Sunday, March 28, 2010

Our month in review~

March has just flown by so fast I can hardly believe it will be April next week, Say What?! It's already past the beginning of spring and yet again, we are expected to see snow this week...*sigh*, ugh!

This month was a busy yet, exciting month for us. Not only did I celebrate my 13 year wedding anniversary with the most amazing man on the planet, but my sweet little Ky-monster turned 12.

Ty had been out of work for several weeks, which prompted me to start browsing "frugal living" websites looking for ways to save a buck here and there and now I have developed a passion for this way of life. So much so, that I have been approached by 2 coupon sites offering to pay me money for signing up with their sites and hosting there advertisements on my own site..wow! Luckily for us, Ty has been working for the last 3 weeks and work remains steady but I will still continue to live frugally and shop for deals to ensure more money is always is my pocket! I love it! By the way, in the last 4 weeks, I have saved a total of $682 off my normal grocery bills buying things I would have normally bought prior...woot woot! I haven't hit a $100 grocery weekly bill in the past 4 weeks!!!! (we used to average around $200 week)

The weather has been ablsolutely stunning these past 7 days! I love to see my kids being able to play outside and enjoy the beautiful weather. We borrowed some bikes from Ty's Parents (for us) and we took a family bike ride both days this weekend, just awesome! Never knew how out of shape I really was until I almost died halfway through the bike ride!!!

My best news yet, I have commited to working ou 5 days a week and so far I feel phenominal!! We have a beautiful gym at our community center and Ty's mom & I have been working out there...what a great feeling to give back to myself for a change!

How has your March been? I hope you have all been able to get out and enjoy this beautiful weather and have fun with your family!

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Meet, HIM...



His name is Justin Beiber, not beaver as I have accidentally called him. This boy, ahem, heart throb,has stirred my household up over the past few months. I have NO idea who he is or what songs he sings besides the infamous.. "I'm like baby, baby, baby..Ooohh like baby, baby ooohh" (I know right, what a cool song) but now I am officially in the mix to sit about 20 rows away from his stage in a few months and be in the middle of utter chaos, surrounded by hundreds of little teenage girls screaming "I Love you's" and crying at the sight of this bonefied stud muffin.

Kyla wakes up every morning to his poster, RIGHT smack dab next to her pillow might I add. hehe. She almost cried when she watched me hit the submit button on the ticketmaster website, THIS is how much she LOVES this boy...kinda scary right?

She has been grinning ear to ear for the last 4 hours, guess mama did good on this one..YAY!!! PS, had it not been for the fact is was her 12th birthday present, I would NOT be subjecting myself to such torture..lol.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Ya' think their excited??

Just had to snap a few pictures of the chillens on their way to see the newly anticipated: Diary of a Wimpy Kid. They have been anxiously awaiting to go to the theater, Ty was nice enough to snag us up some tickets earlier this morning for the afternoon show (has been selling out quickly).

Aren't they so dang cute??!!

BTW, the movie was SO cute! I personally really liked it...it's a must see for the kiddos, very funny.





Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Just a suggestion

Alrighty, I've gone off the deep end and made myself a new blog site! Can you guess what it's for??? YEP!! You got it! This way I don't have to bore my family & friends anymore who come to my site to read about our family, not my savings...lol.

You can check it out if this sorta stuff interests you:

13 yr Wedding Anniversary


Yesterday was our 13 year wedding anniversary. I am married to the most amazing man alive and he has blessed me with an incredible, fortunate life with 4 of the most wonderful kids ever!

We've been on this journey to "Forever Together" for the last 18 years, I realized the other day that I have been with this man for literally HALF of my life! WOW! There is no other person in this world who gets me more then him, who knows my strengths and weaknesses and who can read my every thought! We are so much alike, yet we are so different.

When I think back on all the past years we have had and all the many experiences we have shared as a couple, it makes me know that we were just..''meant to be''. He's the other part of me, that I could never live without.

Happy Anniversary Ty!! I love you!!

