Tonight friends of ours celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary by renewing their vows. The ceremony and reception that followed were both wonderful and it was so nice to see their love for each other.

Earlier today, my DH and I looked at our expenses for the last 10 months. Grocery spending for October was down, but we didn't see a clear overall decrease in our grocery bill and I wonder what I'm doing wrong. I've identified a few things:

1) I spent too much money...

Tomorrow will be my second CVS trip this week. After the first trip, I came away with the $15 ECB from the Duracell battery deal and a $5/25 coupon. My scenario for tomorrow is:

Batteries (as close to $16.04 as I can get since I already have $3.96 from my last visit)
Colgate toothpaste $1.98
Cover Girl mascara $5.99
Pop Tarts $3.34
Total = $27.35
- $5/25
- $15 ECB
- $6.25 manuf. coupons
Total now = $1.10

I could minimize...

I'm going to be using this blog to document my savings. I tried writing about this on my regular blog, but people weren't really interested.

I went to five Walgreens stores this week to try to find lavender Suave shampoo (my daughter's favorite kind) with no luck. So today I broke down and bought four bottles of other formulations.

Each bottle => on sale for $1.49
Coupon => $1.00/2
Total cost => $3.96 + .42 tax = 4.38
Minus $3 register rewards...