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No where near Littlefield, TX?  Check out CELL PHONES FOR SOLDIERS and see where you can drop yours off, or even set up your own drop off point.

Here’s is a web address (at the top of the “print coupon” page in the address bar) for a $2 Purina coupon for FireFox :

http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=qknvevz62719874&bt=vg&o=58369&c=NP&p=FkMQO9vZ

note the “vg” in in red?  This gives the repeating “Please Install The Coupon Printer” if you use Internet Explorer.

To make that address an Internet Explorer address I changed “vg” to “vi”, and the address at the top of the page, and clicked the ”refresh” button, like this:

http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=qknvevz62719874&bt=vi&o=58369&c=NP&p=FkMQO9vZ

Meanwhile if you would rather install FireFox and just switch over to it to print some coupons, you can get it free HERE.

Such a small difference, for such different results.  Both of these addresses are actual links, so try both and see, especially if you need a $2 coupon for Purina Puppy Chow.  Now that I know, I’ll try to make note of this when I post coupons, but sometimes it works for me and I would not have noticed.   But, if you have this issue, just let me know in a comment, and I’ll do my best to fix the link to work for you.  If you have an Apple, I believe there is a way to fix this too, but I don’t have an Apple, so I’ll have to do some more research on it.  Hope this helps!  Thanks Linda.

The little cabinet over the refrigerator that no one really uses because it is hard to get to.  (Buy an inexpensive folding step stool.  Might just fit between the fridge and the cabinet.)  There really is more space than you think up there.

The little cabinet over the vent hood.  Mine was a jumble of spices, cooking oil, etc, but one shelf dividing it in half doubled my space up there. 

Under the bathroom cabinet.  If yours is like mine, it is mostly just a large open space.  There are great organizers at Target, Big Lots, Walmart, everywhere that can make this space a lot more useful.  One or two shelves under there can double or triple the space.

Shelves or a portable cabinet in the garage or back room.  Amazing what all will fit on them.

Those “Space Bags” really work.  You can put lots of blankets, out of season clothes, pillows and so forth in them and squish them down to almost nothing.

Dehydration of food.  It works on lots of food.

1.  Laundry detergent & Fabric softener.  No matter which kind you buy, they are all starting to put the number of loads that they do.  I bought some Downy the other day, and a small bottle said it did 40 loads, and the bigger bottle did only 26.  Ultra concentrated, it said on the small one.  I’d been buying whatever appeared to be on sale, and still used my same old measuring method.  I use another cap for detergent (Not the one on the bottle), and just throw it in the washer with the Downy ball.  It comes out clean.  But after thinking about it, I did my very own “Does it work?” with both the laundry detergent and the Downy.    First, I measured out capfulls of both to see if a cap was really a “load”.  Sure enough, allowing for a couple of spills, there were as many capfulls as it said on the bottle, for both Arm & Hammer and Downy concentrated.  So, I put only the amount of the capful in my wash load.  And only a capful of Downy in my Downy ball, instead of to the line. (I still used my extra cap, but now I know how much to put in it.)  I do have a water softener which I love, but with all that, IT WORKS!  No telling how much extra laundry detergent & Downy I have been pouring down the drain.  About double.  That is just like paying twice as much as I needed to.  So if the concentrate is a good price per load, get some and try less.  Apparently it is the same stuff with more water removed, and you dump it in the water anyway. 

2.  Bread.  Sometimes there is a sale on bread, but you just can’t buy 3 months worth, unless you freeze it or something, and who has room for that in their freezer?  Not me.   Never have tried any of those “green bags” for bread, but here is a FREE way to make your bread last longer.  Save the last bag you had bread in and double-bag your new loaf.  If your last loaf got moldy, be sure to rinse the bag first.  Just slip it over the new loaf, and it will last longer.   Actually, any bag large enough to put the loaf in works, and the heavier the better.  The problem with bread you buy is the bag!  Try putting some water in an empty bread bag.  It will run out of several holes in the bag.  If a Ziploc bag did that, I’d throw it out!  No way would I expect it to keep anything fresh.  Also, leaving the heels on both ends and using the bread from the middle helps a lot.