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Spending my dollars with sense

A few new favorite sites to share with you that helped me save BIG. Here's just a list of things I bought at the stores today for FREE: (or almost free)

*6-boxes of barilla wheat pasta (frys) FREE
*4 boxes of J&J dental floss (frys) FREE
*5 Reach toothbrushes (Frys) ~I paid $1 for all of them
*6 boxes of Dial Soap (frys) ~I paid .90 for them all
*4 bottles of suave kids' body wash ~I paid .25 for each (safeway)
*3 boxes of quaker oat squares cereal (safeway) FREE
*6 degree deodorants (CVS) I paid $1 for all 6 =0.15 each
*4 sub lunchables (safeway) FREE
*2 reeses PB cups packages (safeway) FREE

Now, walgreens has so many great deal...I was able to buy all my things at walgreens today for FREE, PLUS I got back another $4 in free shopping money. Hense, notice I keep buying things at walgreens every week rolling my register rewards over and over and never have to pay out of pocket. LOVE IT!

~~My hubby thinks I've gone crazy!!!~~ Yah, crazy for saving money!! I did so good this week that even Ty was somewhat excited (I said somewhat!)

Check out these new sites:

The crazy coupon lady
My frugal adventures
Saving Cents with Sense
Saving for someday





Thursday, March 11, 2010

Another great deal

Starting this weekend (3/14) CVS is having a sale on degree products.

Click HERE to be directed to the webpage to print the deodorant coupons. According to the fine people at BeCentsable here is the deal:

Buy 6 Degree Deodorants at $2.50 Each
Use 3 ($3 off 2 degree coupons)
Total Due: $6
Get Back: $5 ECB (just like registar rewards)
Final Price for EACH deodorant: 0.15
***WORKS FOR DOVE & DEGREE***

Check this out!!

There are some major sales out there this week at the Grocery Store, mainly safeway. I made out with some amazing deals and wanted to show you how I did it so you can do the same.

Safeway has some great Catalina coupons still going on too, for those that don't know what Catalinas are I will explain. It's a coupon given back to you after you checkout for cash twards your next purchase on anything you chose to spend it on (besides liquor, RX, cigarettes)

At Safeway~ buy 5 selected items, get a $5 discount at checkout. You can mix and match any items and you can buy up to 20. I'll tell you how I did it

These are the Items priced at $1 AFTER discount:

Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks (gushers, fruit roll ups, fruit by the foot)
**$1**
If you buy 5 this is how you can do it
use a .50/2 from coupons.com (Safeway is doubleing all coupons to $1)
use a .50/2 from smartsource.com
You will pay $3 for all 5, BUT you will get back a Catalina for $3.50.. for a profit of .50cents
You can't buy 10 of these in the same order and double up on your catalinas, FYI. I turned around and bought 5 more with my catalina, Paid $1 (with a coupon) and instantly got another $3.50 back...you can keep doing this over and over.

Nature Valley Granola bars (which also include those yummy sweet & salty peanut ones too) **$1.50**
If you buy 10 this is how you can do it
use (4) .40/1 from coupons.com
use (2) .40/1 from bettycrocker.com
use (2) .40/1 from couponbug.com
Plus grab the 0.40 e-coupon from cellfire.com AND the 0.40 e-coupon from shortcuts.com
You will pay $6.00 for all 10, which comes to .60cents a box
(you could even use your catalina from fruit snacks to help buy these)

Nature Valley Nut Clusters (YUMM-O) **$1.50**
If you buy 5 this is how you can do it
Print out as many $1.00 coupons as you are allowed (I did about 10) from the above sites.
You can also upload coupons to your cellfire & shortcuts sites too
you will pay $2.50 for all 5, which comes to .50cents a box

Chex Mix Bars **$1.50**
with free printable coupons from the above sites, you will only pay .90cents a box

Post Cereal~ buy 4 boxes and get $3 catalina back, buy 5 boxes and get $4 catalina back. Includes these cereals: great grains, honey bunches of oats $2, shredded wheat, honeycombs $2, raisin bran $1.50, grape nuts, fruity pebbles. These are even better if you can get coupons for them. You can't combine this catalina with the fruit snacks catalina, atleast it didn't work for me. I had to buy seperately

