My Grocery Budget is $400 a month.

This includes all food, HBA, Cleaning, Diapers, and pet stuff for a family of 7 people, 3 Dogs, and 3 Cats.

As of today 9/4/07 I have spent $32.50 on 4 Lbs of Pork Chops, a bag of Potatoes, 8 Ears of Corn, 2 Loaves of bread, 2 gallons of milk, 3 Lbs of grapes, 1 seedless watermellon, 1 bag of carrots. (all bought without coupons:Poke:)

Sometimes you have to buy some staples, but if DH has told me he was going to the store...

Well I finished up my bathroom last night. DH was a big help because he offered to move my cleaning stockpile from the shelves over the washer and dryer into the linen closet for me.

Yeah I know I said I was going to put linens in there, but decided otherwise because I have more cleaning stockpile than I do linens (ok lets call them what they are sheets,pillowcases, and misc. blankets...none of them are made of linen, and its not like I have nice matching coordinated sheet sets all...

The problem is that our upstairs bathroom is heavily used. It is our only bathroom with a tub and shower so everyone bathes in there, it is also our laundry room. It is nice having a washer and dryer upstairs where everyone gets dressed and I don't have to lug laundry up and down stairs, but as anyone who does laundry knows, laundry creates clutter because a.) laundry is a never ending process, it's just never done! b.) there is always pocket fluff and dryer lint everywhere it seems.
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So that I am not repeating myself in each of my blogs, with kids, pets, ect let me do a basic introduction about myself for easy reference.

Hello, my name is Heidi. I am 32 yo (will be 33 Sept. 18th). I along with Julie (hotcouponmama) own and operate this site Hot Coupon World. I am married to my wonderful husband Russ, whom I have known since 10th grade:Wave:. Together we have 5 wonderfull children. Ages 16 to 2. They are...

Marilyn - 16
Hannah - 10
Parker...

Wow, I am so excited about this new feature to bring to Hot Coupon World, the fun and exciting blogs.

Well it really is getting late here, and after waiting for what seems like hours for the new software to get installed, I can't think of much to say.

So I guess I will end this blog post with that, and start to blog in earnest tomarow.

But I get to be the very first blog post at HCW.


It's good to be the queen!...