living simply and embracing imperfection
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So, coupons.
Seems like people fall into one of three camps when it comes to coupons: those who never touch the things, those who are coupon queens, cutting and even buying (yes, I said buying) coupons o…
…tail, so I need to be prepared if I stumble on a sale.
Which is what happened on Tuesday when I took my son to Barnes and Noble to use a gift card. They had two tables of games, etc. marked down 75%. I was able to find 3 gifts for my daughter, one for my son, and one for a niece:
I also found a couple of books for the preschool I teach at 50% off. Total retail price of these items was $100.73 and I paid $27.93 for a savings of $72.8…
…s ago Walgreens started popping up on every corner, but I never even went inside any of the stores. I had no reason to, or so I thought.
Then I read Money Saving Mom’s blog and found posts titled “Walgreens 101″ and “Rite Aid 101″ (CVS, too, but we don’t have those stores here). She wrote that these stores had programs that I could take advantage of in order to get things like deodorant or toothpaste for…
…surveys, and I don’t do any that get you a just couple dollars, but TWENTY? Even if it took an hour, that would be a good wage, right? I couldn’t pass it up.
When I went to the site, they said it would take 10-15 minutes and normally I wouldn’t have done it, because that’s usually too long for me.
But it was – say it with me – twenty dollars!
And you know what? It took me FOUR MINUTES! I ki…
I started sharing my motivation to save on groceries in part 2 of this series and showed how I started using coupons in part 3.
Today in part 4 I’m detailing the individual steps I’ve taken to lower what we spend monthly on food and household products. My goal here is to hopefully show that the steps aren’t hard and that you may be already doing some of them and just adding another component will allow you to start sa…
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