Leadership and Self-Deception

Finally I am posting the book for this month. The name of the book is Leadership and Self-Deception and it is by the Arbinger Institute.

Hope you are all doing great and enjoying the lovely, cold, fall weather. I am sure enjoying wearing jackets and eating soup. See you all soon!

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Rule #1: I will not spend more than 2 hours a month couponing. 

Rule #2: I will not buy things that I don't normally buy because it's a good deal.  Unless it's free.

Rule #3: I will not go to more than one store. (Walmart cause they price match. Okay occasionally I still hit Costco cause I love it!)

Rule #4: I will not shower more than once a day. Wait, that doesn't apply here...but I won't. 

Okay, so I switched to savvyshopper.com on Emily's suggestion.  It is much better.  At least for the way I shop. I was using grocery smarts.com but I do all my shopping at Walmart and just price match. So it was kind of a pain to go through and see all the specials from the individual grocery stores. Now I just look for the best (Wow) deals on savvy shopper and I'm done with my list. I do get a Sunday newspaper and my mom saves me her coupons from her paper but I find I only save about $5 a week on coupons. I pay $8 a month for the paper so it's worth it...maybe. I just don't buy a lot of coupon-ed items. However, I buy tons and tons and tons of produce so I really like seeing what the other stores have for good buys in that department and then price match at Walmart. Really, the AF Walmart has pretty good produce, I think. I probably save about $10 a week in price matching so I'm saving $60 a month (-$8 for the paper) on doing the coupon thing. I spend about $400 a month on groceries (this includes diapers and formula etc. so I am not saving 50% but I shop at Walmart for all my non-couponed items too so their prices are already way lower than Smiths or Albertsons. I'm not as good as Emily at it but this works for me.  Emily, you are an inspiration!

Nik