Earn, Save, and Live Joyfully.
A few weeks ago I purchased a couple of discounted gift cards from various daily deal sites. My goal was to save money at stores where I plan to shop for necessary baby items. I’m pretty particular about buying gift cards. For the most part I look to save at least 10%. I don’t want … Read more
I really wish I knew how to knit or sew. When I was in high school I bought a bunch of patterns and made cotton, summer dresses for myself. I did a decent job with the clothes that didn’t require buttons or zippers, but the second something more complicated came along in the design my … Read more
I love, love, love, love, love to paint my nails. It’s something I do whenever I’m upset, in a bad mood or need to relax. I probably started painting my nails when I was in middle or high school, but it took on new meaning when I got sick a few years ago. Shortly after … Read more
Bargain shopping helps me stock up on items when they are cheapest. I’m often able to combine coupons and sale prices to save 50 – 80% on every day grocery staples and personal hygiene products. I’m not an extreme couponer. I don’t attempt to stock the shelves with 50 bottles of some item I never … Read more
Throughout the week of my birthday I ate a free burger, dined on free pasta, ate free ice cream and picked up a bottle of free body wash. I love my birthday freebies! Who can resist a week full of yummy food and free gifts? Not me. I’m a sucker for all of the restaurants … Read more
I drove over to Babies-R-Us today in the hopes of scoring a few packs of Huggies diapers for only $1 each. The store held a $5 sale on Huggies Pure and Natural diapers, permitted the use of coupons and provided a $5 gift card for every two packs purchased. I had a couple of coupons … Read more
I didn’t intend to stock up on diapers so quickly, but the truth is that recent sales have been too good to resist. Between Rite Aid and CVS I’ve been able to acquire twelve packages in the last two months for less than $1 each. Every time I visited a Rite Aid store in the … Read more
It’s been awhile since I tried to lower any of our recurring monthly bills. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I even paid close attention to just how much we are paying for things like newspaper subscriptions and satellite TV. Of course, now that I might be out of work for just a … Read more
My husband has an ancient black and white printer that I’ve been clinging to for years. He kept threatening to replace it with something newer and faster, (it takes nearly ten minutes to print out one sheet of paper), but I really didn’t want to spend the money on a new one. Once he started … Read more
It’s been a very long time since my husband or I watched a DVD from our home library. These days we tend to watch movies ordered from Netflix, either streamed or from the Blu-rays that arrive in the mail. We also rent movies directly through Amazon’s instant video. We were never the type to buy … Read more