Ok… so over the years I have had MANY Black Friday strategies.  This year I am planning a new strategy.  I also know that even the best laid plan may need tweaking!  I cannot tell you how many times I have shown up at a location only to decide that I was not willing to [...]

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7 Weeks Till Christmas: Organize Your Family’s Holiday Calendar
Photo: Country Living
1. Write down some descriptive words. Take a few minutes before the craziness of the holidays sets in and physically write down what the holidays should MEAN to you.  What do you WANT the holidays to be above the presents and lights?  It [...]

This is what it looks like to us!  In truth… the Krusteaz company actually PAID us to shop and take home their product.  In total Troy paid (OOP) $0.20.  Then he received back $5 in Catalina rewards.  He used two $1 cats to pay.  All told we profited $2.80 on this trip.  This is a [...]

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This week’s project is GATHER YOUR ADDRESSES for your Christmas Cards.  NO!  It is NOT too early.  Doing these little things in ADVANCE saves you when you NEED to be doing things like baking etc.
Some places to FIND your card addresses are:

your wedding mailing [...]

This week we are going to make our halloween pumpkins.  Some friends (uhh hmmm… Amber and Sean) are going to pick up our pumpkin carving tradition with us.  The first year they were in Kentucky we carved together and at the time I think we each only had ONE child ( I think… maybe I [...]

I found this series over at Simple Mom’s Blog and since I wasn’t reading her blog last year its all brand new (and VERY fascinating!) to me!  Maybe its new to you too!  Since the cooler weather has finally hit Kentucky and the leaves are starting to change I am ALREADY feeling the pressure of [...]

First off… start small. I guarantee you that the FREE tube of tooth paste… will be back FREE again in another month or two. For the first month I recommend that you start SMALL when coupons. Try using 5 or so coupons at once before you try 105!!!!
There is some good common [...]

Before you can begin saving big bucks you must first have coupons right???  I personally try NOT to pay a lot of money for my coupons.  I feel like it defeats the purpose of SAVING the money!  There are a select few deals etc when I will purchase extra papers or coupons because its a [...]