Working on January Totals

I'm currently working on my January totals for the sidebar. I should have them up by the end of the week.

I'm very impressed that I didn't purchase any coupons last month via the Sunday paper. I have some family and friends that gave me their coupons. I'm working on some more sources (like neighbors and friends from church) to get more coupons without spending money. I don't use the printable coupon sources too much, since my local Target and one of my main grocery stores doesn't accept them.

I will post the January numbers soon.

Happy Saving!

Cutting Coupons....Are They Worth It?

OK.....there are still some people out there that think it's not worth sitting down and cutting out coupons. I know....I was like that once too! Then I read stories about people saving so much money with them.

Really, it takes about 1/2 an hour to cut them out and sort them every week. I sometimes enlist my son to help when he says he's bored!

Living in a state that doesn't double coupon, I don't save LOADS of money every week with them. I do save $10 to $15 a week though. And with 52 weeks in a year, that's more than $500 saved a year just for cutting those little strips of paper!

I think $500 is worth it!!

Happy Saving!