One of my sons stayed home sick from school today, which meant that I had to switch my shopping plans around a bit. Instead of spending the entire morning shopping, I made two quick trips with the rest of the family waiting in the car. I had some Target meat coupons that were expiring, and [...]
The linky is up a little late this week, but it was not because I was out shopping. It was because I was cleaning! Yesterday I returned home from shopping to find a brand new Haan MS30 Steam Cleaner waiting for me, so today I have been trying it out, and I am loving it! As [...]
This week I have been doing a lot of clerance shopping, which means that my non-grocery spending increased. Still, with a family of five there needs to be room in the budget for extra spendings on necessities and fun, and thanks to my frugal grocery budget the wiggle room is there. This is my third week [...]
It is Friday again, which means that it is time to look over my purchases for the past week to make sure that I stay within my budget for the year. This was my second week in a row, where I was under my grocery budget, but I have been over budget in other weeks, [...]
Welcome to the Weekly Savings Linky here at Frugality Is Free! This week I went more than $20 below my weekly grocery budgets, because I only picked up a few essentials and a couple of deals. It is good to have weeks like this one once in a while, so that I can offset those [...]
Well, I got a lot of shopping done this morning, and there is no more room left in the fridge or the pantry. I went way over budget, but that’s okay, because sometimes that needs to happen in order to keep with up with the frugal pantry. As long as the budget evens out over [...]
It is time for another round of the Weekly Savings Linky, where you can see how I am able to keep a frugal budget for my family. By shopping deals and shopping several stores, I am able to save more for my family of five. This week I went over my usual $60-$65 weekly grocery [...]
Welcome to the Weekly Savings Linky here at Frugality Is Free. This week has been very hectic for me, because between my kids being home on spring break and my own brave albeit a bit foolish attempt to switch Frugality Is Free to WordPress, well let’s just say that I have been a bit stressed [...]
With the boys home from school this week, I decided to skip my usual mid week trip which includes ALDI and Target. I might make a quick stop at Target later on, as I believe they had ground beef on sale. Instead of the big shopping trip, I made a trip to Publix after swim [...]
Welcome to the Weekly Savings Linky here at Frugal ity Is Free. This is where I collect all of my deals from the past week in one spot, so that you can see how my family of five is able to keep a frugal budget. My goal is to keep my family’s grocery budget below [...]
My sons are starting their spring break today, so I wanted to make sure that I was stocked up on orange juice, milk and bread, as they go through a lot of these items. Otherwise I am very well-stocked up on almost everything, and I definitely do not need any more cereal after the crazy [...]
I made a quick stop at CVS today, but I did not have any major savings. I am in the middle of making a baby basket, and I am also putting together some Easter packages to send to my niece and nephews, so I used my CVS Extra Bucks to get a few CVS Easter [...]
I bought my son’s birthday gifts at the January Target toy clearance sale, so that is another cost I do not have to think about now. You can see the details of my shopping trips by clicking on the titles or the images. See my: My Aldi Deals I spent $32.22 at Aldi I saved [...]
I went to Target today mainly to get Swedish Fish for my son’s birthday cake. I did pick up a few other deals as well though, and I finally found new place mats at a reasonable price. They were on clearance at $0.98, but they scanned at $0.58 each, so I picked 8. This way [...]
I had not been to CVS in almost a month, so I had $16 in CVS Extra Bucks that expired today, and although I wanted to roll some of them, my main mission was to get soda for my son’s upcoming birthday party. Thanks to Cheryl from Simply CVS, I was able to get a [...]
