Money Saving Challenge

Well we're back from our very long weekend of funeral stuff. Longest drive ever 12 hours each way. Yesterday was an exhausting day to keep my eyes open at work. Thankfully my very kind father paid for our hotel room because he had enough points with holiday inn priority club. So my parents got a suite and we had a hotel room connected so the only upside was spending quality time with my immediate family.

DH and I didn't have to pay for anything except gas so that was also nice.

Last night I ran our laundry through on cold and line dried most of it.

I broiled pork chops and made a pasta and broccoli side dish. It was easy and threw it all in the oven so I could just try to crash on the couch. Unfortunately this week we have dinner plans out for various events we have to be at Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday. DH actually says to me why don't we go out to dinner at that little mom and pop deli I like tomorrow. I looked at him like he had 2 heads and told him we were eating out enought his week so we would be saving some money. We just had a budget discussion on our 12 hour drive.....how quickly he seems to forget. And how quickly he seems to want to spend that extra paycheck we get this month since it's a 5 Friday month. Looks like we'll be having yet another talk tonight about budgets.


Tonight I will be going through my Sunday paper, coupons, and ads to get the sales match ups. There is also a big sale at Yankee candle and I need some candles for a gift(I got a coupon for $10 off $25 so it's perfect). I also need to go through all my outstanding rebates to make sure I've got everything I need to send in when I go to the post office tomorrow.

Happy Hounding to all!