New Feature on my Blog – My Google Reader
I thought I would share with everyone what I'm reading everyday. Here are my "shared" items on Google Reader. Enjoy!
Happy Mother’s Day!
Sending all the Moms out there a "Happy Mother's Day!" Note: Might as well include a picture of this pretty Tiffany pendant. It only costs $1,725! :) Even though we are frugal spenders we might as well look! Hey I'd prefer this. A girl can dream right? All images from Tiffany.com
Crazy week and Giant Shopping Trip 4/21/10
This week has been a crazy week. A lot has been going on and I haven't been as good about posting good deals. I'm hoping after tomorrow when the weekend starts I can start getting organized, clean the family room, office, and of course laundry. I'm really behind on laundry and haven't been doing my routine. Honestly, working full-time is tough because I'm always behind. In the evenings after my daughter goes to bed, all I want to do is the essentials and go to bed. I'm exhausted! This weekend I plan on cleaning up and going to the grocery store might go to Bottom Dollar to use my $10 off a $40 purchase. Check out what my hubby got at Giant yesterday? A bag of fruit including apples, mango…
“Remember there will be another deal tomorrow.”
I want to welcome my new and old readers to my new blog - RedberryDeals.com. I want to share with you several tips I've learned about deal buying. When I started to coupon shop I really got into it and I was shocked and so excited at how much I was saving. Then shortly I got the "buzz" from getting the great deals. I also got the "down" feeling when I missed out. Here are my tips: [caption id="attachment_133" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Shoppers Trip 11/23/2008"][/caption] 1. Remember there will be another deal tomorrow! - There will always be another deal or even better deal tomorrow. It's a fact of life. Sometimes I can't get to the store on time. Sometimes the store is out of the products. The coupon expires. It…
Couponers in the Media
WeuseCoupons.com founder Nathan Engles and Jill Cataldo, aka "The Coupon Queen on Nightline News. Today my co-worker mentioned me to me about Nightline news and if I watched the segment about "Extreme Couponers". I hadn't heard about it and immediately looked it up. Click HERE to see the newscast. Wow! It is amazing. Jill spent $50 and got well over $100 worth of groceries (after sales but before coupons) and Nathan spent $30 and got well over $500 worth of groceries (retail amount). Laura from Frugalfriends.wordpress.com on Washingtonian Blog Beat I feel like I know a super star! My good friend (shopping buddy) Laura from Frugalfriends was featured on the Washingtonian Blog Beat the beginning of this month. Click HERE to see the article. Redberrydeals is even mentioned. I feel…
How do you organize your coupons?
I seem to get this question a lot! I thought I would write a regular post about the way I carry my coupons. More detailed information about my insert organization can be found HERE. "How much time does it take you to organize coupons?" Minutes! If I have more time and I'm in the mood, I'll spend more. I just put them in my filing cabinet. "How do you organize your coupons? I don't know where to start?" I use the Couponizer that I carry with me, just because it is small and easy to carry in my purse. I would LOVE to have a large binder or box but I'm afraid that I would lose it or my husband would commit me. He loves that I save so much…
Stomach Bug
I've been dealing with the a stomach bug these last couple of days. It seems to be going around. Here are my tips for getting a quick recovery. How to recover from Stomach bug/flu/food poisoning? 1.Wash your hands, often! 2. Drink plenty of fluids. If you can't drink fluids because of nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea for several hours then you should see your doctor or go to the emergency room. I've had to do that in the past. It doesn't take long before you can be severely dehydrated. 3. Immediately take control of your symptoms. Besides drinking fluids take some necessary medicines like Pepto or Imodium or medications recommend by your doctor. 4. Don't expose yourself to others if necessary. You don't want to spread it. 5. Rest as much…
Holly’s Savings is now Redberrydeals.com
For a couple months now I've been trying to decide what to do with my savings blog. I really want to keep it going but with a real name and URL. I came up with Redberrydeals.com. Now, when you click on my old links such as http://holly.luddite.net, it will automatically transfer you to http://redberrydeals.com. Red berry is for Holly. Cute! I thought so. In the next couple weeks I hope to get a new blog format with a logo in place. Feel free to submit any ideas or suggestions. I would love to hear them.
Happy V-Day!
Wishing everyone a wonderful V-day! I hope you had fun. What did you do on your V-day? My family went to CiCi's pizza for dinner. We stuffed ourselves and had a great time. We used the B1G1 coupon in the 1/31 inserts so it cost us less than $10 to eat since the little one got in free! This weekend has been a little crazy. I had several hours yesterday by myself to get things done and I did 7 loads of laundry and today I did 2 loads. It wasn't until last week that I realized being at home for several days doing 2 loads a day I still was so behind on loads to do. I mentioned in the past how I do laundry but I have to…
Snow! Snow! and no Internet?
Thanks to my wonderful husband two years ago deciding we should have a generator. He put one together and of course during this storm we haven't had to use it. Thank heavens! However to our surprise we lost our cable which is also our internet connection. I can survive without the television (even though we had TIVO recordings) but without the internet it is shocking to the system! I have my new fancy cell phone which helped a lot but I was still missing features that I can only get from my laptop and the internet. Who knew we rely so much on it? How did we live without it? I'm back and ready to post. Will be home tomorrow with the little one. We had over 20 inches of…