So I thought I would share a little bit about myself, which is really hard since I do not like to talk about my self at all. First I am a stay at home mom of 3 little girls who have tons of energy and make me laugh every day. My husband is my best friend. He is some one that I can count on no matter what and always knows just the right thing to say when I am feeling sad. We have been through a lot and I guess we will continue to go through many crazy things. That is just life!!
I love spending time with my family, playing softball and volleyball, going to the movies with my husband (which does not happen as often since babysitters are few and far between). I love shopping, talking to friends, using coupons of course and just laughing.
I started really couponing in 2008, after we had our youngest daughter. I was watching a lady on TV and she was talking about how she was getting most of her groceries and health & beauty items really cheap and even FREE in some cases. I had always used coupons, but not to this extent. So I started researching online how I could do this too. With me being a stay at home mom and a newborn, we were spending a lot and not saving much. So after about 3 weeks of searching and learning, I started my coupon adventure. It took about 3 months to start getting a real feel for the coupon world and to start getting FREE items and start my stockpile.
I then decided in January of 2009 to start sharing my shopping trips with friends and family in a blog. It also gave me an outlet to write and have a little time for myself. I love sharing all the great savings I get and all of the saving tips I have learned. I also love getting feedback on what others are doing to save money and how much they save at the grocery. So I hope you enjoy all the things I share and have learned over the past 2 years and be able to save a ton at the grocery!!!
Please email me with any questions at justtryingtosavemoney (at) yahoo.com
- Fairfield Echo Newspaper Article- Back To School Savings- August 19, 2010
- Journal-News.com Article- Back To School Savings- August 18, 2010
Back To School Supply Drive- Fairfield City School District, August 21, 2010- Co-Organizer
- Cincinnati.com article- July 23, 2010
- Fairfield Echo Newspaper Article – July 28, 2010
- Journal Newspaper Article- August 1, 2010
Japan Relief Event- Tri-County Mall and Matthew 25 Ministries- April 3, 2011- Co-Organizer
- Rewind 94.9 Photos of Event- April 3, 2011
Live Interview with Channel 9 News- April 2, 2011 - Cincinnati.com Article- April 21, 2011
Ambassador:
- Coupon Cabin Team Member- April 2012-June 2012
- Coppertone Water Mom- April 2012- Current
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Sandy, Sorry for that. When I transferred over from blogger to wordpress a few things went a little crazy. One being my feeds. So here is the new address to sign up for the feeds for Just Trying To Save Money! Thanks for letting me. I have been slowly going through updating all old posts!!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/justtryingtosavemoney/feeds2
Got it! Thanks
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Great blog! I’m on the same adventure as you…trying to save money as much as I can. I’m going to add you to my Google Reader so I can follow your blog. Feel free to follow me too! http://www.savingindy.com. Keep up the great work!
have the winners for the lil teammates been drawn and or will they be posted on here? fingers crossed thanks
Hi! I found your site through the Money Saving Mom site. I see that you post Dollar General deals and I was wondering if you could contact me about sharing some of your deals with my readers, and then, of course, directing them back to your site for the full list of deals. Please let me know if you are interested.
Thanks!
Misty Appleby
Hi, I’m your newest follower from Mama to 4 Blessings, and I would love a “follow” back – thanks!
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Hi,
Is it possible to advertise on this site at all?
Thanks
Mike
Hello,
I am also a SAHM of 3 working part time to promote an AOL site, The Savings Experiment (learning how to save money myself). I am a follower of your content and would love to exchange content links to promote to our respective FB audiences. Check out our site and shoot me an email. Keep the great savings coming!
The Children’s Place has a great deal on kid’s slippers. $3.49 (reg $12.95) minus 20% with promo code W7F2012, AND FREE SHIPPING. That’s $2.79 for cute kid’s slippers. Go to their website – do not click on Boys, Girls, etc. Key in “slippers” at “search keyword or item #”. Or, click on “clearance”, but they will be on the last page or so of clearance items.
Hi, I just wanted to say I love your blog! I found it through Money Saving Mom when I was looking for Dollar General deals. I just started a frugal blog and am not sure what the proper etiquette is for posting deals from other blogs. I don’t know if you have to ask each blogger if it’s ok to post a few of their deals with a link to their blog or can you just post them? I’m interested in posting a few of your Dollar General deals, with a link back to your blog, of course, but I wanted to get permission first. Thank you, Kathi.
Thanks for asking Kathi, I do send out weekly emails with the highlights of each match-up I do, I will add you to the list for Dollar General! Good luck on the new blog!!