This and That

Man the past couple of weeks have been crazy.  I don't even know with what but I do know the next few months are going to be the same.  Here's some catch up stuff:
       I am still loving my Planner.  It has been so helpful even with cramming 5 days worth of tasks into my 2 days off, it is doable.  Love it.  And by the way, I didn't end up getting it bound.  Just didn't feel like paying the money to do that.  What I did instead was 2 hole punch it and buy rings for something like $2.  This way I can use the rings over again next year.
      I am still working on my grocery budget.  I read somewhere (can't remember if I already posted this, sorry if I did) that your grocery budget should be $100 per adult and $50 per child.  That puts us at $350 which I am pretty sure I cannot do.  I don't have the time for that kind of crazy couponing.  But I thought I might be able to do $400.  My current budet is $600.  I am not sure I am going to make that goal this month but am hoping to be around $450.  What I decided was, while I am trying to stock up on things that are on sale, it is harder to be as frugal.  I bought 16 pounds of chicken breasts for $1.69/pound.  Pretty good deal but that still adds up.  So just stuff like that.  Plus I went to Winco last night planning on just buying fruit and bread but boy did they have some good prices on stuff and I ended up spending under $40 for 4 bags of groceries which seemed like a lot to me.  I just cannot pass up on those green tags when I know I would be paying double or triple somewhere else.  I did have to pay full price for salad dressing but knew I would be in trouble at home if I didn't buy it but it killed me to pay $3.40 for a little bottle.  Yes, that is way too much which makes me just want to stock up when I see it on sale next time. 

Sorry if this blog has turned into a grocery blog.  How boring right?  But I have been getting so excited about finding good deals.  Oh and speaking of good deals, this weekend hubby and I had some alone time so I made him go shopping:-) I wanted one of those jewelry cases that hang on your wall.  Well not only were they on sale but when we pulled it out to look at it, there was a piece broken (insignificantly to me and hubby could fix it) so when we took it to the register we pointed it out and they gave us an extra 10% off.  I never would have done that in the past.  I don't know why just shyness.  But not any more. I am on the hunt for good deals.
That's it for now, maybe I will write something spiritual later to counteract all this shopping stuff!