Money, Money, Money, Money

I'm horrible about making/remembering New Year's resolutions. I do much better with smaller amounts of time ... like Lent. But two of my resolutions this year are 1) to be more organized and 2) to be a better steward of my money. So about a week and a half ago I made my best purchase of the year. And I could not feel like a bigger dork for buying it ... but at the same time, I could care less. (Or couldn't care less ... I think I usually say that expression the wrong way ... but again, to that I say, I couldn't care less. Yea, I think it's couldn't.) Regardless, I could/couldn't care less because my new coupon/gift card organizer (below) is going to help me save oodles and retire at 35. That's right ... 35. At the very least, it will keep me from paying full price at Borders. And in just one purchase, it will help me win at both of my resolutions.

I've noticed that people in the checkout line are not always happy to see coupons. Come to think of it, the people behind the register don't look thrilled either. But until technology wins over people, moving every grocery store into only self-checkout lanes, I'm going to defend my right to hold up the line in order to get $.10 cans of soup. Even if I don't like soup. (Which would be crazy because who doesn't like soup?) When technology does win out, I'm going to stop going to the grocery store and will instead enlist in some kind of grocery pyramid scheme that I can participate in online.

You too can have this fantastic coupon organizer for the low, low price of $3.99 at the Container Store!!! (I could dedicate multiple posts to my love for the Container Store. I love any store that's color coded.) If you're thrown off by the fact that this organizer is set up by month, no worries -- you can also set it up alphabetically, as I have.

This is the point in my post where I've probably talked about coupon organizers longer than anyone really needs to, so I'll move on.
Last thing ... in looking up the picture/price for the coupon organizer (so I guess I wasn't really done talking about it), I came across this picture on the Container Store's homepage. I swear I was on drill team with this girl. If it is in fact "JJ" then congrats! If not, then she has a doppleganger. ("That bird better pray he don't mess up my credit.")

That's about it for today. I'm off to the Melting Pot tonight to use my gift card that, amazingly, expires in two days. I say "amazingly" because I just got this gift card about two months ago. I never would have realized it was about to expire if I hadn't filed it in my wonderful coupon organizer. With the money I'll save, I'm now one step closer to retiring at 35. (And I'm infinitely closer to sounding like a 50-year-old soccer mom.)