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Thu Mar 17 2005


My big thing today was to go grocery shopping.

The other day I saw this lady who clips coupons get about 200 dollars worth of food for two dollars and fifty nine cents. I want to know where she finds those coupons.
I tried doing coupons for a while. And maybe I saved 5 dollars a week with them.
Because I don't buy all that many ready-to-eat foods, and most of the coupons I find in the paper and magazines are for exactly those foods. I used to scrounge around in the ads looking for Laura Scudders peanut butter and yogurt and stuff like that. I usually came up with pretty slim pickins. So I gave it up. I could be talked into a reprise of the effort. Anyone have amazing coupon strategies to tell about?

But it might be fun to hang out with that lady for a few days and see how she does it.

In any case, my larder is full and I can get on to other things for the nonce.

A knitting project awaits me on the countertop ledge where I have to keep it so Griffen doesn't decide to try his paw at a felted wool bag.

I have two days work coming up. They called me ahead of time which was really nice. I have been playing with Publisher, making myself day planner pages to put in my book. I looked at a set you could buy on line from Flavia and about fainted over the price. I figured I could print myself up a few things if I just settled in and took some time with them. So in an hour or so, I have created a weekly calendar with nice blue and lavender and pale yellow colors, a form for names of clients, addresses and notes on how to get to their places, and a nice To Do page with a pale sun background...
They all turned out pretty nice, and only cost me a little time and ink. Pretty soon though, if I am separated from my day planner, I will be considered brain dead. EVERYTHING is in there!


9 Comments
  • From:
    ImNotLisa (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Mar 17 2005
    I don't know much about it. I'm like you, there's hardly ever anything we eat in there. Most of the times I use a coupon it's to try something new, and generally a cleaning product.
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Mar 17 2005
    You've seen my day planner. There's lot more in there than a calendar and a to-do list.

    I lose it, I'm dead. Print off a duplicate copy and carry it around in one of those felted purses you've made.

    Shalom
  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Mar 18 2005
    I tried the couponing thing a few years back. In all honesty I didn't really save that much money and it took an incredible ammount of time and organization to make it work. I had better things to do than save little slips of paper. :)

    I use a small notebook style day planner. It has a weekly calender and places for keeping track of addresses and needed to do lists. I like it because it has most everything I need and it is easy to carry along where ever I go. I think my initial purchase was less than $20 and it only costs me about $5 per year to maintain with new calendar pages. Not too bad for a brain that works. LOL
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Mar 18 2005
    So glad to hear you did get some work. Shopping day is now even more of a major undertaking for me these days. ;-)
  • From:
    Dreamerbooks2003 (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Mar 18 2005
    I don't have much luck with coupons either..
    Sometimes I'll use store coupons for produce or some soap products but usually like you I prefer my own cooking to the boxes of pre make cardboard.. With flavor packet..:P
    Enjoy the week end and 2 days working.
    :)




  • From:
    Dreamerbooks2003 (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Mar 18 2005
    I don't have much luck with coupons either..
    Sometimes I'll use store coupons for produce or some soap products but usually like you I prefer my own cooking to the boxes of pre make cardboard.. With flavor packet..:P
    Enjoy the week end and 2 days working.
    :)




  • From:
    Energy (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Mar 18 2005
    I know what you mean about the coupons. I rarely use the ones I do clip.

    Great I get 35c off jiffy peanut butter. But the store brand is 50c cheaper so the coupon isn't really savings.

    So many stores use their discount cards instead of coupons these days, and I've yet to see a coupon from apples or spinach.
  • From:
    Ichandra (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Mar 19 2005
    glad tohear the work worked out
    well our motto is when in need ask the pc
    love and lightning
    ichandra
  • From:
    Salamander (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Mar 26 2005
    I have decided that anybody who gets that many groceries on coupons alone must be living on candy bars, Stouffer's frozen dinners and Ajax. There is no way to manage a healthy, balanced diet on coupons.