New Blog

Hello, This is a new thing for me. Not the first blog I've started but maybe one that I'll actually keep up with. Let me tell you a little about myself & my family: I'm 43, work 44+ hours a week. My husband is 42, an unemployed construction worker. Last year he went out on medical leave for knee surgery for 4 months. When the doc released him his job was gone. There is no construction work in our area right now. I also have 3 brothers in the business who are also out of work. Between us (my husband & I) we have 3 adult children, one 6 year old daughter, one 6 year old granddaughter & a two year granddaughter. The 6 year old granddaughter lives with us, so basically we have two 6 year olds. I work out of the home taking care of a mentally handicapped woman, trying to get as much over time as possible. I'm also a serious coupon addict. Coupons have been the biggest reason we've been able to keep up w/all the bills. My savings at Food Lion alone has been over $1200 for the past year. That is a lot of groceries! I also save at Walgreen's, CVS, Kroger's. In my area these are the highest priced stores yet I do much better at these stores than anywhere else. My goal is to get better. Better at tracking my savings. Better at sharing my savings. Better at saving, period!