Question for the Mommies...

For all of you Moms out there, I was wondering if you have been sucessful in getting your children involved in couponing? Typically, the only involvment that my kiddos have is

a. They are in trouble and punishment is pulling the expired coupons
b. They are broke and offer to earn money by cutting and filing my q's for me :-)

Otherwise they stay as far as humanly possible from the whole coupon thing. Sam is the only one who will shop with me, and that is only because he is only 3 and therefore has no choice.

So I was wondering what works for all of you out there? Ideas anyone?

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Just thinking....

and sometimes it is a scary thing :-)

I was toying with the idea of adding a new feature to the blog. I get a lot of questions via email about couponing and am thinking that they would be benefical for me to share ...kind of a question of the day/week whatever kind of thing.

What do you think? Is that something you would like to see, or is there something else you would like? Leave me a comment and let me know...oh, and a question too!!!

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Taking a Vacay this year?

Or do you just want to dream about taking one? You can watch fun and informative free videos on renting and taking a RV across the country here

This is something we are considering for our trip out west next summer, so I was excited to see this pop up. I guess you really can find anything on the internet :-)

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Just some reminders....

Today is the end of the month and the last day to score 80% off at Restaurant.com by using code SUMMER

Also,
This is the last few days for the free 8 x 10 from the Canvas People. Starting monday, the promo is going to change and it wont be as good!! So dont miss out while you have the chance :-)

AND...

I know I am a broken record, but today is also one of the last days to print the coupons from Coupons.com
and
RedPlum

You never know what is going to reset and which ones are going to be gone for good. Dont miss out!

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Coffee...YUM!

Here is a great new deal on some excellent coffee! You can go here and sign up for Gevalia coffee club and get a free stainless steel travel mug AND 3 boxes of premium coffee delivered right to your door for only 3 bucks! SWEEET!! I cant get a supply of Folgers for that price, let alone a new travel mug :-)

If you dont love the coffee and want to continue, you simply cancel and keep your coffee and mug!

I havent tried this personally(we own a Keurig) but I have heard around the blogosphere that it is really really good coffee...and you cant beat the price!

Let me know if you try it!

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Motivation...

Its a rainy Wed and I have none :-)

However I was just reading a blog post about getting kids to help around the house. What is it that helps your household run like clockwork? I have to admit I am a pretty tough taskmaster with 4-5 set jobs for each child a day. Some jobs are daily and some are weekly but of course they still complain and get bored with the same routines. Suggestions anyone???

Catching up from vacay is always a hard thing for any Mama to do, but a couponing mama has it worse. I had 3 weeks of inserts to clip and file. Hmmmmm...
I really wish I would have taken a picture of the stack of inserts considering I get anywhere from 8-12 papers a week! Personally for me clipping is the worst so I did what all smart moms would do.....



I auctioned off the work! Hehehe...I have 2 teens who are more than capable of sorting and clipping the coupons. I offered up $$$$ and Taylor jumped on it. She had spent her money on vacay and has no current bsitting jobs lined up :-) So there she sat for a few hours snipping away. What a help that was...and worth every penny of my seven dollars!

I also forked out some more cash for a complete organization of my pantry and all kitchen and bathroom cabinets. So for 20 bucks I got my coupons clipped, and all my cabinets organized. Not too bad an investment huh????

So what is the going rate in your house?

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Bloggers needed!

Last post and then I am done until my fingers stop cramping!

I am looking for a few more people to "be me" next week while I am on VACAY! All you would need to do is write a short post about some of the ways you save money on anything....or even a picture and a description of the deals you got? Anything like that. You can send it to me in a word document, an email or whatever. If you are familiar with blogger and want to post it yourself that is great too, just let me know and I will make that happen.

I am thinking that it will be so much fun for you all to get to listen to some other people besides me drone on and on. You can get to meet some new bloggers as well!

You can write about anything you wish, (as long as its clean :-) and at least slightly relevant to this blog.

Email me at Clipping for cash at hotmail dot com

This is me begging by the way.................................

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Stores updated

Ok, just to let you know, I updated the store matchups with a couple new deals! Also, I totally spaced on setting the browser link to open in a new window. I fixed them now (thanks for the reminder Sara) But I wanted to let you know what to do when I am an airhead again....or you are at another site that you dont want to leave. Simply RIGHT CLICK on the link and you will see a drop down menu. Just simply click on the link that says "open in a new window" and voila! you wont have to leave the site.

Now I will do my best to make it even easier and have it all fixed up for ya, but if I forget (not that I ever would of course...hahahaha) you now know how to fix it!!

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Blogger is Back!

FINALLY!
Ugggh....Sorry for all of those who are not facebook or twitter followers. Blogger crashed on Sunday and I just now have access to my blog again! Evidently they were doing some sort of upgrade and broke something ????? It was so incredibly frusturating not to be able to post the deals I kept seeing for the last 2 days! I am seriously going to have to think about moving this blog to its own domain in order to ensure that this doesnt happen again. It has been happening to others with more and more frequencey and blogs have also disappeared entirely! Talk about devestating!

Anyway, I am back....let the deal seekign commence!!

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Just One more????

Ok...We are Sooooo close! To actually having 100 followers!

This has been quite a goal of mine :-)

I feel so driven to help people save money and slash their budgets. We can all use some extra money in todays economy, and couponing and deal seeking is a way to get a ton of it.

So do me a favor, tell someone...encourage them to follow along and start saving money!

Lets get to 100 followers today!

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Happy Memorial Day

I am hoping you all had a great holiday! I know that we did...and with the exception of the rain today we couldnt have asked for more beautiful weather. I wantted to remind you all that I do update the posts as I find deals and I am hoping that you will let me know if you have found any deals that I missed. Somehow I didnt end up with a paper this weekend. It was in our driveway when we came home from church Sun but has since disappeared. I am sure I will find it eventually, but who knows where it is in the meantime. That means that I have no "hard copy" ad to go off of this week, so I could easily have missed plenty :-)

Looking forward to a busy shopping week!!

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Just so Ya know...

Its a holiday weekend!

That is a great thing in the fact that my hubby gets an extra day off a work, but a sad thing for couponers...

There will be no coupon inserts this week..WAAAHHHH

Just wanted to let ya know so no one went out to buy extra papers this week.

Coupon matchups will be still available though :-)

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