So as promised, here are my new job duties as Budgeter Extraordinaire...
~Continue to compile my enormous list of all the regular prices of all the items I normally buy at all three grocery stores in town and at CVS Pharmacy so that I know each store's prices for every item I buy.
~Get Sunday and Wednesday's paper from my aunt so that I can get that week's coupons and sale flyers
~Try to match up my coupons with sale items to get a double discount.
~Try and find online coupons
~Call the manufacturers of all the items I regularly purchase to ask for coupons in the mail for those items.
~Plan my meals around what's on sale and what I have coupons for.
~Rather than making a weekly trip to the grocery store, make one big trip at the beginning of the month and only make subsequent trips for milk and those kinds of things that need to be restocked before the end of the month.
~Eat out once a month and Kaydn Rye shares off my plate.
~No weekend bowling trips, no skiing trips, no trips of any kind for that matter. Only our weekly game nights with friends for entertainment for one whole year.
~Ease up on driving and consolidate trips around town.
~Only thrift store clothing and shoes for Kaydn and myself.
~No water running while brushing teeth, washing dishes, ect., and baths for Kaydn Rye every other night.
~No paid haircuts - my mother is now Brandon and Kaydn's barber
By doing this, last month I saved about $200 on my monthly grocery bill.
If anyone has any good coupon sites that aren't connected to major grocery stores that those of us in small areas don't have, please post them.
I'll make sure to post links to all the "frugal living" books I've got on my nightstand right now, which I borrowed from the library rather than purchased.
Monday, March 10, 2008
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