Welcome to the weekly Cha-Ching Challenge!

Did you find a HOT deal this week that you just want to share?  You’ve come to the right place!  Every week I post the Cha-Ching Challenge, sharing my savings for the week.    Add a link to your post detailing your savings for the week OR your favorite deal of the week. I’ll choose one participating blog to highlight next week right here on Cha-Ching on a Shoestring.

Check out my savings for the week below:

After last week’s true confessions, I was happy to start to jump back into the couponing game this week.  Thanks so much for all of you who shared kind words with me as I shared some of my discouragement with spending more money over the summer.  It’s important to me that I encourage you all to not allow coupons and ECB deals to take precedence over what truly matters: making the most of the time that we have.  So, thanks for reminding me that coupons can wait, but making memories can’t!

Savings from coupons and store sales: $95.49

• Spent $74.12 at Landis, Giant and CVS.  Saved $95.49.

Savings from ‘Free Money’: $81.90

• I made $0.10 this week from YouData.  (Hey–every penny counts!)
• Thanks to a special referral promotion from Ebates, I received a check for $80 this week.
• Saved $1.80 with gas rewards at Landis.

Savings from creativity: $200

• Thanks to my cousin Megan’s savvy decorating skills, I can’t even calculate how much money she helped me save on making over my office.  I’m sure I could have easily spent hundreds more dollars, but her ability to find ways to use what we have and make a room shine with a small budget was amazing!

TOTAL SAVINGS:$377.39

TOTAL SAVINGS THIS YEAR: $3074.80

Click below to check out my favorite find of the week:

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HOW DID YOU DO? Did you find any great deals? Leave a linky and let us know!  Be sure to link directly to your weekly savings or great deal post.

Feel free to copy and paste the button above into your post and link back here so that others can join in the fun!




Welcome to the weekly Cha-Ching Challenge!

Did you find a HOT deal this week that you just want to share?  You’ve come to the right place!  Every week I post the Cha-Ching Challenge, sharing my savings for the week.    Add a link to your post detailing your savings for the week OR your favorite deal of the week. I’ll choose one participating blog to highlight next week right here on Cha-Ching on a Shoestring.

Check out my savings for the week below:

True Confessions: I approached the task of totaling up my spending and saving for the past month this morning with fear and trepidation.  In all honesty, couponing has taken a back seat this summer.  (Oh who am I fooling…it wasn’t even in the car.)   And as I added up my numbers this morning, my stomach turned a bit with each receipt that I entered.

I considered not even posting this. But I’ve promised that I would be real with you all, so here’s the truth: couponing takes time and effort.  And when life is busy and kids aren’t in school and I’d rather be spending time with family and friends enjoying the beautiful summer, I end up spending way more money than I like.

And that’s the truth.  Just keeping it real.

Savings from coupons and store sales: $141.09

• Spent $411.91 in the past month.  Saved $141.09.

TOTAL SAVINGS:$141.09

TOTAL SAVINGS THIS YEAR: $2697.41

Click below to check out my favorite find of the week:

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HOW DID YOU DO? Did you find any great deals? Leave a linky and let us know!  Be sure to link directly to your weekly savings or great deal post.

Feel free to copy and paste the button above into your post and link back here so that others can join in the fun!




Welcome to the weekly Cha-Ching Challenge!

Did you find a HOT deal this week that you just want to share?  You’ve come to the right place!  Every week I post the Cha-Ching Challenge, sharing my savings for the week.    Add a link to your post detailing your savings for the week OR your favorite deal of the week. I’ll choose one participating blog to highlight next week right here on Cha-Ching on a Shoestring.

Check out my savings for the week below:

Here we go–better late than never, right?!

Savings from coupons and store sales: $90.22

• Spent $77.86 at Landis, CVS and Bottom Dollar Foods.  Saved $90.22.

Savings from ‘Free Money’: $65

• I received a $20 check from my ShopAtHome account.
• Took advantage of my Summer Fun List and took my boys and niece to a $1 movie this week (How To Train Your Dragon).  We had a great time and the movie was SO cute!  Saved $25.
• Scored four FREE lunches at Chick-fil-A yesterday!  Saved $20.

