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*