Living better, spending less.
I buy a lot of diabetes testing kits. I was excited about the first couple I bought. I have sort of wanted one for a long time because I have a strong family history of diabetes, as well as personal risk factors and indications that my body is a bit insulin-resistant. It has never once [...]
Rite Aid is making me happier than usual lately. I have taken terrible advantage of the plentiful $5/$20 and $5/$25 coupons that they put out in combination with the Bayer Contour and Breeze testing kits coupons. Buying one of them and using a coupon to make it free means that I can then use a [...]
I have a warped sense of humor sometimes, but I thought this was a pretty funny error message. I was attempting to sign up for the Box Tops for Education email newsletter in order to get a $10 coupon booklet today. I got an unrecoverable error message that made me break out the screen capture. [...]
Pregnant ladies! Or all of you with children in diapers! Walgreens has Huggies on sale this week. They’re $8.99 and you get a $3 RR. You can use one manufacturer’s coupon and one Walgreens coupon per package, so: $8.99 -$2 manufacturer’s coupon (there were printables at coupons.com, but I don’t see any now.) -$1 Walgreens [...]
I headed out yesterday morning like I often do to get some shopping done while there’s still a small chance of there still being stuff left in stock. (Yesterday, this was perhaps not successful, as I couldn’t find a single Contour now that they’re giving $10 RR each, but it’s a nice idea anyway.) I [...]
I managed to get out of the house today! I have a serious attack of the homebody fever this winter. Too cold to drag an unwilling child into store after store. I hit all three of the drugstores. CVS was really boring so I’m going to skip that part. I don’t want to write about [...]
This post is brought to you by my dad, who is a follower of this blog. He reminded me a while back that you can save a lot of money just by using less of the things you already use. It’s great that you can get shampoo for pennies using coupons, but the longer you [...]
I have officially lost my mind, thanks to Ana at Knock Off Wood. Apparently, I believe that I should begin building furniture. Look how gorgeous that furniture is! She posts free plans for ‘knock off’ furniture from Pottery Barn and West Elm and a bunch of other places. She makes it look so easy! [...]
I have a confession to make. I don’t track any sort of financial savings/earnings. I used to. I used to have this super-complicated budget spreadsheet that I maintained for a couple of years. I split up every dime we earned and logged it into this spreadsheet by date and category. I was splitting up every receipt [...]
Do you shop at Save-A-Lot? If you do, how about saving $5? If you sign up for the Smart Shopper Club, you can get a coupon for $5 off a $20 purchase. (Credit for this goes to a bunch of different bloggers, but I personally saw it at Money Saving Mom.)
When I became a stay-at-home-mom, I promised I could save our family money by shopping sales and maybe even using a few coupons. I had no idea what I was getting into. These days, I am on a first-name basis with the cashiers at the local drugstores, I haven't paid for toothpaste or shampoo in over a year and I spend my free time here, helping others do the same. So please, make yourself at home while you learn how to save, and when to spend!