3 Easy Ways to Save on Springtime Decorating Summer is coming! Flowers, trees, and grass are in bloom. Spring is finally here and I couldn’t be more excited. This has been a long hard winter at our home and spring brings with it a fresh start to life for us. Last year, I remodeled my …
Couponing
We’ve talked a bit about how food is a variable expense that can make or break the budget. Meal planning and having a food storage base are fantastic ways to combat overspending in your food category. Challenge #2 was designed to help combat overspending eating out by keeping a list of easy go-to meals you …
Karen author of our book, Living a Rich Life as a Stay-at-Home Mom wrote, I was talking to a friend the other day and told her my son’s shoes were bought for a dollar at the local thrift store. She looked a little confused and asked where the thrift store was. I was surprised that she didn’t …
Often food is the largest variable expense in our budgets. Certain habits will really hike up the food budget category: eating out, shopping at expensive grocery stores, not meal planning, letting food go to waste/go bad, not having food storage to make impromptu meals from, and buying pre-made expensive items that can be made from …
Most retail and product-based companies make a lot of money sending out emails. They know that they can get people to buy through email marketing. They often advertise coupon codes, discounts, sales, etc. and while all of those are great (I LOVE using coupons and sales and other discounts all together), they can be tempting. …
I love to shop at Smith’s Food and Drug Store aka Kroger. There are many reasons why I love to grocery shop at Smith’s, but the main one is that the savings opportunities are awesome! There are so many ways to save and many opportunities to get things for FREE. I’ve never shopped at any …
Yesterday we got to run to Target to grab a few last-minute recipe items and to check out the back-to-school clearance shelves. A trait that thrifty people have is to look for deals after large event-type sales and holidays. You can save big by buying holiday or back-to-school items after the event has past. We went …
Rite Aid is one of my favorite places to shop. Recently, with the new release of the Plenti program, there has been a change in coupon policy. So I wanted to share them with you… I save a great amount there through the use of the following steps: 1. Use manufacturer coupons found in newspaper and online …
Anita’s Secret Couponing System Video Training Want to save over $45.00 in 35 minutes of preparation each time you go grocery shopping? I will show you how in my exclusive planning video. The online training consists of an easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructional where I share my fine-tuned grocery saving system. I’ve made it really easy to …
Walgreens can be a bit tricky to save money and coupon at. But don’t let that discourage you because the deals there can are AMAZING (especially during big sales and Black Friday). I’m often getting household supplies, makeup, even food for 40-100% off there. When people hear that they are surprised because it’s actually kind …
As many of you know, I love to find great deals! But good deals on more expensive items and services such as: travels, house cleaning, restaurants, entertainment, etc. are hard to find. When I found about about yourFREEtree I was pretty excited. It’s got a huge database of coupon/gift certificates for goods, services, and even …