I am a stay at home mom with four wonderful kids. I have been married for over 10 years to my best friend. I am head over heels in love with him. He always supports my crazy "thrifty adventures". We have a lot of fun together. I was raised on a small dairy farm. Where I learned very young, the value of hard work and how to be thrifty in all areas of life. Growing up our meals were made from scratch. Only on special occasion would we get name brand cereal, chips, or any other fancy treats. Now that I am a Mom with my own budget, the basic foods always comes first. I too make most of our meals from scratch and take pride in feeding my family a well balanced healthy diet. I enjoy seeing how far I can make our budget stretch, and when I take the time to match sales with coupons I am able to get all those "fun & fancy" items that would other wise be out of my budget. Being thrifty has always been a way of life for me, but it has also become a real joy. 
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So often we get emails or comments asking where to get a three ring coupon binder. Well there are a lot of different options. We use a Case-It brand binder. Right now there are some good sales on Amazon for Case-It binders and others: Case-It binders as low as $17.95 No name binders for a few bucks Vertical Photo Pages for 3-Ring Binders, Holds 6 – 4″x6″ Photos/Page, 10/Pack AVE13401 These are some great links to help get your self a pro-coupon binder
I wanted to alert you that TONIGHT, December 29th, at 8pm (eastern), Nathan Engels (MrCoupon) or Nathan Engles (they misspelled his name) along with three other people will be featured on TLC Extreme Couponing and you bet we will be watching it. Extreme Couponers are what many non-couponers call us and it will be fun to see how they portray those who love to live Thrifty by using coupons. We hope that it is positive, but whatever the outcome our goal continues to be one that inspires people to use coupons! We may be a little ‘extreme’ but our desire and hope is for families that need to save money will check out couponing!!! Nathan wanted to hint towards something that he built, that was about 15 feet tall!! They filmed it’s creation and it was almost entirely donated to local foodbanks! TLC also filmed the giving aspect of couponing!! During this episode they donated around $6000-$7000 in product to a fantastic pantry!!! (they shared this not to brag, but to lead by example, giving is such an amazing aspect of couponing!!!) So check out TLC Extreme Couponing on The Learning Channel at 8pm TONIGHT.
I bought 5 packs, used the $1/1 coupon from the 8/8 RP on the first one and did separate transactions so that I could use the $2 coupon inside the packages and get multiple RR’s. So, I spent about $12 and got back $15 in Register Rewards! I should be stocked up on razors for a while and made about $3 on the deal! Thanks Meghan. So check your local Walgreens to see if they have them in stock! This is ending soon, so sign up quick! Heather from Kozup Photography sent us this great offer for all of our readers, the A Thrifty Mom Photo Deal Call now and get any portrait session (families included) for only $99And that includes the CD of full resolution photos , which most places make you purchase them at extra inflated prices for the originals. (that’s up to 50% off and the disk is a freebie). Ask for the A Thrifty Mom Photo deal Get your photos at your favorite spot, outside, downtown, you name it. Call her at 208-941-3618 for details.Why go to a super market store to take photos with funny backgrounds and a nonprofessional photographer. Call Heather at Kozup Photography at 208-941-3618 to get the professional quality photos you have always wanted! And if you haven’t had photos taken by a pro, then you might not realize that the original photos with a disk sent to you is something that doesn’t happen. So call her now 208-941-3618 and get signed up! Spots have been filling fast. We took her up on the photo session and she is GREAT. She really knows how to work with groups, and as you can see, she was really good at keeping the kids attention. We wanted a contemporary background, and she suggested some great places around downtown Boise. We had so much fun. Below are just some of the photos she took of our family. Click on the thumbnail to enlarge.
