I have several half-finished projects I’m trying to finish up and share, so until then, I thought I’d share about my latest money-saving project. Last week a Mom at school had her daughter’s hair cut off in a precious little bob. It was our topic of conversation for several days and got us all thinking about the hair on our own little ones. A quick look at my girls confirmed what I’d been trying to…
Continue readingI haven’t been doing a lot of sewing outside my weekly projects for SYTYC (there’s still time to go vote this week!), but I have been doing a lot of shopping!! I save up money to spend on after Christmas sales because you just can’t beat ’em. Last week Target marked their clearance toys down to 75% off and I went to three different stores buying things up! In total I bought 57 toys: little…
Continue readingI had a great grocery shopping trip this week! I spent more than normal because I was able to get a tremendous deal on diapers. We ate out some with our company last weekend, so some things made it back to this weeks menu. So for the next week we’re looking at having: tacos lasagna and cesaer salad waffles and scrambled eggs stir fry with noodles spaghetti with meat sauce baked fried chicken, potatoes and…
Continue readingBack in November of 2009, my sister started telling me about coupons. I’d tried clipping them in our super-tight money days, but never saved too much. It turns out, that’s because I didn’t know what I was doing! Clipping coupons is much more than cutting the ones out of the paper and expecting to save a bundle. I started slowly, and before I knew it, I was saving almost as much as I was spending!…
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