Just wanted to say sorry that the posts and deals have been few and far between the last couple of weeks. We've had a crazy couple of weeks. Hubby had a really big project that was due at the end of October, so he was working LONG days and weekends. They finally finished it and got it turned in for review, so he decided to take several days off work last week...I don't know about at your house, but when he takes off work, it seems like everything stops in the house...hunting for deals, cleaning, blogging, etc. I'm not complaining at all...I LOVE him being home, but things kind of come to a stop when he's here.

While he was taking a few days off from work, our washing machine died and our septic system decided to quit as well...LOVELY!! Over the summer it backed up into our house, so we had it cleaned out then. We started noticing signs that it was getting close to backing up again, so we called someone to come out and check it out...We ended up having to get a whole new septic tank/system put in. We'd been preparing ourselves for having to put a new one in since the summer incident, but still a hard pill to swallow when they actually start doing all the work and you have to write out a big check...seriously like flushing money down the drain. :)

I'm so thankful that throughout this year we've been able to put extra money aside for household emergencies...now time to start buckling down again and using those coupons to try to build up our savings once again! I'm going to be heading to Albertsons in a few minutes to stock up on some canned veggies, but will try to sit down and find some good deals for y'all a little later this afternoon.

Thanks for being patient with me!!