Obviously I am someone who regularly glances over weekly sales ads. If you are shopping with coupons this is a MUST. I almost always know what is on sale at the few stores I shop at regularly. There are a few bad things about keeping up with what is on sale at your favorite stores.…
For the past week I have REALLY been wanting to shop. I hate when this feeling strikes. I don’t want to go clothes shopping, although that would be fun to. I want to shop for my house. It has been forever since I went on a shopping adventure to buy things for my home. Oh…
Couponing is new to me so of course its exciting and fun, but boy has it been addicting! I think my husband has started to get annoyed with my new hobby and I don’t blame him! Between the amount of time I spend researching deals and all the junk food that has entered my house in…
I opened a bottle of wine and did it, the dreaded task of going through my February receipts. I don’t normally keep every receipt and then go over them at the end of the month but I wanted to calculate my spending and compare it to my budget. First of all I have to say…
Since I have started following a strict monthly budget I have had to really start paying attention to my spending habits. In the past you could have caught me cruising the aisles at Target to waste time. The problem was I wasn’t just wasting time I was wasting money to! In the past 2 months I…
As I am learning more about couponing I am figuring out that my expectations were to high. Here are a few things I have earned. Most “couponers” still pay for things, they get great deals but not everything is FREE– I thought with coupons you would be stocking up your closets with lots of FREE things.…
After spending 2 hours searching the web for coupons and cross checking them with local sales ads, I came to the conclusion couponing is just not for me. I thought it’d be a good way to save some money and have a little fun. I thought it would be fun because snagging a good deal…
Life in the Orchard 