So I know I’ve already explained a bit about how we’ve been sending everything to Hawaii via Parcel Post through the US Postal Service, but we’re 3 out of 5 boxes sent and super under budget. For this reason, I felt that the sometimes forgotten option of Parcel Post deserved some special recognition with a [...]
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A little late (sorry!), but here’s the rest of my keys to successfully saving over 50% on my groceries and exactly how they work for me. Checking the blogs for the best coupons and deals I know, this is probably common sense by now. I’ve got all my favorites bookmarked and I check them regularly. [...]
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Since we’ll be leaving soon, we’ve got a list of all the food we have to get rid of before we head out of town. We have a few duplicate items and we don’t quite have two weeks worth of meals planned, but we also have the stuff I started stockpiling to fill in little [...]
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Last week, I gave you the general low down on my success in saving more than 50% on groceries. This week, I’ll break down the first half of my list of personal keys to success and finish it off next week with the other half of the list. Tracking the prices of the things we [...]
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Well, practice makes perfect. Many of our meals from last week didn’t make it on the dinner plate, though it wasn’t all take out either (yay!). Pulled Pork sandwiches with coleslaw, potato salad, and chips 7 layer dip with tortilla chips Chili and rice with corn Portuguese sausage, eggs, and rice Spaghetti Caprese, onion bread, [...]
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So I’ve been keeping track of my adventure in couponing and it’s actually beginning to really pay off. Lately, I’ve been finding most of the coupons that people have been matching up, but still not all coupons. Because of that, I’ve missed out on a couple deals to stockpile a few items for free, but [...]
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It’s been such a disorganized mess, lately, that I haven’t been posting weekly menus. Sorry about that. We haven’t quite established the best day and time to do our regular grocery shopping, so the menu has been a little lacking. Every now and again, we make-shift our dinners for couple nights before we make a [...]
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Everyday I check out The Prudent Pantry to see what books are free on Amazon and see which would interest me. Today, I found Every Item on Sale, which is a book I’ve seen and have been wanting to read, so thankfully it’s free today. Reading the foreword, Every Item on Sale sounds more like [...]
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A while ago, I made mention of a couple books I was reading, one of which was Money For Life that I was able to get for free thanks to Blogelina. I finished reading it a while back and haven’t gotten around to letting everyone know just what I thought about Money for Life. One [...]
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The advantages of the VA loan are so immense that, apparently, finding a home that accepts the terms of the VA loan is darn near impossible. To summarize, a couple of the best advantages of the VA loan is no down payment, no private mortgage insurance, and easier qualifications for veterans seeking a mortgage loan. [...]
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