Our Frugal Journey

Harris Teeter grocery stores will be offering a triple-coupon promotion starting this Wednesday, Nov. 4, through Tuesday, Nov. 10.
Numerous sites around the Internet have confirmed the promotion, including the terrific Raleigh-based site, SavvyDollar.org, and the national site, HotCouponWorld.com.
The folks over at Hot Coupon World already have a deals list started. Free Heinz ketchup, French’s mustard, [...]

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Home Depot  is starting off the Christmas season a little early with an offer to help you save money on new Christmas lights that will, in turn, reduce your energy bill.
Starting Nov. 5, you will be able to trade in five sets of your used and/or broken incandescent Christmas light strands for coupons worth $3 off  new strands of [...]

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Trying to outdo  KFC’s “unfried” chicken giveaway, Boston Market restaurants across the country are fighting back by selling chicken dinners with mashed potatoes and corn bread for the bargain price of $1.
Click here to print your coupon. It’s good through Sunday, Nov. 1.
Thanks to WTVD Channel 11 for alerting me to the deal.
I guess you [...]

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With Halloween upon us, my thoughts have already turned to Nov. 1. That’s the day all the retailers put their Halloween merchandise on clearance.
For frugal shoppers, Halloween clearance can be a great way to stretch their hard-earned cash. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you haunt those Halloween aisles:
*Think next year. Buy all your [...]

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For nine weeks now, I’ve been clearing out the clutter, diving into virtually every nook and cranny in the house. The vast majority of this week’s items I have either sold on craigslist or am preparing to do so. It’s always nice when you can organize your house and make a little money, too.
Here’s this week’s stuff [...]

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I got a great deal yesterday on Progresso soups at Harris Teeter, combining coupons and a BOGO sale.
I walked out with three cans and only paid a quarter a can. It doesn’t get much better than this for a coupon geek like me, given the fact that the regular price of a can of Progresso soup is $2.69.
Combining [...]

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Monday:  Baked ziti, rolls, salad. My daughter has been going through noodle withdrawal so I’m hoping this will make her smile.
Tuesday:  Scrambled eggs, bacon and toast, our breakfast-for-dinner selection. I’ll be out of town again so dear husband will be whipping this up.
Wednesday:  The DH gets a night off in the kitchen, thanks to a [...]

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Just as CVS began rolling out its program to pay customers for keeping plastic bags out of the landfill, as I wrote about here, Target announced it too will pay customers who tote their purchases home in reusable bags.
Starting Nov. 1,  Target shoppers will receive 5 cents off their bills for each reusable bag they use. This national program [...]

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Instead of purging 10 things in the pursuit of simplicity this week, we purged 34.
Twenty VHS tapes and another 14 8mm tapes are headed to the trash recycling bin* after we converted all our home movies to DVD.
As I wrote about here, we were thrilled to transfer our family footage. We saved money doing it ourselves [...]

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I love, love, love it when I can save money AND do my part to help save the planet.
So I was thrilled to hear CVS was making that easier with a new program it is launching this month.
The drug store’s Green Bag Tag program rewards shoppers who tote their purchases home in their own reusable bags.
In other words, [...]

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