My gosh where have we been?   /   Jan 20 @ 7:17 pm

Happy new year to anyone remembering to come back here :-P  Yeah, xmas break, our real jobs, spending time with our families… such awful distractions from updating this site.

Here’s a great write-up from Slate on saving money with coupons (which I’d bookmarked months ago and misplaced under a pile of laundry).  Excerpt:

When every item was scanned, Rea’s total was $174.55. But after each coupon was validated, the number dropped—to $36.89, including $6.08 in taxes. She handed over $30 worth of store credits and charged the remaining 81 cents plus tax—which couponers must pay out of pocket—on her debit card. She’d saved $167.66. Not bad at all.

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The machine rewarded my $8.59 purchase of three cans of Progresso soup and six 10-ounce boxes of Green Giant frozen vegetables with $7 worth of Catalinas. Kelsie moved the rubber divider bar and we did it again with three more cans of soup and six more boxes of vegetables. I paid for them with the Catalinas and $3 on my credit card and got $7 worth of Catalinas back. The groceries weren’t quite free, but they cost much less than the $44 they would have at regular prices. I felt elated. But it wasn’t the frozen peas or reduced sodium vegetable soup I was excited about. Like eBay, couponing made shopping feel like gambling.

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With love and a promise to update more frequently,

-S