Title: Pay It Forward Father/Daughter Dance
Location: Summitville Community Center
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Description: This is a father daughter dance for all ages. We will be providing snacks and entertainment for the night including a DJ! This should be a great event and we are hoping to raise enough money to fund our Christmas drive for 2012!
Cost: 10.00/per “couple”
For more information:
Jessica VanDine
765-754-7504
jvandine0804@gmail.com
Title:Ray Ray’s Second Chance Auction for Sam Norris
Location:Glad Tidings Church, 3001 S. Burlington Drive Muncie, IN Auctioneer: Max Wagner Glad Tidings Church, 3001 S. Burlington Drive Muncie, IN Auctioneer: Max Wagner
Time: 10:00am-5:00pm
Description: Sam Ray Norris was unexpectedly sent to the emergency room with kidney failure, May 1, 2011. Sam is a 7 year Veteran of Marine Corps where he served in Desert Storm.
Sam and his wife Anastasia, and five children reside in Muncie.
Sam is in the process in finding a kidney donor.
Type A either negitive or positive. Type O. We are hoping sometime this year. They are expecting the auction to raise enough money to help cover Sam’s medical expenses. The businesses that donate to the auction will be acknowledged by displaying our sponsors at each of our events.
For more information:
Chairman: Janis Scott
765-282-7152 (home)
765-749-7820 (cell)
I was interviewed last week for an article in our local newspaper, The Herald Bulletin.
April 28, 2012
By Abbey DoyleThe Herald Bulletin
ANDERSON, Ind. — Kelly Mathews has been couponing for more than 30 years. It didn’t take a popular reality television show for her to jump on the savings wagon.
“I like the challenge of seeing how much you can get for as little money as possible,” said Mathews of Daleville. “It is fun to see how much I can save.”
Like Mathews, Tiffany Southerland of Anderson enjoys a good deal. But her foray into couponing began out of necessity rather than excitement. She lost her job in August and was having a hard time finding something else.
“All of those pieces of paper I clip out of the paper, that’s money in my pocket,” Southerland said. “Before I lost my job I would try to go shopping for things on sale. Now I do that plus a lot more now.”
It’s a lifestyle, but it doesn’t have to be an extreme lifestyle like that portrayed on television, she joked.
“It takes time to do, but not 40 hours a week like on television,” Southerland said. “Being unemployed, though, I do have the time available.”
She spends about 10 hours a week preparing for her shopping trips.
Mathews’ couponing shifted from the thrill of finding the best deal to a desire to staying home with her children. She raised three children as a stay-at-home mom and said that saving money with coupons was how her family afforded it. Now that her children are grown, Mathews still considers herself a couponer, but she said that she doesn’t do it as much and her “stockpile” — something most couponers have — is a lot smaller.
A stockpile is a collection of items bought with a great deal. Southerland said there are certain items, toothpaste for example, that you shouldn’t ever pay money for. Using coupons and store specials she’s able to stock up on items like that helping her build her stockpile.
Southerland said it isn’t out of the ordinary for her to walk in and out only paying the tax on items.
“What I would have spent on one item I am getting eight instead,“ she said. “Who would not love to save money. When I see that I can buy a heat patch for $5.47 and I have a $5 off coupon and this is something I need, that just makes me happy. I’m buying things we need and use.”
The TLC television show “Extreme Couponing” shows people with garages full of cereal. Or entire rooms stacked to the ceiling with toilet paper. Both Southerland and Mathews said they often will get the items and donate them to a food bank or shelter.
Southerland has a spare bedroom where she keeps her stockpile. There are shelves with paper towels, cleaning supplies and a lot of health and beauty items along with a little bit of food. But when the tornadoes hit southern Indiana, she packed up boxes of items to donate.
“I don’t have mass quantities like they do on the show,” she said. “I think that is overboard. I cut myself off.”
And Mathews pointed out that realistically the deals that shoppers on the show get aren’t possible. Most stores have coupon policies including limiting four like coupons per item or only doubling coupons up to 50 cents.
