Helping Others

Ther are times in everyone's lives, some people more often than others, when you really have an oportunity to help someone else. Serve them, or share your jnowledge with them to help them become a better person, and feel better about themselves. I've had many opportunies to help others in the past, different ways of serving others and teaching them. But, for me, the times when I've helped people most is when I have been able to teach them something new, or re-teach them something they already knew in a new and different way that they could actually understand it better in order to take full advantage of their new found knowledge.

One of the biggest times in my life when I as able to help people the most was a few years ago when I was blessed with the opportunity to serve a full Tim LDS mission. I went back east, and had the amazing privilege to get to know some wonderful people and share with them my deep and lasting beliefs. While I was out, I got to serve people and as I served them, I grew to love them. All of them. It was an incredible experience.

Now, I'm blessed with chance to serve as a teacher in my church. Once a month I get to stand at the head of a classroom full of these amazing women and share my testimony and exchange experiences with them. They are all so wonderful, and I feel so dwarfed by so many of them, that I feel inadequate sometimes about the fact that I am teaching them... But when I say just the right thing at just the right time, I can see in their eyes, that I somehow helped to give them hope...

That's what I think is really at the heart of it anytime we help anyone in anyway. We are bringing hope!

In that moment that we let ourselves out of our comfort zone just a bit and let ourselves give to another person, we bring that hope to them. We let them know they can make it through this, they can do it, and they are not alone!

I am now teaching Free Coupon classes for Grosery Smarts, and while I do get a paid a little, it is not that much. I didn't start teaching them to make money though. When I first started shopping with coupons, it happened because of a friend. She was hosting a class at her house and invited me. I was soj skeptical and I really didn't want to go. The only reason I ended up going at all, is because she was one of my best friends, I had not seen her in a long while, and on top of that, the few times we almost got together the few months before that, we ended up cancelling for one reason or another. So I decided I would go, but on,y to show that I was a good friend, and that I supported her. The first time I came home from the grocery store with a car load full of groceries for under $15.00, I took a picture and posted it all over my Facebook page. After that I started getting people wanting to know how I saved so much money, so I hosted a class... Then another one... And I still had people asking me how. I wonted to be able to help people feel that hope! Help them feel that they could take charge of something as big as their finances. It is such an empowering and freeing feeling. I just want yo share it with everyone.

I want to share hope!!!

City Deals

If you haven't heard of City Deals yet, you should really try it! Great deals for entertainment and actives around your local area! My husband and I were able to take our children out to Chuck-E-Cheese's for only $14.00.... Pizza, drinks, and more than 60 game tokens, I believe it was a $50.00 value, about a 75% savings.... Sorry if my math is wrong on the percentage... But you don't have to be a mathematician to know what a great deal that is! Also, I just got a $20.00 gift card to a local restaurant for just $5.00! You can sign up for free from the link at the bottom of this blog.

Smith's - Only $2.99 for 12 Rolls of Charmin!

I got a 12 pack of Charmin Double Rolls for only $2.99! Can you tell I'm excited? Here is how you do it!

1)Log into or create an account at Smith's, (You'll need your Rewards Card.)
2)Download the e-coupon $3/1 Charmin. It will automatically download to your card.
3)Go to Smith's and pick up your bag 12 pack bag of Charmin, double rolls

4)They are on sale right now for $5.99 (at my store they are usually more than $8.00)

5) Go to the register, once they scan your T.P. and your card, the coupon will go through automatically and your total will be just $2.99 (before tax).

Doesn't that feel good!? You just saved about $5.00 on that toilet paper! I was on a coupon high with this deal, let me tell you!

NOTE: You can only use each e-coupon once, and only download one of each e-coupon to your card. So don't get more than one package of toilet paper and expect it to all be $2.99... Though that would be AWESOME!

Introduction of Randomness

Welcome to my blog! Hopefully I'll be able to put everything I do on here, in a way you;ll be able to understand and enjoy. I've only been using coupons for 4 and a half months, but since that time, out lives have changed SO MUCH for the better! Paying off debt and thriving on such a small budget ($300/ month) is something I would never see! Not only do we have relief in our hearts and food on our shelves (which is sad to say we didn't always) we are able to afford some luxeries now that we wouldn't have before. My husband got me an i-Pad recently, just as a thank you/I love you gift. It was very sweet, now we wouldn't be very frugal if we did things like that all the time, but we don't, so once in a while, I think it is OK to splurge. (though I still have guilt sometimes about it, admittedly not enough to return it, but what are you gonna do?)

Well, this concludes my sad and short first post... but stay tuned for some GREAT things to come. Look forward to seeing you soon!... in a matter of speaking.

Rebecca!