Category Archives: Frugal Shopping
My $5.36 Cuisinart Food Processor
Well, I finally decided how to spend the Amazon credit I’ve been saving! I had narrowed my choices to either a Kindle Fire or a Zojirushi bread maker, but the other day when I pulled out my Cuisinart mini-prep I … Continue reading
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The More Things Change . . .
I was having coffee with friends last week and a couple of us were whining about prices and how everything seems to be going up and up and up these days. One of my friends reminded us however that prices … Continue reading
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Today’s Shop-apalooza
My goal today was to spend only $235.52, half of our regular grocery budget ($160) plus our annual rebate check from Costco. I missed it by *this* much! After buying nothing except what was on my list, and even putting several … Continue reading
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I Do Not Enjoy Shopping*
Even if I find what I’m looking for at a great price. Mr. Losing It and I decided it was time this year that each member of the Losing It family had their own carry-on bag. We used to have … Continue reading
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My $4.96 KitchenAid Mixer
Because Mr. Losing It and I decided not to exchange gifts this year, waiting for me under our tree Christmas morning were just three small boxes from YaYu, my “secret” Santa this year. Each box contained a $10 Amazon gift … Continue reading
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The Shop-apalooza Returns
Well, the shop-apalooza has actually never gone away; I just haven’t blogged about my grocery shopping in a while. I still go out every other week and buy what we’ll need for two weeks of meals. I’ve been doing well … Continue reading
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Wednesday Odds ‘n’ Ends
Or, stuff not big enough for a whole post . . . End-of-the-month figures are in and we paid another $1108.06 toward our debt. Yeah! Actually, we paid $1357.77 last month, meaning $249.71 went to interest. Boo. I am feeling … Continue reading
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Our Christmas Mystery
Lots of frugal-living bloggers are already writing about their Christmas shopping and planning, whether it’s how they’re only going to spend $100 or about the gifts they’ve already bought on sale and stashed away. I envy them. Although we’ve downsized … Continue reading
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A Field Trip to IKEA
So tempting. So very tempting. So many tempting things. I think if I had to pick one word to describe IKEA, that word would be tempting. So many cute, useful and affordable things and they give you a big yellow … Continue reading
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I Give Up!
I realized yesterday that I have not had cantaloupe or any other melon other than watermelon this summer. And I’ve only bought four watermelons. Melons have just been too expensive this summer,and were something that could be cut out. If … Continue reading
Filed under Budgets, Food and Nutrition, Frugal Shopping
