In my life I have had many endeavors in my life and I am learning new things. Saving money was never one of them. However I am trying to get into new things. Trying different grocery stores to see where I get more for my money and ways to store food and quantities to make more than one meal. I learned how to be thrifty at a young age from my mom. We would get 2nd hand clothes and shop at discount and consignment shops. When I was a teenager I didn’t like this. Now as an adult I am taking the building blocks and knowledge to a whole new level of my own.
I love to cook and from scratch and try different things with food. I am not a gourmet cook but been described as the comfort food cook, and my brother has the gourmet/ bartender high class cooking in his style. I am more down to earth and comforting…. I am taking what I was taught as a child and trying to tie it into a new life. I am a single mom and do all the grocery shopping and cooking and baking at home and enjoy this role as mother and homemaker. I have recently found a man that, though he has his own money and does a little gambling for pleasure, he himself is thrifty. I am feeding off of him. Its nice to be in a relationship and not worry about cheating and loyalty, but yet learning new things like thriftiness and how to coupon. Very rewarding.
My recent shopping trips I have started to experiment with coupons and searching the net for printable coupons and put apps on my Iphone and joined mailing lists for our favorite restaurants for coupons and save on a good meal and enjoy time together. Once again did I mention that I am loving this relationship. I have posted on Facebook to get advice about stores and coupons and had some ideas thrown at me. This is my new adventure, I am organizing my life one thing at a time. First was myself, then my relationship with my daughter and family, now a relationship worth giving time to in a few years, well that I think is Check as well, so now time to move on to learn money saving and ways to save money and organize much needed clutter in my life, my spirituality will be next all this is stuff to enhance who I am and who I am meant to be. I am looking forward to this adventure and will be writing about the failures and successes of this adventure. Lets call this series of blogs Learning to fly….One wing at a time..
Words from my Heart!! :) 