Welcome to my new SPOOKY BLOG. I have decorated my blog for halloween. I love holidays so look for some other changes in the next few months.
This week the only stores I went to were CVS and Winn Dixie. I had some ECB that were going to expire. Here is a picture of everything we bought at CVS:
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| Milo & Pierre wouldn’t get in my picture 🙁 |
I couldn’t find all the receipts (we probably did close to 10 transactions) but from the transactions that I found we probably spent about $60 and saved $85 which comes out to about a 60% savings. Pretty good if you ask me considering we got a ton of candy and beauty products. Those $8/2 cover girl coupons came in handy! All that make up only cost us $3!!
We also went to Winn Dixie and just stocked up on all their BOGO meat sales. We spent about $50 and got 20 meals worth of meat!!
I probably won’t have any “Deal” Posts for a while. We’re pretty much stocked up on EVERYTHING and have a really tight budget for the rest of the month.
But don’t worry I will be posting!
Look forward to the following posts:
MENU PLAN MONDAY – I need to keep up with Menu Plan Mondays. I did it 2 weeks ago and it helped our meal planning for the week A LOT! Everyone always knew what needed to be taken out/what we were having (I printed the menu and put it on the fridge). So everyone laughed at me and said MPM was DUMB but it actually worked well because last week I didn’t do it and all our meals were nuts. No one knew what to eat, nothing was ever taken out of the freezer. It was COMPLETE CHAOS!
COUPONING TIPS – I will be continuing our Couponing Tips section. I haven’t decided what topic I am going to do this week. Probably Sale Cycles or Price Lists. If anyone has anything they want to know about ASAP let me know!
CATHOLIC POSTS – I am trying to write up some more catholic posts. I’ve applied to be on a Catholic Review board where I’ll get to review certain catholic books and wares. If I get accepted I’ll definetely be getting some awesome catholic material for the blog.
TECHNOLOGY – This past weekend I attended a workshop on technology in the classroom. This will go with the catholic articles section also. The presenter (who was a nun and about twice my age!) talked about how to use technology in the classroom with our faith formation programs. It was an EXCELLENT presentation. Her morning session was so good I went to her afternoon session which was on Social Media. So look for an article about what I learned in the coming future with lots of links and resources!!
That is all that I have in the works for now. If there is anything else you’d like to see on here please let me know and I’ll see what I can do. I hope everyone had/has a great weekend!!
1) You're spooky themed background is too cute!
2) I can't believe all that make up was only $3! I have got to start getting more into coupons!
3) Good luck on getting on the Review Board! 😀
Thanks!
1) I saw a link to the spooky social media icons and felt inspired to find some others!
2) I know there was an $8/2 covergirl coupon in last weeks paper. If I had gone to walmart or had a rite aid in town I could have gotten a better deal but I was lazy and just went to CVS.
3) Thanks! I'm excited to get free catholic books to review! My mom will love it too!
Hi Beth! I found you from your comment on B2B's Day one of building a better blog. As a Catholic mom who does her best to be frugal, I just had to come check you out.
Good luck with getting into Catholic reviews. If you haven't checked them out, FIRST Tours is a Christian book tour group that will have Catholic titles at times. I think in the past year I've reviewed 3 or 4 Catholic titles through them.
I hope you'll come by and visit me sometime. I'm following you now and plan to read more posts when I've got a few extra minutes.
Laura O in AK
http://daybydayinourworld.com
Laura thanks for stopping by! I will be sure to check out your site!
I wanted to thank you for doing the Mom Loop Challenge and let you know about a wonderful link up I sometimes join. Kelly's Korner has a link up on Fridays with different themes. This week is couponing sites. Here is her link: http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/.
I got almost 200 views by linking up to last week's theme.
Thanks for the information. I went to her blog and she has a lot of good topics!