Tag Archives: budgeting

Simplifying Coupons

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I posted last week about the Money Saving Mom’s Budget book, and some of my shopping strategies for saving grocery money when you’re short on time–like using a price list, only shopping at one store, and shopping for your freezer, not your menu. Well, I also use coupons. But I still only have 2 hours a week to give to the planning and the shopping, so here’s the system I’ve distilled down to make it work for me. (I’m not saying anything is wrong with other systems–there’s lots of ladies … Continue Reading…

How I’m Saving on Groceries

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{ Sorry this post doesn’t have any pictures. All three of my kiddos are sick right now–between them we have 3 ear infections, 2 possible cases of pink-eye, 3 cases of severe allergies (with wheezing) and 1 case of pneumonia. So I didn’t have time to dig up pictures after I wrote the post. } This past Tuesday I wrote about being re-energized in my budgeting after reading The Money Saving Mom’s Budget by Crystal Paine. And today I have some simple tips to saving money on your grocery bill–without coupons! I do use … Continue Reading…

Money Saving Mom’s Budget Review

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Have you seen TLC’s Extreme Couponing show? $1,500 in groceries for $0.14 cents, or less. Sure, sign me up, right? Oh yeah, you have to be willing to spend 20-35 hours a week doing it and jump in dumpsters on a regular basis. Um, on second thought…I don’t really need 218 packs of Tic-Tacs (even if they are free!) and I’d wrestle sheep for 20-35 hours before I’d jump in one of our local dumpsters. But I’ve been working my way through that stack of books from January and I … Continue Reading…