More Holiness Give Me: I am a coupon queen loser!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

I am a coupon queen loser!

It is my hearts desire to be thrifty, really it is!. When I spend money, I very often think, "my husband had to work so and so many hours for me to buy this," truly I do. So, I really want to get into this coupon mania where these people are saving so much money, even though it looks like it takes hours. But I figure if it can keep me at home then it will be worth it. But I just can't seem to get the hang of it.

Here are my experiences to prove I am having coupon issues-

Been following blogs that tell you exactly how to save. I go into Walgreen's with one coupon and I was looking for the second coupon I needed that is in some mysterious catalog floating around someplace in the store. I am trying to get free NyQuil that the coupon queen told me I could get. I could never find the mysterious coupon and left spending thirty dollars on non needed items. What? How did that happen? Oh yeah, and I forgot to use the 50 cents register rewards coupon I had! Loser!

My Veggie tales nativity! Need I say more?

Today I go into Walmart. I had coupons that were going to make toaster strudels under a dollar a box! Didn't need those strudels but gotta get the good deal. Cashier forgets to use them. I am so nice, (aka: wimpy), I tell her that is okay, I will get them next time. (She would have had to call the manager to undo the transaction.) She told me she wishes all the customers were so understanding. I guess that makes it worth it, but I left paying full price for two toaster boxes of toaster strudels I didn't need! I am bad at this!

I am not going to give up. I am going to start ordering my 6 newspapers every Sunday, ( Lunacy I know!), and if after about three months it isn't working I am going to quit and no longer aspire to my coupon queenship!. I'll keep you updated.

P.S. If I could just get enough blog followers maybe I could put ads on the side of my blog and not have to clip coupons. Who knows how that works? If you are reading my blog sing up as a follower so I know you are out there. That, or start praying for me to have a dream, (like Stephanie Meyers did), so I can write my best seller. I am too busy clipping coupons to come up with my own idea!

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When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time. The women of God know this. --Neal A. Maxwell

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

I am a coupon queen loser!

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