Coupon Report

This week we only bought a few things...since it isn't pay week.

Total savings: $56.38.  Saved $31.50 in coupons, $22.81 in weekly specials.


 We purchased...Quaker oats...free after discount and coupon.  Love that!  We got 8 boxes.
Good night.

My radical rebellious day....

Hello everyone.  Today I did something radical!  Well radical for me...I am not much of a risk taker...so I know you will laugh when I tell you the radical thing I did.  Believe me it is going to not go over well with the hubby...I am being rebellious I guess...

Without further ado....

Yes...I did my nails!  I am sick of narly short nails.  I got myself some pretty ones.  They are short and I can still type and everything.  Oh yeah and I rounded off the straight corners...which my husband really dislikes.  Oh well.  I think they look nice. 

Repeating myself...Repeating myself...Repeating

Sometimes I think I could parent via tape recorder...geez does tape recorder date me???  Ok how about this CD on repeat.

I mean really do I need to be here for this mind numbing part???????????? 

Alarm rings...Good morning everyone...time to get up...

Are you up?

Time to get up.

I know you are tired...time to get up.

Maggie are you alive?

Time to get dressed.

Time to get dressed.

Are you dressed?

Where are your socks?

Socks?

Socks that match?

Hurry up or you won't have time to eat.

What do you want to eat?

There is stuff to eat.

What do you want?

You want eggs. Ok.

Why don't you want eggs?  I made them.

Just have a yogurt then.

Hurry.

Where is your papers?

Where is your bookbag? 

How can you not know?

Is it on the book bag hook?

Why not?

Where are your shoes?

Can't wear those you have gym today.

Where are your shoes?

How can you lose one shoe?

Look for Curt's shoes.

That is his old shoe from last year.

How did one shoe end up in the basement and one under your bed?

Time to Brush teeth.

Brush teeth.

Go brush your teeth.

It is getting late.  Go brush your teeth.

Hurry.

Let me smell your breath. 

I know you said you brushed your teeth.

Go use toothpaste.

Time to go out to the bus.

Where are your glasses?

Where did you take them off?

Why aren't they by your bed?

Don't put your glasses in your pants pocket!!!

Do you have everything?

Are you sure?

Ok Love you.

Have a great day, see you tonight.

The End.  (until tomorrow)

Couponing...my new passion...

I have tried to cut coupons in the past.  I would end up with a wad of little papers and go to the store.  I would say nine times out of ten it was still cheaper to buy the store brand.  So I would leave the little coupon by the product and sigh.  I was cutting coupons for other people.  It seemed like a huge waste of time...plus it made grocery shopping so much longer!  I really do not like to grocery shop.  Buying food is just as boring as cooking dinner.  I hate them both.  Side note...the best invention ever is the "Super Store" I leave my husband (who loves to grocery shop) and I go look at other things, anything other than canned goods.

Back to couponing.  I attended a basic couponing class.  Did you know that you can buy coupons?  They already come clipped and ready to go.  It seems to defeat the purpose of saving money but stay with me...When I feel I had a really good deal going (when paired up with store sales) I go and buy coupons and then go and stock up on the product.  Soups seem to be big this month around here.

I never though of couponing as working on food storage...Light bulb moment.

I am not fantastic at it (yet)...made some mistakes so far...(learning) but it has been fun.  I am not so grumpy about grocery shopping. Steve is happy cause I am not so grumpy about grocery shopping and he loves to get things cheap.  Yes I said cheap and not "inexpensive"...If you are cheap...embrace it!!!

Some things we got completely free...Toothpaste and toothbrushes. (laugh but we have run out of both before)  we stocked up as much as we could.  Still need more for a year supply, but we have only "couponed" for 2 weeks.

Mostly shopping at one store which does double coupons we have saved...

In one week we saved...$86.83

Weekly Special Savings...(you know using that store card before checkout)

$121.42

So all said and done...$188.25 saved.

Yippee!  

Just so you know our "grocery budget" is to try and stay under $150 for 2 weeks. (feeding 6 people)  I would dare say usually we go a bit over.  So saving or getting almost $87 is huge for us.

Some things we stocked up on:

Soups, cereals, toothpaste, toothbrushes, bleach, string cheese, frozen veggies,clorox wipes, yogurt, Boxed potatoes, Cocoa, Cheese slices and chocolate.

Oh and by the way still canning too.  Grape juice for the year...

and last but not least...Curtis...who is so excited cause he got a free batman toothbrush! 

I have tons more to learn...like how to navigate those drug store sales...that apparently you can actually make money on buying products there.  I haven't wrapped my brain around that one yet.  I'll get there though.

If you have tried couponing before, maybe you should give it another try.

One of these things is not like the other...

Remember that song from Sesame Street?  Come along with me and play the game....One of these things is not like the other....Can you tell which one?

We have an over achieving chicken.  All I can say is OUCH! 

Library Book Sale...

The kids participated in the library program this summer.  The kids got tons of little prizes along the way, but they also got "book bucks" for each 30 minutes they read.   Well they started to add up.  We saved them for the book sale in the fall.

Books were 4 hardbacks for a dollar, or 5 softcover books for a dollar. Then assorted stuffed animals and whatnot.  CD's and DVD's and lots of vhs tapes (we don't even have a vhs player anymore)  It was so much fun picking out books.  Maggie had 12 book bucks and Curt had 5 book bucks.  We got tons of books and some stuffed animals.

We didn't have to pay anything extra...just used the book bucks.  Each kid still has a dollar left for the next sale.  The people at the sale were so impressed.  Maggie and Curt were beaming from their accomplishment of doing so much reading this summer.  We left with armfuls of books and the kids were so excited to do the reading program next year.  They plan on earning more book bucks than this year! 

Not even one lesson!

Tid Bits and whatnot...

Entries for the fair...

Maggie's Doll collection

Curt's shell collection

tomatoes yum

green beans

My Birthday Flowers!!!

First Day of school picture.