The household budget for our family is $500 a month and includes all groceries, household products, clothing, gifts, decorations and newspapers. A little on the lean side? Perhaps, but it works for our family. Whether your number is $300 or $1000, you should do what works for your family. In April our house back in Arkansas got rented out again, and you can tell that I breathed with our spending again. I spent: $402.39 I saved: $714.46 Extra money I made: {Read More}
March Review 2011
May 22, 2011 by
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The household budget for our family is $500 a month and includes all groceries, household products, clothing, gifts, decorations and newspapers. A little on the lean side? Perhaps, but it works for our family. Whether your number is $300 or $1000, you should do what works for your family. In March I spent: $184.22 I saved: $519.41 Extra money I made: $691.33 (we sold a lot to be able to pay the mortgage on our vacant rental home) Total impact {Read More}
How Do You Cook Dinner for Just $5? Reader Question Series
May 21, 2011 by 3 Comments
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Jayme says: I really want “to get my couponing together along with my meal plan. I use yours. How are you making these meals for under 5.00?“ First, my $5 is an average. You’ll see that several meals will be over $5, even up to $10 for something like Dairy Queen, Salmon or Shrimp, or higher for a sit down meal at a restaurant. When I have a more expensive meal for the week I try to balance this with {Read More}
Savings Review 5/21
May 21, 2011 by
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The household budget for our family is $500 a month and includes all groceries, household products, clothing, gifts, decorations and newspapers. A little on the lean side? Perhaps, but it works for our family. Whether your number is $300 or $1000, you should do what works for your family. This week felt like I was spending way to much over last week, but it all evens out in the end. That’s the beauty of lose budgets: One week you save and {Read More}
Walgreens Reach Moneymaker Information May 2011
May 21, 2011 by
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There is an unadvertised deal on Reach Toothbrushes that started in many areas on 5/16. Some areas are receiving an ad for this deal to start on 6/2, and other areas still are receiving and that it starts 6/1/2010. I found the deal to be working tonight at the Troup Hwy. store in Tyler, TX. I haven’t tried any other stores in down and only had one set of Qs Reach Toothbrushes Buy 2, get $1 RR Buy 3, get {Read More}
Walgreens Scenario 5/22 for 91% savings
May 20, 2011 by
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This scenario starts with a $3 RR from Dove and a $4 RR from Colgate. If you missed my list of Walgreens matchups for 5/22 you can see them here. Transaction 1 2 Carefree Pantiliners @ 3.98 1 Complete Multi-Purpose Solution @ 7.99 2 Hunts Tomato Sauce @ 1.58 subtotal: $13.55 use (2) $1/1 Carefree from 5/8 SS use $1/1 Complete from 5/22 RP use $3 RR use $4 RR use in ad Q for carefree (takes off $2) use {Read More}
Walgreens Coupon Deals and Matchups 5/22
May 20, 2011 by
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Walgreens Rules in a Nutshell: You may only do each deal once per transaction. You cannot use the RR from one deal to pay for the same deal if you want to get another RR. You may not use more manu Qs (including RRs) than the number of items in your transaction. A RR cannot pay tax and it’s value will not be reduced. For a more in depth explanation of these rules, you can read “How to Roll With {Read More}
CVS Scenario, Household/Health and Beauty, 93% savings
May 20, 2011 by
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This scenario starts with (2) $2 ECBs and a $1 ECB. You can see my list of CVS for 5/22 matchups here. Transaction 1 2 Irish Spring Body Wash @ 7 use (2) $.50/1 Irish Spring from 5/1 SS use (2) $2 ECBs use $1 ECBNew total: $1.00, get $5 ECB Transaction 2 2 Stride Spark 9 – 14 ct. @ 1.98 1 Revlon Nail @ 4.99 1 Suave Deodorant @ 1.00 subtotal: $7.96 use $1/2 Stride from 4/3 SS {Read More}
CVS grocery scenario for 83% savings
May 20, 2011 by
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This scenario starts with (2) $2 ECBs and a $1 ECB You can see my list of CVS for 5/22 matchups here. Transaction 1 6 Ragu @ 10 use (2) $1.25/3 Ragu use $2 ECB use $2 ECB use $1 ECBNew total: $2.50, get $3 ECB Transaction 2 1 Gallon Milk @ 3.19 (this is the price for my area- milk varies by region) use $3 ECBNew total $.19, get $1 ECB Transaction 3 2 Stride Spark 9 – 14 {Read More}
CVS Scenario 5/22 for 84% savings
May 20, 2011 by
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If you’ve been following my scenarios, you’ll be starting this week with a $2 ECB from RG/ID and a $2 ECB from John Frieda and probably a $1 ECB from your Green Bag Tag. You can see my list of CVS for 5/22 matchups here. I’m not really thrilled with this scenario, so I’ll be writing a couple more. I’m going to do one on food products and one on health and beauty. I’ll also do some scenarios for the {Read More}