Call Heather at Kozup Photography at 208-941-3618 Today and Tomorrow last day to take advantage of the Restaurant.com / Ebates Offer Some have asked if they have to subscribe to something, or if this is a trial. Answer: No trial to sign up for, no subscriptions just a great deal. You can click on the “Now Save 80%….” link below to go straight to restaurant.com and purchase the gift certificate… or if you would like you can sign up to Ebates to get an additional $5 bucks, with an extra 15% back as cash to your Ebates account. You can do both or just the restaurant deal. Either way this has no subscriptions, and no do this to do that type gimmick. This is a no strings attached deal. How cool! Ok so I know I have posted the Restaurant.com deal to get 80% off when you buy a $25 gift certificate for only $2. But if you register through Ebates, click here:
Not only do you get $5 bucks for signing up , but you get 15% cash back into your Ebates account. Which they will add to your paypal account as a “Big Fat Check” I became my own “ATM” (A Thrifty Mom) and made $5.60 for buying $50 in restaurant gift certificates!  I earned $18.39 for buying these items?
Yes they were all free….
And the winner is THE NERATKOS she guessed An OVERAGE of $4.50
Congratulations…you ?will get a free First Aid kit and a 3 pack of razors over a $10 value
Thanks to all who played! ?Hope you will all play again next week!
5- Boxes Betty Crockers Fruit Snacks Used 2/ $1 off couons from the box
7- Rolls of Grand Biscuits Used $1.50 worth of coupons right from the can
?When I paid I used the ?Rite Aid coupon for 5 off 20$ order
Then I paid with $9.90 of coupons listed above, then ?$13.50 in Catalina coupons from yesterday
SO total cash out of pocket ?$3.90 ….but since I bought 2o participating products I got back 2/ $10 catalinas back. ?Plus a $3.50 catalina for the 5 boxes of fruit snacks.?
SO I walked away with a $23.50 credit of catalina coupons ( which are like cash, so don’t loose them)
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Transaction #2
2- Packs of bread
5- ?Venus Razors that were $8.99, on clearance for $2.24 ( used $2 coupon from 2/8 P&G coupon insert)
5- Mini Band Aid First Aide Kits $1.19 ( used $1 off Band Aid products from 2/8 P&G coupon Insert)
When I paid I used the ?Rite Aid coupon for 5 off 20$ order
Then I used my 5 /$2 razor coupons and my 5/$1 band aid coupons
Total cash out of pocket $1.21
Total for both Transactions
Cash out of pocket was $5.11 but I got back $23.50 in Catalinas so it was all free plus I earned $18.39 for my next shopping trip.
I got an email telling me they wished I would have told you if I used Catalinas, to make it more “fair”. ?I will make sure to tell you next week what Catalinas I use….to make it fair for everyone. ?But even if I did not use Catalinas this week it would have still given me a $4.89 overage and the winner still would have been the Neratkos. ?Hope you all play again next week!
I love being my own ATM (A Thrifty Mom) Getting paid to buy the things my little family needs!
To read this weeks Walgreens match ups click here!
I was able to buy $89.14 worth of items, and got “paid” $.01 cent.
Here is how I did it,?After 6 trips into 3?different?Walgreens:
6 bags of Halls-$2.94
1 bottle Joy dish soap-.69 cents
1 bottle shave gel- .49 cents
Bandaids- .87 cents
Venus Shaver- $1.00
Gillette shavers- earned $6.00
Total cost (profit) .01 cents + tax
Joy Dish Liquid .99 with in-store ad coupon
Halls Cough Drops .99 with in-store ad coupon
Venus Embrace or Spa Razor?$8.99
Gillette Fusion Gamer razor $8.99,
So it is like paying .99 cents a tube.
When I went to Walgreens today they have the Whitening toothpaste clearanced down to $2.19 but it is still part of the sale this week. ?So you pay $2.19 and get back your $2 register rewards.
So it is like paying .19 cents a tube.
But you all know I carry my coupon book with me, and I had a coupon for $1.50 off colgate. ?So i?
paid .82 cents and got back $2 in register rewards. So I earned $1.18 from buying colgate. Last day for this sale is Saturday. ?If you have clipped your coupons, go make some money! ?Become your own “ATM” or a thifty mom
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