One of the biggest problems I have in this challenge is a limited amount of refrigerator and freezer space. Since I am purposefully homeless, I have been staying at family, friends and house sitting these past 50 days and have to co-opt whatever refrigerator and freezer space is available at the place I happen to…
We have the first new rule controversy that needs to be put in front of all of you (as the new rules dictate when there is a disagreement) to decide whether or not I am allowed to do this as part of my $1 a day challenge. I went to a farmer's market this morning…
Since I have a lot of Sunday coupon inserts but I never look at them, the inevitable questions I get is how do I match up the coupons with the deals that are out there. Being the lazy person that I am, I opted for the easiest way possible I could find to do this.…
I have a single Sunday newspaper that comes to my house, but I usually have 20+ coupon inserts each week. It has taken me awhile to figure out how to get them, but now it has become a routine. I don't have the time in my schedule to be spending hours looking for them, so…
There are people out there that love to clip, sort, organize their coupons and have a huge binder full of them that they can take to the grocery store so they are prepared for every deal that they come across. I am definitely not one of those people. I hate couponing and, quite frankly, simply…
Apparently, wildlife wasn’t particularly happy about my foraging today. I should have known that it was going to be rough when I had a ten minute standoff with an angry squirrel as I tried to make my way to the lemon tree (no, it wasn’t my most manly moment. All I can say is that…
It kind of scares me when people start to think I hold some special shopping skills to be able to get the deals I have been getting. Believe me, I don’t. I’m the least likely person to ever be doing something like this and I still am not sure how I got conned into doing…
I have been hearing more and more that I am not eating a well balanced diet. What is really scary is what people would have said if I had been posting my diet online before I began this challenge because it certainly contained a lot more junk food than I am currently eating and would…
Most people that I talk with about this challenge assume that it is the couponing and shopping that takes a huge amount of time and if I added that into the equation, it wouldn’t be worthwhile even with the amount I save. The truth is that while couponing does take a bit longer than if…
It's time to admit the obvious: I will never make inspiring meals left to my own devices. It's not that I don't want to, but that I am in way over my head when it comes to actually creating meals (I personally find it much more impressive that I have lived off of my own…
I have always been a big Costco fan and of the limited shopping I had done before beginning this challenge, I would say that most of it was done there. I had to make a run to Costco today to get some non food items, but that didn’t stop me from taking a few minutes…
One of the main goals of this challenge was to not be hungry with the limited funds I had. I think that I managed to accomplish this pretty well, but it really hit me today at how much being hungry affects what you are able to accomplish. I thought I had done pretty well yesterday…
Despite a good day in adding some of the things that readers have recommended I get for this challenge, overall today was a big blah. Tomorrow I have to go into the hospital to have a colonoscopy (boy, doesn't that sound like a lot of fun?) so that the doctors can try to figure out…
I decided to do some more foraging today. I needed to get some more lemons because I had already gone through the three I had picked, so I grabbed another three. I also found a bunch of blackberries — enough to fill three small containers. Even better, I found a spot by the river that…
I am not at all a big fan of mail-in rebates. I understand why companies do them — it makes it look like their products are cheaper than they really are because they know that most people will see the mail-in rebate price, but never actually send in for the rebate. I find this to…
After the coupon blunder, it seems that my luck turned the corner as I went on my first foraging trip (now allowed with the new rules). I take a walk every morning and part of that walk is through a city owned park. Near the creek there are wild blackberry bushes and I decided to…