Walmart New Price Match Policy

New Walmart Price Match Policy

I was informed last night that the policy had changed.

Price Match Policy

We’re committed to providing low prices every day, on everything. If a local competitor or select online competitor* is offering an identical, in-stock item for less, tell us and we’ll match it.

Walmart will Price Match local competitors and select online retailers* for an identical, in-stock item.

Price Match at a Walmart store:

• It is the store's responsibility to obtain the local competitor ads
• Our customers must inform the associate of the price and retailer (local and online)
• We reserve the right to verify the price and the availability of the identical item (i.e. size, model, quantity, brand, color)
• The item must be currently in-stock at the online retailer’s website* at the time the Price Match is requested
• We reserve the right to limit quantities to one-per-customer, per item, per day**
• We will match Walmart.com prices for in-store purchases
• The Store manager has the final decision on any Price Match
• Online Prices will not be matched in Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico for in store purchases

Walmart.com Price Match:

• Walmart.com will match the price of select online retailers
• The above conditions for matching prices at a Walmart store also apply to Walmart.com transactions
• Walmart.com will not Price Match from Thanksgiving Day through the Monday after Thanksgiving
• Refer to Walmart.com online price match policy for the full policy and/or additional details
• The Customer Care Agent processing the Price Match request for a Walmart.com purchase has the final decision for matching an online price

We do not honor:

• Misprinted ad prices of other retailers or closeout/"going out of business" sales
• Private brand Price Matches
• Advertisements that require a purchase to receive a gift card
• Percentage Off or Buy One Get One Free advertisements without a specific price
• Prices from Walmart Marketplace Retailers or the Marketplace Retailers of competitors, third-party sellers, Auctions or sites requiring membership
• Bundle offers, Instant Rebates, Mail-in Offers, Offers that include financing

*Online retailers are limited to: Academy.com, Amazon.com, Autozone.com, Babiesrus.com, Basspro.com, Bedbathandbeyond.com, Bestbuy.com, Cabelas.com, Dickssportinggoods.com, Dollargeneral.com, Familydollar.com, Homedepot.com, Jcpenney.com, Kmart.com, Kohls.com, Lowes.com, Michaels.com, Newegg.com, Officedepot.com, Oreillyauto.com, Pepboys.com, Petco.com, Petsmart.com, Sears.com, SportsAuthority.com, Staples.com, Target.com, Tigerdirect.com, Toysrus.com, Walgreens.com, Walmart.com
**Quantities are limited in New Mexico only for the purchase of resale

Walmart reserves the right to modify the terms of this Policy at any time. 

This policy applies to all associates and agents of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., or one of its subsidiary companies, as well as the properties owned or operated by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., or one of its subsidiary companies (excluding Sam's Club locations) in the United States ("Walmart").

Last Updated: November 10, 2015

German Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars

It has been a while since I have blogged but I wanted to share my very favorite sweet treat and I thought it would be an awesome Thanksgiving dinner addition.

Our Ingredients:

3 Cups Pecan halves
1 3/4 cups flour
3/4 cups Confectioners sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 cups cold butter cubed
1 1/2 cups Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
3 large eggs
3/4 cup light corn syrup
3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup melted butter
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Arrange pecan halves in a single layer on a cookie sheet

bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly toasted. Stir half way throught

Line bottom and sides of a 9"x13"  pan with aluminum foil leaving over hang on two sides.
Grease foil (  I use pan coating spray)

Whisk together flour, confectioners sugar and cocoa powder and then add the cold butter and combine with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal.

Press mixture into bottom and about 3/4" up side of prepared pan

Bake this crust for 15 minutes.  Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle chocolate chips evenly over crust.  Allow to cool on wire rack at least 30 minutes

Place egg in a large mixing bowl and beat lightly add the brown sugar, corn syrup and melted butter.  Whisk together until smooth.  Stir in coconut and pecans and pour evenly over baked crust.

Bake 28 to 34 minutes or until edges are golden and filling has set.  Cool completely on a wire rack. 

Using foil overhang lift bars from pan and remove foil.  Place on a cutting board using a sharp knife cut into bars.  

Garden Check List for March

The weather has been absolutely beautiful and it has been such a pleasure to be able to get out and clean up the mess leftover by winter. My brother has put up the little green house and the garden will be tilled this Saturday.  The chickens are happily laying again and basking in the warmth of the sun.

Here is my check list for the things to accomplish this month:

• First and foremost, take a moment every day to take in all of the beautiful forms of new life around you.  The buds on the lilac and the babies in the nests. All of these beautiful things of spring are reminders of the precious gift our Savior has provided.  Spring is my favorite!

