On my trip to Safeway today to get some more food for my Eating Well On $1 A Day Challenge, I came across a booklet of coupons on the end of one of the aisles called “Shrek-Tacular Savings” with $10 in coupons inside. I grabbed a few and will continue to look out for them…
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The day started off wonderful. I woke up and decided that I would have cereal for breakfast. The question was would I eat it without milk or not. I decided that I really needed to have milk with it for it to be breakfast (and not a snack), so I went to the store. There…
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Day three had to be better than day two because if it wasn’t, there was no way that I was going to be able to complete this challenge (or stay alive). Luckily, it was much better and I learned a few more things about my eating along the way. I started off the day deciding…
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Yesterday I made two significant discoveries during dinner: 1) Not only do I really not enjoy cooking, I don’t know how to cook. It would have been good for me to consider this fact before I decided to do this. 2) I am not very partial to Pork and Beans. It would have been good…
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Breakfast I had a late breakfast because I needed to buy food before I could eat, and since I knew it was going to be a busy day (I needed to get more food plus take a trip to the food bank to deliver food I had gathered), it needed to be a fairly quick…
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I woke up this morning and knew I needed to go out and do some shopping if I was going to eat anything today. I had $31 in my pocket and some coupons I had gathered, and I was on my way. My first purchase was Scrubbing Bubbles Extend-A-Clean bathroom cleaner and refill. While this…
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Note: If this is your first time to this challenge, you may want to read over the frequently asked questions. You may also be interested in how I did it without spending a whole lot of time by incorporating lazy couponing I was talking with my sister and explaining to her that with couponing, I…
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The SmartSource company places coupon machines in grocery stores where you can take a coupon right then and there to save on the item you purchase. These SmartSource coupon machines are often referred to as “blinkies” by most couponers. They get this name because the coupon dispensers usually have a green blinking light designed to…
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There will be times when you end up at the grocery store with no shopping plan in place. Due to time restraints, you failed to review the sales flyer and you rushed out without any of your coupons. It could be that you're on vacation and in a town that's unfamiliar. You may even be…
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There are still a number of stores out there that refuse to honor Internet coupons (also called online coupons or printable coupons) due to the false impression that all coupons from the Internet are counterfeit. This impression does have its root in truth, but the problem has been largely solved. In the early 2000s a…
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