Both women have websites to help others who want to adopt a couponing lifestyle. Mathews’ website is www.couponscraftsandcauses.com and has published two e-books — “Couponing and Other Ideas That Make Cents” and “Getting Started With Couponing.” Southerland and two other women she worked with who lost their jobs in the same downsizing started www.indianacouponers.com.
Both sites list tips, actual deals they’ve found, links to coupons and other ideas.
“We do this to help other people too,” Southerland said of the site. “It is kind of rough out there. We know there are other underpaid or unemployed people out there doing it too.”
Mathews said she still enjoys the hunt; it is what has kept her couponing for more than 30 years.
“Paying full price for anything irritates me,” she said jokingly.
Find Abbey Doyle on Facebook and @heraldbulletin on Twitter, or call 640-4805.
Title: Free2read Community Sale
Location: Memorial Building at the Delaware County Fairgrounds – Muncie, IN
Time: 8:00am – 5:00pm
Description: Community event for Rummagers, Crafters, and In Home Business’s to showcase and sell their items! If you are interested in Booth Space please contact us at Freetworead@gmail.com or 765-273-0999
Welcome to Week 23 of “Couponing Tip of the Week”. Each week I will share a Couponing Tip as well as a Quick and Easy Recipe. I’ve been couponing for over 30 years and look forward to sharing some of my knowledge and experience with you.
This week’s topic is: List Making
Are you a List Builder? I should do this on a daily basis as I seem to be more productive and organized in getting the things done I need to do each day. As for grocery shopping, I’ve always been a list maker. I make a list for each store I plan on shopping at each week and attach any coupons I plan to use for items on that list. I’ll also make a note if there’s an in-ad and/or digital coupon available. I also like to keep a printed list of the digital coupons I’ve “clipped” for the stores I plan to shop at. You never know when there will be an unadvertised special that you can combine with a digital coupon and/or manufacturer coupon to get a great deal.
Now available on Coupons, Crafts and Causes is a FREE printable shopping list for your use. Print yours today and become a “list maker”.
Another recipe found on Pinterest. I LOVE this site!! You can follow my boards here.
Weekend Brunch Casserole
Ingredients
Preparation
Source: Culinary.net
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Welcome to Week 22 of “Couponing Tip of the Week”. Each week I will share a Couponing Tip as well as a Quick and Easy Recipe. I’ve been couponing for over 30 years and look forward to sharing some of my knowledge and experience with you.
This week’s topic is: Coupon Organization
Are you one of those people that clip your coupons and leaves them on the counter at home or they are in your purse, but you forget to give them to the cashier? The key to using your coupons after you clip them is organization.
There are a number of ways to organize your coupons. You need to come up with the system that works best for you.
You can use a wallet style, a 3-ring binder with baseball card pages, a recipe box, envelopes, or anything that you think would work best for you. You can start with an accordion style organizer that you find in the office supply section at your local department store. They are inexpensive and will serve your purpose until you figure out a system.
You can file your coupons by categories such as meat, freezer, dairy, snacks, etc. Or you could file them alphabetically by the brand name (Pillsbury, General Mills, etc), or even by the aisles in your favorite store.
Don’t let this overwhelm you. Start simple and build on it.
I found this recipe on Pinterest. They sound yummy!
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. almond extract
1 tsp. butter flavoring
3 2/3 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1. In a large mixing bowl cream your butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, at least 2 minutes. Add eggs, vanilla, almond extract and butter flavoring and beat the mixture for another 2 minutes or until everything is nice and fluffy.
2. In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and mix until combined. (If you notice the dough is still quite sticky, add more flour a tablespoon at a time until dough is tacky but not sticky. I had to add more flour)
3. Roll into 1 1/2 inch balls and place on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for about 8 minutes or until the tops of the cookies start to crack. Take them out of the oven and let them continue to cook on the hot sheet for several minutes before placing them on a wire rack to cool completely. Frost and just eat. Enjoy!
Source: Jamie Cooks It Up
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