I am very excited that spring is almost here! I have accumulated all of my coupons and am about to run out and stockpile clothes for Abby. I am on every possible mailing list for coupons. This time of year they are pouring into the mail box and my email inbox. I guess it is a buyers market. Plus, I am going to try and snag some winter clothing for a super great bargain!
The stores I am going to hit are Old Navy, Gap, Carter's and Oshkosh. I have 25% coupons for two of them and 30% for the other two.
Then, I am going to pick Abby up from school and take her to Brusters for an ice cream cone. It is free for her if I buy something ($1.25 coke). Cannot beat that!
Who says living on a budget cannot be fun?!
I appreciate everything you have said in this blog. Good luck with the vegetable garden. It is my experience that strawberries do best when you buy the actual plant (not the seed) and plant them in a place that you can leave for a few years. The ones my dad grew were good for about 5 years and every year the yield was much higher than the year before. I am really happy that you are being so "fruitful" while you are at home. I know the feeling of being on two incomes and living fully on that; then, the next day living on one income and wonder why in the HECK you were being so "sloppy" at spending money with two incomes- ESPECIALLY at the grocery store! Saving money does take time, but it is worth it if you have more time than money.
ReplyDeleteIn a few months I wanted you to check out a website called mealr.net (it is not up and running right now). I think you might find it interesting... It will be a website to help the average person cut their grocery budget in half. It will be a website where for only about a $1.60 per week, a person subscribes to a meal plan at their favorite grocery store. Each week, they will log-on to the website, print their 6-meal meal plan and their aisle-by-aisle grocery list, go to their grocery store with a plan and throughout the week prepare their meals with the easy-to-follow directions. So, if someone could do something like that subscription and ALSO scour the internet and newspapers for coupons that are on the weekly grocery lists, then their savings could just be insane!
Heather, will you publish on your blog all your internet "hotspots" for getting your coupons? I am super interested.
Thanks!
I was actually thinking of doing that this week sometime (great minds think alike or is it just architects thinking alike?) :-)
ReplyDeleteI have been putting together a list of sites I go to everyweek. I have been pulling the best of each on my other blog.
Thanks for the interest.