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Defeated…at least until May.

Posted in Grocery Gathering, Hannafords, Market Basket, New England Savings, Notes from Me!, Organization, Shaws, Stop & Shop on April 22, 2010| 2 Comments »

I’ve made it through four-ish years of the combination of Full-Time Work+Full-Time Life+School+Blogging.

And it would figure that it would be the semester I have weekend classes–easy! Drive into Boston 2x a week instead of three! No re-configuring work schedules!– that kills blogging. And honestly, blogging deals has been on my to-do-list Every. Single. Week. And every week, I’m up doing homework or at some event that I can’t miss. Life, you know.Plus, it turns out that with no free time on the weekends, it pretty much kills everything except sleep, work, classes & homework. BIG chunks of time are best, I’ve learned.

All that to say, is, I’m defeated for now–BUT. My last final for this semester is May 3. I do start summer classes June 1, but they’re not on the weekends, so I’m hoping I’ll be back to my same schedule starting May…May what? May the 7th.

And in the meantime, I apologize SO MUCH for not as much as leaving a note to let all you wonderful people know where I am. It’s not just you, either…facebook, friends who’ve called, to everyone, I’m sure I’ve dropped off the planet.

Some slight adjustments are coming, however. I’m going to keep blogging Market Basket and Hannafords, but I’m planning on dropping Shaws and Stop & Shop just to make my life less hectic in my last year of school. 2 hours instead of 4 is a lot of time, that might actually allow me to clip some coupons and start getting deals again myself! I also hope to roll out my new blog sometime relatively soon, but no promises there.

So that’s that…and I’ll see you on the other side of the semester!

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Weekly Online Circulars

Looking for your favorite store's weekly circular?

DeMoulas Market Basket Circular (No Longer Active or Updated)

Shaws Supermarket Circular

Stop and Shop Circular

Hannaford's Circular

Twitter

Facebook

Swagbucks

My FAVORITE online earning method!

See my Swagbucks Post for more info.

Fashion-Forward Savings

See my Sample Sale Site review post here for links to my favorite places to save on quality clothes.

Most are invitation-only, so feel free to use my email nesaving (at) gmail (dot) com as the referrer to get past the waiting lists!

Rue La La (My Tied for No. 1 Fav.)

Hautelook (My other No. 1)

Ideeli (Tons of Giveaways!) This link won't, er, link, but if you copy & paste "www.ideeli.com/invite/nesaving" you should get in.

Editor's Closet

Beyond the Rack *NEW!* Use invitation code: 1307AC44.

Match-Up Birthplaces

All the coupons you see come primarily from the Boston Globe, and often from the NH Union Leader Sunday Papers. There are sometimes slight differences, but are identical most weeks. The dates are the dates for each week's paper and the codes stand for the coupon inserts.

For example:
SS=SmartSource
RP=Red Plum
GM=General Mills
PG=Proctor & Gamble

I also use printable coupons from various manufacturer sites, as well as the sites coupons.com and smartsource.com. When this is the case, I'll add a link.

Shaw's coupons are found online each week and I link to those; Market Basket also comes out with a GREAT coupon booklet quarterly; I usually note this as "MB booklet".

Finally, "tear-pad" and "blinkie" coupons are those found in the aisles at various stores; I also note where I got them where appropriate.

Circulars and in-store coupons can vary however. I base my sales data off of circulars and stores from the North Shore, except for Hannaford's, which I get from Southern NH.