OK, so I completely blew my wishful thinking budget of $20 this week.  I hadn’t thought about the grocery store deals I had planned to get, or that I needed to pick up some chicken for dinners this past week.  I also had forgotten to include some gifts from the previous week so I’ve now nearly spent my household budget for the entire month – with 2 weeks left to go!  I’m just going to have to remember that I {Read More}

Free or Better than Free:  Retail : $135.85       Profit of $10.40!   Free After Rebates – Profit: $12.00 Retail:  $56.96  OOP: $41.96  Rebates to Submit:$53.96  Half Price or Better Clothing Retail: $96.43    OOP: $21.45    Food/Household Retail: $134.99    OOP: $57.92 Brookshire’s: spent $33.19, saved $47.54 CVS: spent $4.84, saved $23.19, plus got back $18.98 in ECBs Garage Sale: spent $6.00, saved $8.99 Goodwill: spent $2.97, saved $19.51 Mommy & Me: spent $4.99, saved $5.00 Office Depot: {Read More}

The household budget for our family is $400 a month and includes all groceries, household products, clothing, gifts and newspapers. While I’m still short on a few things in my stockpile, I think we’re pretty well covered. My biggest recurring expense is newspapers, so I am searching out other options besides paying $3 per Sunday paper for the Dallas Morning News at Walgreens (it’s over $4 to have it delivered).  Back in NWA I had 2 subscriptions delivered to our {Read More}

This was one of the busiest weeks I’ve had since we moved to Tyler. It’s a wonder that I made it to the store at all. I even let several 9/30 coupons for products that we actually use expire! I am reminding myself that I can only do so much though! Hopefully Hubby will be in town more this week and life won’t be as hectic. Free or Better than Free:  Retail : $19.90       Profit of $2.10! {Read More}

plus a tide travel packet Free or Better than Free:  Retail : $111.53 OOP: Profit of $2.58!   plus another box of corndogs and another can of cinnamon rolls Half Price or Better Retail: $100.11   OOP: $26.05 Albertson’s: spent $8.45, saved $14.83 = 56%Brookshire’s: spent $12.78, saved $8.34 = 39% CVS: spent $2.65, saved $67.71 = 96%, plus received back $5 in ECBs Kohl’s: spent $3.47, saved $38.80 = 92% Super 1 Foods: spent 1.76, saved 1.62 = 48%Target: {Read More}

I had a busy week this week and didn’t do as much shopping.  That’s about the best way I know of to save money, time, and sanity!  DS did keep asking when we were going to go to Walmart to see the pots though.  That boy can’t get enough of cooking!  Items that were Moneymakers, Free, or at least Half Price   Retail Price: $54.90      Price Paid: $9.10 Food/Household CVS: spent $4.66, saved $43.03 = 90%, plus got back $3 in {Read More}

Free or Better than Free: Retail : $19.76 OOP: Profit of $0.19 Half Price or Better Retail: $155.54 OOP: $29.01 Food/Household Cut DS’s hair myself: saved $12.95 (I think I finally did a reasonably good job) Mad Butcher: spent $7.35 CVS: spent $6.44, saved $60.39 = 90%, plus got back $4.99 in ECBs Super 1 Foods: spent $1.38, saved $1.50 = 52% Target: spent $40.23, saved $20.13 = 33%, plus got back $5 GC Walgreens: spent $0.74, saved $9.99 = {Read More}

Free or Better than Free: Retail : $51.88 OOP: Profit of $2.03! Half Price or Better I’ll update with the thrift stores clothes I found later. I bought a shirt for DH, pants and shirt for DD, and a shirt for DS. Retail: $53.13 OOP: $16.37 Food/Household Walgreens: spent $9.75, saved $54.19 =85%, plus received back $4 in RR Walmart: spent $17.04, saved $2.02 = 11% Food/Household Totals: spent $26.79, saved $56.21 = 68% Clothing Thrift Stores: spent $14.79, saved {Read More}

The household budget for our family is $400 a month and includes all groceries, household products, clothing and gifts. We were over this month, but I am not worried, as we had some unexpected money made that will balance this out. Also, I haven’t completely rebuilt my stockpile from the move to Tyler, so I’ve had to buy several things at higher prices than I normally would. Here are the totals for this month: Clothing spent $18.97, saved $37 = {Read More}

Free or Better than Free: Retail : $28.28 OOP: Profit of $6.04! Half Price or Better Retail: $41.87 OOP: $12.47 BTW- did you notice the PINK bottle? DD has been using the blue and green bottles her brother had. I couldn’t bring myself to spend $5 on a pink bottle when we had 8 perfectly good ones already. With a sale and a coupon I finally decided to spend part of my birthday money on it- after all, it’s really {Read More}