Thankful for a good night's sleep

WOW! I slept 11 hours last night! I didnt know I was so tired! It did help me feel better today & I was more productive! Got some laundry, dishes & cleaning done! YIPPEE! I also did get the photos ordered & saved $5.80 in the process. If anyone wants to see if the offer is still open go to winkflash. If you are signing up for the 1st time, the code is 50free. You will get 50 4x6 pictures for the hsipping price of 99 cents!

I checked out jitterbug.com today re cell phones & decided it wasnt for us. It sounds nice, but we need lots of minutes! lol I renewed my library books online so no fines there! YAY! I entered the Publishers Clearing house sweepstakes, the Allyou contest & the cheerios sweepstakes.

I signed up for some free samples, printed some coupons, did my inboxdollars & started checking out the CVS deals for next week. I didnt get very far there.

In case you didnt know, most companies like you booking your party/event online, to the point they are giving discounts if you do that. We are having a party coming up. I went in to check things out, get the info & came home to book online. I didnt find a place to get the discount. When they called last night to verify I asked about it & she laughed & said she had just deducted that for me. It was a savings of $15! She said that eventually they will give their customers a code, but for now they do it manually. So, we all should check to see if there are discounts by doing things online.

One of the blogs I follow ( and I forgot to write down whose! I"ll try to get better on that) shared some codes for Redbox. If you arent familiar with Redbox, message me & I"ll try to fill you in.
Anyway, here are some codes for getting one night free. If you want to use more than one code @ a time, you have to do a different transaction using a different credit card. I dont know how long these codes will be good for.

ABTS25

SNSV25

ACME25

DVDONME

BREAKROOM

Oh, and I called around & I think found my medicine! YAY! The manufacturer is having trouble getting the ingredients to make it. This has been a problem since @ least August.

Life

Well, I already knew that when life gets stressful I spend money! ugh! Or rather, I"m not frugal when spending during times of stress. I was doing "ok" til Tuesday afternoon when Mom was in a car accident. I dont believ I have "saved" a dime since then. But, that's ok. Just proves that it's important to keep plugging away so when crisis happen there is a cushion.

Today I did a little towards finances for the future. I entered the Publisher Clearing house sweepstakes, the Subway sweepstakes & the All You sweepstakes. I printed a few coupons for free products & I took 2 surveys. I found a place to get 50 pictures printed for free...just spend 99 cents in shipping. So hope to do that tonight or tomorrow.

So, the 1st full week of the New Year has been quite a week so far! I am still trying to get over bronchitis, Mother's accident, a "winter storm", and a few other things has made this anything but a boring week! lol I should be getting used to it. The 1st week in "07 Dale had a car accident totaling his truck...Mother's car is repairable.

Monday

I'm still fighting bronchitis so I took it easy today & didnt venture out of the house. I did work on things that should help us in the future.

I requested samples, printed coupons, did my points, entered contests & checked out blogs for more ideas.

I found this site www.dltk-cards.com that has printable calendars for kids.

My mom did go out twice today to get us refills on our drinks, so we saved there. Mom is asleep now so I cant get the exact savings..will have to do that tomorrow.

Also, I realized on our movies last night we would have spent $9 to rent them, but 1 was from the library ( our oldest got it for us) and the other was owned by our youngest. So, yippee!!

Americans Pay More for Less

I didnt really have anything to say today, so we're having a guest blogger! My beloved hubby! He was sharing these thoughts with me today & I thought they were interesting...so take it away, honey! lol

Somehow Americans have been convinced to pay the same or more for items that have less in them. For example, we pay $1.50 for a can of soda that has no more calories than water. This is epidemic in most all foods from "lite" cheeses, sour cream, to non-fat yogurt, to soups advertised as only having 85 calories. We must be trying to starve ourselves to death. Its the only thing I can think of.

This affects more than our food. We play sports, such as golf & bowling, whose goal is to have the least amount particiaption possible. The greatest golf game in the world would only have 18 strokes, instead of the normal 80 or 90. we pay more money for little, sports cars that weigh almost nothing. And people buy clothes with so little fabric that they dont even cover up the skin.

Ok, maybe I"m just old-fashioned. I like my food full of calories, my golf games long & clothes that actually hide me. I'll be easy to spot. I'll be the fat, golfer who everyone is waiting on.

Jan 2 post

I'm starting the New Year out being sick! ugh! I didnt do much. One of my daughter-in-laws spent the day with me and we were just very low-key since we were both under the weather.

I did read, from start to finish, Karen Kingsbury's book A Time to Dance! I loved it! I was very discouraged about some things & it was full of hope.

The only savings was on some hamburger we needed. It was on sale. We saved $1.39 on the 2 lbs we bought.

Jan 1 post

lol..I"m already late in posting what I wanted to! lol

I got up 1st thing this morning & started looking threw the e's & blogs I subscribe to to work on my couponing/bargains, etc. I got a great deal! Kohls.com was having a sale on Christmas towels. I think they were hand towels. They were reularly $5.00 marked down to $1.19. Then there was a code for 20% off & a code for free shipping. I ordered 4 towels in anticipation of next years teachers presents. My grand total spent was $4.04!! I saved $26.20!! YIPPEE! My 1st savings in the new year!

End of the year

I am so looking forward to a new year. I hope to blog more. I am hoping for lots of moving forward in the new year and in the new decade.

Hope you like the new look to my blog. My beloved neice, Jax, did it for me!

I didnt get all the books read in '09 that I had wanted to, but I did get some. Here are the ones I got read:

Maggie's Miracle
Take One book 1 & 2
Shades of Blue
Like Dandelion Dust
Where Do I Go?
Who do I talk to?
Mr Bentley's Second Chance

This year gave me a new love for getting bargains/saving money. Jax was kind enough to get a ticker up for me to track what I save in the new year. I hope to blog about the savings as I go. I got 2 new coupong holders for Christmas to help me with the endeavor!

Hope to follow more blogs this year & make new friends in blog land!

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you enjoy the last few days of the year & the decade!