Be A Wealthy Warrior

With the coupons I had and the ones that they were giving out at the store, I saved 21%. There were a couple high vaule coupons the lady was handing out. Save $5 on certain products, so I bought 2 Kraft Deli style turkey lunch meat. These were the 1 pound tubs going for $3.50 each. After coupon I got both for $2. I also bought 2 one pound bags of the Kraft shredded cheese. Before coupon $6, after coupon $1 for both. I love when that happens!

Starting 1 Feb, I'm challenging myself to have either green juice or green smoothie once a day. I just got my Vitamix today so I'm super excited! The only days I won't be able to complete is 16-20 Feb becuase I will be going out of town.

Anyone care to join me? Here's to our health in 2012!!

Well I retired from the military 1 Sep and finally got my rating from the VA. At the moment it equals out to about an extra $600(tax free) a year. I have a follow-up appointment with the VA on Tuesday and I hope that will increase my rating as well but I won't have a decision on that for another couple months I'm sure.

For those that aren't familiar with the military, when you retire you can claim ailments with the VA(Veteran Affairs) for those things that came about or worsened due to military service. The VA makes the final determination of how much you're given. Of course you can appeal if you don't agree and that's what I plan on doing but for now I will take that $600 with a

Well I finally caved in and bought one. QVC had it as a today's special a couple of days ago. Also went through www.shopathome.com and will receive $15 back.

Although I'm debt free and only have a mortgage to worry about, it was still somewhat hard for me to buy it seeing how much it cost. Am I really that frugal?? In ways I am and I'm glad about it becuase it allows me to live like noone else.

I plan on using the Vitamix to help me achieve my 2012 goal of eating healthier. I guess I can pay the price now or pay the doctor later

New total $24. All bills saved this year will be going to the Bahamas in 2013

Finally brought in a jacket that was in the car. Before I got ready to hang it up I go through the pockets. Found $10!! I love it when that happens

Many of us here use coupons to save money but what do you do with the ones that expire or don't use. Now you can adopt a military base overseas to send them to. Seeing how I'm a veteran and couponer, I jumped all over this and adopted a base in Germany I was once stationed at. Visit www.ocpnet.org! Just another great, small way to support our troops!

Current total is now $17. I'm now saving them for a girl's Mar 2013 trip to the Bahamas!

If you're like me, you probably never heard of www.bountifulbaskets.org. I heard about it on another forum I visit. I figured since I wanted to start eating healthier for 2012 then I would give it a try. You get about $50 worth of fruits and veggies for $15.

Today I got tomatoes, grapes, apples, brocoli,tangerines,bananas,radishes,english cucumber,spinach, 3 lb bag of pears. They also have organic boxes for $10 more and every week they have certain add-ons like 5 loaves of bread for $10.
7 doz tortillas for $10. They have granola and cookies and bulk produce for canning.

Anyway it's a co-op so it's all volunteer and I just wanted to share. You will have to visit their site to see if it's in your area.

While cleaning out an old back pack, I found a necklace that I had bought from Kohls. It still had the tags and the receipt was in there too. I remember my intentions were to return it but I never did until today. $9 snowflake!

While going through things I found a $25 Itunes giftcard. Looks like I know what I'm giving my niece for Christmas 2012!

I ordered 4 more AGCs from Swagbucks, bringing challenge total up to $180!

Two websites that I'm using to help me with my challenge is Ebates and ShoppingAtHome. Both pay you cashback for doing shopping at stores online that you normally use anyway. I normally check both before deciding which one to go with. For example as of now Ebates is paying 12% for drugstore.com orders while ShopatHome pays 10%.

Might as well get free money for shopping online anyway. You can check out both on my side bar.

I got blackberries, strawberries,and bananas for 99 cents each. I also got some Christmas gift boxes that were marked down to 39 cents. There's two in each box.

I noticed that they also had the big tubs of organic spinach or mixed greens that are normally expensive elsewhere for 99 cents.

So don't bypass your local 99 cents store, there's savings to be had!!

New total $11 and it's only 2 Jan!!

It's good until 6 am PST..Happy New Year Swaggers!

Last year I was able to save $397 by saving all of my $1 bills. I'm going to do the same thing this year and see if I can beat 2011 total. Anyone can to join in?

I have $8 already

Eventhough we all may pay some if not most of our bills automatically, we should still look at the bill itself. By looking at my cable bill this month I noticed they charged me $40 for a service call I had a couple of weeks ago. I called them immediately and told them I was told there wouldn't be a fee. Luckily the guy reversed the charge.

So lesson learned for the day: look at each bill monthly regardless of how the bill is paid.

In December 2010, I read on another blog about an idea of saving all your dollar bills so I decided to try it for the year. Well as of when I make my deposit tomorrow my total for Dec 2010-Dec 2011 is $397! That's not bad if I do say so myself. That just goes to prove that small amounts do add up over time so stay encouraged everyone!

I will definitely be doing this for 2012 as well.

Just purchased One Year of Full Oil Change Service for $45. The deal includes oil change, tire rotation, top off low fluids, 28 point inspections, and brake inspections. I will have to make sure I take car in every 3,000 miles for sure!

As we all start our celebrations, please remember the reason for the season. Remember all service men and women that are away protecting us while they are away from their families. We must not forget,freedom is not free!!

Merry Christmas

Got a $25 Target GC for doing a VA(veteran affairs) survey. New total is $160!

I've only been doing swagbucks for a couple months now and today on one single search I got 39 swagbucks! I hope the rest of the day is as fruitful.

For all my swaggers out there, what's your highest single search?

Snagged a $25 giftcard from swagbucks. New total $135

Received my $20 check from serve.com. New total $110!!

Got another $10 target giftcard bringing total to $70.

I bought a Nintendo DS today at Target and received a $50 gift card. I also used a Target coupon and got a $10 gift for spending $50 on that same purchase. I will save those 2 gift cards to use towards 2012 Christmas Challenge.

It's never too early to start!

I belong to Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover site and a few of us have joined this challenge for next year. Basically, we are going to try and get/earn free gifts and money by other various creative ways. We are all trying to see how this challenge will dramatically reduce our Christmas expenses next year.

I'm going to achieve mine by doing the below:
Swagbucks
PerkStreet rewards
Inbox dollars
DailyFeats
Ebates
Shoppingathome

I already have 4 $5 AGC from Swagbucks!

Feel free to join in!

I watched this documentary last night and it definitely has me thinking. It advocates for whole food plant based eating. I'm not saying I'm jumping on the vegan wagon yet but I will be reading more about how I can incorporate more plant based food in my eating versus animal based. Has anyone else watched it?

Interesting article, wanted to share.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/LearnToBudget/how-much-should-you-spend-on.aspx