Well, I succeeded in lowering our monthly grocery tab even more! When I first started couponing I looked up our bank history and totaled up what we were spending at grocery stores each month. Now, we mainly shop at Freddys which means we also bought a lot of decorative things for the house after we moved in, not to mention clothes, etc. So some of the montly totals weren't accurate for just our food costs . On average from Nov-March we were spending $1000 a month!! YIKES! One month was actually $1300!!! I know that included clothes, diapers and things for K, and at times Costco gas and new stuff for the house but still...thats WAAAAYYYYYYY too much money, I don't know what we were thinking by letting ourselves spend that much! We are on a tight budget and I really needed to start saving us money. First month of couponing I saved a few hundred bucks and was so excited! And for this past month we only spent $540 and that included filling up a new chest freezer we bought on craigslist for our garage!! I can't believe I have gone all these years without couponing. All it took was a little planning, learning to buy what we need not what we are in the mood to eat, and trying new things(because it was on sale or a new dinner idea that was cheap to make.
I know some of you think im already an extremist in the coupon world but trust me, im not and I still have a LOT to learn. I'm not one of the coupon crazies that do tons of transactions at the store to maximize savings...(not that im knocking those that do!) the thought of breaking up all those transactions overwhelms me. Now I am going to try and save money in other ways..maybe no cable for the summer? (really I am just tired of it being baseball season!)
What do you do in your house to save a buck?
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