Welcome

Hello!  Well, here we go again, I started a blog, and quit blogging once before, yet for some reson I decided to start again!  My old blog was a a mix between ranch wife stories, working mom time savers, and of course, recipes!  Well, this one will be all that plus a place for us to share local deals.  For any of you who don't know, I have, in the past 2 months, started to coupon!  There were several reasons I wanted to start, the main one being I have not been very good about bugeting and saving over the past few years. I am blessed with a good job and a husband who has a good job, so I was still spending just about all the money I waned too, after all, we have good jobs so "it's just money, we can always make more"!  I didn't realize how bad my spending habbits were (well ok I have always known but chose to ignore them) until last fall when I had a little bout with skin cancer and decided that if I was in fact going to die, I had better clean every nook and cranny in this house as to not leave my mess for someone else! ;)  Well, I did just that, I had Wade pull the farm truck up to the back door and started cleaning, organizing, donating, tossing, and it went on and on.  THREE truck loads later, I was "decluttered" "simplified" whatever you want to call it, I was! When I was about done with all this my husband said to me, "you realize this is only going to work if you don't bring a yukon load of crap back into the house twice a week"!  He was refferring to my "couple times a week" trips to Dickinson to get, well, whatever, mostly just crap I didn't need and in about 4 years was going to toss into the backend of the old red truck!  So it was then I decided that I don't need to shop til I drop 4 days a week.  Well, fast fwd a couple of months, and I was working on my balance sheet at the office for the bank, when I called the banker to run though our "debts" and I realized, that in the business we are in, we can't possibly avoid business debt, however, I CAN avoid household debt!  So I decided that Iam going to save where possible, so that I can get any little household debt I might have paid off!  It seems like just a day or two after that phone call I was reading my cousin Holley's blog and she had a post about couponing...after a few texts to her and a lot of reading, I decided, hey this seems pretty awesome!  One of the main reasone I LOVE to coupon is it spills into other areas of spending for me and has reallykept me on budget!  After a few months of telling my friends about couponing, and learning how to make it work for me at local stores I decided to start this blog as a place for US to share local deals. We don't have the big drugstores or the grocery chainns that double coupons, but we do have some GREAT local stores that have great deals! So, please check back often and email me with your ideas for deals, recipes, stories, and tips on how to be happy to "Live Within Your Harvest"!