Decluttering day and thrift store scores

I took the last bit of stuff I had to get rid of to the thrfit store and set out with $15 with the intent of spending a few bucks to get another kitchen chair so Liv can be out of the high chair. I came home with $11.58 left and a new chair for $2 and a Cinderella dress from the disney store for $1. The dress was at the thrift store and is in very good used condition. The chair is nothing pretty to look at but it is sturdy, tall enough and Liv likes it. That is what matters. I am especially excited to be rid of this clutter and almost done with baby stuff!

I'm BAAACK

Yep, tis I. and I am back. Not really back to couponing, just back to blogging about my thrifty family life. Things are pretty well here. I am working, R is working. The freezer is full, the pantry is full. The basement pantry is not full but full enough. I have some slightly blurry updated pics of the stockpile to share




I found ground beef on a 3 day sale for $1.48/lb last week. Needless to say, we went a bit buckwild stocking up but we are absolutely FULL in the ground beef section of the deep freeze. Awesome, yes?...I think so.




and now on to the pics
The formatting went all crazy but you get the general idea..yep we are stocked. Bring on the snow!

blog from 8/13 that I never posted...oops

Wow. Haven't blogged in a couple weeks. It has been a rough couple weeks.

O got 2nd degree burns on a slide. I contacted the zoo where she was hurt and got nowhere. I was not suing them or anything, just wanted to let them know so other parents were aware this could happen. After talking to our doctor, I decided to do a newsstory for a local TV station, which turned out good and bad. Good because the news story went well. I think I did a pretty good job, but bad because I was completely amazed at the rude comments I received. Anyway, it's done and over and I feel good about doing it so whatever.

Because of Liv's injuries I will miss a total of 1 week at work. ouch! That hurts the checkbook, especially since R was only working 32 hours that week. We will survive though. I missed 4 days last week and will miss part of a day tommorrow because of a follow up appointment for her infection.

I am almost done with Christmas shopping. My employer is offering their employee additional discount (the regular discount is pretty substantial and they offer more above that for a limited time twice a year) so I bought everything that I wanted to get people for Christmas. I ordered the items today. My total was just under $150...some of which was stuff for me and R for now. I hated to put that on the credit card but I will pay it off ASAP and not have to worry about Christmas shopping later in the year. Christmas is always such a hard time. We have 3 birthdays to celebrate (me, K and my mom), and I end up working a lot of hours and generally only get one day off a week from Thanksgiving until Christmas and I would HATE to spend that one day off having go shopping.

Per Mary's request

I am blogging today :)

Not much new to report really. I am back to couponing a little bit. I got some coupons in a magazine and one was for hunt's ketchup which was on sale this week at a local store I got two bottles for 98 cents. Can't really beat that!

Hubby has started back at the employer he was laid off from. They called him on the morning of the day he later found out that his employer at the time was cutting his pay. It sucked. So he made a decision to return to his previous employer. He liked it there a lot better. He had better hours, more hours and more pay. This was his first week back and he (and the rest of the family) are much happier.

My job has picked up hours wise, which is nice and not nice. I like the early out days when we finished in 6 hours or less. Those were the good days. Pretty much from here through the end of the year, the early out days will be at a minimum.

2 weeks ago I was able to do some Overtime and that check was nice! Not as nice as I had hoped because they took out more for taxes and 401K then I was anticipating but I was still able to send $300 to my car. I now owe under $1000. I should have it paid off before the end of the year. Hip hip Hooray!!!

We are still plugging along with our plan to be debt free. Once the car is paid off I intend to continue to put that amount away each week...for savings for a car, house repairs, new tires for the jeep, whatever. It will be so nice to be able to put money away.