I haven't blogged in a long time, and I thought I could use a positive list today:
1. My husband is full time at the school now. We are very blessed to both have insurance now.
2. Won a giveaway to receive free (10 pack) of coupons inserts for a month. Makes it really easy to get some deals! By the way if anyone needs some coupons, let me know. I've got a TON!
3. I've lost 16 lbs. now, and only 2.5 lbs away from my goal for my birthday in October. Not sure if I will make it, but I'm giving it a shot. The next goal will be for Christmas break. I'm learning that short term goals keep me motivated.
4. I have a stack of free/cheap magazines to read through this weekend.
5. I helped my sister on her first trip to use coupons/price matching and had a ton of fun :)
6. Even though one of our vehicles is needing some work, we are blessed to have another one to rely on.
7. Great co-workers!
8. Kids' smiles!
9. Fall weather. I know many of you don't like the "cooler" temps. but I love this time of year. Something about the beautiful colors, temps, sweatshirts, hot cider, pumpkins, and can't forget birthday and anniversary!
10. Speaking of anniversary...lucky to have such a great husband.
11. Blessed to have such great friends near and far, and to the far away friends I want you to know I think of you often.
12. Good health report for Josh's mom :) Love you.
13. It's the weekend.
14. Cooler weather means more snuggles from my kitty.
15. Enjoying reading the bible in a year.
Hope you take some time out of your day to think of the positives in your life!
Showing posts with label savings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label savings. Show all posts
Friday, September 23, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Losing and saving...
Before I forget, "Happy Independence Day, Liberia!"
Losing....
Well as I posted a couple of weeks ago, I'm back to working on eating healthy and exercising. As I told myself 3 years ago that this is a lifestyle change, not a fade diet. I'm tracking my calories on sparkpeople , which makes such a difference, when you have to face the facts. I'm keeping my calorie count around 1,300- 1,600 and watching to make sure I have enough carbs and protein. Trying to drink my 8 glasses of water today, but I've found that challenging. I've been loving working out to my Wii sports game called Your Shape, but unfortunately my sciatica has acted up again, so I've taken a break from it and sticking to some basic walking on the treadmill. I don't want to let my back pain get out of control again. It is very frustrating as I was seeing some really great results from doing "Your Shape", but that's how it goes. Anyone that is interested in a Wii sport game I highly recommend it. Jenny McCarthy can get a little annoying on it, but it sure targets all the areas and makes you sweat!
So far I've lost about 7 pounds. I hope to keep it off and lose 1-2 pounds a week. I've really like to have lost at least a total of 10 pounds by the time school starts.
Saving...
As I've posted before I'm all about finding great deals on things. Lately I've had some great luck with couponing and price matching. I do want to say though, I'M NOT AN EXTREME COUPONER. I think that the new show has given a bad rap to all those that coupon. I do not go and clear out a shelf of an item because it's a great deal.The key to saving money is to only buy the things that you need or will use. There are some great coupons and deals out there, but if you just buy the item because it is a great deal and you really don't need it...then it doesn't save you money. Josh and I just went shopping at CVS and Walgreens to try out their deals and to get register rewards and care bucks back. I ended up with some free hair ties (after the bucks) and some great shaving gels and razors at awesome prices with the coupons and extra bucks/register rewards. It is a great deal and excited to go back and use these to buy more things that we need. We are learning how to price match at walmart and buy things with coupons. Most our shopping trips we save between 20-40 dollars which I'm really pleased with. I've also gotten the hang of getting free samples. It is great to get the small bottles of things to use when you travel (no offense to hotels, but the shampoo/soap doesn't cut it for me) Before I call it a night, I just have to share about one of my deal today, as I received a credit for $20 through DollarDays and I got a large set of bic colored fine tip markers and four fine tip sharpies for 50 cents shipped. I was really excited about that as I love to use these in the classroom for grading. Speaking of grading, school will be starting again soon. Usual by August I'm ready to get back to a routine. I guess that is soon approaching....
Losing....
Well as I posted a couple of weeks ago, I'm back to working on eating healthy and exercising. As I told myself 3 years ago that this is a lifestyle change, not a fade diet. I'm tracking my calories on sparkpeople , which makes such a difference, when you have to face the facts. I'm keeping my calorie count around 1,300- 1,600 and watching to make sure I have enough carbs and protein. Trying to drink my 8 glasses of water today, but I've found that challenging. I've been loving working out to my Wii sports game called Your Shape, but unfortunately my sciatica has acted up again, so I've taken a break from it and sticking to some basic walking on the treadmill. I don't want to let my back pain get out of control again. It is very frustrating as I was seeing some really great results from doing "Your Shape", but that's how it goes. Anyone that is interested in a Wii sport game I highly recommend it. Jenny McCarthy can get a little annoying on it, but it sure targets all the areas and makes you sweat!
So far I've lost about 7 pounds. I hope to keep it off and lose 1-2 pounds a week. I've really like to have lost at least a total of 10 pounds by the time school starts.
Saving...
As I've posted before I'm all about finding great deals on things. Lately I've had some great luck with couponing and price matching. I do want to say though, I'M NOT AN EXTREME COUPONER. I think that the new show has given a bad rap to all those that coupon. I do not go and clear out a shelf of an item because it's a great deal.The key to saving money is to only buy the things that you need or will use. There are some great coupons and deals out there, but if you just buy the item because it is a great deal and you really don't need it...then it doesn't save you money. Josh and I just went shopping at CVS and Walgreens to try out their deals and to get register rewards and care bucks back. I ended up with some free hair ties (after the bucks) and some great shaving gels and razors at awesome prices with the coupons and extra bucks/register rewards. It is a great deal and excited to go back and use these to buy more things that we need. We are learning how to price match at walmart and buy things with coupons. Most our shopping trips we save between 20-40 dollars which I'm really pleased with. I've also gotten the hang of getting free samples. It is great to get the small bottles of things to use when you travel (no offense to hotels, but the shampoo/soap doesn't cut it for me) Before I call it a night, I just have to share about one of my deal today, as I received a credit for $20 through DollarDays and I got a large set of bic colored fine tip markers and four fine tip sharpies for 50 cents shipped. I was really excited about that as I love to use these in the classroom for grading. Speaking of grading, school will be starting again soon. Usual by August I'm ready to get back to a routine. I guess that is soon approaching....
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Frugal Living...
I know that everyone has their own definition of frugal living. Lately, I've been trying really hard to cut back on spending and finding resources to use to help us in this endeavor. I have found some great tools and blogs out there that have really helped me. I thought since I have found them helpful, maybe you will as well. So I would like to share some websites I have been using:
This site has really helped me to get freebies, as well as great deals for great prices. She shares freebies, coupons, weekly store deals, etc.
Swagbucks has been my recent tool to use online. It is a website where you earn points to cash in on prizes by mostly just doing your everyday searching. I thought it might take a lot of work, but it really doesn't. In particular I really like the gift cards, i.e. amazon, that you can use your points towards. I'm hoping this will help with my Christmas shopping this year. If you are interested in joining swagbucks for free. Click the image on the side of my page.
Is a site very similar to ebay, but it is free items. You earn points to list things, and then you can bid on other items. Some items do have shipping charges. It is a great way to get rid of items you don't need anymore, and get items you do need.
Well these are just few of the resources of have been using lately. Does anyone else have any they would like to share?
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