the Outcome

Triple coupon shopping was yesterday.  I must say I did a good job.   I actually feel more successful than my last time.  I bought two weeks of groceries for $158.  I saved about $75 by using the sale ad and my coupons.  I probably could of saved more had I read the coupons a little more carefully.  I made out a good list this time.  But keeping the couons, researching the sale as ahead of time and looking for everything in a store I am not familiar with does take a lot of time.  I will still need to go to the store in the next week or so, we will need more bread and milk, and I guess we should feed the dogs too!  But overall I am proud of my purchases, I got cleaning products, 2 gallons of milk, cereal and enough meat for 2 weeks!  If we can stay at spending $75 a week on groceries for a family of three that will be great.  I know that is a little on the impossible side but it is nice to dream!  The groceries I have to get in the meantime will probably come from BiLo,  they still are giving you 5 cents off of every gallon of gas when you spend $50.  That helps out as well!  I am going to try and stay thrifty!

Mel

Triple coupons

Okay, it is back...triple coupon days at Harris Teeter.  I hope I do well again this time around.  I have a huge list to hopefully get us through the next couple of weeks.  I have clipped coupons and I have researched the ads, hopefully I will save a lot of money$$$.  I have looked on line at different coupon clipper sites, they all seem to carry the same coupons.  What we really need is a buy one gallon of milk get two free special.  I don't see that in my near future!  Wish me luck!  my grocery list is long, front and back of small notebook size paper.

How fast time is going

I can't believe January is almost gone.  Well, I will get back to my triple coupon shopping.  Hunter andI went to Harris Teeter for the triple coupons.  I bought other items than just what I had in coupons.  The originial total was $146 and I paid $88.  So that was a pretty good savings.  One deal they had going on while we were there was buy one pack on boneless chicken breast and get two free.  You can't beat that deal!  I bought other items too, but I did use the 20 coupons they allow.  So I am saving coupons for the next time around.  I hear they should be doing it again in March or April.  I am still shopping at Bi-Lo.  I use their bonus gas card, that has been saving money for our gas bill.  I have been shopping for deals while I am there.  My schedule is getting back to me opening 4 days a week.  When we are all home it helps with us sticking to cooking at home.  Chad and I still go to lunch once or twice a week.  I feel lucky that we can still go out and do these things.  I hear of job layoffs and people losing their jobs almost daily now.  

I finished two baby quilts, I wish I had photos to show.  I still have two more to complete.  My cousin Tammy is due in February and my oldest and crazy friend Wendy is due in March.  I also need to get moving on some charity quilts.  I am in charge of our community projects for the quilt Guild, and I need to be a good role model as well for completing projects.

We went our on a Harbor boat ride last night.     It was basically the Firefighter Combat Challenge team and their wives.  It was fun, but it sure did get cold.  It is amazing to me how beautiful Charleston is.  It was nice to sit back and look at it from another angle.  We didn't take our camera but Chad took pictures with his phone, maybe he will download them for me so I can post them.  

Peace Out!

2009 has begun!

Well, I can't believe it is already 2009.  Wow, the time has flown by.  For 2008 my New Years resolution was to start a blog page.  Well I did it.  After looking over my blog, I posted a new message 10 out of 12 months.  Actaully that is probably the best I have ever done with any resolution I have made in the past.  Hopefully I can keep it going.  It is funny, I often think about what I am going to write about as thoughts pass through my head.... then I sit down at the computer at night and read other blogs or get involved in something else and I forget to do my thing.  My New Years resolution in 2009 is to become a little bit more thrifty.  I started in the middle of December, clipping coupons, looking for the good deals etc.  And as always I am trying to lose weight.  I am already starving and it is January 2nd.  I swear my stomach is like a black hole, it never gets full.  

I talked with a lady I met at work and she has got me turned on to the coupons.  I guess Harris Tetter, a local grocery store does triple coupons about three to four times a year.  I have my coupons ready and I am going to the store tomorrow.  I saw her receipts from how much money she saves.  Incredible is all I can say.  She invests a lot of time in researching the grocery stores and clipping coupons, I know I will never be as good as her, but saving any amount of money will be good.  Hopefully I will blog again soon to let you know I do tomorrow.  Maggie, the lady I met, said I wouldn't save as much as her because I generally by all brand name items. But I can still try to save everything penny I can.  

I also hope we eat at home more.  I think this would help both New Years resolutions.  The thing that kills me and our budget when cooking at home, is I don't like leftovers.  I throw everything away that we don't eat at that setting.  I think it is from being in the restaraunt buisness for so long.  At both stores I have worked, you throw out food anywhere from 24-48 hours after is has been prepped.  I also would do better at cooking meals if Chad and I had halfway normal schedules.  

Speaking of Chad....He got promoted!! I am so proud of him.  He had to switch shifts which kind of sucks, but he has been working very hard for this and I couldn't be any prouder.  Hopefully I will "blog" again soon!

Til' next time