BeCentsable.net

This morning while I was getting ready for class I was watching the CBS early morning show and they had these two ladies on the show who created this website. They basically said they were tired of paying so much for groceries and decided to change the way they were grocery shopping. After they researched and became expert grocery shoppers basically they created this website that completely focuses on coupons and saving money! They went to a few different stores and at one store the total was about $79 and after all of their coupons the paid $29!! It was so neat because they researched everything you could possibly research about saving money, what coupons stores will take and which products you can use multiple coupons on and possibly get for free because of your combination of coupons.

I found out that when you have a coupon from the newspaper, for example $1 off of Colgate products, and a grocery store is having a sale on Colgate products you can combine the coupons! The only time you can't combine would be like taking two of your Kroger or tom thumb specific coupons and doubling up. I was pretty excited about this website, so I encourage all of you to check out this website, and also coupons.com updates their list of coupons every single day!

http://www.becentsable.net/
http://www.coupons.com/

Here is the video from the CBS Early Morning Show
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/28/earlyshow/main4974159.shtml

Until Next Time!

Garage Sale Shopping!

Well I have not updated in a while, I kept meaning to but I have been so busy! So, first about the garage sale shopping... Nate and I went last Saturday at about 7am. We had so much fun with each other, he is a fantastic garage sale shopper. He found the good finds and got the good deals! The first place we went was an estate sale in Colleyville, the house was abandoned and we had to search through gobs and gobs of things.. I got a few vases, but then Nate saw something he knew I wanted but would not pay for and I could not have been more excited! Nate saw a kitchen aid mixer in the corner of the room and it had all the tools and bowl. So we asked the lady how much and she said $20 for everything, including the vases!! She told us she was not sure if it worked so we took it to his school and took it into the locker room to try it out and it worked perfectly! After a bit of cleaning, a few washes in the dishwasher it was beautiful and later that week I made him a cheesecake with it! So, now I have a kitchen aid mixer and I never thought I would get one, it is a creme/yellow color because it is older but it is better than new to me because it is such an awesome find! We found some very pretty platters, and then at our last garage sale of the day Nate found reindeer to put in our yard at Christmas.. at first I said no, but it broke my heart to see him leave without the reindeer so we turned around and got them. All of the reindeer and the sleigh for $25, you can't really beat that. We also got a brand new light fixture for an entry way or maybe above a breakfast table, its very pretty.

I got to use the kitchen aid mixer and one of the platters this past weekend for Cory and Nates combine birthday dinners, Nate wanted Cheesecake and chocolate covered strawberries. It was fun because I got to use my new things but also, my niece Shannon helped me a little but so we got to spend some time together doing that. They were a hit! Everyone loved them!

Total Garage Sale purchases:

Kitchen Aid Mixer $19
4 vases $2
Crystal Platter $1
Flower Platter $1
New light fixture $10
Reindeer $25

Total Purchases: $48

tomorrow I am going shopping...

Today was a pretty good day, visited Katie and my grandma in the hospital, both are doing really well. I went to class this morning, had a break, then went back to class (biology lab) which lasted from 130-430, it doesn't matter what we are doing it never fails that she keeps us until exactly 430, I would think she wanted to go home also but apparently not! It was pretty interesting though today, we are growing E.Coli (the disease that cows were getting..mad cow disease I think) and we will see how much we can grow by next week. It is actually to test antibiotic resistance, so we gave some samples full course of antibiotics and some half, we will see what happens! This evening, Nate and I went to our Love and Respect Marriage class which was really great, we missed the last two weeks and our teachers invited us over to their house to watch the lessons we missed (lol, maybe they think we REALLY need it).

SO tomorrow I think I am going to go shopping, I probably won't get anything because I need to be saving money. I am normally not one to go shopping if I have no money but I really want to go walk around and look (it is very hard for me!), I would like to find a cute sundress, a swim suit, a good pair of jeans and a few other things so maybe if I find some good deals I can convince Nate to fund my much needed shopping trip :) I actually went to Ann Taylor the other day and tried on a few things, I love it there! They had some great jeans, shorts and a couple shirts I really liked. I would love to go start buying stuff for the honeymoon, but I want to wait and make sure all the cute spring/summer stuff is out before I go buy stuff.

Oh, I found out today that 12 of y relatives from Ohio are flying in for the wedding! I am so excited, I thought there would be a couple but I never dreamed that many would fly in! They are going to stay here for a week and just make a whole vacation out of it so that was really good news. We also put an offer on another house, we really like it but I won't go into detail unless we get it so for now I won't tell details. It could be a couple months before we find out and it could be tomorrow, it is a foreclosure so there is no rush for the bank to decide anything.

I will keep you posted!

hospital visits, baby shower and fashion show

My weekend was pretty jam packed! It all started Friday morning, my grandma went into the hospital for pneumonia... everything turned out fine she is feeling much better now. But I spent most of Friday at the hospital visiting her, then going over to see Katie a couple times (they are both in Harris Methodist FW). It is odd I have never known two people in the same hospital at the same time, I wish neither of them had to be there! So that was my Friday night, Saturday morning I woke up and went to a baby shower for a girl I have known a long time, she is just so cute! When that was over I went looking at houses all afternoon, Nate and I found a couple houses we really liked, so we will see what happens. I will definitely update on that after tomorrow, we are seeing one more house then maybe placing on offer. Saturday night again was spent at the hospital.

The Fashion show mentioned in my title was today at the Fort Worth club, it was put on by a TCU sorority, for the Women's Center of FW. It was alot of fun, Ashlea had an extra ticket so we went and walked around and looked at the auction items and then watched the fashion show. Everyone there was dressed so beautifully and we were on the 12th floor overlooking all of FW....Fancy!!There were some very cute outfits in the show, I posted some pics of the fashion show outfits above, plus a couple of dresses that were not in the show that I really liked.

Anyways, that about sums up my weekend! Nate and I are going to look at one more house tomorrow, this house looks really great on the website, its in a very nice neighborhood and it has this pretty iron fence in the back with a pond behind the house! It looks like it would be really nice for entertaining people when the weather it nice, so I will update tomorrow on the house and our decision!

**BTW,the Walgreen's on glenview is having some sales right now (I know this is random) but I got 2 sets(3 in each set) of scroll black metal candle holders for $1.75 each, they are 75% off. Nate and I were there printing pictures and getting my picture for my passport tonight. While we were waiting we walked around the store and found these really pretty candle holders. They were so cheap! SO if you want some cute new candle holders go check out Walgreen's (weird, i know but I saved alot of money!)