great new giveaway from my muse

http://jane4girls800dollarannualbudget.blogspot.com/

Go here and register for her great giveaway. A nice way to get some free goodies and read up on her awesome year of spending less than $800 a year for a family of four~

To get this to the top

and keep it 'fresh' in my mind...


savings to date $251.56
Left to spend $1457.57

oh also....

I have had no caffeeine (sp?) since Sunday and I love it. No cokes, no sweet tea....I was worried about what would I 'find' to drink when I was working, but I just took a powerade (from Kroger sale long time ago) and was good to go. Also when we went to McDonalds yesterday I had an orange drink with a refill of powerade. I LOVE that! No headaches, no weird cravings for salt (last time I gave up caffeeine I craved salt like a mad woman and normally I can't stand the taste of it). All in all this is doing good. Thank you for all of you who have shown support and encouragement.

Ok, ok, ok, ok

I know it has been a few weeks since I did ANY shopping.. but I promise to update you all on my CVS buys this week. I am pumped up for savings. We really have been eating our stockpile or just fasting a meal here and there. Nothing much to report.. Manbear is doing great with his Daniel diet and we both weighed at publix yesterday and found out that we are only 3 pounds difference. Seems a bit weird, but ok...hehehehehe

Oh yeah, not having church on Saturday evenings mean my CVS runs can be earlier rather than 9-10 pm. I love being able to go earlier. Although if I go in the evenings I get to see my 'buds' who work there, and they are sweet.

I received alot of credits from work and was able to bless at least 7 people even before passing it on to the food bank. I feel good about that. Plus I did a purge of my HBA stockpile and held a 'come and get it' to a few friends and family. It has taken a good week and a half but I am finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnell with that too...

So my second day of my four days off in a row (yippie) will be spent doing laundry and planning my cvs run of the week. Good day to all of you and I PROMISE to get to shopping so I can share my good deals with all of you.

Blessings,
Mari

ps... manbear and I did go out to eat at Mcdonalds yesterday but he had a gc from CHRISTmas to use so it was free.. and then we went to goodwill to buy Bigboy some sweat pants for school PE class. So it was a 'fun' day for us together...

IT is a whopping 28 degrees here at 6 am.. too cold for Georgia~~~!!!!!

P.s. I still have a Starbucks gc burning a hole in my pocket if anyone wants to come with me tonite to CVS and get deals and tea~ hint hint Tammy~