Vacation and Coupons :)

I know I haven’t made a post in a while but in my defense we did go on vacation.  We spent a week at my parents and it was awesome.  I spent the majority of the time in the pool swimming or as I like to call it “water dancing to the radio”.  It was so warm at night I even had a night swim! It was so much fun!  It’s amazing how at the age of 32 I can still get homesick.  This doesn’t normally happen when I visit my parents but this time it did.  I think the main reason this happened this time is because I don’t have my own house.  Most people when they come home get that feeling of “oh I’m so glad to be home” I haven’t had that feeling for a bit. Plus when you go on vacation your life gets put on hold and it’s a usually a fun time then to come home to your life and responsibility’s is a downer lol.  Alright enough about that!

 So I've recently started couponing.  I have a binder and everything!

 For some reason I can't get the blog to rotate the pic's the right way...but hopefully you get the point.

I've organized it by tabs and kinda how my Wal-Mart is set up.  I haven’t gotten the super savings you see on tv but on average with the coupons I do save about $15.  I went to Wal-Mart yesterday and my total before coupons was 201 something after coupons it was 188 something (both include tax :P) so that time it was a savings of about $13.  I’ve had a couple people ask me why I bother for such a low amount of savings.  My answer…that’s money I can spend elsewhere, that I don’t have to spend on groceries plus I’m not working right now (as I’m sure I’ve mentioned before) and any saving anywhere is a GREAT thing.  I shop mostly at Wal-Mart and Target.  With Target you can use their coupons and manufactures coupons together, which I find totally awesome.  I still have to do that this week…so that will add to my savings.  It’s been an interesting endeavor and I hope I can keep up with it when school starts.