Horsin' Around

A couple days ago, Micah wore this outfit that had horse heads on the feet. Whenever I changed his diaper I would play with his feet, making the “neigh” sound of a horse. The next day I heard him in his crib making a new noise over and over and over that was very similar to the “neigh” sound I was making for him. It cracked me up!! This morning, Tim and I woke up to Micah’s new horse sound. We thought it was so funny, and I was able to capture a short video of him as he’s delighting himself with his new noise.

Triple Coupon Event

Since I’m staying home with Micah, and we currently have 1 income coming in, I have been looking for ways that we can save money. Instead of it being a chore or something that we have to do, it’s really been a fun challenge for me to find ways to cut back financially. A lady at Tim’s work was telling him about this website that had a bunch of tips, coupons, freebies and deals at different stores in the area. I’ve been a faithful follower of this blog, Frugal in Virginia, and it has been my inspiration to start cutting coupons. Every Sunday (well, at least for the past month) we’ve been stopping at the gas station to get the paper after church so I can collect all of the coupons. We found out that Harris Teeter had 4 days that they would triple coupons!!! So on Thursday, we braved the cold weather for our first triple coupon event to get our amazing deals! Many items we were able to get for $1 or less or even free!! We even went back on Sunday night to use the coupons that we got in the newspaper earlier that afternoon. Our first trip, we spent about $21 and saved $29 in coupons! Our second trip, we spent about $7 and saved almost $19 in coupons! It was so much fun…I think even Tim enjoyed it!

(The picture above includes almost all of the items we purchased on our first shopping trip.)