A Fresh Start

After a while we all get tired of the same thing, whether it's the same clothes, same food, same clutter. We just want to throw out and bring in the new. Well, that's about how I'm feeling about the blog. I love the blog and the concept of the blog but I've been slack. I think you guys want more from this than to just only hear about all the free stuff I get. I want to give you more than that too. I want this blog to keep you coming back daily for more and to invite your friends to come join. I hope to bring more frugal living post to the blog and other fun post not totally related to coupon deals.

I follow several of the bigger coupon/savings sites and I would love to see our blog become 1/2 of what these sites are. I realize I have to do my part on blogging but will you do your part of coming back and giving us feedback and comments to make the blog more exciting?

Spent $1.83 and Saved $29.84

I'm loving this beautiful weather outside today. Spent half the afternoon outside in my glider with a good book.

I had to share my freebies of the day with you. I spent $1.83 ( all but .30 was tax) and saved $29.84! I paid .30 for 2 zone perfect bars and everything else was free. I got 7 tubes of colgate that were on sale at Harris Teeter for $1.09, I had .75 coupons which doubled making them free. I bought 2 chewable 90ct. maalox bottles at Rite Aid on sale for $4.99, I also bought 1 liquid maalox for $4.99 too. I used 3 $5 maalox coupons and got $3 up rewards back. Up rewards are coupons to use off your next order. I went to Food Lion and got a roll of marcal paper towels free with a $1 coupon. The paper towels were regularly $1.19 but were on sale for $1.

How You Can Get Free Dove Deodorant

Don't throw out Jan. 30th's coupons so quick. There is a $2 off Dove deodorant coupon in the Red Plum from last Sunday. All month at Food Lion the Dove deodorant is on sale for $2 regularly over $3. Use the coupon and you can get it for free paying only tax this month at Food Lion.

Free Femine Products!!

This week I was loving the BOGO deal at Rite Aid with the Stayfree pads paired with the BOGO free coupons that came out a few weeks ago. For those of you who may not know you can use a buy 1 get 1 free coupon with a buy 1 get 1 free sale and get 2 for free! You can't beat that! I got 12 packs for free this week and only had two pay $2.32 for tax. I went back later in the week and got an additional 2 packs the were the 40ct. I only paid .99 plus .54 tax which = $1.53 for these large packs.

Laundry Detergent Bargin

This week I stocked up on laundry detergent at CVS with the Extra sale. They had extra laundry detergent on sale for $1.49. I had traded for 10 $1/1 extra coupons. I paid a little over $5 for 10 bottles of 50oz laundry detergent. Which = .49 plus tax each. I now have 14 bottles total of laundry detergent in my stockpile! I think I'm stocked up for a while.

An Opportunity to Bless Someone

We take so much for granted and need to slow down and think of how we can bless those who are going through difficult times. I have a friend, Rachel, who had a 13oz micro preemie who lived in the NICU the first four months of her life before going home to be with Jesus. Rachel has started a yearly preemie onesie drive in her daughter's memory. She collects, preemie onesies, outfits and clothes up to 3 months and gives them to the neonatal nursery where her daughter lived her four months. Rachel also collects, receiving blankets and socks for the babies. The neonatal nursery cares for up to around 100 babies.

Rachel, shares on her blog (www.preemieclothingdrive.com) how the journey isn't easy with your child in the NICU. She was given an annonymous onesie when her daughter was in there, and Rachel was greatly blessed by this act of kindness from a complete stranger.

The delivery date for these items to the NICU is March 9th. We really need to collect these things asap so I can get them to Rachel.

If you would rathar give a monatary gift I would see that it was used to buy onesies etc. for the drive.

I'm excited to see what our small blog can do to bless these tiny babies and their families.

Please leave us a comment in the comment section and let us know if you're willing to help. If we don't have your contact info please leave us your e-mail address.

Thanks so much in advance!

How You Can Get Free Toothpaste

Tomorrow in the P&G insert in the newspaper there will be a $1 coupon for crest toothpaste. Clip this coupon and get free toothpaste at Dollar General. If you don't use crest you can get it and donate it. If you don't need toothpaste right now it wouldn't hurt to stock up since it's free!!

Saved $127 Spent $14.85 So Far In 2011

We're only into the 14th day of the year and I've already saved $127. this year and spent $14.85.

I've been back to Food Lion and bought 2 more of the spaghetti for $1. I found 2 more of the $1 coupons. I also bought 2 more of the Healthy Choice soups, some bananas, and 2 more containers of the bestlife butter spread. I had coupons, of course, for everything except the bananas. Not sure how this happened but I paid only for the bananas. The soups should have cost $1. I only paid $1.30 and the bananas were $1.16 plus .14 tax. I'm not complaining at all!!

I got 2 of the pure protein bars, 1 of the Johnson and Johnson baby bars of soap, and 4 boxes of the fiber one honey clusters cereal. I paid 4.26 for all of this and .26 was tax. The only thing I really paid for was $1 a box for the cereal.

Saved $21.49 spent .74 tax

Today proved to be another successful day of freebies at Harris Teeter. I saved $21.49 an only had to pay tax which was .74.

I bought:

2 hormel complete dinners on sale for $1.97 each
3 reach dental floss regularly $1.65 each
1 glade air freshner 1.65
5 single rolls of 7th generation paper towels on sale for $1.99 each


I had:
2 $1 coupons for the hormel which doubled=free
3 $1 dental floss coupons doubled =free
1 $1 glade air spray coupon doubled=free
5 $1 7th generation product coupons doubled=free

I was really excited with my free paper towels. With what I got yesterday and today I probably have around 9 rolls. They're tan so they aren't the prettiest but hey, they were free. A pack that big in the store would cost you several dollars!!

Get a $5 Starbucks gift card for $1

There is a HOT deal on Family Finds a new daily deal site today! Get a $5 Starbucks gift card for $1.

It’s limit one card per household and there are a limited supply. So hurry and enjoy a discount on a fun splurge!

The card will be mailed to you within 2 weeks.

Thanks, southernsavers.com

Spent $5.33 Saved $54.30

I'm so excited about my shopping trip today. Even though I always save more then I spend I believe this could be the most I've ever saved in one trip. Today I went to Harris Teeter, Dollar General, and Food Lion.

At Harris Teeter with the Super Double Coupons I was able to get a lot of free stuff:

2 large 7th Generation Dish Liquids
2 small bottles of Bayer Asprin
3 8 oz tubes of toothpaste
2 boxes of spaghetti

I also got a bottle of V8 Fusion Light, 3 boxes of Finish dish detergent, and 1 jar of smuckers jelly, I had to pay for these items but not much. The jelly was .79, the v8 was .50, and the finish was .49. I was very pleased with how well I did.

Food Lion also has some really great deals I told you about yesterday. I bought 3 small tubs of Best Life Buttery spread, and 2 boxes of spaghetti and got this all for free. I also bought 2 healthy choice cans of soup also on sale for $1 and used $1/2 coupon and got both for $1.

At Dollar General I got 1 olay body wash which was on sale for $2 and used the coupon from dec. P&G insert and got it for free. Overall it was an awesome trip, can't wait to go do it again!

Food Lion Freebies and Great Deals That You Can Grab This Week.

I'm normally not a huge couponer at Food Lion because they don't double coupons but this week will be different. I will be couponing there this week. BestLife Buttery Spread is on sale there this week for $1. There was a $1 coupon in Jan.2nd newspaper. I'm also going to grab some of the Healthy Choice soups. They're also $1 this week and $1/2 coupon was also in this past sunday's paper. .50 a piece for Healthy Choice soup is not a bad deal at all.