Vegmom Moments

12 Days of Changes - Day 11

My Change for today was:

Drum Roll please....

This one is simple!  Remember to use my coupons!!  Yes coupons!   I've been getting so mad at myself for forgetting them, so to keep with the theme of not getting mad at myself and doing something about it.. I remembered my coupons!

Saved over $10 at the health food store by remembering, and then they gave me a Senior Citizen's discount..

Still not sure how to take that by the way!

Do you print/clip coupons?  Do you remember to use them?

Good Thing #14

Coupons are such a GOOD Thing...
But when they are Organic Coupons, all the better...

Organic Deals & Coupons

LAPTOP LUNCHES

LOOK LOOK LOOK.... A 10% OFF COUPON!!    I'm so excited... 

Just go to laptoplunches.com  Check out their really nifty lunch ideas and products.. Then buy something and use the coupon code vegmom.... That simple.. and you get 10% off, just like that!  I've never had advertising on the site before.  But this one, I must!

I've Dabbled with some Amazon links just to show the books I liked.  Maybe I'll grab those again some day.  But I sooooo believe in this product.  And it is sooooo worth it to advertise...

We've had ours for a couple years now, actually we have a couple sets, plus a couple cold drink containers and hot flasks.  Their products withstand the test of our child, daily school visits, and trips, and hikes and.... gives me the ability to pack many different foods.  I love the containers.  I'm a container junkie.  But these are safe containers... 

I don't have much time now, but will post some more lunch pictures later, and put this button in the right nav so you can come back and click again and again....

 

Thank you Laptop Lunches for this great offer!!  PS. Spread the word... Anyone can use the code!!

LOOK - COUPONS

Thanks to some Local Momma's and a little magazine, I found more coupons... And they are even for things that I use in our house..  ..

Not all of them, but some of them... I even found some for Spinach and Lettuce... How cool is that?

Of course I live under a rock, because you people doing this for a long time probably already know about these little tricks.   But it is all new to me!

Money savings, HERE I COME!

Thanks to  Organic Deals , I Found these:

Delicious Living

HealthESavers

Sadly I'm wasting paper by printing all these coupons.. But I'll recycle the parts I don't need...  Or use as crafts for the Vegman...

And he is in charge of cutting out the coupons by the way...  Did I mention that I saved $29 at the health food store AGAIN this week.

WooHoo!  Money savings is Good Stuff!

THIS COUPON THING

My Mom made a special request that I hurry up and post a bunch of stuff so that my Dog Stories are no longer at the top of the blog page...  Apparently every time she looks, it makes her cry, and my blog is supposed to make her smile.  And so crying is not a good thing!

Of course I've been a tad busy this week...  ya no, getting back from an awesome vacation to find my dog 1/2 dying on the floor + 1800 emails waiting for me at work + a monthly visit upon my body + a child that came up with a sudden earache + 2 last minute soccer games in one week +  the list goes on...and so my blog posting has been spotty at best...

But I got a good night sleep two nights in a row, Veg is quickly all better, I took a nap today, ate lunch at my favorite local eating place...and went shopping last night to find some great deals.  Things are back on track!

So NeeNee... Per your request, I will throw up some posts... This one is about the Coupon Thing..       

Everyone is talking about it.... Mom's all over the country are moving forward with this whole Coupon Thing... I however never got it... I didn't understand what the big deal was.... First of all, finding coupons for Healthy all Natural foods is not likely... And then buying multiple items just because they are cheap to fill up my house with clutter or things that will expire before I can use them, seems like a bad idea... AND not to mention buying things just because they are on sale, but not because you would "really" buy them normally doesn't make you "really" save any money...

Then I went to my Mom's... and she was needing some help... so I was determined to figure this out for her... and we did!  It seems there are a whole lot of resources on line to get coupons... and many stores have them hidden as well.  And then Manufactures have them as well... and so you can save little bits here and there which add up to a lot more then the typical Sunday Paper clipping of yesterday.... 

I GET IT NOW!!! 

Then yesterday I went to my local health food store and grabbed a little coupon book... turns out the items in the coupon book, also had manufacture coupons stuck to the containers, and they also had a store special that day...  So I ended up getting some items that I really needed, healthy and natural for 1/2 or 3/4 the cost.

And I started realizing that many products had those manufacture stuck on coupons + they were the same items on store special that day.

When I walked out and looked at the receipt, I had saved $25.75 from the HEALTH FOOD STORE... And I'm not talking main grocer...   and thought this Coupon thing is pretty darn cool...

Now finding the time to find the coupons, and/or always getting lucky that my coupon would match a store sale that day, is the tricky part.  Also finding things I really need and not just buying because they are on sale becomes even trickier.

I printed some of these coupons from Mambo Sprouts for my next shopping trip..  And signed up for their email thingy too, figured that was a start.  Check out their little coloring sheets for kiddos also.  

Who knew this coupon thing could be so fun?  *smile*