I'm Convinced

Alright, I am convinced now. We've made the right choice. Last week at this time I was so worried that we had rushed everything and made a bad decision. One of my worries was that there was something out there that was better or cheaper, or both. But now that I am 7 days away from my move in date I am sure we made a good decision. All week long I have looked all over the internet at homes for rent {we don't officially sign papers on the house till tonight} I felt I had to look, just in case there was that "perfect" house out there I didn't want to miss it. But after 7 days of looking I came up with nothing, really NOTHING. I then realized that if my friend had not seen the sign for the home we are moving into I may not have any home to move into at all at this point, and if that was the case I would be a lot more stressed out right now {and a lot less motivated to pack} I guess we were meant to have this home, small but nice. And I just found out that once our apartment is upgraded it would cost just 90 dollars less than a whole house, with a back yard and a garage! So with rental prices climbing I am feeling better about our decision and I am so happy that we found it. I did not want to wait until the last minute to find a house, two weeks in advance works much better for me. To celebrate my happiness today I decided to do a coupon trip {coupons always cheer me up even more} So today Max and I headed to Target with a plan. Nothing too exciting but it all worked. We got : 6 Scrubbing Bubbles toilet wand starter kits, 6 scrubbing bubbles toilet cleaning gel wands, 2 of the hubby's favorite Gillete Cooling Lotions, 4 big boxes of Playtex tampons, and two little trains to keep my shopping partner happy {clearance of course} My total spent was 34.22 {felt like less because I had a 5.42 return right before} My total savings? $61.72. Now, I have saved this much before, but never at Target. Target is very coupon friendly, it is just hard to get good enough coupons to use for great deals there. But  finally my coupons and store deals worked together. Now this may not sound fun to you {shopping for toilet cleaners and tampons} but this shows you how logical my coupon habit can be, there will always be a toilet to clean {sadly} and I will need my "Lady" products every month {again,sadly} these are all items I would purchase anyway, and by buying them in bulk I have saved a lot of money and will not have to buy them for a long time.{ at least a lot longer than usual} I was very excited about my trip and sad that my coupon partner in crime is on vacation in Mexico {poor her} and I couldn't call her to tell her the deals so she could go have a coupon trip too! This reminds me of another great thing about moving. When I find these great deals and want to run off to the store to cash in on my savings I can just call my coupon buddy, and being that we will live three blocks from each other, we can go together! And coupon shopping with a partner is just that much more fun! Another big accomplishment today was reserving the movers, this makes the move even more "real" we have movers set to come here at 2:00pm in just 8 days. I was lucky I called when I did {really lucky, since I was planning on booking them tomorrow} they only had ONE slot left for the Saturday I wanted. At first I was sad not to get a morning time, but soon realized that no matter how "ready" for the move I think I am I will be happy to have the extra time that morning to pack and even take over small trips of breakables and clothing myself.  This will be better for the movers too, they will have less stuff to get around and it will be easier for them to do there jobs quickly.{I hope so, since they charge by the hour} We have never hired movers before, I guess it was a luxury that we couldn't afford, and to be honest we really can't "afford" them now, but it is well worth the money to not have to do this move, it would be near impossible to move some of our larger pieces of furniture{remember, I live on the third floor} So for the sake of our sanity and our backs and knees we decided to splurge and pay people to do the hard stuff. I think I will enjoy this kind of moving, I will have the easiest moving day I have ever had, and that's nice to say.

Kelly Callahan