Coffee Filters

There aren’t too many new deals floating around right now, so when this came in my e-mail I thought I’d share it. It’s been a while since I mentioned all the great uses for coffee filters, this even reminded me of some I had forgotten. The dollar store usually carries them , I don’t remember [...]

CVS – Spot the clearance

I’ve been very lucky lately with the clearance that I have been able to get at my CVS and just wanted to give you a little information on how to keep an eye out for what will be on clearance next.  Usually the price tags on the shelves are white.  When they change to yellow [...]

Inexpensive redecorating

Our girls share a room and when we first moved into our house we painted it pink.  I then hand painted flowers and butterflies around the room as well.  It was really cute and girly and I loved it.  My girls loved it too, but as they got older – not so much.  So we [...]

Cutting Back – The wants

O.K., we covered a little bit on cutting back on some of the necessities, now comes the hard part. Giving up some of the things you have that you don’t really need.  It won’t be as hard as you think, we can work through it together.

Stamp Price Increase

I think I should stop watching the news, nothing good ever comes from it. The United States Postal Service is raising the price of a stamp again. It will go from $0.42 each (up $0.02) to $0.44 each. The price increase takes effect on May 11, 2009. I know $0.02 doesn’t sound like much, but [...]

Coffee filters

I received an e-mail this morning with some great tips about how to use coffee filters.  I thought some were very creative and worth passing on. Coffee filters…who knew!  And you can buy them in large packs at dollar stores.

Walgreens

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to why I can’t get a handle on shopping at Walgreens and I think I’ve finally figured it out. I don’t like the layout of their flier. It’s got too much stuff going on. I definitely don’t like that they have so many coupons that you have to [...]

Times they are a changing…

I think that Internet coupons as we know them may be changing soon. I had a comment on my smartsource post that I wanted to share with you in case you didn’t see it. Hi, I live in the Tampa area and was told by my Walgreen’s that they will soon no longer accept online [...]