Forgot about free coupons!!

While checking my e-mail, I forgot that EarthFare, a health food grocery store, offers coupons for free items with a $5

Ok... so I've been stockpiling

It is true that they had a sale on Pringles potato chips and Pepsi 2 litter soda and I kinda went a little overboard.  But I figure if I can buy them in the coming year, I am sure I will get to use them. If not for me then at least take them to pot lucks, donation for food banks,etc.

On the positive side, my friend JV came over and had dinner and watch some TV. She was there to help me put up some light fixtures but I bought the wrong size of lightbulb. Ooops. We will try again next Wednesday.

I went to my church UMW Circle meeting on Tuesday and one of the doorprizes was a chocolate fondue pot.  My friend KH was so excited about the pot but didn't win.  AH-HAH!! I decided to giver her the fondue pot that my parents got at their wedding and no one had ever used and they got married in 1960!!!! She was excited and I was so glad that I could give that to someone who would use it. :-)

Here we go again!!!

I can't quit quitting right???? I am going to try again to not spend any money unnecessarily and hopefully now that I have remembered the blog title and passwords I can update this regularly.  I think that this will help keep me on track through the coming year.
One thing I am learning is that I can do things better when I only do ONE THING AT A TIME. I feel better knowing that I have made progress on things and actually COMPLETE something and can move on to another item, rather than sit around with 6 projects that are all in various stages of completion.  Maybe I will start using the stash organization system in ravelry in the new year.http://www.raverly.com/

Not too bad

So far since school has started I am doing really well with not spending too much anymore. I have taken my lunch to school everyday :-) For entertainment, I've been going to splash country or Ripley's Aquarium  because I have season tickets so it is kindad free (just worry about my car making it:-)) 
I am also making more things and being a more giving person. I have made 4 (yes 4!) neck coolers because it has been so hot this summer. I have also given out alot of ice cream and I even catered my own library Sip an See.  WooHoo!
I think this is going to be a great year! :-)

fiddle-de-dee

Okay I've totally fallen off the wagon. gotta start again. Of well. tomorrow is another day

A Clean Sweep

I have been volunteering at the local animal shelter and it turns out that they are having a yard sale this weekend. I couldn't sleep tonight (last night?) and so I have packed up a bunch of stuff to take to their sale. I hope it brings them some money.
They say that to really make a change you need to throw out 50 things. I'm not sure if I made that number. I did if you count individual CDs in my audio books. I am a little sad that the house doesn't really even look like I got rid of a bunch of stuff. At least it is a start. Plus I found a few new things that i can use now that I am not buying anything new.
Tomorrow I am "cheating" a little. My friend and I are going out to lunch at a Chinese place so I will need to pay for my lunch that way.

No Dolly Today

Well, I am glad that I didn't go to Dollywood today because it rained. Unfortunately, I spent more money today so that I am way  confused. I hope to have the suitcase by Tuesday so I am probably going to have to go there tomorrow to get it but we will see.  I can run down there and maybe drop off some books at Mackays and then eat at PF Chang's. Or I could just stay in Gatlinburg and go to Ripley's. We will see. I really want to try and do this again.

Starting Over

Ok, so that experiment lasted about a month, but you can't quit quitting right. So on June 1st I am going to try my experiment again. We will see how it goes. I have to go to the beach at the end of June but other than that I think I can make it.
Here's to trying again.