HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Wow can you guys believe it is the new year already? It seems like last year flew past us and now it is 2010!! I personally love January because it gives me the opportunity to reflect on the previous year and see what accomplishments I have made and what I need to improve upon. Last year the two best things that happened to me were the birth of my adorable Owen and the opportunity I had to attend a couponing class. Both of these events happened for me in February and literally changed my life! Before attending the coupon class every time the idea of spending money, getting out of debt, saving, investing, anything to do with money was literally a fight and now, because I am able to save so much money on the daily necessities we no longer argue about what to buy or when to buy it. Not only that but we have so much more fun as a family because every week we have money to take the kids and do something enjoyable!

At the beginning of last year I was taking out $260.00 every week for my family of four and most weeks that entire amount was spent on groceries and household items. After attending my very first grocery smarts class I was able to not only buy groceries and household items with that amount, but was also able to buy clothes, toys, take the kids out to eat, go to movies etc for the same amount.

Now 10 months after attending a coupon class I am taking out $180 a week, putting 20 a week in savings and still have a STOCKED house!! I am still able to go buy a new pair of shoes if I desire, order out some pizza hut or even take the kids out to Chuck E Cheese!

I honestly believe in the power of goal setting and plans to go with this goal so I want to encourage you to set your own goals this year in specific regards to financial goals and determine how you can attain those goals. Is your goal to spend less money every week or is it to be able to spend the same amount you are already spending and just stock up and build a year supply of storage?

I would love to hear what your goals are so leave me a note and hopefully I can help you achieve it!

No Inserts Today

Sorry everyone but because of the holidays there are no inserts in today's newspapers. There will be inserts in next sundays paper!!

Home for the Holidays

I am again sorry for the lack of posts, I was really planning a bunch of posts, but as usual life has gone crazy, it is so crazy that I still haven't gone through my sunday papers yet!! We are going to my hubby's parents house and we are having some friends of ours house sit while we are gone. Well I didn't want them thinking I lived like a slob so on top of packing up the suitcases for ten days I had to scrub my house on top of that so it's not that I don't love you guys and don't want to give you tons of information, it is just how christmas time goes. But be prepared because while I am in Idaho I plan on organizing my posts and scheduling them out so at the beginning of the new year you will have a whole slew of coupon information from me :)

No more advanced coupon classes

For those of you who have ever attended a grocery smarts class by another instructor there is a chance you would have heard about a little thing called Advanced Couponing. Well because some instructors offer this and some do not the Management team of Grocery Smarts has decided to nix all advanced coupon classes and are now encouraging us instructors to put any advanced couponing tips onto our blogs so stay tuned over the next couple of weeks and I will be putting a lot of the advanced tips that would have been learned at an advanced coupon class on my blog!!! If you are new to couponing don't stress out, the grocerysmarts class I do is a very basic introduction to couponing so I don't overwhelm you with information, but as you get the hang of organizing, clipping and using the grocerysmarts lists it is nice to learn a few extra bonus tips to help you along your money saving ways! This also means I am going to get out of my comfort zone and start learning about couponing at CVS and Walgreens and give you the lowdown on all of their secrets!

The New Lists are HERE!!!!

I don't know about you guys but I have been dying for today to come!! Not that I didn't love the two weeks of sales that ensured I scored on some great deals even though I was feeling lazy and only went to the store the day before Thanksgiving . . . but I love new lists, and new items being on sale . . . especially when they are items I am in DESPERATE need of!

Some items I am looking at buying this week are:
Albertsons
Milk for 2.09 (We buy 4 a week atleast so this is a must!)
Coke 24 pk for 4.99 (My hubby loves his soda and well let's be honest so do I :P)
Doritos for 1.50
Healthy Choice soups for .63!! (After coupon of course)
General Mils Cereals for 1.00!!! I love that I can get name brand yummy cereals for sooo cheap!
Then on top of all of that there are some huge savings on Proctor & Gamble products! If you didn't get the P&G insert make sure you head on over to couponsbydede so you don't miss out on the killer sale!!

Check out the Albertson's list here

Then Smith's has even more amazing deals on top of this!!
I am really excited about the Marshmallow cream - I add this to cream cheese and a little bit of lemon and it makes the yummiest ever fruit dip!!
Smith's is also having a one day saturday sale so I would make sure you get there early so you don't miss out on the deals! Check out the list here!

Happy Shopping everyone, if you need help with the list at all please don't hesitate to call or email me!

Email: tkmiller81002@yahoo.com
Phone: 702-362-8959

No inserts today

Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday there weren't any inserts in today's newspaper.

Restaurant.com

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