I am so ashamed of myself for not blogging since June but life has just been really busy and to be frank I have not done a whole lot of coupon shopping. In fact I have a 2 gallon bags of coupons to go through and do something with plus 3 flat rate envies of inserts to clip and sort too. Needless to say, disorganization has been the bane of my coupon shopping of late, but finding some spare time to get it done has been hard.
So what has gone on since my last blog post?
Well we had a wonderful old fashioned 4th of July with a pancake breakfast at the fire house, we were in the 4th of July parade for my husbands work (Coke), and then we came home and rested and grilled then went out for free fireworks show as well as lit off a few of our own too.
A few days later, my oldest daughter celebrated her 18th birthday. We took her out to Chinese food (her choice) and gifted her our old mini-van which she has since tricked out with new stereo, speakers, and rock band decals. LOL
We spend a good part of the end of June and beginning of July getting ready for our week long camping trip to Yellowstone. We were in Yellowstone the week of July 11th and had the most wonderful trip. Yellowstone is absolutely, hands down one of the prettiest and majestic places I have ever visited. We had such a great time with our family are looking forward to more camping trips soon.
After returning from camping, I have been doing the mad dash to just get caught up on everything, housework, bills, site stuff, garden and the coupon database have been keeping me busy.
Last weekend we bought a new fridge and stove. We are in a rental and the units that came with the place were on their last legs, the fride leaked on the floor and the oven on the stove did not work well and took over 2 hours to heat up. I wanted to get my own appliances that could move with us and I had a 10% off coupon for Home Depot burning a hole in my wallet. We ended up getting the floor models which both had minor dents on the sides (where no one could see them) and so got a 20% discount on top of the 10% off coupon. So in the end we got both (LG models, stainless steel) for a little over $2000. Rusty delivered them and took the old ones to the dump (where they recycle them) and saved on delivery costs too.
Shopping: well I did not do a whole lot of coupon shopping really. A few things here and there and we have just been going to get our milk, eggs, and produce. Yesterday I ran to Smith's for produce, eggs and few items needed like a bag of Doritos (needed, yeah right) and canned corn for a batch of tortilla/taco soup that I am making for dinner tonight.
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