• Till garden and prepare for cool season planting as soon as the soil is dry enough to work.
• Plant new asparagus and rhubarb beds.
• Fertilize asparagus and rhubarb beds with a layer of mature compost.
• Sprout potatoes in a warm window, and then plant on St. Patrick's Day.  
• Plant peas and onions in the garden.
• At the end of the month broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower can be moved to a cold frame.
• Sweet peas, poppies and wild flowers can be sown at the end of the month.
• Finish pruning apples and grapes.  
• Plant new fruit trees and bushes.
• Scatter seeds from last years annuals. They will germinate as soon as the temperatures are right.
  
  
  
  
• Take note of your early bulbs and perennials coming up.  Uncover them before they get too large, and by the end of the month at the latest.  These early season plants can tolerate a little cold weather as long as they aren't blooming.
  
  
  
  
• Get the green house up an going.  I am starting cabbage, head lettuce, tomatoes and peppers, among other things.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

February Garden Checklist

I have to admit, February is a hard month for me.  It has been entirely too long since I have last dug my hands into my garden dirt.  In February everything is hard and frozen.  Nearly everything green is deep in a sleep and it is hard to see any life at all.   But, every now and then a beautiful day comes along just to tease me and make me antsy for spring.   The garden centers tease me by stocking their beautiful displays of seeds, bulbs and roots.  By the time February gets here I still have to wait another 6 or 8 weeks before I can plant anything in my garden.  Oh, the torture of waiting through February!

Oh wait! There is something I can plant in February...
Here is my checklist of things to do for the garden in February (zone 5):

• Plant poppies and larkspurs outside, between snows.  Some seeds need the cold temperatures before they will germinate.
• Plant a garden inside! I keep oregano, basil, chives, sage and rosemary growing in a window. Loose leaf lettuce varieties can be planted inside now as well.
• Start the following indoors to be planted in the garden later: cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, pansies and daisies.
• Check your perennials for heaving.  This means that the roots are moving up out of the soil.  If they are you should cover them again with a good layer of dirt.
• Prune your fruit trees.  I have an apple, pear and peach that all need pruned!
• Draw out a plan for your gardens.  Decide where you want everything planted.
• Order your seeds and start picking them up at the garden centers. Remember to grab extra for a fall planting.  Sometimes stores won't restock late in the summer.
• Continue adding scraps to your compost pile.  Your garbage will be turning into black gold before you know it!

The Price of Bacon - Part 1

Up at my brother's place, we are keeping 10 little piggies.  Well, for now they are little piggies.  The plan is to butcher two, keep 4 to breed and sell the rest.  Raising our own meat is a project we have really just begun.  So far, it isn't really cheaper, but the end product has been so much better than what we find in the grocery store. Plus, it is really good to know that the animals we are eating were raised in an environment that cares and respects them as a living being.  It is also wonderful that we can teach our children about where our food really comes from.  Hopefully, when it is time for them to provide for their own families, they will have the skills to do more than pick something up at a drive thru.

My brother has built a lovely little pig pen complete with a large feeder, a feed trough, water pan, a three-sided wooden shelter and a warm little hay shed to keep them warm.  The fence and gate are new, as is the trough and water pan.  The rest are things that he has either found used or already had on hand.  Scavenging items that are not brand new have really helped to keep the start up cost down.

The most expensive part of this little operation, our labor.  Of course, if we had a little more experience this wouldn't be so costly.
So far, the ice and snow has caused the most amount of labor.
Riding out in the bitter cold, wading through the snow and dumping the ice out of the water pan is work!
Getting a call that one of the little girls is sick, then heading over in the dark to sort her out, bring her to the barn and administer the medication, after setting up the heat lamp and straw to keep her warm, well that's work too.
Chasing 6 little pigs, so that they can be loaded up in the trailer and be taken to the vet to be castrated, is work! Especially when you do it the hard way, by literally chasing them around the pen, diving, jumping and getting your hat stolen by one of the little stinkers.
Then pulling that trailer too close to the gate, so that it is easier to unload the poor little castrated piggies, and then getting stuck in the slick mud, in your dad's truck, well that is a whole lotta work!  Work that involves pigs escaping the pen, running around and around the pen, keeping the pigs in the pen while the brother goes to get the tractor, and then pulling the truck out and then the trailer out so that the gate can finally be shut.  Next time we just need to use the tractor to begin with!  I can promise we burned off lots of bacon calories that day!

So far, the bacon has cost a little bit of money and a whole lot of work.  Work that is pretty fun, except for the running part, and the cold part.  But hey, that's the price of bacon.  And bacon is good.  Totally worth it!

We are back at it!

