Coupon Clipping

A few weeks ago I began to search out coupons in newspapers and on the internet to help save some money in the grocery area of our budget. I have good memories of helping my mom cut and organize coupons into categorical envelopes on Sunday afternoons (we'd buy the sunday newspaper after church and look at it over lunch). So, I bought my envelopes, labeled them similarly to my childhood memories, and have been cutting away.

Okay, so onto the good part- the other day I bought about $15-$20 worth of stuff for only $6.50! woot woot. How? Well, I used great saving coupons from coupons.com on items that were already on sale! In fact, Walmart payed me $.02 to buy BBQ sauce.

Warning. Intense bargain hunting is addicting :).

Free

I just received an email that I've been chosen to receive a free book called Lost and Found (through lifeway). Rock. I've been really wanting to read that book, as it's right up my future research alley.

I also won a free necklace at Stormie and Adriene's jewelry party on Friday night.

And in the past few days, i've gotten coupons for free things...
- free scoop of ice cream from baskin robbins.
- free dinner at lonestar (up to $15).
- free dt. dr. pepper at QT.
- free small sub from Quiznos.
- free small sub from Schlotskys Deli (in KC only :().
- free medium drink from Sonic.

How does this happen? I don't even try that hard. i mean, it takes a little work, but it's nothing that out of my way. Well, to be fair, if you sign up at a lot of these food places' websites, they send you coupons for free stuff around your birthday (which is what most of these items were). But you can get free things every month at QT by signing up to take one survey a month.

And the first two things were total flukes. i never win any contests. Both were simply the luck(?) of the draw, or bingo number.

I'm a little nervous that if i ever start playing BINGO as an older adult, I'm going to get hooked. And spend Jake and I's life savings. So no one invite me to the senior citizen hall, k?