I am super excited to share an awesome Etsy shop with you all!
JeniLuScraps is a mother/daughter team who designs awesome bags, purses, wallets, pouches, coin purses and key fobs out of recycled fabric, with the occasional new fabric thrown in. Their Etsy shop is crammed full of useful, handmade items.
Remember when I shared the little bit of sewing I was doing a while back? I mentioned on that post that someone {ahem} should open up an Etsy shop to sell these adorable little clutches because they fit my cash envelopes …

Let me start by saying that Safeway is just not floating my boat lately. There really haven’t been many good sales. Oh, SURE I do just fine, but you don’t see me running out the door to the store at the first sight of the circular, that’s for sure.
My game plan for the last couple of months has been to just buy what my family eats, stockpile when I can, and sit back and relax. And, do it all under $50 a week, of course.
This is another one of those …

I’ve had a headache all day long, so I really didn’t want to leave the house, and yet ground beef was the daily special at Safeway today. Not that the ground beef is the end-all. At 80% lean, it wasn’t even great ground beef. Still, I thought about hamburgers this weekend and taco meat, etc, and then I factored in the loved/hated $10/$50 coupon that came out this week and decided to brave it. With 2 obnoxious boys. At the dinner hour (although we had already eaten). Insane. Don’t do …

I went shopping on Friday, but I’m just now getting around to posting about my trip! Thankfully, if you head out tonight you should be able to pick up all of these same deals. This is what I bought:

Of course, this is not a freakishly incredible extreme couponing trip, right? However I have had several friends ask me to explain to them how I am able to feed my family of 4 on just $200 a month, so I figured that I should just show you and give you a …

It’s time for another grocery store blog post! Wahoo! Yeah, I know. I’m a freak. But then, you are reading this, so . . .
The loved/hated $10/$50 coupon came out this week, as it does the first week of every month at Safeway. Quick tip: In my local area, it comes in the Tuesday Statesman Journal (although I heard a rumor that it was in the Wednesday one, too), however I get mine from the free Polk County edition of the Statesman that is wrapped in pink plastic …

Howdy ya’ll!
Forgive me. I just got back from a trip to Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Not that anyone said Ya’ll. See, these days Texans are actually transplanted Californians. Like my family. Hee, hee! For the record, I did graduate from a Texas high school (which is why I’m so brilliant). I never said Ya’ll (too much of a valley girl, I suppose), however I was tempted a few times. Why is it that when you get around people with accents your own accent comes out? It’s kind of embarrassing how …

I like to think I know a thing or two about grocery shopping. I used to HATE grocery shopping with an extreme passion, but these days I don’t dread it so much. It is a bit insane when I have to take both boys with me, though. Why is it that I can take the 4 year old with absolutely NO problems, but if I add the 7 year old to the mix the trip turns into a nightmare? Mommy fail. That kid is giving me a run for my …

I totally wasn’t going to post this, because it’s not like it’s a super savings post or anything, but then I got to thinking about my non-couponing friends. Obviously I used to shop like them. I think of all of the grocery store inserts I completely ignored, especially in the days of no paychecks when my husband was first growing his business, and it makes me cringe to think about how much money I wasted just by not paying attention!!
So, this is for all my non-couponing friends. Nothing freakish here:

Safeway …