460.00 up date.

We have made it half way through week two of month one of the 460.00 challenge and we are, ( drum roll please!) on track. One hundred dollars a week for household things and food is tricky but I think if I can improve on my use of coupons we will be laughing, ok maybe not laughing but not crying either.

Those people at SmartCanucks.ca blow my mind. Reading some of their brags and deals threads just makes me want to charge out there and save save save... but I'm afraid.

I've never ever in my life price matched anything from one store to another.
I've never tried to stack coupons, heck most of the time I didn't use coupons even if they were in my purse.
Until about three weeks ago I thought that those coupons in the little dispensers in the stores were for use only in that store and only for that shopping trip, collecting them and using them later never dawned on me.

I'd like to try coupon trading but again ... Scared!!!
I did join the free-cycle group here, Yay me!
Hubby is on board with the whole coupon collecting and saving money thing, he is far better then me at capturing those elusive coupons.

One of the tips I read about we did try the past two weeks, and I was sure that I would hate, is making a weekly menu, I've always avoided doing this in the past I'm not very good with schedules, thing is I found it has been really cool, I don't end up wanting to make something and not having half the ingredients, or having half of them frozen.

Hubby likes it too, but as we all know he LOVES schedules. He told me it's nice knowing he is going to be fed everyday, wait till he sees the wash your own fork night that is planned in there next week. ( wash your own fork night is... everyone fend for themselves night)

I've also printed off the form for price lists from our handy dandy SmartCanucks site, and have started to keep track of the different prices items are at different stores, and the different prices for the store brands.

I've a mini goal in the next two weeks I want to be able to save 50.00 out of the 200.00 left for food and things. I am getting desperate for new bathtub taps.