Blessings with our budget

There have been many ways in which God blesses us with help!  One of those funny ways this summer was when we went into our local Walgreens to look for a sale item and found that the manager of this particular Walgreens had taped tons of coupons on some of the sale items!  Exercising some restraint...we ended up purchasing 20 plus boxes of Cheerios for $1 each, Nutrigrain and granola bars for under $1.50 each and some other goodies.  We often walk into stores and find amazing deals that we did not plan on that bless our family with the ability to stock up on things!  Another of my favorite times was finding blueberries for $1 a pint at our Aldis store! We enjoy finding sale items then thinking of things to make with them.

Just a few weeks ago, we had a 30% off Kohls coupon and Chelsea and I found amazing bargains on the clearance racks...for about $20 we were able to buy pieces or entire outfits to make 4 new outfits for us for church!

Last week I had been praying to find some more cloth napkins (our family switched to many cloth products while we were waiting for Corey to come home and saving money) and I was able to visit a local thrift store and get many cloth napkins for 20 cents to 59 cents a piece!  I was also thankful that we have a teen son who loves the thrill of thrift store shopping.  After an unfortunate "ink pen in the wash" incident which destroyed his church pants, we prayed we could find a few things for him.  He ended up with 2 nice belts, a pair of Florsheim black church shoes, 2 pairs of pants for church for $20..about the price of a new pair of pants at the store.  God is so amazing..to provide clothing in just the right sizes for a growing boy at just the right time!