Unfortunately our little blog hasn't seen too much action in the past year.  Mom and I have both been busy.  Crazy busy.  Seasons of change have kept us busy learning and growing and growing and learning.  We just haven't had the time to share it here. Recently we have been inspired to jump back on the horse, update our little blog and share with you some of the wonderful things we have been learning! Some of those things are directly related to the new page, Savannah Farm. My husband and I have been working on building our little piece of property into a little farm.  My little brother, just down the road from me, is working on the very same thing.  I hope you enjoy as we share our learning process with you.  Putting food on the table, that was grown right here at my own place is something I am very excited about.  It never ceases to amaze me how our Heavenly Father provides for us is such beautiful ways.  Planting a seed and then harvesting a fruit that was made to fuel and nourish and heal is a miracle that I am so thankful for and I am just tickled pick that He lets me be a part of it!

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Check out this new online tool that Walmart is offering !!!

Walmart is expanding its online tool that compares prices on thousands of products with those of some of its competitors to cities nationwide in the next few months.

https://savingscatcher.walmart.com/dashboard

Below is an article about it.  It might be worth checking out.  Its not available in my area yet but maybe soon since it will be nation wide.

http://fox4kc.com/2014/06/04/attention-penny-pinchers-wal-mart-to-expand-online-savings-tool-nationwide/

~ Ethel

It always pays to get the Sunday Paper

I didn't get to go through my paper until a little while a go.  I actually just skimmed through and grabbed the ads and coupon booklets out.  Well I thought I would check out some of the news and lo and behold there was two one page ads one from Hy-vee and one from Price Chopper.  The Hy-vee ads last day is tomorrow but the Price Chopper runs to 4/22.  ( I buy the KC Star)

Price Chopper -4/22

 Hormel Cure 81 Spiral Sliced Ham bone in (half) $1.98 lb, or (whole) $1.88 lb.
 store brand Cream Cheese 8 oz, $ .69
 store brand butter quarters 16 oz., $1.79 (my favorite)
 Mrs. Smith's Flaky Crust Pie or Cobbler 32 - 37 oz., $2.99
  Breyers Ice Cream 48 oz., $2.99

Hy-vee -4/15

Coke Products 6 pk 16.9 oz $1.68

Frito Lay Dorito's 10 - 11 oz $1.77

Nabisco Sack Crackers 3.5 - 9.1 oz or Ritz crackers 6 - 15.1 oz $1.77

General Mills cereals, cheerios, Trix, Wheaties,Golden Grahams or Cocoa Puffs 8.9 - 12 oz $1.77

Red seedless Grapes  $1.48 lb

Chillicothe MO. Farmers Market

10 Reasons to Visit Chillicothe's Farmers Market

On May 3rd at 8:00 a.m. the Chillicothe Farmers Market will open for the season!  You will find it on the West side of the Livingston County Courthouse on Washington Street in Chillicothe, MO.

Here are 10 reasons to visit the Farmers Market.

1. You will only find Super Fresh and Local produce at a Farmers Market.  Produce at the grocery store has likely been sitting around waiting for you for weeks.

2. You will find local hand-made products that are better for you and your family than the chemical laden mass produced products.

3. You will find a wonderful variety of homemade baked goods made with pure and wholesome ingredients.  The quality of homemade baked goods by far surpasses any grocery store product.

4. Your money stays in the local economy.

5. The goods your purchase at a farmers market are almost always produced in a sustainable way, which is very good for the environment.

6. Most of the produce is grown using only organic fertilizers and pesticides.

7.  Shopping at a Farmers Market supports local farmers and vendors.

8. The vendors at your Farmers Market can inform you of their products, where and how they were produced and the best way to use the product.

9. The experience of shopping at a Farmers Market is organic, relaxing, fun and educational.  It is an experience you can not replicate at any other type of market.

10.  My favorite thing about a Farmers Market is the unique products that are available.  Hand-made soaps made with beautiful smelling, insect repelling essential oils and heirloom tomatoes are my ultimate favorite!  You can't find those at a grocery store either!

Spring Cleaning Its almost time !!!

I don't know about you but I have already started my Spring cleaning.  This is one of my all time favorite home made cleaners.   Its easy to make and very low in cost.  It not only cleans it kills Germs too.  I love it because you don't have to switch cleaners.  It doesn't streak so you can use it on windows and mirrors.  I even mop with it.  I buy those white shop rags in the auto dept at Walmart and use them on my swiffer they are great and you can just throw them in the wash and bleach them white again.  Check out our other home made cleaners they are under the Frugal Home Care Tips.  ~ Ethel

All Purpose Cleaner

I have this cleaner that I have been making for years...and I love love love it!!! I use it to clean my bathrooms every single day, mirror, shower, tub, sink, toilet.  It cleans it all.  I use it to clean my windows, counters, floors, sink, stove, ect.  It truly is all purpose, and it costs pennies to make.
Here is what you need:

1 - 32 oz. spray bottle

1 tsp. dish soap

1 TBSP. ammonia (I'm using lemon.)

1 TBSP. lemon juice

2 TBSP. vinegar (I'm using orange.)

1/3 cup rubbing alcohol

Using a funnel, begin by adding the dish soap into the empty spray bottle.  Follow that with the lemon juice, vinegar and ammonia.  These are your cleaning agents.

