Archive for February, 2005
OK, so go ahead, call me a geek
But I just saved $184 at the grocery store. I only spent $120. Go Keer Go Keer Go Keer!
Check out www.thegrocerygame.com. It's not available in all areas, but you can type in your zip code and find out. This is how it works: You pay $10 every 8 weeks (they offer you a trial for $1 - I can't remember if it's for an 8-week or 12-week period), and they (don't ask me who "they" is LOL!) come up with this grocery list for you based on the coupons that should be availabe in your area and the sales at a particular grocery store in your area. (For me it's Albertson's, which is where I normally shop anyway.) They track the sales and the coupons and then tell you what is a killer deal or just a so-so deal. Then you load up on the killer deals and create a stockpile in your home.
This was a new way of thinking for me because I normally would create my menu and then shop based on what I needed for my menu. Now I shop based on what is on sale and then create my menu based on what I already have on hand.
Now, I do currently have about 6 mega-packs of toilet paper, but I most likely won't need to buy any before it goes on sale again. I'm also able to afford "fun" foods like Oreos and pies.
If you DO go to The Grocery Game and sign up, PLEASE SAY THAT I REFERRED YOU - razorbackmama@hotmail.com. I'll get a referral bonus if you do.
As for this particular shopping trip, it was a savings of 60.44%. That is SIGNIFICANT for me because my store doesn't double-coupon. My list from the Game isn't as good as some other areas since the coupons in my paper are sometimes not as good, but still! I had guessed that I was going to save about $100, but I was off.
Signs you know you've saved a lot at the grocery store (all of these happened tonight):
1. The cash register starts beeping, and the manager has to (repeatedly) override it.
2. The bagger leaves to go do something and then comes back and says, "Oh good, I was hoping I'd be back in time to see how much she saved."
3. The cashier says, "OH MY GOSH," when she looks at your receipt and how much you saved.
4. The manager and the cashier discuss amongst themselves how much you saved.
5. The other customers say, "She spent $184?" and the cashier says, "No, that's how much she SAVED."
6. As the bagger takes your stuff out to your car, he tells you he's never seen anyone save that much before.I literally did a DANCE when the cashier rang up $13.90 in coupons (10 at $1.39 each) for my Chunky Soup LOL!!!
Dh says I'd better look out - Albertson's will change their coupon policy because of me. LOL!
Do go check it out and don't forget to say I referred you!!!!!
Sigh, I knew I didn’t have time to do this!
Way too many things to do in order to spill my guts on here. Today I'm needing to go through my coupons and get ready to go to the grocery store. I also need to burn some DVDs for school. Tomorrow dh is off work - YAHOO - so I get "somewhat" of a day off. (But yeah right, like I ever really get a day off!)
C's ear is starting to hurt again. *sigh* We went through about 1.5 weeks of him complaining of his ear hurting and some additional antibiotics. It finally quit and then dh irrigated his ears a bit last night during his bath, and I'm wondering if that irritated it.
We finally got everyone well, and I'm almost scared to go back to church/AWANA lest they catch something else! But I guess it's that time of year. And as long as no one is puking I can handle it. It's annoying, but not nearly as anxiety-causing as puking!
I got my hair cut off Friday afternoon. FOURTEEN INCHES!!! I'm donating it to http://www.locksoflove.org. We took pictures, and I'll post some when I get them developed. Prior to being cut, I'd have the occasional curly hair sprout out, so I wondered if it might go curly on me once I cut it, since the weight would be gone.
Um no. That is NOT what happened. LOL! Still as stick-straight as ever. My mom thinks I should have a perm, but I've just had lots of bad perms in the past, and I'm scared! Coloring is one thing, since you can (usually) color it back if it gets screwed up, but perming is well.....permanent! I'm a chicken, what can I say?
I desperately need to work on our schedule. Things around here are pure chaos. And S is on the verge of mobility (yes, at only almost 5 months!!!), so that just adds to our need for a schedule. J, bless his heart, is bored out of his mind while I'm doing school with G and C, and he gets into lots of trouble when he's bored. I'd love to tomato stake him to me, as some parenting gurus recommend, but I have yet to figure out HOW to actually do it in our house. I just really need to get ORGANIZED!!!
OK enough chit chat. Hopefully I'll get better about this. I love the idea of just sharing with my thoughts (whether or not anyone actually reads LOL), if only to get my thoughts halfway organized! So I think blogging might be somewhat therapeutic for me. The kicker is actually getting over here to DO IT.
I should be folding laundry, but…
I'm not. I'm posting on my brand, spankin' new blog. I don't have time for this. But I have lots to say, and I know my husband is tired of hearing it LOLOL!!!
Perhaps I'll make it back later tonight to REALLY post. I wanted to get something up here to see what happens. And once I see if something does happen, I need to get back at those mounds of clean clothes that need to be folded....
