Don’t forget it the end of the month and it’s time to print your coupons.com coupons before they reset!!!

Today only Amazon has select mysteries in their Gold Box deal of the day for only .99!!!  The books are all for your kindle and a great deal.  If you don’t have a Kindle don’t dismay you can still take part in the deal with the free downloadable kindle app available for your computer.

Check out the deal today!!

On April 30th Purex will launch their new Let’s Be Honest promotional campaign featuring Second City Comedian Molly Erdman. They’ve created a funny series of short video vignettes sharing honest moments that reflect the ironic truths of everyday Life, Laundry, and Whatever.   Through mid July, there will be new funny videos uploaded every few days at www.purex.com plus posts on Facebook and promotional tweets on Twitter.

The best part is that the campaign will also offer a sweepstakes. Everyday one lucky entrant will win a year’s supply of Purex detergent !  The daily sweepstakes will run through July 24th so be sure to head over daily to enter to win a years supply of detergent!!

In exchange for this post I will be receiving 3 free product coupons from the generous folks at the Purex Insiders group.

And the winner of the Curvy Straw General Mills giveaway is….

#16 Madeline Brubaker

Madeline you have 24 hours to contact me and claim your prize or another winner will be picked.

Thanks to all that entered, I hope you’ll stick around!

Well yesterday was not a banner day for savings but we didn’t really do to badly.

We attended the Lion King show and therefore had to pay for parking, a stuffed Simba for a spoiled little boy, a bottle of water and some nachos.  We were able to get our Disney discount on the Simba so that helped ease the sting a little the worst was the parking. 

The past few days have been busy but uneventful as far as savings/spending so I’ll spare you all the boring details.  Today the only spending was on my newspapers, I get one delivered every week through a great deal and I purchase usually 3 more every week unless the free paper is giving out coupons which it didn’t this week.  I will try and post later about we are doing to save money but there is no more spending today!!

In the past few days I’ve received a couple of items courtesy of MomSelect one is a great kid’s book I won will attending a webchat and the other is my Coppertone Water Moms welcome gift.  So be on the lookout for future posts about both and if you are a blogger check out MomSelect I love being a member!!

Oh one more thing don’t forget to enter the Curvy Straw giveaway there are just a few more hours left!!!

Yesterday we didn’t do a whole lot so saving was pretty easy.

• When we headed out I resisted the urge to get a coffee even though the hubby had stopped to get one.  I can’t blame him for needing one though he’s been working night shifts and we had to run in to see family in the morning just for him to drop me off at home and go back to work.
• Other than gas yesterday the only real money spent was on Dave’s coffee which isn’t too bad
• In order to save some money I had all the windows open all day and the A/C off at night we use window fans to keep it cool upstairs and when it’s to warm during the day I use fans downstairs.  I once read somewhere that you could use several fans and it wouldn’t cost as much as one hour of A/C
• All the food we have eaten has come out of the freezer and pantry

Today I have to run to the store and pick up a few things so I won’t save nearly as much.  So how have you been saving?  I’d love to hear your ideas I think it can benefit all of us.

Originally I set out on this post to tell you how much more money you can save if you are organized.  If your home is organized you can find that birthday card you bought instead of buying another, you can use the foods in your freezer, fridge and pantry before they go bad.  But as I sat down and started I thought I am not one to preach on this subject.  Currently my pantry looks like 2 bombs exploded in there (not one but two LOL), my filing cabinet hasn’t been cleaned out in ages, my freezers are so full I just cram things in there (and am out of space).

So I decided I’d take a different approach and challenge myself and you if you are up for it to tighten the belt.  I see people doing no spend challenges all the time but I know that I can’t not spend any money each week, we eat too much bread and fresh veggies for that and as soon as I broke the challenge that would be it.  So instead I’m tightening the belt.  For the rest of this month we are tightening the belt around here and here’s how:

• Shopping less!!  If I can get it free you can bet I’m still going to buy it however if the price is over a dollar it will be very carefully analyzed before I buy it unless it’s on my list.  The list
• Bread I will look for the best deal but it’s needed almost daily here
• Milk Again it’s needed so will be bought
• Fresh Veggies  I will only buy at the Farmer’s Market where I can get the best prices
• Peanut Butter is a staple in this house and I know we are getting low so it’ll be purchased when needed unless it’s on sale first
• Newspapers I still will need my coupons to continue to get things for pennies or free
• Organizing so I can make sure we use everything we purchase without waste
• Driving as little as possible with gas up up up staying home will save us alot of money
• Reducing electricity use as much as possible even if I have to chase Shawn around and shut things off

I will also be posting daily (as allowed) to let you know the little things we are doing to tighten the belt and to report on my purchases, doing that will help hold me accountable.  In addition to not spending I’m going to be doing all things possible to make some money.  There are plenty of ways out there to make a little extra money (not getting rich here so don’t think that) but I will go over them in a separate post another day. 

So do you need to tighten the belt, stop the financial bleeding, or just save some money for something? I’d love for you to join me feel free to blog on this or just comment on these posts and let us know how you are doing each day too!!  I’m starting today and will be back this evening or tomorrow morning (I need to figure out when it will best fit into my schedule) and let you know how I’m doing.