Money Saving Mom - Saving Saturday!

Hi folks, this week we're doing Money Saving Mom's Super Saving Saturday! You can find more stories on her website at: http://www.moneysavingmom.com/

At CVS this week I scored:

10 Febreze Candles .79 each= FREE
2 Boxex of Cheese Crackers $1.98 each, $2 ECB back, $3 EVS Brand Q**see below! = $1.06 Profit!
Total: -1.06
ECB: $2.00

Rite-Aid:
Reeses Whipps 2 for $1.00 $1/2 Coupon, bought 10 = FREE
Total: .17 for tax!!

Local Supermarket:
Asstd. Pasta 3 for $3.00 - $1.00 Catalina = $2.00
Swanson Dinners: 3 for $3.00 - $1.00 Home Mailer = $2.00
Green Giant Steamers 10 for $10.00 - $1.00/1 Coupon = FREE
Celeste Pizzas: 10 for $10.00 - No Coupons = $10.00
Total: $14.00
Value: $60.00

TOTAL THIS WEEK: $13.11
VALUE: $152.00!!
SAVED: $139.00!!!!

**Please do not use the $3.00 off CVS Brand Coupon - I was misinformed about it and thought it was legite. We try our hardest to be ethical couponers - although this one seemed to slip through our eyes.

Money-Tips Tuesday!

So sorry to have not posted yesterday - have been SO busy lately! Anyway - this week I'm not going to throw tips at you - but I am going to give you three links (to three of my favorite blogs) on how they coupon - and the basics of couponing(or Coupon 101!) Well my first pick would have to be Consumer Queens Coupon Tips! You can find them here: http://www.consumerqueen.com/getting-started
My next favorite site for "Couponing 101" would be Lynnae's post on how she uses the Grocery Game to help her save money on her groceries - you can find it here:
http://beingfrugal.net/2009/01/13/being-frugal-with-the-grocery-game/
And last, but not least would be Deal Seeking Mom's list of resources on how to get the coupons, you can find it here (also click on Grocery Grab - lots of great stuff there):
http://www.dealseekingmom.com/coupons/

Yikes!

I feel like I am lacking behind so much - oh wait I am! So sorry to not have posted the last few days, just had some complications Tuesday and Wednesday and was just getting back into the swing of things yesterday - but I'm back and have so much e-mail and so many blogs to catch up on! Anyway - today is going to Money Tips Tuesday, Thrifty Thursday, and Frugal Friday all tied into one - plus I'm going to be doing a post on all of my favorite posts from this week (from my blogroll!). So - I hope you pull up a chair, grab a cup of cozy hot tea, and settle in for a lot of reading!

Recently I was reading through an old post of one of my favorite blogs, and it had a whole week devoted to money-saving tips. Well here are a few of my favorite that I stick true to - always!

1. Be Careful What You Clip - By that I mean, Coupons. Often when we're flipping through those wonderful inserts we clip about 15 coupons for items that we don't need to buy - exactly what the company wants you to do - there providing you with an incentive to buy their product. But do we really need to try NEW Special K Bars - no, since I'm not going on a diet soon and I'm not that big a fan of them - I don't need to buy them.

2. Wait for the sales - It's great when you have a coupon for something - but you'll save about 50% more if you combine it with a sale! So wait off on the Grape Jelly which you have a $.75 coupon for, until it goes on sale - it'll probably be about 1.99 and a .75 coupon doubled is $1.50, so it'll end up to be about .49 cents!

3. Make Starbucks At Home - If you bought a $3.oo coffee every morning for 3 mornings a week, that would be close to $500.00 a year! So why not make it at home - or better yet stop all together! Lynnae at Being Frugal did a blog post yesterday on how to make a Frugal Mocha - check her out on my blogroll!

4. Read - I can't believe I am saying this because my whole life I have heard about how reading is the key to knowledge - but it's so true. By reading The Tightwad Gazette I learned so much - by reading Blogs I save so much, and by reading books I open up a world opporunity. So stop by the local library and pick up a few books!