TOTAL SAVINGS:$155.22

TOTAL SAVINGS THIS YEAR: $2556.32

Click below to check out my favorite find of the week:

This is still available!

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HOW DID YOU DO? Did you find any great deals? Leave a linky and let us know!  Be sure to link directly to your weekly savings or great deal post.

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Welcome to the weekly Cha-Ching Challenge!

Did you find a HOT deal this week that you just want to share?  You’ve come to the right place!  Every week I post the Cha-Ching Challenge, sharing my savings for the week.    Add a link to your post detailing your savings for the week OR your favorite deal of the week. I’ll choose one participating blog to highlight next week right here on Cha-Ching on a Shoestring.

Check out my savings for the week below:

First, let me apologize for my lack of posting the Cha-Ching Challenge lately.  Did I tell you guys we’ve had family living with us for the past three weeks?  It’s kind of a long story, but Wes’s brother and his wife and daughter stayed with us while they were looking for a place to live in the area.

So honestly, I kind of fell off the couponing wagon in the midst of the busy-ness.  Not to mention, our guests were super gracious in buying groceries while they were here, so I’m not sure what I spent and what they did!

I did manage to use a few coupons in the past few weeks, so I thought I’d share my savings and spendings from those trips as I dust myself off and climb right back on the wagon!

Savings from coupons and store sales: $92.11

• Spent $34.55 at CVS and Landis.  Saved $92.11.

TOTAL SAVINGS:$92.11

TOTAL SAVINGS THIS YEAR: $2401.10

Click below to check out my favorite find of the week:

Did you enter to win my anniversary giveaway yet?!

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HOW DID YOU DO? Did you find any great deals? Leave a linky and let us know!  Be sure to link directly to your weekly savings or great deal post.

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Welcome to the weekly Cha-Ching Challenge!

Did you find a HOT deal this week that you just want to share?  You’ve come to the right place!  Every week I post the Cha-Ching Challenge, sharing my savings for the week.    Add a link to your post detailing your savings for the week OR your favorite deal of the week. I’ll choose one participating blog to highlight next week right here on Cha-Ching on a Shoestring.

I am taking a break from posting my deals this week since it’s Memorial Day weekend and we currently have 5 house guests, so things are a little crazy around here!  I’d still love to hear about your deals though, so leave a comment or link up!

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HOW DID YOU DO? Did you find any great deals? Leave a linky and let us know!  Be sure to link directly to your weekly savings or great deal post.

Feel free to copy and paste the button above into your post and link back here so that others can join in the fun!




Welcome to the weekly Cha-Ching Challenge!

Did you find a HOT deal this week that you just want to share?  You’ve come to the right place!  Every week I post the Cha-Ching Challenge, sharing my savings for the week.    Add a link to your post detailing your savings for the week OR your favorite deal of the week. I’ll choose one participating blog to highlight next week right here on Cha-Ching on a Shoestring.

Check out my savings for the week below:

This week was a catch-up week for us.  The past few weeks have been so full, that I hadn’t been able to do any real grocery shopping for a while.  I realized we had an issue when we had no milk, bread or eggs in the house.   So I actually took some time to SHOP this week, which included a trip to Aldi with my trusty E-Mealz menu plan and grocery list.  I also shopped the sales at Landis, Giant and CVS.

Savings from coupons and store sales: $157.64

• Spend $158.37.  Saved $157.64 (a savings of almost 50%!)

Savings from ‘Free Money’: $42.00

• My $10 Target gift card came in the mail for signing up for an E-Z pay subscription for my local newspaper.  (Plus the subscription is less than the newsstand price!)
• Used some Swag Bucks to purchase a box of diapers and a box of wipes.  (Potty training is in full swing here, so hopefully this is my last purchase like this!)

TOTAL SAVINGS:$199.64

TOTAL SAVINGS THIS YEAR: $2308.99

Click below to check out my favorite find of the week:

Did you see my kid yet?!
(This is the last time, I promise…)

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HOW DID YOU DO? Did you find any great deals? Leave a linky and let us know!  Be sure to link directly to your weekly savings or great deal post.

Feel free to copy and paste the button above into your post and link back here so that others can join in the fun!