Living Comfortable vs Living Convenient

Think about, how many of us, who are in debt and struggle with bills all chose convenience over living more financially comfortable. I know its a lot of us. You would think, we would all make homecooked meals instead of eating fast food to save money. Fast food is expensive. I know a lot of us moms and dads stay at home now, because of the cost of daycare, well why dont we just work opposite shifts as our significant others. I know in some cases like mine its not that simple, with unpredictible times of when they could get off. Why dont more people coupon and shop sales to save? Or why dont more people cloth diaper instead of using disposables, you spend between $2000 and $5000 diapering a baby for the whole time their in disposables, when you could spend $1000 or less to cloth diaper a child, and this is per child. Why dont more women breastfeed, instead buying that expensive baby formula, or make their own babyfood. People like what is convenient. Convenient isnt whats always best, in fact most of the time its not. In todays world we are really fast paced. I think we all just need to slow down and take our time. Life passes us by, lets slow down and smell the roses.

Learning to coupon..

I am such a newbie, but I am extremely proud of myself. We were running short on diapers, wipes, and soda.. I checked the weekly cvs ad, and my favorite products were on sale.. I dug out my coupons and my extra bucks(CVS savings dollars)

Pepsi 12 pack products are originally $4.99 a piece
They were on sale 3/$10 plus you get the 3.00 extra bucks for it as well..
Huggies Little Movers 64count originally $22.99
on sale for $18.99
I had a $3.00 off manufacturer coupon
Huggies Natural Care 360sheet originally $13.80
on sale for $9.99
I had a $.50 manufacturer coupon
plus we used our extra care card to save more money
we also have a 1.00 extra buck
and a $4 off purchase of $20 or more

Total Original price is $53.94
Total Price after savings $32.67
Total savings $21.27

I am so proud of myself, this is the most I have ever saved.. now I just have to keep it up..