My Monthly Coupon Savings for Jan, Feb, March

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For January  I saved $31.73 by using coupons.

For February, I saved $12.99 .

For March – $21.65

YTD Total: $66.37

Where do I get coupons?

  1. From the Sunday paper. My town has a free option where they deliver just the coupons along with a few ads (not all).
  2. From Swagbucks – When you print online coupons from them, you get 10 points per coupon. The points can then be redeemed for gift cards to places like Amazon.  Alot of the coupons found in the Sunday paper are also found here so it doubles my stash. It can take awhile for me to get credit for the coupons, but I don’t mind. The points are just an added benefit of using their coupons.
  3. E-coupons on Grocery Store Loyalty Cards – My King Soopers allows me to add e-coupons to their card, which are deducted when I buy those items in the store.
  4. Ibotta – an app I use on my iPhone. Ibotta has quite a few coupons that you can use in conjunction with a physical coupon. The coupon savings collect in my account until I reach a payout threshold. I consider this “extra” money and don’t them include in my monthly coupon totals.

How do I maximize my coupons?

  • I try to use my coupons at King Soopers which doubles the value up to $1.00. However, the product must already be a good price, otherwise I won’t buy it just for the sake of using a coupon.

I’ve been keeping track of how much in coupons I use per month to help me actually see their value. I plan to do a separate post with the total.

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How I do Morning Family Devotions with 3 Kids

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I want to instill the practice of morning devotions with my children. We already do something right before bed, but I wanted to do something in the morning.

Previously, my oldest was supposed to read her devotional each day and write the focus verse. However, I don’t think she always did this or did it thoughtfully. She needed more accountability. I also wanted to instill the practice in all of my children and have them see it done each day.

My new plan:

We will all do devotions together each morning. Each child has an age appropriate devotion or children’s Bible to look at or read including the 3 year old. I will also have my Bible to read. This way, everyone sees the others doing their devotions, plus they see mom reading her own Bible.

I will usually read part of a proverb from my Bible out loud while the kids look through their books.

Then, I will read aloud from the youngest two’s devotion

Then I will ask my oldest what hers was about

So far this has worked for a few weeks. They know and expect that we do a devotion each day. I keep it short since the attention span of the youngest 2 are short.

These are the books I use:

Baby Bible ABC for my 3 year old

Day by Day Begin to Read Bible for my 5 year old

Adventure Bible Books of Devotions for my 8 year old

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How I Save Money with Grocery Coupons

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I’m trying to make the most of coupons. For awhile, I stopped using them because I felt like I never bought the products that there were coupons for. However, I have since noticed that there are plenty of products that I usually buy that have coupons.

In an effort to try to lower my grocery bill, I’m trying to be more diligent in using them.

Where do I get coupons?

  1. From the Sunday paper. My town has a free option where they deliver just the coupons along with a few ads (not all).
  2. From Swagbucks – When you print online coupons from them, you get 10 points per coupon. The points can then be redeemed for gift cards to places like Amazon.  Alot of the coupons found in the Sunday paper are also found here so it doubles my stash. It can take awhile for me to get credit for the coupons, but I don’t mind. The points are just an added benefit of using their coupons.
  3. E-coupons on Grocery Store Loyalty Cards – My King Soopers allows me to add e-coupons to their card, which are deducted when I buy those items in the store.
  4. Ibotta – an app I use on my iPhone. Ibotta has quite a few coupons that you can use in conjunction with a physical coupon. The coupon savings collect in my account until I reach a payout threshold. I consider this “extra” money and don’t include in my monthly coupon totals.

How do I maximize my coupons?

  • I try to use my coupons at King Soopers which doubles the value up to $1.00. However, the product must already be a good price, otherwise I won’t buy it just for the sake of using a coupon.

I’ve been keeping track of how much in coupons I use per month to help me actually see their value. I plan to do a separate post with the total.

 

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Cat & Dog Attitudes Homeschool Curriculum Review

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Cat & Dog Attitudes! Living to Make God Famous! by UnveilingGlory

I saw this study at my homeschool convention last summer and purchased it. The part that appealed to me was that they teach character concepts using a cat and dog as a visual. A cat is an animal that is “me” focused. A dog is an animal that is “others” focused. Our goal is to be more like a dog – other’s focused. In this way we will glorify God.

There are 30 weeks of lessons with 3 lessons a week along with a weekly Bible verse.

Books that I use:

  • Parent’s Guide – It’s easy to read and tells you what to say.
  • Children’s Workbook – Gives some activities for your child and questions to answer for each lesson.
  • I heard Good News Today 2: Big Life – This book has many stories about various individual’s conversions to Christ in other parts of the world. The stories are relatively shortish and have nothing to do with the daily lesson focus. However, my kids are bored by them. They do get old after awhile since they have the same theme of a broken person coming to know Christ. I know that’s what Christianity is about, but the stories felt monotonous after awhile. Also, some stories talk about alcoholism & drug abuse, although briefly. I didn’t like that for my young kids.
  • Because He Liked It! 101 Glimpses of God’s Glory in the Animal World – We love this book! This cartoon like book focuses on the “strange” attributes that God created certain animals with. It’s fascinating! Good for science.
  • 102 Differences Between Cats & Dogs for kids. Love it! We read a few of these cartoons each day of the lesson plan. They visually help explain the difference in behavior between a cat and a dog.

My Opinion:

I am now half-way through the curriculum. The theme of “How to make God famous” doesn’t sit well with me. I’ve changed the wording to “How to glorify God”.

I still like the use of the dog & cat visual to talk about character traits. I like the memory verses.

We don’t always read the missionary story each day, so I supplement with something else. Otherwise, the curriculum is pretty light.

Do I regret using this curriculum? No. I like the cat & dog visual. That being said. I would prefer just to use the 102 Differences Between Cats & Dogs for kids book and do my own thing.

 

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