This week I was able to make a little progress:
Cut costs and stockpile money: Groceries were a bit higher this week at $31.61 but I’m still well within the $160/mo. budget with $110.67 left for the next two weeks.
Along those same lines, I realized that there were tons of other people out there who are starting to set grocery budgets and use coupons. So for the first time ever, I posted the coupon matchups at Publix (my favorite grocery store) so that others can jump in on the deals. I compared the sales that are currently going on to the printable coupons that are available right now and also to the coupons that were in recent flyers. I do this anyway on a weekly basis so it isn’t much of a stretch to add in a weekly post on FFT
I wasn’t sure what kind of response to expect from my readers–so I was pretty excited when someone contacted me the following day to ask if they could link to my Publix matchups on a weekly basis from their blog. Very exciting!
Now I’m thinking about doing the same coupon/deal matchups for CVS and Walgreens because I often hit those sales as well.
FFT is growing by the way! I’m excited to say that I saw a significant increase in traffic to the website over the past month, making this my highest traffic month ever! WOOHOO!
Build a light box for photographing jewelry – BUILT IT!!!!! So freaking proud of myself too! AND…really happy with the results! I used the directions posted here on WikiHow, modified them a bit and built this simple little box that has DRASTICALLY improved my pictures already. I still need to play with the lighting a bit, but this should help with another one of my goals Get back to listing daily on Etsy (which will be a big focus for the coming week). I will share some of the photos shortly–so far I’m just doing test shots, trying to figure out the lighting…
I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t touch the craft room since my last post…I actually haven’t even stepped foot in the rooms since my last post! Hopefully I can get it over with soon! I’m tired of it hanging over my head so I hope to knock out the last little bit soon!