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Not this weekend. My goal is to do the dry canning later this week. I spent part of the day moving some cabinets in the basement to store stuff in and making room for a small freezer we bought a couple weeks ago. We have an old upright freezer that’s still working well, but our grocery store had a deal where you buy the freezer for $150 and get $150 in FREE frozen food coupons. We were thinking about it and decided it was a good deal for us. My daughter got me going with coupons a while ago and some of the bargains are really good, just have to have the room to put stuff. I’ve been able to get free or almost free food by timing the sales and my coupons. It’s a bit of work to organize them, but extremely fun and rewarding to get the great deals. Makes our money go a bit farther.

our grocery store had a deal where you buy the freezer for $150 and get $150 in FREE frozen food coupons.

Now, that sounds like a deal too good to pass up!

I also enjoy shopping for deals and using them with coupons is even better. I probably spend a ridiculous amount of time going from store to store to get the best prices. But I'm so frugal, I feel guilty if I don't! It was really hard when gas was so high because I'd have to consider the cost of driving somewhere vs. what I'd save. Now, I can have fun once again (until the price of gas rises again).

That's wonderful that you have a basement. I wish I did. That would be one of the really neat things about moving back east some day.