3.  Ziploc bags.   If you only had something dry or not too messy in one, you can rinse them out and use them over.  I’ve tried several methods of drying them, and the best I’ve found is to put a towel over a coke bottle (or something similar) and turn them upside down over the towel.  Depends on the size of the bag what size bottle to use.  I have a gallon-sized gatorade bottle I use for the gallon size bags and also to water my plants. 

4.  Dehydration of Foods.  It takes up less room and lasts 10 times as long.  You can make perishable foods into non-perisable foods, and “stock-pile” when they are on sale.  I have 4 dozen eggs dehydrated that will last 5 years in my vacuum-sealed pouches, and 1 year after they are opened, and intend to pick up several more dozen at Walgreen’s this week for 99 cents per doz.   I have done extensive experimenting with the recipe and also the rehydration, and would be happy to share it if anyone would like it.  You can’t tell after they are reconstituted and scrambled.  I promise.  No difference in cornbread or cakes or any baking, either.  Also have done some beef jerky, peppers, and a few other things.  This is kind of new for me, but I’d love to share any recipes anyone has out there.  I want to start on vegetables and fruits next.

Think of these deals we put on here as finding a great sale.  Sometimes it takes a coupon to go with a sale to make it really great.  We’ll look for these deals for you, and all you have to do is take advantage of them.  (We surely do not mind anyone else finding a good deal and telling us about it though).  Then, instead of only buying one and thinking you got a good deal, get 10 or 20 or however many it takes to last you 3 months.—Stockpiling.  This is going to save you HUNDREDS of dollars, and many last minute trips to the store. 

 Stockpiling is stocking up on products you use that are free, nearly free, or at the very least, the cheapest it is ever going to be.  STOCK UP with 3 months worth of nonperishable products and you won’t have to buy them when you go to the store to get your bread, milk and so forth.  This is how you get the most savings – you don’t buy stuff when you run out and that is when you pay the most!  You have enough on hand to get you through until it is on sale again and NEVER pay full price again.  I have my 3 month supply of free/super cheap deodorant, razors, shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, toothbrushes, & some food items, so I don’t buy these unless I MAKE money.  Yep, you heard me right.

Before we started this coupon website, I had no idea how much money I was throwing away, even while I watched for sales.  And, I liked “MY” stuff.  For example, I had a Venus razor handle for which I repeatedly bought cartridges when I ran out and really never noticed them on sale, although the price of the things irritated me each time I had to get some.  A box of 4 cost almost $10!  But I liked them because of the multiple blades and vitamin E strip. 

Well, this economy thing came along, and bonuses at work went away, and money generally got tighter.  And I just had gotten back from Walgreen’s with my box of Venus razor heads, and my sister Linda called about something.  I mentioned my irritation of paying $10 for a box of 4 razor heads, and she said she just got some Soliel razors for free.  I said, “What is a Soliel razor?” 

(If it was free, I was pretty sure it was some cheap single-bladed throwaway type that would scrape away my skin along with the hair from my legs.) 

She said it was a new Bic 4-bladed razor with a moisturizing strip.  Free?  Well, maybe I’d try them for free.  And no, it wasn’t exactly free; they were on sale at Walgreen’s for $8 for a pack of 4 disposables.  (Almost as much as my preferred Venus heads)  But, Walgreen’s gave out a $5 Register Reward at check out, and there was a coupon right there in the Sunday’s paper for $3!  (I had never noticed that the coupons in the paper were that much.  I thought of a coupon as a 35 cent thing that you had to cut out and keep up with and when you got to the store, something just as good was 50 cents cheaper anyway.) 

So I tried the Soliel razor the next morning in the shower.  I liked it better than the Venus.  Certainly I liked the price better, so I got another while they were free. Used my register reward from the last one and found coupons online and that really WAS free.  Got a receipt for $0.00.  Did you know the coupons even take off the tax?   And then it began!  It doesn’t just work with razors, there are hundreds of items out there that are free or close to it when the time is right.  The world of computers and Internet has changed things so that anyone can find out what is on sale and where, not to mention the great coupons to print. 

 I have found that it is good to try new things because sometimes you like them!  And it is really great to have stuff stocked up so I don’t have to run get it when I use one up.  But, best of all is all the money that I save by never paying full price!