Trying To Get Organized...

Hello everyone!  I've been a bit quiet this weekend because we had a friend from college who was staying with us.  She has just left to head back home, and I am trying to get caught back up on all of the posting/housework that got overlooked while we were visiting.

I am also trying to get myself better organized (a constant struggle for me), especially since my daughter will be starting Kindergarten in less than a month!

The first thing I decided I needed to do to better organize my time was to come up with a blogging schedule.  I have a rough outline of what I plan to share with you each day, but I also know that I will need to be flexible because great coupons/free samples are popping up all of the time.  However, just having a rough schedule will help me out, especially on busy days where the great deals just keep coming and I just stare at the computer wondering where to begin. =)  They will also help you better know what to expect when you visit my page on a particular day of the week.

Here is my plan as of right now, and I know I may have to alter it a little bit when I get settled into the having to bring a child to school schedule.

--Monday:  Coupon Round-up
--Tuesday:  Freebie Round-up
--Wednesday:  New Grocery Deals
--Thursday:  Introduce a website that I like (surveys/coupons/freebies/another blog, etc.)
--Friday:  Sunday Coupon Preview/ My Shopping Trips (I've been shopping on Friday's but this may change)
--Saturday:  Dinner From This Week's Deals (and hopefully a menu plan for the week--that's another area of organization I'm trying to work on!)
--Sunday:  My CVS trip for my $25 gift card challenge (I'm already behind on that for the week)

If I make any extra shopping trips during the week, I will post them.  If I find any extra coupons/free samples during the week, I will post them right away because some will not still be available come Monday/Tuesday.  I will also be posting Daily Deals such as Groupon, LivingSocial, etc. as I find them.

I would also like to continue my How-To Series from when I was on vacation with a follow-up Q&A post weekly (perhaps on Tuesday, since there are not always free samples available), so if anyone has a question that they would like answered, please email me at savingmyselfsilly at gmail dot com.

I would also like to post more of my reader's shopping trips, so if you have one that you think can inspire others, please feel free to email me at the address above.  Please include a picture of what you bought, as well as the shelf price (what it would have cost without sales/coupons) and what you actually paid.

I will also be working on changing up some items on the side bars on my site.  I am going to be adding some of my new favorite sites that I've found just recently, and taking down some that I'm not as fond of any more, or that are no longer offered.  If you know of any links on my page that do not work anymore, or do not take you where they say they will, please let me know so that I can make sure to take care of those first.

Thank you all for reading my blog, and thanks in advance for bearing with me while I take the time to make my page more helpful and more useful for everyone!  =)

Now, since it is Monday, I'm off to go find some new coupons for you to print!