Extreme Couponing

Extreme couponing is taking a front seat to the many ways of saving money during these hard financial times most of us have experienced lately, but is it really worth the time and effort it takes to save big? The average extreme coupon clipper spends approximately forty hours a week clipping and researching sales ads. The average coupon clipper will save a buck here and there, but the extreme coupon clipper can save up to the total purchase price if the time and effort is put into the purchase. How extreme must you be in order to save money?
A person wanting to learn how to save big, but not wanting to invest the many hours required can use websites available such as couponmom.com which does most of the work for you and offers tutorials on how to use drug store rebates. Other sites such as grocerypricebooks.com compares grocery store prices eliminating the need to travel from store to store researching comparable prices. There is no need to steal your neighbor’s Sunday paper for coupons. Many websites offer printable coupons. EBay is a good place to bid on coupons. Another idea is to donate anything you do not necessarily want or need, but is a deal you can’t pass up. Many food banks and shelters take donations.
With some time invested in the beginning becoming familiar with websites and coupon strategies, the average coupon clipper can increase their savings, save time doing it, and feel good about the amount saved.

Collaborative Writing Project Issues/Progess Report

What we intend to disclose in the document that we chose to work on as a group was the financial difficulities that the the Cypress Fairbanks Indepdent School district is facing. We plan to implememt a plan of action that will save the district money in several different areas and hopefully get them back on track.

We pretty much stayed on schedule as we worked through our project. We had one unexpected event when our group leader's dad suffered a heart attack, but another student took the reins and things continued to move aong as planned. There was one student that I don't recall seeing in hardly any of our Skype meetings and I'm really not sure exactly what she did to contribute to the assignment. Our end result will be a website that we are creating that will tell who we are, explain about the difficulites of the CFISD and our plan of action to help save them money.

Our grouped worked together wonderfully and things ran smoothly throughout the assignment. We planned our assignments by meeting regularly by using Skype and carried them out in a timely manner.

Beginning the Job Search

My career goals are to graduate with my Special Education degree and pursue a job as a speical education teacher in an elementary setting. I have been married to my husband for 18 years and followed him around from duty station to duty station as he made his career in the U.S. Navy and I put my education on hold to take care of my child and home. At the age of 40 I went back to college to obtain my degree and start my career as a special education teacher.

I went online to Bossier Parish School systems website, because this is where we will be living once I graduate, to see what jobs were availabe in that area. This seems to be the way of searching for jobs in today's times. When I was younger it was all in scouring the classified ads in the nwewspaper and hitting the pavement but today you find most jobs online.

I chose to apply for all special eduucation jobs available in th Bossier Parish school systems in the elementary schools. This is the age group that I want to taeach and taking a job in any of these schools will futher my career as I get my foot in the door as a teacher starting out. Staring my experiences, my strengths and my willingness to do my best I feel that I have an excellent chance of getting a job in this school system.