Fail but try again (#2)

Frozen week was a FAIL.......... why? because I chose the last week of the month and this is when most of my coupon's expired, and my goal was to NOT grocery shop at all.............. I ended up at the store spending $100 because some of the coupons of things I "needed" were going to expire.

I know my rule is, don't buy it just because you have a coupon for it, but I didn't use ALL of my coupons, I only used SOME! LOL. For example, we use lots of chicken broth and I had a coupon for canned chicken broth. Was I cooking with it this week? No, but I don't want to be cooking with it next week and paying full price!

So RULE change (this is a learning process)  ............. frozen meal week will be week 1 of the month, not the last week!  This way the last week I can use the coupons that are near expiring and not waste them!

Another $ saving Website

Groupon.com

This website you can sign up for your local deals. For example today's current deal is $50 for $25 at the Gap.  Earlier this week I was able to sign up for a month of Gymboree for $32 with a waive of the initial sign up a $40 savings!

Fail but try again

Alright so I was a bit upset about my grocery failure. So today, once I finished my daily cleaning routine I sat down and went blog searching.
So far I've found:
Mommysavers.com
I had thought about buying the Sunday paper in order to get access to the day's coupons.  But I found a link on mommysavers.com listing the coupons and none of which we would have used. I did put this "rule" in place for my grocery shopping:
Don't buy it because you have a coupon, buy it because you will use it!
In the past I've made "coupon" mistakes and bought it because I had a coupon. This lead it to sitting in my pantry, fridge, cupboard unused.

Couponmom.com
Coupon mom offers tutorials on using your flyers wisely and access to more coupons.

Addition:
couponalbum.com Not just groceries!
smartsource.com
redplum.com