Next, pour in your rubbing alcohol. This helps the cleaner to be streak free. It also gives it some extra germ killing power.

Fill your bottle the rest of the way with cold tap water, slap on the spray top and give your bottle a little shake.  Then grab a towel and go to town cleaning.  Just beware, the first time you make this, you should give yourself plenty of extra time to clean.  You are going to go from room to room spraying and wiping everything in sight, just to see how awesome it cleans ;)

I always mix mine in batches of 3. One to keep in each bathroom and one for the kitchen

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Home made Salsa

I through this salsa together tonight and boy is it good
You will need :
2 cans diced tomatoes ( I used one Italian style with onion and garlic and one with green chili's I suppose stewed would work fine.)
1 large sweet onion
6 large cloves of garlic peeled
4 jalapeno peppers cut in a few pieces (seeds removed for a milder salsa)
1 medium bunch of cilantro, stems removed
7 oz can of diced green chilies
6 tsp ground cumin
2 Tablespoons of fresh lime or lemon juice
2 tsp. salt
4 tsp sugar
4 lb fresh tomatoes 4 large or 8 smaller ones

Place everything except the fresh tomatoes into the work bowl of a food processor.  Process until the mixture is as smooth/chunky as you like.  Transfer into a large bowl.  (This makes a bunch if you want a smaller amount you can cut this in half)

Cut the fresh tomatoes into chunks, and process in the food processor until as finely chopped as you like.  Don't over process you don't want tomato puree.  Stir the tomatoes into the remaining ingredients in the bowl.   

Here is a new store to ad to our comp savings

Sunfresh weekly ad I will be adding this store to my comp list.  you may want to take a look and see if there are any sales that you may want to add  to your list. ~ Ethel

July Gardening Checklist

• Weed and Mulch! As the temperature rises and the summer dries out a little, the growth of the weeds will slow down some.
• Finish up harvest of your cool season plants like peas, radishes and lettuce.

• Prepare your garden for a fall planting of your cool season crops.
• If you planted potatoes in March, you will be harvesting this month.  As plants yellow and die back, it is time to dig those potatoes. Otherwise, mulch the potato plants again and wait for the harvest.
  
• Begin harvesting your summer crops such as green beans, tomatoes and summer squash.
• There is still more time to plant another round of green beans, cucumbers, carrots and summer squash. This would be a good way to fill in the garden where the lettuce and peas grew.
  
• Harvest and dry or freeze your herbs.
  
• Keep your annual flowers dead headed and pruned to continue blooming.  Pull out and compost pansies and other cool season annuals that are dying back. 
• You garden thrives with about 1 inch of rain per week.  As it gets hot and dry, you will need to supplement that with extra deep waterings. 
  
• Inspect any new fruit coming on and look for any sign of disease or insect infestation.
• Hand pick any pests and drop them into a bucket of soapy water.
  
• Keep a basket with a loose weave in the garden and ready for harvest collection.  The holes in the weave will help to let dirt and debris fall through, while still holding all of your garden goods. 
• After harvesting, be sure to eat or properly store your produce right away. Leaving them in a collection basket for any amount of time will promote mold and mildew growth, spoiling the goods you worked so hard for. 
  
• Wash your harvested produce in a cool water bath with a splash of white vinegar.  It will safely kill any germs and help to remove the dirt and bugs. 
  
  
  

Tip of the Day ~ Clover is Important

 Does you yard seem to be plagued with large patches of clover?  Well, don't run out and get a herbicide to take care of it. Instead, embrace it. Here is why.

These little guys love clover.  The use it to make clover honey, which is one of the yummiest delicacies in all of the earth.  Right now, honey bees are really struggling.  Their populations have been hit by many hardships and beekeepers are having a hard time keeping them alive these days.  They need all  the help they can get from us.  We can help by keeping the blossoms that they love in our yard and gardens.  Bees are attracted to blue, white and yellow flowers especially.  And, it helps to not spray you plants with pesticide. Instead attract beneficial insects or physically remove pests from your plants.    Many honey bees are killed when an apple tree is sprayed.

If you help the bees out, they will help you out.  They are excellent pollinators in your yard and gardens.  In fact, some plants will not fruit without the help of a pollinator.