He's Back!

After working 7 weeks in Virginia, Jim has finally come home! Hopefully the next work experience will be closer to home!

Let me just tell you, that's too long to be apart. Looking forward to spending a lot of quality time together.

I'm so glad I live in the South

I just thought I would share a couple pictures that my niece Becky sent me. They had 12 inches of lake effect snow in Bloomingdale a couple days ago.

Lexie got to go out and enjoy it.

Sure does make me glad that I live in a warmer temperature.

Then you go to the other extreme. Living in California.

Lindsay called Saturday and said things were pretty bad out there. She works in Brea which is pretty close to where the fires in Orange county were. They ended up letting some of the people go home early because the smoke was so bad inside their building. Getting home was horrible for her because most of the highways that she uses were closed due to the fires. She had a view of the clouds of black smoke from her window.

I think I'll just be happy with my Memphis life!

Coupons, Coupons Coupons

Sorry that I haven't written for a while. Jim was home from Virginia for four days and then he left for two more weeks, and I got busy at work...you know how that goes. Anyway, I have lots of time on my hands again, so I thought I would try my hand at couponing and shopping the stores for sales. Mandy and Stacy are my heroes so I thought I would see what I could do. I started looking at all the blogs about couponing and then went on different sites that they suggested to accumulate more coupons. Kroger, Walmart and Target had some really good deals this week, so I went shopping.

First off are my Walmart finds. This was my first shopping trip with my coupons and I was a little nervous about how the store would handle all my coupons so I started off small. I bought all of these groceries for $6.18. It would have been a better deal than that, but my cat food coupon was for $4.00 off any Purina cat food and Hunter will only eat the expensive Purina. So that added an extra $2.50 to the bill.

Next trip to Walmart. These groceries cost me $4.03. Not bad.

The next day I went off to Target because they had really good deals on cereal. I got all of these groceries for $5.67.

Kroger had some awesome deals this week. You had to buy 10 items that they had for sale and then you would get $5.00 off your total. You could buy up to 30 items and then get $15.00 off your total. I did this two different times. I ended up getting $191.95 worth of groceries for $67.05.


Now I can hear you say "How in the world are they going to eat that much cereal". Well I'll tell you. Most of the items are going to the local food pantry. I kept a couple boxes of cereal and all the frozen things, but the majority will go to help feed those in need. I wanted to have the fun of couponing, and this way, Jim and I get to help out our community. I'll keep you updated on upcoming shopping experiences. Check out Stacy's blog. She got even better deals at Target than I did.