{"id":2103,"date":"2011-07-25T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brookegeery.com\/couponing\/?p=183"},"modified":"2011-07-25T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T17:59:08","slug":"savings-vs-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"Savings vs. Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<h1>Archives<\/h1>\t\t<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-185\" href=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/couponing\/?attachment_id=185\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-185\" title=\"cASH\" src=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cASH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I realized I may have a problem. We were in Troutdale to go to the outlets (scored a pair of my favorite Levis corduroys for $15!) and Jared wanted to go to Harbor Freight. On the way, we passed an Albertsons and I literally slammed on the brakes and turned into the lot to see if I could grab another package of Tully&#8217;s Coffee while the sale was still going on. They had plenty and I used my other coupon, plus the catalina from my last trip to get <strong>a bag for $2.49<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is obviously a really good deal on coffee that is normally $10.49, but the reality is, I am shopping way more now than I ever used to. I decided maybe it was time to do some addition and sure enough, I&#8217;m spending more on groceries now than I did pre-couponing. Granted I have WAY more stuff, and we&#8217;re eating out less because there&#8217;s always food in the house, so overall it&#8217;s probably a wash, but I decided it was time for a budget.<\/p>\n<p>I now have an envelope with $100 cash that is my couponing budget for the month. Hopefully it will keep me in line, however, definitely gonna hit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frugallivingnw.com\/store-retail-deals\/fred-meyer\/fred-meyer-deals-for-july-24-30\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Meyer later <\/a>to get free pens and some soy milk for $.67.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives Yesterday I realized I may have a problem. We were in Troutdale to go to the outlets (scored a pair of my favorite Levis corduroys for $15!) and Jared wanted to go to Harbor Freight. On the way, we passed an Albertsons and I literally slammed on the brakes and turned into the lot to see if I could grab another package of Tully&#8217;s Coffee while the sale was still going on. They had plenty and I used my other coupon, plus the catalina from my last trip to get a bag for $2.49. This is obviously a really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[973],"tags":[987,999,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}