My Unemployment “Vacation” of 2008

Posted on | July 31, 2009 | No Comments

Last year I found myself laid-off just weeks after my boyfriend lost his job. Being unemployed together at the start of summer certainly had its perks; that early June day when I came home with my belongings in a box and a few tears in my eyes, Paul decided we should head to Disneyworld on a whim (I was living in Southern Florida at the time). The very next morning, I booked us a free hotel suite using frequent stay points from previous business trips, and we drove the 2.5 hours for a two-day adventure in possibly the best place in the world to be when you want to forget your troubles.

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Then, we came home. Reality set in, and so did the mild dose of depression built into any severance package. I decided that I would take a month off to focus on the things that I truly love–writing, reading, lots of yoga–and then I would get serious about finding a new job. From that month came many wonderful things. I toned some of the muscles that haven’t been worked out since high school, got around to reading some books that I had been meaning to (such as Eat, Pray, Love, and Wicked), and spent some much needed time with my family and friends in Pennsylvania.

When this month ended I knew what I had to do: find a job, and cut expenses. Cutting expenses was nothing new to me; I have always enjoyed finding ways to save more money. But now I needed to pull out my trump card to keep my hard-earned savings account from bleeding dry. I turned to the web and found blogs from women who really took being frugal to a whole different level. With a lot of extra time on my hands, I dove right in and learned many of these strategies–and I would like to teach you to do the same!

The first that I am going to share with you is the Drugstore Game. Intrigued? Keep reading over the next few weeks as I publish my blogs dating back from last summer when I discovered how to get virtually anything for free from drugstores.

While the information in each of these entries is dated from last summer, the strategy is exactly the same. At the end of each of these entries, I will have links to the current sales flyers and deals for drugstores that you can immediately use to jump-start your own savings. Enjoy!

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