Entry 619: Buzzkill

     For those of you who follow me on Facebook (and if you don't what are you waiting for because I am a tremendous follow) you might remember that last week I talked about how someone at Dollar Tree came in on Sunday morning and stole all the papers with the coupons in them.  Now this might not seem like a big deal, but in the Dollar Tree coupon world it is.  Let me explain. 
     Papers on Sunday usually cost around $3.00, but if you go to the Dollar Tree they are only $1.00. The word has gotten out and all of those people who like to cut coupons line up 15 minutes before the store opens to get their paper.  Now I love my wife, so I do this for her so she can get her coupons to cut out.  Honestly it saves us quite a bit of money also which is always nice.  Now as all places there is always someone who tries to mess it up for everyone, and the Dollar Tree Sunday morning group is no different.  I don't know her name, but I refer to her as Buzzkill.  Buzzkill has a way of ruining everything for everyone, so allow me to give a couple of examples:

• You used to be able to bring back papers and exchange them if they were missing some coupons.  Buzzkill would go to her car and each week and like clockwork would complain that her papers had no coupons.  Well this happened for 3 months in a row and it became obvious she was going to her car, taking out the coupons, and then coming back and getting new papers for free and getting those coupons.  So Dollar Tree instituted a no return policy on papers.
• Dollar Tree had a long standing policy of a 3 paper limit, but they for 5 glorious months had a no paper limit.  You can only imagine the excitement of people, but once again Buzzkill ruined it for everyone.  She would always be the first one in line and and would literally buy between 15-20 papers and everyone else would have to fight over the remaining papers.  Things got a little testy during this time and I honestly saw people almost come to blows a few times over a $3 paper.  So again Buzzkill ruined this policy.
• Lastly it appears she was the one who stole all the papers last week which made her public enemy #1.

     That brings us to this morning where I once again noticed police cars outside of Dollar Tree when I got there.  Luckily the papers were not stolen, but for some reason Buzzkill was outside of the store arguing with Liberty's finest.  It turns out that Buzzkill came back to the store this morning to buy her paper and when she showed up the manager called the police.  It appears after her theft of papers, Buzzkill has been trespassed from Dollar Tree.  Now the next question becomes who is the next Buzzkill and hopefully it isn't me.

Entry 618: Ebay Blog

Many of you may not know this, but Lance has an Ebay business that he enjoys doing.  It is called Not Your Grandmother's Attic and he sells a variety of stuff.  In the beginning Lance was doing this just as a hobby and a way to pay for trips, but now he has a new goal.  Julie wants to remodel the master bathroom next summer, so Lance's goal is to use Ebay and summer school to pay for it and to not have to use our savings.  He has started a blog where he shows what he has sold each week and how much he has made.  We hope you enjoy the blog and you can see it by clicking on the link on the side.

Entry 617: Cutting The Cord

Recently we had a big hail storm and it was bad enough that we were able to get a new roof.  When Lance was talking to the roof guy he asked if we wanted to have our dish put back on the roof.  We had been talking for quite some time about getting rid of cable and after we figured this was the perfect time because we didn't want a dish on our roof anymore.  The other problem with the dish was that anytime the weather was bad, our signal would go out.  We narrowed our choices down to YouTube TV and Hulu.  Lance was rooting for YouTube TV because he liked the navigation better, but Julie wanted Hulu because it had A&E which had some of her favorite shows.  In the end Hulu won out, but the problem was that Julie enjoys her Hallmark Channel and neither of these services had this.  We solved this problem by subscribing to the Hallmark Now app and installing it on the TV's.  This basically has every Hallmark movie ever made and is pretty cheap.  All in all right now we are loving it and it is saving us quite a bit of money.  Just one more step in our house renovation.

Entry 616: Changes Part 2

Since the door has been installed the next thing was to paint the house.  The last time the house was painted was 10 years ago by Lance and his dad.  They did a great job, but the house was desperately in need of a new paint job.  Lance decided that he did not want to take this job on again,ever since the Widow's Peak incident.  We have a huge Widow's Peak that Lance could not reach on a ladder, so he actually had to get on top of the roof and lean down to paint it.  Lance is terrified of heights and this was not an experience he wanted to do again. 

Julie again chose the paint color and trim color.  She wanted something that would set the door off and she did a great job.  It is amazing to see what a new paint job will do to a house.

Entry 615: Changes In The Huebner Household

There are some big changes going on in the Huebner Household:  we are making some major home improvements.  Lance is taking the summer off to do some of the repairs himself, but Julie is in charge of all the redecorating.  So we are kind of like Chip and Joanne.  The first step in the improvements was a new front door.  Saying our front door is sad would be a major understatement.  Julie ended up choosing a door she loved which she is going to design the whole exterior of the house around.  So here it is the door that was chosen!!!