Ok, it’s that time of year – the annual newspaper renewal. Do I? Don’t I? I mean, $220 doesn’t sound very frugal considering most days it goes from the driveway to the recycle bin.
Which leads me to a question. If you have a two car driveway and a vehicle is parked on the left, on which side should my delivery person leave the newspaper? If you said the right side, well, it’s obvious you’re not my delivery person. However, let me thank the kind person who gets up at o’dawn thirty and drops off the paper for also serving as my personal trainer. Each morning I do at least a couple of knee bends and squat thrusts to drag the darn thing out from under the car. I guess that helps make my paper purchase more frugal.
Sorry, distracted. Back to the topic. Do I renew since I get most of my news fix from the Internet? ABSOLUTELY!!
In case you haven’t guessed, I’m anal about some things, like saving money. Which means I have every receipt (yes, even those $1.29 ones from the convenience store for the non-frugal purchase of an ice-filled plastic cup of Diet Pepsi) in a file.
A quick scan shows that last year I recovered the cost of my newspaper by the end of the first quarter. Lest you think I’m fabricating or exaggerating (I know you’d never think I would lie), this year I’m going to give you a weekly total of my savings. We’ll categorize as:
FFF – A fabulously frugal find
FF – A fairly frugal find
and of course, F, for a frugal find.
To date, coupon savings are as follows:
Burger King (F) - $2.79 (yum, free burger), Hi-Health (FFF) – $23.98 (2 free bottles of Hoodia – hubby & I both scored on this one) and groceries (F)- $5.84 – $32.61, 15% of the way there, and it’s only January 10th!
So, contrary to my usual ecological stance, I will continue to contribute to the death of trees. I will renew the paper. I will even try to read it on occasion so I feel less guilty.
