Author: Allie Zottola

Significant Other Survey

My cousin posted a fun significant other survey on Facebook the other day, so I thought it would be fun to get Jimmy involved and see how he responded to the questions.

The rules were to ask your husband/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend the following questions without any specific prompting and write down exactly what they say.

What is something I always say to you?
Yeah okay

What makes me happy?
Dogs

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What makes me sad?
Lack of dogs

How old am I?
24

How tall am I?
5’4?

What’s my favorite thing to do?
Button canvases

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What do I do when you’re not around
Who knows…

If I become famous what job would it be for?
Dog sitter

What am I good at?
Being loving

What am I not good at?
Disciplining

What makes you proud of me?
Whenever you fix stuff without asking me for help

What is my favorite food?
Peanut butter

What do we do together?
Watch Everybody Loves Raymond

How are you and I the same?
We’re both good travelers

Bodie Island Lighthouse

Where is my favorite place to eat?
Cracker Barrel

When is our anniversary?
June 14th

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If I could go anywhere where would it be?
Seattle

Do you think you could live with me forever
Yeah

How do I annoy you?
Whenever you rest your unshaven legs on me in the middle of the night

What is your favorite thing about me?
Your love for God

I have to say, Jimmy knows me well! If anyone wants to complete this survey with their significant other, leave a link in the comments! I’d love to read it 🙂

More Ways We Save Money on Food

This is a sort of follow up to the top five ways we save money on food post that I blogged about over a year ago. I’ve changed some of my grocery shopping techniques, so I wanted to share what has been working for us!

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The previous top five ways we saved money on food were:
1. Setting a budget
2. Meal planning
3. Shopping once per week
4. Using coupons
5. Visiting more than one store

Since that post, I no longer do two things on that list. I don’t coupon anymore and I don’t physically visit more than one store.

What changed?

1. I started shopping at Aldi around June of last year and haven’t looked back. Since beginning to shop at Aldi, we’ve been able to cut our weekly grocery bill down by over 30%.

Pumpkin spice ginger cookies

I’m not sure if everyone is familiar with Aldi, but it’s a grocery store that’s unique for a few reasons:

  • Aldi does not bag your food for you. If you want bags, you must buy them or bring your own. You can also use cardboard boxes that are in the store.
  • They don’t sell a lot of name brand items. Most of them items in Aldi are their own brands.
  • Aldi sells mostly weekly must-haves like bread, milk, meat, cheese, etc. This allows the store to be smaller in size, which saves money.
  • To use their carts, you have to have a quarter (which you get back). This saves the company money because they aren’t paying employees to retrieve carts.

2. Whatever I can’t buy from Aldi, I purchase on Jet.com.

I’ve found that I don’t love the Aldi brand dishwasher and laundry detergent. They also don’t have a huge selection of toothpaste, shampoo, body wash, and other personal items. Basically, I fill in the gaps with Jet. You can see my explanation of Jet in this post.

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These two techniques have saved Jimmy and I a lot of money and hassle over the past six months! It has definitely taken some experimenting to figure out what works for us, but it has been worth it.

I’m sure I’ll be back again in the future with more tips and tricks as I continue to experiment with different approaches to grocery shopping 🙂

How do you save money on food?

P.S. This post isn’t sponsored in any way, shape, or form. It’s just me sharing what works for us!