guess what.....

It's takes effort to save.

I like to share my freebies and deals with my friends. I'm cool like that :-)  I am currently working on my second $40 check from inboxdollars.com. Of course I have sent this site to my BFF to encourage her to save and earn some extra change for our famous shopping trips that last all day and cost way more then either of us tell our selves we will spend when we set out for the day.
 While chatting with her last night she told me that it was too much work to save money with inboxdollars... imagine my shock and dismay upon hearing this from one of the closes people in my life... Actually I completely understood what she was saying and KNEW that she would say this when I sent her the site. To tell the truth I was surprised that she even signed up at all. THIS brings me to the point of this blog....
Saving MONEY takes TIME and lots, lots, LOTS of EFFORT! but in the same sense so does getting up at the butt crack of dawn and going to work for someone else. I am not gong to tell you that "all ya gotta do is clip some coupons" and you'll see a huge difference in your grocery bill.... wait, that IS all ya gotta do for your grocery bill......ok, What I am trying to say is that you will find your self asking "is this really worth the effort" while you are scouring for discounts online and cutting your Sunday inserts. REST ASSURED my dear penny pincher's it WILL PAY OFF! There's an art to getting the best deals. The kinda deals like I just got where I went to CVS and got  $53.30 worth of items for $6.29 out of pocket AND had $10CVS dollars to spend in the future. But it all comes down to two simple questions. 1) Do you WANT to save $ and 2) are you willing to do what it takes to save the $?

Now I will admit up front that unlike my BFF who has a full time job, takes care of her invalid mother, two granddaughter's AND runs a household (to hold said people) I DO have more time to save money. I am lucky enough to be able to stay out of the traditional work force. I am what I like to refer to as a "Household Manager"...yeah, yeah I am a stay-at-home Mom with a dear husband that works hard so that I can be. HOWEVER; that does not mean we are wealthy. In fact it takes all the coupon clipping and frugality I can muster up just to justify me staying home. For us, me being here for our daughter was more beneficial then me being back in the lab working for "da man". Regardless of your financial standing it is always worth the effort to save money. When I see a $0.50 coupon I see 2 quarters. If you saw 2 quarters laying on the ground would you just walk by and ignore them? most people would scoop them up and put them in their pocket...that's what clipping coupons is all about...scooping up the change that the manufactures are willing to give you to buy a product that you would buy anyway.