Blessed

I feel so blessed lately. I know God is always doing good things. But lately I feel even more blessed. It has to do with the couponing and so here's my coupon story and you'll understand why I feel blessed with it.

My coupon story

While I don't have stockpiles of stuff laying around. I have just started couponing and it has really helped out my family. See we don't always have money to spend on groceries, and there's not always enough to eat. And I can say that I know what hunger is, or at least I've had the taste of it. See I have a rare genetic blood disease as I have talked about a lot throughout my blog, and it requires me to eat regulary. So when I don't have enough food I get 10 times sicker than normal. And it has been awful, I got to the point where I was tired of not having enough and I didn't know what to do. I prayed and asked God to help us and I believe he sent TLC'S Extreme Couponing into my life for a reason. I just started watching the show lately and it has helped me realize that I too can coupon and have food. Enough so I don't get sick just because I haven't had enough to eat. Maybe some people can live on 1 meal a day, but I can't. Not without consequences. My father could tell you even worse hunger stories, he was very poor growing up and has gone a lot without food when he was younger, so he knows more about hunger than I do. But I've had my taste of it, and I can say it's not pretty. I'm just going to leave it at that. So I've been couponing and it has paid off. I now have more cereal than I need. Enough so I won't starve for breakfast anytime soon. We have several bags of Rold Gold Pretzels now because of the Pretzels deals going on and the coupons I have for them. And of course all the other stuff I've shown on here. And it's also let me buy more of other stuff like Milk and Water, stuff that I don't have coupons for but we need. So I feel very blessed right now. And I just thank God for helping me out of the state of hunger, cause without him I'd be very sick by now. Thank you Jesus for helping me out!

New Deals I Scored!!

So today I went to several different stores. I don't have a store in my area that has the customer loyalty cards, so I end up going to different stores to save on money. So I went to Walgreens, Target, and Walmart. Here's what I got.

Walgreens:

2 Purpose Cleansers bogo half off plus I had 2 $2.00 off coupons so I ended up getting one for free and a dollar off the other. Since my walgreens has them for $5.99 each I only paid $4.99 for 2.

Wonka Easter Egg, I almost didn't see this, it was stuck with some other odd and ends stuff on sale, and it was only $1.17 Yeah!!

Walmart:

2 Hormel Kids Complete Meals, I had 2 $1.00 off coupons so I paid 68 cents for each of them.

Target:

The best deals I got at Target, the cashier even said that's impressive when I checked out, I'm so proud, my couponing is starting to pay off! Whoo Hoooo!!!

2 Trial sizes of Aquafresh Extreme Clean Toothpaste Had 2 $1.00 off coupons, since they were 97 cents each I got them for free, and the cashier didn't adjust the price down to the 97 cents, so I got the 3 cents overage on each of them!!!!

Sally Hansen Clear Top Coat Polish had 2 $1.00 off coupons, one Target, one Manufactors, so I only paid 98 cents.

Zantac 24 count, I had 2 coupons one Target coupon for $2.00 off, then I had a Manufactors for $5.00 off so I only paid 40 cents. (I normally use Prilosec, but 40 cents to pay isn't a bad deal at all!!!)

Then on the clearance side I found these awesome deals!

I bought 2 Betty Crocker Scooby Doo Fruit Snacks for 44 cents each, they were on sale for that.

I found a 360 degree Colgate toothbrush on sale for $2.44 I had a $1.00 off coupon so I only had to pay $1.44 and it came with a bonus trial size toothpaste!!

I found a burts bees lotion on sale for $3.48 I had a $1.00 off coupon so I paid $2.48 and it also came with a bonus trial sized toothpaste!!

Great deals!! I am slowly but surely working up to extreme couponing like they do on TLC!!!! Thanks all!

My Artwork

Here are some of the paintings I've done. I love to paint it's fun!

My artwork is very abstract. For some reason I can't get it to look realistic. When I draw it looks more realistic, but not when I paint, and paining is more fun!!

I know, I know my wonder woman needs help. LOL.

Walmart Deals This Week!

So I went to Walmart and here are some of the deals I got.

$2.00 off 2 bags of pretzels so I paid full price for one and got one bag for like $0.98

$1.00 of 1 ivory soap so I got 2 bars and got both free +0.03 overage

$3.00 of 1 nivea shower gel I got free

$1.25 off 1 digorna pizza + hot wings I paid $5.25, yeah not the best deal, but every cent counts, I guess.

$1.00 off 1 kraft homestyle mac and cheese bag I paid only $1.00

$1.00 off 1 kids complete meals I paid like 0.68 cents

$1.00 off 1 welch's juice estentials drink I paid like $1.68 or whatever the amount of cents it was. I can't remember now. LOL.

So I saved a little over $11. Not bad, I glad about the ivory soap and nivea shower gel I got all free! And the kids complete meals I paid less than $1.00 for!

Thought For The Day

Each man or woman is not measured through the success of another. So when your feeling down on yourself don't. You do not need to measure your failures or successes to anyone else. Everyone has there own level of success. Were all unique and we can't look at other people and say my life is not as full because someone else appears to be "doing it better" than we are. No matter what circumstances face you don't measure your success based one another, your greatest success might be simply overlooked if you keep on worrying about how your going to compete with the next guy. Be true to yourself and be your own person. It's taken me years to figure this out. Being sick, I feel helpless and alone, I feel like my life isn't always complete. But I can't measure myself based on others. Because I am me, no one else can be me, because I am me. And I must live my life based on my own failures and successes not others.

Be true to yourself, and everything else will fall into place.

Follow God and everything else will fall into place.

If you do that your life will be happier and more meaningful.