School's Out Due To Snow Today....

So on Tuesday my neighbor upstairs told me that there is a snow storm

coming in on Wednesday through Saturday. We finally got our refund 

and decide to go hit the clearance sections at Target, Old Navy and TJ

Maxx for the kids and ended up coming home with a boat load of 

winter clothing for them. Most of them were 70% off! Gloves were .44c

each at Fred Meyer. Thank goodness we did all that yesterday and 

now the kids can keep warm outside today. They were in need of new

winter clothes and I'm so glad that I finally got that part taken care of. 

It doesn't really show..but the snow is still falling in this picture.

The kids woke up early this morning when they heard me watching

the news and the announcement of school closures. After that, no one

wanted to go back to bed. The kids headed straight for the Wii and 

wanted to start up on the new Wii Zumba Workout we got on Friday.

Now that's a whole other post!

Taxes, To Do Lists and More....

The past 3 days I've been working on our taxes and was 

glad to put it through and hear back to see if it got accepted. 

It did and now I'm preparing my list of bills that need to get

paid and rent to be paid. 

Yesterday as I picked up the kids from school they asked if

they could stay up late since they have no school today and 

Monday. I was wondering why I hadn't seen it in any forms

they brought from school and then realized that I had been 

so caught up in doing taxes, couponing, working on book

reviews and the list goes on. Thank goodness, I checked 

online and they were right! 

I stepped away from the computer for a bit to cook some 

breakfast for the kids and throw a load into the washer. 

Since the kids are out of school right now, I asked them to

put their warm clothes on so we could go and check out 

the mail room for more inserts, then come back and do 

some fun activities with them. I'm looking forward to the 

tax to purchase a camcorder. I miss recording the kids 

and fun stuff. How's your Friday? 

Dumpster Diving for Coupons?

I know most of you have probably heard of or have watched the 

new TLC show, Extreme Couponing. I've heard of it recently and

haven't had the chance to watch it in it's entirety. My friends and family

have called or texted me about it and brought up the couponer that goes

dumpster diving for her coupons. I did see that on TLC's site and 

don't see anything really wrong with it. People do what they have

to in order to save money or survive. It doesn't look like a dumpster

but a recycling bin. 

Last week I head over to our complex's mailroom to check our

mail and came across the Smartsource Weekly flyer and inserts 

inside and found two coupon inserts. In the mail room there are 

two garbage cans that were just full of paper and everyone's flyers

that they didn't want. So what did I do? Yes, I started rummaging

through that first wastebasket next to our box and ended up finding

a total of 50 inserts combined just from that basket. 

Did I save any money with those coupons? I sure did. There were

the square ramen noodle bowl coupons for .50c off each. I ended 

up with 20 of those coupons and paid .29c each after coupons for

those. Not bad..and the list goes on. Is it worth it? it sure is..with 

all the coupon inserts I walked away with, it saved me alot of $$ I 

don't have. I did share most of those coupons with my friends and 

family who are trying to start their stockpiles. 

I spent mostly 3 hours cutting and sorting them today and ready 

to go back tomorrow for some more. My 7 yo gets embarrased

while my 6 yo is happy to assist me by carrying a couple of inserts

for me to the car. I figure with our financial situation the way it is
it's something I have to do to continue our little stockpile while
trying to get our bills paid down. Right now I'm mainly interested
in stocking up on batteries, soaps, shampoos and deodorants
since we're doing pretty good in the food area. It's a new year
and I'm trying not to get alot of processed food and mainly lean
towards healthier food options such as fruits and veggies. 

mpuanani 

Goods in The Mail Today...

I always look forward to 

getting new goodies in the

mail, especially if they're 

from General Mill's Pssst..

program. 

They gave me several $1.25 off coupons to pass out 

to my friends to try the new Chocolate Cheerios. Not

a bad deal:) Got some more new magazines to read up

on. Did I mention that's one of my faves, is to read mags?

Got in some more Huggies and Pampers mailers with 

great coupons inside. Will pass it on to one of my

bffs with babies. 

Wednesday Happenings

Here are the highlights for our Wednesday activites. 

My new goal for this is year is to post daily on 

our family activities. 

 Received a $25 Kroger gift card from MyBlogSpark to use

on an upcoming post. Stay tuned for that one!! That's

on my to do list for tomorrow morning:)

 

Got the rest of our AVON orders in and Nesi just couldn't

keep her hands off the Barbie Umbrella..hoi. So I told

her that she could hold it once and have a picture with it.

 

This is my Avon mess earlier today. Weeding out the old

brochures that didn't get out last month and getting

ready to bag up the orders for my customers. As you

notice, I have to have some music while organizing all

of this mess and then some. My kids couldn't help but

use my Avon boxes to help build their fort along with

my rice from our mini stockpile.lol.

We had mutual for the youth, choir practice and primary

all that the church tonight. So by the time we got home

the kids were starving and I just ended up nuking them

some chicken wings, baked fries and brownies as soon

as we got home. I know, it's a no no for my diet, but

rest assured I only had 3 of the chicken wings and I

steered clear of the brownies and fries.

 

Our dinner tonite after mutual and choir practice after

church at 8pm. Hot wings with Sargento Mozzarella

Shredded Cheese on top.It should've been with Salad

but I'll stock up on that in the morning.