Happy New Years everyone I've decided to be more stricked with my spending and saving. I'm going to start out with using the envelope system, hopefully that works. I'm also going to be doing the grocery shopping by myself, no BF. I'll try to eat better and buy more fresh produce. I will start to go to Wags and CVS again only for freebies though, since I have enough of most HBA items. I do need to refurbish my PT and TP pile and maybe add some more dishsoap and laundry soap in there too....

I am very excited t:BigHand: o get started learning how to save $$$$$$$$$$ on products i use ALL the time, products I donate I cant wait to be able to help others out in the process I have MANY coupons to start I bought a binder :smile: MY FIRST AUCTION off another website, But this is THE BEST I HEARD.. I cant wait, It was full of coupons and there were over 70% of them expired! :sad: So unfornt I lost a bunch but still have plenty to be traded. I cant wait, I love saving money but I have seen...

I'm going to keep track of everything I contact companies for and see what I actually get back.

12/31/09
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I just started keeping track of my deal/grocery spending for the past few months and not regularly at all. I want to become more regular about it.
For 2009 (the past few months only) I spent about 273.00and saved 939.00.
I'm pretty happy about that but want to get it higher this year. I only couponed for about 6 months out of 09 i really hope I learn more this year!!

so i have found that tracking every cent is just not going to work for me, so i am thinking that going to the envelope system may be the best bet for me that way i can track on a monthly or weekly basis and rather than figuring out how much i spent after the fact, it may be better to go over what i have at the end of the month, mainly in entertainment/eating out/gifts areas.

I will continue to track our food spending and savings as usual, only this year there is an added twist: we...