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House and Home

Just totaled up my remaining grocery receipts for 2009.

Value: $5904
Actually spent: $3444
Total Savings: $2460

Percentage saved overall: 42%
Average spent per week: $66
Total savings just in coupons: $1094.96

Not bad for our first year of mega-couponing and sale-shopping! I was hoping to stay under $100/week, so we managed that quite well. The last few months we weren’t shopping as much because I had so much stockpiled in the pantry and freezers. We also did more shopping without coupons, so that affected our percentage a bit.

And I really miss all the free toilet paper.

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Happy Christmas

by Natalie on 11/28/2009

in Holidays, House and Home

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Thanksgiving Aftermath

by Natalie on 11/27/2009

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Happy Thanksgiving!

by Natalie on 11/26/2009

in Holidays, House and Home

Hope everyone’s turkeys and sides turned out great today! Post a comment and let us all know!

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3 turkey breasts, all ready to go!

Carrots, celery, and onion in the bottom of the pans, oranges and apples stuffed in the cavities, rosemary butter under the skin, and melted butter, salt and pepper on the top.

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Cleaning

by Natalie November 24, 2009 Holidays

Cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.
I’d show you my to-do list, but you’d run away screaming.

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Making Chicken Stock

by Natalie November 23, 2009 Cooking

Here’s how I make chicken stock.
First, I save any chicken bones from roasted (or even fried) chicken. Don’t use anything that was grilled (at least if it was grilled over charcoal!). I just keep a Ziploc bag in the freezer and add to it whenever we have bones. Those rotisserie chickens from [...]

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Potatoes

by Natalie November 22, 2009 Cooking

Potatoes were not in my plan for today.
But when I was reorganizing the pantry, I noticed that all of the potatoes in the 15-pound bag that we bought earlier in the week were starting to sprout.
Ugh.
So, cooking 15 pounds of potatoes became my plan for the day.
First I scrubbed them all. Then I picked out [...]

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Whew.

by Natalie November 21, 2009 Crafting

Busy day!
My in-laws took the girls last night to spend the night with them, and weren’t bringing them home until after 3 today.
The carpet cleaners came first thing this morning. They were quick though, out at 10:00 AM.
I had the rest of the day to myself! I thought…”I could clean the playroom.”
“Or…I can [...]

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It’s Turkey Day!

by Natalie November 20, 2009 Cooking

You’re thinking I’m almost a whole week off, right?
Nope. It’s “Get your Turkey out of the freezer day!”
Put it in the refrigerator on a tray of some sort (sometimes there might be a small hole in the bag and it will leak all over your fridge!). I use a cookie sheet lined with some paper [...]

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