Giveaways

Check out the beautiful quilt these ladies are giving away!

Enter to win this quilt at: http://mariemadelinestudio.typepad.com/mariemadeline_studio/2009/07/the-happy-scrappy-quilt-giveaway.html For other freebies, samples, and giveaways, check out Meg's money saving site at: http://supersouthernsavings.blogspot.com/

Coupons

I never really considered myself a coupon-clipping kind of gal. However, in light of my desire to trim a few extra dollars off our grocery bill I decided to give it a try. In my spare time I’ve taken to scouring the internet in search of printable coupons for some of our regularly purchased items. Today I bought some groceries at Target instead of Walmart or Meijer. My savings are as follows: Ghiradelli Chocolate Chips - $2.99 + $0.75 off coupon = 2.24 10 oz Kashi cereal - $3.74 + buy one 10 oz cereal get 16 oz ($3.84) free = $3.74 + $1.00 off any Kashi cereal = 2 boxes of cereal for $2.74 Kashi 8-pouch hot cereal - $2.89 + $0.50 off coupon = $2.39

= $7.37 ($13.46 - $6.09 = $7.37) I was pretty impressed. It took me a grand total of ten minutes to find the coupons online that I was looking for and it saved me $6. Thank you, Target!

So if any of you out there are trying to save a buck, start surfing the ‘Net and give it a shot! Anybody have any good money-saving or budget-cutting tips to share?

Honest Scrap

Thanks to Meg at Southern Pathways for nominating my blog with this award! The rules for this award are as follows: "The Honest Scrap award comes with a caveat or two. Firstly, you have to tell your readers ten things about you they may not know, but that are true. Secondly, you have to tag 10 people with the award. Thirdly, let all the people you've given the award to know that they've gotten it (comment on their blogs or something). And finally, make sure you link back to the person who awarded you."

Here are the people I nominate to collect their award and spill their guts on ten things we need to know about them! :)

• An Airman's Wife
• The Breathings of My Heart
• God's Love is Greater
• Her Every-Whirling Mind
• Called To Serve
• Gitz
• Andrew & Brittney

1.) Fruit is my biggest food-addiction 2.) I’m a musician but have a hard time telling if a piano is out of tune. 3.) Flip-flops are my year-round foot ware of choice (yes, even in the winter) 4.) There is twenty years between me and my little sister. 5.) 75% of the clothes in my closet are black, but I love color. 6.) I have an unexplained fascination with the “Singing Butler” painting. 7.) I absolutely love flowers (of all sorts!), but surprisingly enough, only one of the six plants I’m growing in the house is a flowering plant. 8.) Hoops & Yoyo cards & memorabilia from Hallmark are guaranteed to make me laugh. Loudly. 9.) Even though women are supposed to have cute, girly, flowing handwriting, my husband’s is much better than mine – a fact that I find quite sad. 10.) My dream vacation is to visit Scotland & Ireland.