Living better, spending less.
So of course I am still shopping, even if the posty posty is a little lax these days. Through the summer, I was doing more shopping and deek-seeking than I am now, but I’m still going at least to Walgreens once or twice a week. I went on Sunday morning this week to get a [...]
I am really upset with myself for neglecting this blog. I know WHY it’s happening but I can’t quite figure out how to fix the problem. My daughter stopped napping, and it has thrown my schedule out the window. By the time she goes to bed, I have to do everything–including shopping preparation, paperwork, [...]
I received a $10 check in the mail from the Huggies <a href=”https://enjoytheriderewards.com/”>Enjoy The Ride</a> program today! I won it in one of their little games a couple of months ago, but I was beginning to think that there had been a glitch in the system and the win hadn’t gone through. But sure enough, [...]
…but I did three transactions at Walgreens with a subtotal of $25.42 tonight, and I didn’t have a single $5/$25 coupon with me. I wasn’t planning on stopping in, or actually even leaving the house today, but we headed to Walmart and an impulse led me to run in there and pick up a couple [...]
On Sunday, we went to Walmart and bought a pile of stuff and paid about $21 (we checked out separately due to Walmart’s policy to require a manager to approve transactions with $50+ in coupons–easier to avoid that situation than to deal with it.) On the way home, we were pretty self-congratulatory, listing everything that [...]
There is something pretty wonderful about shopping for profit. ( I would like to stop taking pictures at such a steep angle so you can’t see the front of anything very well, but that would require me to clean up too many toys from my living room floor.) OOP: $16.77 (2.21, 5.65, .88, 3.71, 2.71, [...]
I had my stockpile yard sale this weekend, which is possibly the last one of the season. It went really well, and we made $1,425 in two days. My base goal was to break a thousand, so I am thrilled that we brought in as much as we did. It was so much fun! On [...]
Last Wednesday, my mom came down to visit, and when she left, she took Evelyn with her to spend the night. It was a momentous occasion. On one hand, I had not been away from her for more than about four hours since she was born (she’s almost 28 months old!) but on the other [...]
There are a lot of fun things about having a couponing friend. This picture is an example of one of those things–someone who will let you know when things go on clearance. This was not marked down yet when I was there yesterday, as far as I saw.Total OOP: $3.49 (1.62, 1.87) Total ECBs Used: [...]
I went shopping out of town today and had such a nice time! I went with my couponing friend. It’s so funny because I spend something like $16 for everything I bought all day long (and Target overcharged me by at least $3.) Well, not counting lunch. I don’t have pictures because.. well, because I [...]
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!