Archive for December, 2008
December 31, 2008 at 7:56 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged coupons, Kroger, online coupons
One of the readers made a great comment, and I just wanted to highlight it, so that more people can read it. Thanks, Mike!
My wife uses online coupons for groceries all the time. We save a pretty good amount at the grocery store and other places from online coupons. Sites like http://www.printablegrocerycouponsonline.com help us out a good deal.
My wife uses online coupons for groceries all the time. We save a pretty good amount at the grocery store and other places from online coupons. Sites like www.printablegrocerycouponsonline.com help us out a good deal.
mike.mcklaskey@gmail.com
Mike McKlaskey
http://www.printablegrocerycouponsonline.com
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December 31, 2008 at 3:57 am
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged free software, money management, money management software, new year's resolution
Thinking about getting your financial house in order?
One idea is to start at www.mint.com for free money tracking software.
Does anyone else know some good, free software for money management…drop a coment!
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December 29, 2008 at 2:41 am
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged discount clothing, KB Toys, Neiman Marcus, Neiman Marcus Last Call, thrift shopping
My hubby gave me a Neiman Marcus $50 gift card for Christmas so today I went to Great Lakes Crossing, a discount/outlet mall to NM Last Call.
Last Call is the clearance center where couture clothes go to be put out of their misery.
They had nice stuff, real nice stuff. But much of it, was kind of ho-hum for me.
I see Dana Buchman all the time at thrift stores. Ditto DKNY, Ellen Tracy, etc.
Of course, they had some really high-end stuff there, too, and I was really impressed, but even hugely discounted, there was no way I could afford a $650 Yves St. Laurent tote bag.
The rest of the mall was also kind of ho-hum. Most of the goods I had seen at thrift stores for MUCH cheaper prices.
I stopped at KB Toys, and found that the High School Musical dance mat I had bought him for a few bucks was $40, now $20, since it was half-off.
My overwhelming impression: resale beats retail any day of the week!
PS. I think some people have learned this. More than half the people in the mall had no shopping bags, and those who did only had one.
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December 29, 2008 at 2:41 am
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged discount clothing, KB Toys, Neiman Marcus, Neiman Marcus Last Call, thrift shopping
My hubby gave me a Neiman Marcus $50 gift card for Christmas so today I went to Great Lakes Crossing, a discount/outlet mall to NM Last Call.
Last Call is the clearance center where couture clothes go to be put out of their misery.
They had nice stuff, real nice stuff. But much of it, was kind of ho-hum for me.
I see Dana Buchman all the time at thrift stores. Ditto DKNY, Ellen Tracy, etc.
Of course, they had some really high-end stuff there, too, and I was really impressed, but even hugely discounted, there was no way I could afford a $650 Yves St. Laurent tote bag.
The rest of the mall was also kind of ho-hum. Most of the goods I had seen at thrift stores for MUCH cheaper prices.
I stopped at KB Toys, and found that the High School Musical dance mat I had bought him for a few bucks was $40, now $20, since it was half-off.
My overwhelming impression: resale beats retail any day of the week!
PS. I think some people have learned this. More than half the people in the mall had no shopping bags, and those who did only had one.
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December 29, 2008 at 2:32 am
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged after Christmas shopping, Salvation Army
I went to the library, and on the way back stopped at the Salvation Army. I bought the five for five deal…including a DKNY skirt and an Eddie Bauer sweater.
I also bought a book and a heavy-duty frying pan (half off).
Next store, at ACO hardware, I bought a roll of gift wrap for .42.
And that, my friends, was my After Chiristmas shopping.
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December 21, 2008 at 3:22 am
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged Salvation Army, Salvation Army Stores, work clothes
I needed new clothes for a job coming up, so I turned to my trusty Salvation Army.
I found exactly what I needed with slacks, skirts, blazer. I also bought a few tops for myself. I also bought two pairs of shoes that I need: total $59, but I’m sure retail would be much higher. As I commented to the cashier, once you go resale, it’s hard to go back to retail.
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December 20, 2008 at 3:36 am
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged free magazines, library, sled, snowed in, snowstorm
Today, we had a huge snow storm…I mean, gigantic and this is Michigan, so we’re no strangers to snow.
My husband did go to work, the worse driving, he said, he had ever had.
I was home with my preschoolers. School was cancelled for the day.
So we just chilled. We watched videos that I had bought used. We read books that I had bought used.
We colored and used workbooks that I bought at the dollar store.
While the kids, at times, were entranced by the secondhand videos, I snuck in some reading from the free magazines I had gotten on the library’s “free” table, even though some of them were less than two months old.
When my husband came home, we got the kids dressed in their secondhand boots and coats and they took turns on a sled we bought from their Sunday school teacher.
Then we ate dinner, prepared from food I had bought on clearance.
It hit me that frugality is such a part of our lives, such a thread through everything, and I think that’s good.
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December 19, 2008 at 6:10 am
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged america's cheapest family
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December 17, 2008 at 4:33 am
· Filed under Uncategorized
Hair cut free because of promotion for beauty school, and I got Free mocha thanks to a McDonald’s coupon. Perfection!
By the way, the place I got my hair cut was www.excelacemy.com
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December 1, 2008 at 12:27 am
· Filed under thrift shopping ·Tagged value world, Value world coupons, Add new tag
You know you’re cheap when you do your BF shopping at Value World
For $85, I bought:
- Two pairs of black jeans (Levi, Calvin Klein) for hubby
- Boots, overshoes, loafers and sneakers for hubby
- Boots for my daughter and for me
- A winter coat for me
- Silk and cashmere sweaters for me
- Two children’s videos
- Two current romance novels
- A pair of khaki pants for me
- A Tommy Hilfiger skirt
- Two cotton blouses for me
- Heavy sweater from Evan-Picone
- Velvet blouse
- Cropped black courderoy jacket
- Three bags of toys
- Two very large toys
- Huge bag of childproofing stuff
- Ice skates
- Huge bag of deoderants
- Snowflake necklace
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