couponing: Right Guard Stick (Walgreens)

Right Guard was on sale for 3.00, but I also used a Buy One Get One Free!

Savings: Huge!!

Extreme Couponing: Irish Spring

Irish Spring Body Wash, 5 bucks Regular, it was buy 1 get one free at Walgreens. I also had a .50 cent coupon I utilized on the bottles. Savings: Huge!

Extreme Couponing: Old Spice Body Wash (Walgreens)

It was Buy 1, get 1 at Half Price at Walgreens. I had a Buy 1 get 1 Free Coupon. I also utilized a coupon that for every 2 Old Spice it was a 1.00 discount! It was a hell of a deal! I bought 20 Old Spice Body Washes!!!

Each Body Wash Regular was 5.00

Extreme Couponing: Gatoraide (walgreens)

Normal Price, 1.67 per bottle

Internal Walgreen Discount, buy 5 for $5., Utilized a Buy One, Get One Coupon, bought 10, 10 free!

Someone wants my Gatorade!

Extreme Couponing: Protein Bar!

8 Protein Bars, Buy 2 Save 1.00, each bar was a buck/ Savings 4.00!

These are also great breakfast runners!

Extreme Couponing: Power Bars!

I had 6 coupons that were buy 1 get 1 power bar free! Each bar was about a dollar!

These are delicious as a breakfast item while running off to the office!

Savings: Over 6 bucks!

Extreme Couponing: Candy Bars...

I found a .50 cent coupon when you buy 2 Nestle Coupons, took that coupon the the local grocery store, and they doubled, So wammo, a .65 cent candy bar now costed me .15 cents.

I will take that deal all day long, even if I don't like candy bars!

.15 x 12 = 1.80 for 12 candy bars!

Normal Cost .65 x 12=7.80

Saved 6 bucks!

Extreme Couponing: Finish Colgate -Target CVS

The Dishwasher tablets were on sale at 2.79, we had a 1.75 coupon for each, so total 1.04 per box.

The Colgate was purchased at CVS, purchase each toothpaste for 2.79, used a .75 coupon for each box, so net cost was 2.09, but CVS then printed a new coupon to be used as a gift certificate for 2.79 of each box you bought on your next purchase. So, we made 1.50 on these two tooth paste boxes!!

Saved: (1.75 x 2, + .75 x 2 + 2.79x2)

WIN WIN WIN

Extreme Couponing: Dog Food (Target)

The Mighty Dog was 6.07, (-2.00 coupon)= 4.07
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Alpo Cans, 0.60 per can, used buy 1 get 1 BOGO coupon (buy one get one).

The beggin Strips are normally about 5 bucks a pack, they were on steep discount for 2.25 each. We used a coupon that was (save 1.00 for 2 packets), 1.75 per pack.

The Pedigree Good Bites were bought at Petsmart, they were on sale a buck, and my coupon was another buck, so 2 bucks off of orignal 4 bucks.

Saved: 27.73!, Spent 20 bucks!

Over Half Off! Woofers eatin' good this week!!!