Determination to Save More Money :)

My previous excuse was an inability to search online and print out coupons from home, due to a lack of internet access at said residence.  However, with the recent addition of such a joy to our home, I will now have no excuse but the lack of time.  Soon enough, I will endeavor to add to my repertoire of money saving techniques.  

Urged on by the amazing abilities of Joan and her daughter Emily to get deals on necessaries and near necessaries, I have determined to begin myself.  Once rolling my eyes at those who shop at numerous places (Publix AND Kroger AND Walgreens AND CVS) to find good deals, I will now be resorting to the same such methods in order to sweep in great benefits and bargains.  

No longer will my savings at Kroger alone suffice to satisfy my longing for money saving!  Although, I’m rather proud of myself.  Today I will shop at Kroger after getting my 2nd of the allowed 4 gift cards which will give me $330 for just $300 monies…..  And I will use a 10% off coupon from the Entertainment book (on my purchase of 30+ so it is limitless!) and a $10 off a $75 purchase and numerous coupons which my mother so nicely cuts out for me out of the goodness of her heart.  She disapproves of the junk food I buy with them (such as sugary cereals and ready made pizzas) but so far still cuts them out even though I never asked.  :) 

Then I will begin my multiple-store-escapade by also visiting Publix to get 4 12 packs of Coke for $11 and $5 off my purchase of $30.  I would continue onto CVS and Walgreens for more deals, but feel that would be a little too taxing on both my recently found determination to MSS (Multiple Store Shop) and also recently sprained knee which is rather painful to walk on.  BUT NEVER FEAR – the MSS will continue to be my goal.  

To great deals – cheers!

UPDATE: As of a few hours later, our trip to Kroger reveals the savings…. OH yeah.  :)

With about

• $40 worth of Kroger Plus Card savings off individual prices
• $1.50 off $7 Dairy purchase
• $10 off $75 purchase
• $14 off $140 purchase
• $2 off $10 Produce purchase
• 10% off your total purchase of $30+
• $18 in standard Manufacturer’s coupons (save .55 cents, etc.)

I watched the total on my month’s grocery bill go from $228 down to $134.  And as I had gotten a $300 gift card, Kroger also gave me $30 “free” so, peeps, I spent $104 bucks to get $228 worth of groceries.  

Kind of makes my day.  My husband loves me for it.  ;-)

 

Change comes from the bottom, not the top.

I am heartily saddened by the state of our political affairs at this time in history.  We are faced with Obama, Hillary, and McCain.  I wouldn’t care for any of them to be my pal, but one of them will be named the next President by the end of the year.

This issue I’m about to address has increasingly become troublesome to me.

The conservative crowd seems to think that what a presidential candidate believes/thinks/votes on the issue of abortion makes them either a good candidate or a terrible one. 

I beg to differ.  Abortion has been a curse on society long before it was made legal in the US in the 70’s.  There are documented and numerous accounts of unwanted babies in Rome being aborted or left on the rocks outside the city to die.  All through out history, whether legal or illegal, abortions have taken place. 

Whether or not the person with the title President is for or against abortion, I’m pretty darn sure some sadistic person out there will be perfectly willing to take a large payment to cut pieces of a tiny screaming baby out of a woman’s selfish body.  If there are serial killers and rapists and child molestors committing their crimes for degenerate pleasure only, I guarantee you there will be those willing to perform an abortion for large amounts of money!

Conservatives – STOP SPENDING ALL YOUR ENERGY ON THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES!  Why don’t you start volunteering in the crisis pregnancy centers?  Why don’t you donate to pro-life ministries and dedicate more of your time to talking to someone you know about why they believe abortion is an acceptable choice for a woman.  Stop spending all your time worrying and talking and howling about which candidate will have a better opinion of abortion! 

Do you realize how our country operates?  Once a law is passed into existence (such as Roe v. Wade), the President can not just step into office and obliterate it.  It’s been around long enough that many of us (myself included) were born into a generation that acknowledges the legality of abortion.  Start spending more of your time and energy turning around the hearts of people who consider abortion a choice and the need to illegalize abortion will fade into the woodwork.

Striking at the symptom (the act of abortion) will not cure the disease (a woman selfishly deciding her baby does not deserve life because it will change hers).  Start worrying and praying and talking and figuring out ways to soften those women’s hearts!  Start using your energy to seek out those who are struggling with the decision and turn their hearts. 

If you have any doubts on whether or not making something illegal will cause it to suddenly cease, take a look at the current drug statistics.  Just this week, Roswell GA police shut down an extensive operation in a home worth probably 1/2 a million where growth hormones and “other drugs” were being created and the operation is labeled “extensive.”  (The word “extensive” brings out the FBI, ATF, etc.)

You’ve got to get a reality check and see that abortion will occur whether legal or illegal until you change the hearts of the people who seek an abortion.

When you look into the mirror and see a flat stomach and realize that your pregnancy test is positive – it is difficult to imagine a tiny life forming.  When you hear the baby’s heartbeat a month later on your first doctor’s visit, it still doesn’t seem quite real.  When you’re six months down the road and you feel your baby kicking and flopping – it becomes very real.  

When a girl is taught (in public school) that her uterus has simply been injected with a fetus, much like a tumor, that will “mess up her life,” she is going to consider abortion her only choice to keep everything normal. 

Why don’t you look for that girl and talk to her about her other options and about the tiny life rapidly growing as a tiny human life instead of gabbing with your equally blind conservative friends about which presidential nominee is worse on the issue of abortion? 

Why don’t you find that girl who thinks “the tumor like growth” will simply cease to exist and help her realize what a baby looks like screaming in pain as a doctor tears off it’s tiny arm, then a tiny leg….or as acidic fluid burns into layers of its fragile skin and the convulsing that occurs when they breathe it into their lungs.  Why don’t you start trying to DO something about abortion instead of talking about which candidate will get to be President and do all the work for you – which they won’t! 

Get off your butt and look around you and figure out what actions YOU can produce for the pro-life beliefs you so proudly talk!