Simplicity

Well we have moved and it has been a long journeys to get were we are today, but the journey we took has lead us closer together as a family. Thank you God for showing me that simplicity is a better way!

Coupon Clipping

Coupon clipping was not as simple as I thought it would be! Did I save money? Yes, but it was a lot more work than I thought it would be.

I have now finished my second shopping trip of coupon clipping and finding the best savings for my family. The first trip was not a fruitful savings trip. I saved a total of $4.25 which was disappointing to me. My oldest son made it sound better when he made me think about it as an hourly wage. “If you made minimum wage an hour you would have had to work for 3o minutes.” Ok that sounds more like it that is 3o minutes I can spend with my family doing something that I enjoy instead of working. That gave me the drive to try my hand at coupon clipping again this week and I must say that it was a little bit more fruitful than the first, $19.75 to be exact. That means I have saved $24.00 this month on our family grocery bill. Ok so it is not as much as what I have read about or have heard about on the talk shows, but it is a start in the right direction and now it is a family challenge to see how much we can save on groceries. Maybe we will take a trip with the savings!

Handmade Lunch Sack

Since I have been bring my lunch to work with me I decided to make myself feel like I am going to having this nice relaxing lunch time. So I made myself a vintage lunch sack. I used the pattern that I found in bend-the-rules sewing and I used old vintage fabric that I inherited from my mother in-law. (Some of the fabric in the box dates back to the fifties.)

Another Way to Save Save Money!

Monday is the day I’m going to start saving from going out to lunch to brown bagging it. I do bring my lunch but only about two times a week and the rest of the week I am weak and go with coworkers to lunch, which is costing me about $5.00 a day (sometimes less and sometimes more). When that $5.00 could go to something much more important like my mortgage! That will be a savings of about $60.00 a month. Bring my total savings to…($98.00) and counting.

Coupon Clipping

I’m giving coupons a try again after fifteen years. I figure that it kept me from starving to death in college, so then it can keep food on my table in these economic hard times. I just cut my first batch and printed my first batch of coupons from Coupon.com. This was the easiest and best site I found so far. I will let you know how the shopping went and savings went on my next entry.

Debt Free

A family that saves together stays together.

Today was the day that I cut up all of my credit cards except one for emergency only. I hope to have them paid off with in the next year which will give ma a saving of $150.00 a month. I placed all the pieces in a jar and placed them on my desk to remind me of my goal and that I never want to be in debt again, which in turn will be the biggest savings for my family.

Saving Quest

There must be more to life than having everything. Maurich Sendak


Our quest to save! With a family of five, two females and 3 males, we all shave. When asked to purchase more razors, my first response was, “I just bought razors.” The teacher in me came out and I did the math. We as a family are consuming 8 to 10 triple bladed razor heads a month. Costing us $1.75 each a cost of $17.50. With our savings quest in mind I found razors for $0.42 each a total of $4.20 a month saving us $13.30. Come to find out all of us like the 42 cent razors better and they seem to last longer as well, which will equate to more savings.
Total monthly savings $38.30 our goal is to save and be less stressed in the end. Giving us more quality time with the children.