**Making each penny count**

Savings, savings, savings, as moms it's hard not to spend money, because everything add's up with kids. So we have to make it a habit to make our money work for us, here's a quick way to get all the name brands for CHEAP!!! (foods that is). Sales, sales, and sales, it's a watching game and waiting game, here's a prime example of what I mean, I spent $158.24 today, only paid $78.74 and saved $79.50 (could had saved more if I had more coupons, I only had $1 coupon) more than half of what I spent.

I'm in California so it's hard to get good deals on our coupons, because they have strict laws against it, so "extreme coupon'ing" goes but so far, here's how I do it, I wait for the sales and here's the thing about it, they wont tell you, if they say buy 6 box (mix & match) if you buy 8 those 2 extra boxes are regular price, you don't get the sale just because you got the 6 (learned that the hard way).

Ralph's, although expensive, have extremely good coupons deals, they'll match up to $1, so lets say you have a 25Cent cooping they'll double that to 50cents, if you have a 75Cents coupon they'll add 25cent, they also give you 10cents off every gallon of gas at the Shells gas station, once you reach 100 point on your rewards card, which is free by the way. They also have a website, that you can register for online, with your Ralph's reward card number (on the back of your card) and download electronic coupons to your card, so next time you go to the store, you get extra savings :) Just wait for the sales, and save your coupons and go all out :).

P.S. Wal-Mart has a "match it" deal going, so if you save all your adds for that particular week, they'll match everything, save's gas and money, so you can do a one stop shop.