Ronnie Fine Wine & Spirits selling everything at $1 over cost this Wednesday

Tomorrow is Dollar Day at Ronnie's Fine Wine & Spirits, 1514 Rock Spring Rd. in Forest Hill. Everything is being sold at $1 over cost, cash and carry. It's an event they hold about once or twice a year. Their weekly deals include "Terrific Tuesdays" where they offer %15 off liquor and "Wacky Wednesdays" when wine is 20% off.

For more info, see their website, which I think is rather new: www.ronniesbeverage.com

Movies are $6 all day on Tuesdays at Flagship Cinema in Churchville

On Tuesdays, the Flagship Cinema in Churchville (2408 Churchville Rd., 410-734-9000) offers all its movies at its $6 matinee price all day. 

Their website says:

"Visit us every Tuesday for 'Super Bargain Tuesday,' when each admission is matinee price all day!"

Forest Hill C-MART location comes back to life as a weekend Flea Market

The empty C-Mart store on Rock Spring Road has been looking forlorn all these years after the new owners up and moved it to Joppatowne, then closed it for good a couple of weeks ago. But now, in a fit of nostalgia, the old store is about to spring back to life. An ad in last Thursday's Baltimore Sun, which looked remarkably like the old C-Mart ads done in their hand-written style, announced that starting Nov. 8 & 9, "The Big Tarp Indoor Flea Market" would be coming to the old site at 1503-11 Rock Spring Road every Saturday and Sunday. Vendors can rent space for less than $100 a weekend in the 35,000 sq ft facility. According to their website (www.thebigtarp.com) vendors have already booked half the spaces. Click here to see who they've lined up so far. The website says the folks behind this were just tired of seeing so many empty C-Marts:

"THIS IS :  the "Troubled Asset Recovery Program" for the PEOPLE - its not exactly a $700 Billion check, but its an opportunity to ride a wave of PR and big

ad dollars as we establish "The Big TARP" Flea Market as not your everyday FLEA....make some money, save some money, at the Big TARP! - see our ads

coming at you VERY SOON in The Baltimore Sun, and a BIG radio partnership to be announced - basically, we were tired of seeing the old C-MART empty - and since the

"new" C-MART is now empty, we decided that it was just too many C-MARTs...well...empty - This is a family affair, a seed...if you will...planted to resurect a building into

something more than just an empty space - its no C-MART but its where it all began, and its a chance for YOU to be a part of the action (us to, just on a smaller scale!)"

Hours are Saturday (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and Sunday (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

Payless ShoeSource at Harford Mall offering buy one get one half off through Oct. 27

It seems to me that my kids are either particularly rough on their shoes, or they just don't make shoes like they used to. Only a month into the school year, the shoes I bought my kids are looking beat up. We wandered into Payless ShoeSource at the Harford Mall and I found a pair of those faux-Ugg boots Air Walk makes for my daughter. When I went to buy them, the cashier told me that I could get another pair of shoes for half off. Much to my son's chagrin, I insisted he pick out another pair of tennis shoes to replace the lumpy black suede Van's he wears with their flopping untied laces. His new Air Walk shoes ended up costing me only $12.50. Hopefully, I won't have to replace them in another month (and he'll keep these tied). The buy one get one half off runs through Monday, Oct. 27.

Mountain Branch in Fallston offers kids-eat-free on Monday nights

With the economy squeezing our wallets, we tend to eat out less and spend less when we do. I like to look for kids-eat-free nights because not having to pay for the kids is a good excuse for indulging in a night free of cooking and dishwashing. I've lately been noticing the sign outside Mountain Branch's restaurant promoting their Monday night kids-eat-free special. I looked up the details on their website:

Family Pasta Night - Monday Night is Family Pasta Night at Mountain Branch. Come out from 5-9 and create your own pasta masterpiece. Each person enjoys a bottomless salad, fresh garlic bread, a create your own mix-n-match pasta dish, and a dessert.
Kids Eat FREE from 5-9 off of the kids menu or kids pasta special.

Mountain Branch also features entertainment on Monday nights:

EXTREME FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT has moved from Sunday night to Monday night 5pm - 7pm . They will be filling your plates with loads of fun for the entire family. Well known in the area for their magic tricks and balloon characters all the children are sure to be ENTERTAINED!!!

Click here to see their menu.

Slipping gas prices make me smile

In Harford County, it seems we're enjoying gas prices that have dipped rather lower here than elsewhere in the region. I was pleased with myself for filling up my tank for $2.95 a gallon at Wawa yesterday. But now I see the little gas price widget I installed in the sidebar of this blog says I would have found a better deal today at Exxon where gas is selling for $2.77 a gallon.

The Baltimore Sun ran a story on the falling gas prices today. Click here to read it:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/investing/bal-md.gas14oct14,0,5923754.story