Thrifty Thursday

Here we are on week two of the reborn Thrifty Thursday. =)

Let's take a quick look at how this week went. Here's the rundown:

-Stayed under my $100 budget for groceries--check! =)
-Stuck to my meal plan for the week--check! =)
-Put money away for our beach trip--only was able to contribute $11 extra dollars this week. =(
-Did 1 in home organization project--check! =) (more to come on this further down)
-Swagbucks: 1617--(that's enough for a $10 gift card to Starbucks, Sephora, Barnes & Noble, Regal Cinemas & a ton of other places!) Only about +/- 1000 or so more for a $25 gift card =)
-Clipped & used coupons--still in process. I only saved about $1 on food, but I saved 10 cents per gallon on gas.

Deal of the Week: Buy 2 Get 1 Free coupon on Cherokee brand clothing for kids. I got C two sweaters (18 month size) & a $12 pair of corduroy pants for Free at Target!!

So this week's meals went well & most of them were a pretty big hit in our house again with only ONE massive fail. Mr. K said it was an okay meal, but C & I hated it. I don't think I will be keeping that recipe in my rotation in the future. It was for Orange Chicken (I don't normally do homemade Chinese) & I figured it didn't look too hard so why not give it a go. It was WAY too orange flavored. The orange flavor took over EVERYTHING. Yep, gross. Hoping everything this coming week with be tasty!

And since we're working on revamping our finances, I figured it best to take a stab at organizing our office. Mr. K & I got it all cleaned out on Sunday afternoon, I vacuumed & finished cleaning on Monday. Then I took another page out of the old Pinterest book & decided to organize our file cabinet (which has not been done in at least 3 years! Yikes!!) Here's some pictures of that adventure:

Before. What a mess!!

My job supplies. Shiny new labeler!! =)

Documents sorted into piles for filing.

And this is about as far as I got before nap time was over on Monday. Needless to say, I have gotten a bit more done since, but plan to finish my project this weekend. Gosh it feels nice to purge all of the unneeded paperwork from our house! Now everything will be much easier to find. I'll post pics of the finished product when I'm done. I'm literally in love with this woman's organizational skills!! It literally looks a million times better already. I can't wait to try out more of her organizational ideas.

More next week on how were all faring. =)