Tuesday, September 30, 2008

I've always been called frugal.......

but I've taken it to a whole new level!!

Let's just say that I now spend my free time looking up frugal, money saving, and coupon websites while Mia's napping. And during the night, I wake up thinking about the different ways I can save money the following day!! It's basically becoming an obsession. Pathetic, I know, but I guess it could be worse!

I have saved almost $360 so far since August and that's not including my shopping trip to Albertsons tomorrow where there will be A LOT of savings happening!:)

Check out sites below for great freebies, coupons, and tips about saving money.

Freebies 4 Moms(Love this one!)

Luv 2 B Frugal

Coupon Suzy(FYI: Can't use computer coupons at Winco)

Frugal Finds

Frugal Freebies & Deals

Common Sense with Money

Be Centsable

Money Saving Mom

Coupon tip(Thanks to Betsy!) Albertsons will take any competitor's coupons.(This is probably nothing new to some of you, but this is a whole new world for me!)

I've also decided that Mia and I are going to walk to as many things as possible.(Too bad I didn't think of this earlier, like maybe during the summer when it wasn't raining.) We began this challenge today with a walk to our music class in the morning. It was only about a mile and a half total. It was picture day in class!

Kindermusik class

In the afternoon we needed to run errands to Home Depot and Safeway, so we walked/ran there.

I also met up with Hil to walk this evening. I think I walked almost 9 miles today! My legs are feeling it a bit :) I already have our walking errand planned for tomorrow.( I know, I'm insane!) We're planning on walking almost 8 miles to go grocery shopping! Hopefully this is a good idea, and I won't regret it!! We'll see!!

Pictures with "Auntie Hil" & "Uncle Josh" from last weekend. Mia's going to have a little girlfriend come next February! We can't wait!

group gettogether 001

group gettogether 002

Dominic(3), Olivia(11mos), Mia(7 mos) & Channing(2) (First time we've had all the kids from our small group awake at the same time to take a picture. As you can see, they were thrilled about the photo session!At least they're all looking in the general direction of the camera! :)

 group gettogether 004

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