Other great safeway buys:
Oscar mayer SUB lunchables (without the drink) .99cents
use a .75/1 from coupons.com
final price~FREE (I snagged several of these)

I ended up paying about .22cents a box for all the things I got yesterday, and I got about 50 boxes..LOL. PLUS, I also received $17 in catalinas for my next trip to safeway that I still need to use. :) (on top of the other catalinas that I already used)

FRYS:

Dial Bar Soap **$1.00** (3pack, certain kinds)
if you buy 2, use (2) $1/1 from coupons.com
final price~FREE

Walgreens:

Kotex products are $2.99 for each 18ct box
If you buy 3 this is the best way
use (3) $1/1 from couponbug.com
you will pay $6 for 3 boxes, PLUS get a $5 catalina back from Walgreens for a final price of .33cents a box

Grape Nuts are $1.75 box
If you head over to postcereals.com and register, you get a free cupons for $2 off any box of grapenuts or shredded wheat. Take that in to walgreens and yor cereal is FREE.
There are so many other great deals out there this week but these are the ones that I thought were the best $$ saving ones. It seems like alot of work, but I get most of my info from 3 fabulous sites and THEY do all the work for me.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Check Out This Site

I have stumbled upon yet ANOTHER fantastic site for savings! Check out my link to the left~ My frugal Adventures has AMAZING info for all local stores. Safeway has a KILLER sale this week so make sure you check this site.

ALSO~ After checking her site head on over to:

www.coupons.com

www.couponbug.com

www.bettycrocker.com

and print yourself all those free coupons so you can get all those goodies for 0.50Cents or FREE!!

Friday, March 5, 2010

Weight Loss update:

6 Pounds I've shed so far!! SUPER EXCITED!!! Wish me Luck for this weekend with a big dinner event planned for saturday~

I think I can...I think I can...I think I can..:)
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Hat's off to the Hubby

While Ty has been off work for these past few weeks waiting for old man winter to get the heck outta here, he was so kind today to offer his services to me and come work with me. He was super cute cleaning out those laundry mats, and might I add, a GREAT hard worker!! He's the best husband ever to help me out, even though its not something he really cares to do! He saved me payroll money and I had a great time working with him, I even treated him to lunch!! LOL!

Love you honey!!

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FREE Return Address Labels

I just ordered mine and all I had to pay was shipping~Only cost me $3.48 for 140 and their super cute!


HURRY, ends soon

Go to Http://vistaprint.com/freereturnaddresslabels.aspx?affid=cd50&gp=3%2f3%2f2010+8%3a16%3a06+pm

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A Salute to my Savings..

So you all know by reading my previous posts that I have become OBSESSED with coupon clipping and stalking all my favorite $$ saving sites. Along with stalking these sites, it's also been a GREAT tool to inform me on all the sales at my local stores. Its a MUST for all moms!! PLEASE just give it a try. What a great site, they teach you SO much about how to be a bargain shopper, which I always thought I was until now.

So after clipping all my coupons online, (printing I should say), I found that I could print numerous coupons for the same product and WOW what a savings it got me. I gave it a try for 2 solid weeks and I'm overly excited about my savings, I just HAD to share it with you all.

Here goes:

Albertsons~

2 packs of chips ahoy
2 gallons of milk
3 jars of skippy peanut butter
1pk of gum

Total price that I paid: $4.26
(Total savings $18.46)

Walgreens~

6 boxes of kleenex (yes, we use this much)
colgate toothpaste
dental floss
cough drops

Total Price that I paid: $10.74
PLUS I received $5 back in register rewrds to use at my next purchase, so I actually only paid $5.74)


Frys~
HERE'S THE BIG ONE FOLKS

My total grocery bill was $292.17

My VIP savings were:$106.64
My Coupon Savings were: $68.34

TOTAL PRICE I PAID: $117.19 BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

I Also received ANOTHER register reward for $8.00 off my next purchase at Frys/Kroger. So it was like really paying $109.39


With the tools from these sites and a little bit of work from you, you are totally able to do the same thing. I bought only the things we had coupons for and I totally stocked up on things I would have never been able to afford otherwise.

Remember, it looks like alot of work, but only took me about 2.5 hours each week, thats it!
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