5 children (free???)
1 shopping cart (free, but gross)
1 zip-up binder ($9.99)
1 packet 9-pocket pages (say THAT 5 times fast...$4.99)
1 professional index system for 3 ring binders ($4.99)
1 box Cookie Crisp Cereal (or any impulse buy/bribe you can think of to hush your children...$2.50)
1 box halloween shapes Kraft mac-n-cheese (sometimes TWO bribes are required...$.90)
59 coupons (I totally counted...Type A is a disease. Cost? FREE, if you consider the time it took you to clip 59 coupons is "free time.")
Directions:
Mix all of the ingredients and...BAM! Instant migraine.
Total cost: (thank God for the calculator button on my computer...) $23.37
$23.37. That's Twenty-three dollars and thirty seven cents... round up and that's $25. Twenty five dollars spent so that (hopefully) I can cut $45 per month off of our grocery bill so that (hopefully) I can join a heath club. (Cost of health club: $45 per month.)
OMG, my head hurts. Truly. I have a full-blown...turn off the lights, stop talking, and get me a bowl cuz I'm gonna puke-migraine.
All from coupons.
Okay...QUESTION, Erin Chase: What category does spaghetti sauce in a glass jar fit into??
What category would you classify Pull-Ups as?? Toiletries??? Paper Products???
My head is spinning, but it's done. My coupon binder is done.
At the end of the day I'm thinking...making a coupon binder while your husband is away and all 5 kids are home for Columbus Day vacation is...DUMB. Really dumb. Migraine inducing. But it's done.
Let the savings begin. (???????)
Do you now have to add the $25.00 you spent into the coupon equation in order to arrive at a true $45.00 savings? I mean now you have to work $25.00 harder to save your first $45.00. Wow so now it is more like you have to save $80.00 the first month. Boy I hope those palates are worth it. By the way, how many boxes of wine could you have bought with the $80.00 or bottles of your favorite alcohol?
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
ReplyDelete$45 a month for a health club is kinda steep. We have fitness clubs here for less than $20 a month. I say find a cheaper club so you don't have to work as hard. Ironic no?
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