Day 46: Saving Money and challenges

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Today is officially Day 46 into the New Year. And the amount of days that we have been trying to save money. The main goal of saving money has been not going out to eat and eating at home. Out of 46 days we have gone out to eat 4 times. Which honestly isn't bad seeing as thou we use to go out from 4 to 6 times a week down to only 4 times in a month and half. But still everything needs improvement. I"m still having issues of spending too much at the grocery store. Therefore we haven't saved.. well... much of anything. It's like if I have coupons for something and a sale I feel like I need to buy them just cause we would be saving money in the long run. But with doing that We have a huge supply of food and we save using our coupons. But every week we are overspending on out budget we figured out for our food expenses. The only conclusion I came up for this is not to look at the paper for adds and just clip the coupons and be done. well I've tried this so far it's only worked one week. Than the following week I went back to looking. And it doesn't help my friend told me about a website that links all of your old coupons to the weekly sales. This has actually made me spend more. So what do you think a Bad thing spending more than normal for grocerys but a good thing for saving money? Is there really a way to have a Happy Medium? Any suggestions would be wonderful I could use the advice.