My First Coupon Experience

At the beginning of November, I began clipping my first coupons. Ran into a few that I wanted to try out so I did! If you are reading this and the picture does not come up of my first haul, its because I wrote this post on my ipad and can't put my pic in yet....Its coming a promise.

So here is how it went,
Family Dollar:

Weekly insert coupon for 2 liter Coca-Cola for $.85. I bought two for a total of $1.70 for two sodas before tax. (I was so excited that it worked lol, I don't know why I was worried, it was just two items.)

Tide any size coupon for $2.00 off one, had 2 of these coupons. Family dollar had them on sale for $5, I used both of my $2.00 off coupons and got them both for six dollars. Great deal because laundry detergent is extremely expensive.

CVS:
Dawn dish detergent 10 oz on sale for $.99/$.50 coupon off of any dawn = $.49

I felt amazing after this haul so I decided to devote more time into finding more deals and each week/each day after doing so, I've been coming through the door with at least one item using a coupon every time I leave the house.

I will update this post with a cute little pic of my first haul and look for my great buys I've done since starting.

I know

I know I've been away, but as of right now, there is no one viewing my blog on a regular anyway so it really doesn't matter. I have a few updates and then a explanation of something new I'm going to do with the blog from now on.

***UPDATE****
Clint is shipping out to BMT for the Air Force in January. That leaves me with a lot of time to do my new hobby and to get ready for leaving my family to begin my journey with him.

New Hobby!!! I have begun couponing and I absolutely love it. I never thought that I would enjoy looking through sales ads and clipping coupons as much as I do. Extreme Couponing on TLC is a bit much for me but I love to see those women get their totals down to soooo low. I've worked magic just as they do but on smaller purchases of the same products.

So from now on, I will be having posts made each week about my deals I find and tips that I find help myself. There are many different strategies to coupon and get great deals, each person has to find their own niche that works for them.

Hope to get more followers by doing this because the coupon world has evolved into something much bigger than it was just years ago.

Gone Way Too Long

Sooooo I have been gone far too long. Last time I posted I was preparing for an interview. I did get a job, but man was that job not for me.

I began work on Sept 12 for 3 months of training to be a customer service rep at ACS with a major cell phone carrier. Not only was the company very disorganized, but I just did not feel comfortable in a call center environment. Not for me.

Good news is that DF (dear fiance') has gotten his ship date for Air Force BMT. January 17, 2012 will be the beginning of the rest of our lives. We are not getting married until he is done with tech school but I will be so happy to finally begin planning our wedding. We have been engaged 1 year in February and I was def hoping to be married by then.

So for my next posts, I will be talking about pre-planning and keeping you guys informed on what is going on with us and him at training.

***If there are any Air Force Wives or Fiances please let me know, I would love to get to know others that are going along this journey also.***