Holy crap, I think I’m a housewife.
So my latest obsession is coupons. Seriously, have these been around all along? How come nobody told me about them? We’re working on trimming our expenses and the biggest ones we have that are malleable are our food expenses. I’m a little embarrassed to say that I never really paid attention to grocery store sales in the past. I just bought what we needed, or more frequently—wanted. I didn’t realize you could go online and check out what’s on sale at each grocery store. And then the fun part—try and match sale stuff up with coupons.
So for the past week or so I’ve been practically carrying around a pair of scissors (don’t worry—I don’t carry them in the same hand I use to carry the baby!). And the Universe clearly wants me to be using coupons-- when I went to Dash of Diva to dance with the Nia girls a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon the Hannaford booth and they had tons of great Hannaford coupons there. As the rest of the crowd was greedily grabbing the free whisks and apples and oranges, I was grabbing the $1 off this, $2 off this coupons. Also on my first grocery excursion using coupons, I found that the coupon fairy had left me a little coupon inside the freezer by some frozen fruit that was on my shopping list. And I found a little coupon organizer at Goodwill for 99 cents. Cool stuff.
There are actually entire huge online communities dedicated to couponing—I am happy to report that despite my new obsession, there are people far more crazed then I am. Although, there’s still time.
Also within the last few weeks I’ve made apple crisp. Somebody get me an apron, I think I might be a housewife.
