I dropped the “Day x” from my blog titles. I was already getting tired of seeing them in the post titles and figured this unemployment thing is going to go on for a while and that will serve as a reminder how long it’s been.
Anyway, it’s Friday! Normally, well I can’t even say “normally” any more since my “normal” schedule is what it is today now that I’m out of work and not say, last week now when I wasn’t. How about this, prior to this week I would be pretty damn happy to see Friday come around. While I would still work over the weekend getting caught up on emails and working on some spreadsheets, it was still a little less work for the weekend to be here. It’s not that I’m not happy to see Friday, but at this point it’s kind of like all the other days.
Today is errand day. Nicole is off on Fridays and we have a host of things to do. We’re kind of looking at my unemployment as a challenge to cut back and save where we can right out of the gate. So the errands we run today, we’re primarily buying items we need that are on sale or that we can get a deal on. Coupons straight from Target.com or Walmart.com help. Plus, at Target we use their Cartwheel app which almost always gives an additional discount on their store brand (Market Pantry) items. Along with the 5% off we get for the Target Red Card, it all adds up, trust me. It will be interesting to see in a month or two how good/bad we were able to curb our overall spending. I’ll have to go through that exercise next month and see how March turned out, expense-wise. I will need to do things like that to make sure my Excel skills stay sharp. ; )
It’s pretty helpful Nicole is as organized as she is, I’m still a work in progress with being organized. An example of her organizational skills…while I’m writing this entry, we’re going through an inventory of supplies we have in the house and I’m updating her Evernote list. She tracks our supply of everything in the house; personal care items, cleaners, and even food. We also found the shopping list app she uses can share lists so we can keep one main list between us.
A quick plug for Free Stuff Finder . The site is updated often and the deals on there can be really good.
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Nicole, there is such a thing as too organized. 😉 Thanks for the Free Stuff Finder shout out since I didn’t know about it. 🙂
I don’t know, Crystal, but I think you meant to say “there’s no such thing as being too organized”. 😉
But in all seriousness, my an inventory was born out of necessity after we kept buying more mayonnaise and ketchup than we could eat before it expired. Now that we are cutting expenses, we definitely don’t want to be wasteful or spend money on anything that isn’t truly needed.