No thank you I prefer to pay full price....

THAT is what someone actually told me yesterday while I was working. My inskin friends know my 'real' job (I can't post it here but lets just say it is NICE~) and part of my job yesterday was putting up some coupons around a display at a grocery store that was having some crackers as buy one get one free....I couldn't get them to stay on the paper so I just started handing them out and one lady actually handed me one back and said 'no thank you I prefer to pay full price'... like a coupon was nasty or something. I tell you that I was shocked, AND the lady beside her said 'i'm not proud, give me hers'. I still tell you I was like shocked, open mouthed wide eyed, I must have looked like a freak... I can't imagine WANTING to pay full price...but to each their own.

soy sauce

Thursday is trashday here in our neighborhood so I TRY to clean out the refrigerator on Wednesday.. however I was very busy with other stuff and I didn't get a chance to do it yesterday... so if was pushed off until today. BUT I got sidetracked.. with what you ask? We are HUGE soy sauceaholics here at the house, well really we are really bad stirfryaholics and use soy sauce as the seasoning. ANYWAY.. needless to say we usually always have a bottle, or two or three, on hand. But lately I have let the stash run low, and to be honest it is 2 days before payday and there is too much week to not enough $$. So what did I find? I am the world's worst about taking 'extra' packets at place.. extra creamer, extra splenda, extra duck sauce.. not alot just normally 2 or 3 .. so anyway today I spent about 20 minutes taking the extra packets I have of soy sauce and filling our little soy sauce jar. It was amazing how many it did take (I way over guestimated how many it would) and it only took me about 20-25 minutes... so does that make me cheap or frugal?? I would like to hear what you think?! Email me or leave me a comment... thanks so much!
Blessings,
Mari

Adding more purchases

Today has been a productive day!~ I have done a bunch of laundry, mopped all my floors, scrubbed all my kitchen counters and rearranged my kitchen decor. I am realizing less is more these days with decorations. (agree with me, amen!)
I also have spent about an hour searching for online coupons and ordering some samples...
I also ran across a purchase receipt that I made Monday at walmart when I was shopping with my sil. Now, I KNOW that at HT the electrosal was B1G1Free however purchasing two of them came to $1.41 or 70cents apiece (I gave coupons to sil to use last weekend) however the local HT is over 15 miles away and since that would be the ONLY thing I would be going over for it isn't really economical for me to drive all that way when I could buy them at walmart for $1 a piece.. and it only cost me .30 more~ So I bought 2 elec gelpacs and 4 johnson and johnson bath buddies. Total oop was only $2.64 and I saved $9 in coupons. Awesome!~

Hey Tammyf when are you going shopping again? Have you been buying a paper on Sunday? Call me sometime and let me know how your progress is...

New totals~
YTD savings $198.77
Left to spend $1438.58
money spent $61.42 (previous addition error)

forgot to add

that I bought some porkchops and hamburger meat to cook some dinner for a church member that was recovering from surgery.. that totalled $8.87... should I include food that isn't for my family? Let me think about that one.. since that purchase was totally for someone else.. let me think on that one...

Have you been to

www.walmart.com
for the free samples?
They currently have
Always Infinity pads (comes with a $1 coupon as well)
Crest advance seal whitening product
Poise pads (think of older people who could use this sample, Marks towers can always use the sample if you don't have anyone else in mind)
Prilosec sample

Remember that if you don't use the sample to think of who you know who might... There is usually someone who would welcome a sample or even a nursing home who would love the sample sizes. Sometimes I will throw them into my 'homeless' bags.. which are baggies that I make when I have samples of items and give them out to the people who are begging on the street (holding signs for work, food, etc). I feel that this is one way to show them love without giving them $$ to spend on unwise choices.
Blessings!~
Mari

CVS shopping

I went to CVS on Saturday evening with a good friend (thanks TK) and we had a good time just talking and freezing outside..hheheheheh..anyway my purchases were:
2-CVS brand 5ct allergy meds
3 heath bars (filler and they are gurl's favorite candy, major mom points)
2 lysol sprays (my local store is moving to a bigger store so there is lots of goodies marked down 75%)
a LARGE container of Gain laundry detergent(75%)
2 dawn
2 colgate toothpaste
3 razors gillette (75%)
3 packages of tena pads(75%)
2 colgate shaving creams for my manbear (75%)
AND a great b1gif containter of lysol wipes that were only $1.50...also (75%)
BEST thing was my favorite cashier was working so she let me use coupons too~ so my total oop was very very very low...
for all of that my oop was only $3.52
Oh yeah~ I felt like I hit the jackpot!
THEN yesterday I went to Harris Teeter to work and they were doing a reset (btw watch at alot of the grocery stores, they are all doing their spring resets and there are amazing sales).. Here HT is resetting the breakfast isle. So I bought 7 (YES SEVEN) boxes of rice krispies for $5.. amazing! I also bought a local newspaper and a box of brown rice (I didn't have my coupon box since I was working) all that was only $8.28... awesome!
So shopping for the last week only cost me $11.80~best thing was my savings were $107.26~
how cool is that?

YTD savings $189.77
Left to spend $1441.42
money spent $58.58

Bringing this to the top....

YTD savings $82.51
Left to spend $1453.22