The more you buy....the more you save

The more you buy...the more you save...have been our family motto for sometime...the only flaw to this theory is that once you buy it....you have to use it....or you really haven't saved....so the last 2 weeks or so we have been eating out of the pantry....no grocery shopping only...fresh veggies...fruit...and milk from the store...otherwise we have been eating out of the freezer and the pantry....we have had some interesting meals to say the least....we are down to our last 3 pork chops and some hamburger patties that have been avoided like the plague....so we will eat pork chops and probably rice this weekend and I will make a meatloaf and potatoes with the left over hamburger....its been kind of fun...we have decided to really work at being thrifty...we are already pretty thrifty for the most part....exception would be my addiction to Gymboree...which I am actually pretty good at...and only by things substantially reduced....we do buy most food in bulk at discounted prices...some of it from Sam's Club but alot of it is from our local grocery stores we watch weekly for their lost leader adds...we know what the price should be ....so if it is really low...and we use that item...we stock up...we buy like 10 to 20 of that particular item at a time....and as long as we use it....we do save a substantial amount....finally we have decided to cut coupons....I bought this little book to put all my coupons in...so cut them..put them in the book and use them when we can...we are only saving coupons on stuff that we actually use...whether its for dinner or dog food....last week we saved like $20.00 in coupons at Lowes and Target....well that's enough about being thrifty ....until next time