Anyone close to me knows that my vacuum always gets a good workout. I attribute my cleanly ways to my mother who literally vacuumed her mattresses early on in her marriage. I am not "that bad," but I do admit to regularly vacuuming my garage. Yes, my garage.

As a newlywed, I was determined to convince my husband that as a capable wife, I reigned supreme. As a result, my enthusiasm for vacuuming was at an all time high.

Our first apartment looked out to an identical...

Starting this month with some spending, so I won't have to do more juggling to keep my spending in check.

Have:
CVS $3 ecb $8.10 GC
Walgreens $10 RR $22.21 GC
Walmart $1.26 gc

No money left in PP, a few free coupons, but nothing expiring in March. Nothing else to speak of, just trying to stick with my $40/wk limit.

February 28

Fiesta
Donuts
Bread
Garlic
Cilantro
Limes
bananas
3lbs...

Well this month is about to come to a close and just tallied up my totals and while i am happy with my grocery numbers, eating out seemed to be way over budget this month. I am a little disappointed in this as we are trying to eat healthier and financially i would have preferred to spend more of the money on food at the grocery store, march i hope to adhere to the budget better and try to get dh to stop eating out so much!

status of buying organic: all milk and eggs were purchased...

I had a super shopping trip today!!!

Here is the result of my 4 hrs. today. I got:

18 Oscar Mayer Bacon = $1 each
21 Tombstone Pizza - $0.34 each
3 Mento's Gum - FREE
3 Bumble Bee Tuna - FREE
2 Snicker Bar - FREE
20 Quaker True Delights - $0.16 each

8 Purex - $0.25 each
2 Chex...

Here I go I have been couponing for about a year. I started in Mrach/April of last year. Tomorrow Feb 28 I will turn 35 I have no budget I just know I spend about 300.00 a month on food. I really don't know about HBA .I am going to keep track of what I spend for the month of March. We are a family of 4 Me, my hubby and 2 teenagers, and two dogs. I buy a 50lb bag of dog food for 21.99 every 3 weeks and that is with no Q. I really need to get bills paid off. If you have any way to get bills paid off...