March was another great month. It feels so good to know where our money is going and the coupon thing was a ball. It totally pays for itself and if you love to save money, it is so much fun. I will continue to us coupons and price match as I work towards growing my year supply. (As long as my oldest stops eating the food out of the food storage.) I also felt very strongly this month to save 3 months of expenses. We are not in any jeopardy of losing a job, but our cars are 11 and 12 years old and I just don’t want to stop our progress if one of them needs to be replaced. It’s not a matter of if, but when. We will just feel better to know that if anything comes up, we will be prepared. We have been throwing every extra penny into our savings account and are only a few hundred dollars away. At that point, we will start putting every extra penny we can towards the student loans.
This month’s goal is to build up our storage as I mentions and so far we are doing great. I want to have at least 2 of everything that we use regularly and I have planned a strategy to do it. For the menu I looked over our food storage and planned meals that require little or no extra ingredients to make. We will eat a few things twice, but you can do anything for a month, right? My grocery shopping for the meals was very minimal which then allows me to spend more on getting items for storage. The coupons then enable me to spend less and get more. The problem now is finding places for everything I buy. My dear husband is in charge of that part. I just buy the stuff! Yesterday I went to 5 stores, spent 264.00 and saved 200.00! I bought cleaning supplies, napkin, food storage bags, cereal, rice, razors, shaving cream, cough drops, and so much more! I would have to ask my stock boy what else. I was very tired at the end of the day, but after adding up my totals, it was worth it.
