Bite Me

I've been bitten! We were staying at our friends' (Kai & John) home and she had the movie Twilight. I wasn't so interested in reading the books because I thought it would be juvenille. To my surprise, Sape watched it first and liked it! I watched it and loved it! I watched it twice that same night. I had to read the books the next day. Good thing Kai had her books.

I then recommended another friend (Tiare) to watch it and she loved it too! We stayed at our friend's cabin (Angela & Brian) and watched the movie in their theatre room and Angela was bitten too! (Thanks Lewis' for letting us hang out with ya'll this weekend).

I'm almost done reading the 4th book called Breaking Dawn. I'm taking my time to read the last few chapters, because I'm bummed there's nothing else to read after this. I believe New Moon is coming out in November. What are we to read till then? One of my goals is to read 2-3 books a month. So far I'm doing great. Here's some of the books I've read this year:

1) Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
2) Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover (I swear this guy must've worked for Primerica cause he teaches what we do...Get out of debt, save money, get educated with finances, protect your family with term ins, have a financial plan, etc)
3) Suze Orman's Young, Broke, & Fabulous (She keeps $ clean & simple, soemthing I like to teach clients)
4) New Moon
5) Eclipse
6) Breaking Dawn

May's books will be:
1) The Answer
2) Millionaire Next Door
3) ?Any suggestions?

If you havent read the Twilight series, try it. You may be bitten too.

Tagged

I've been tagged. I'm terrible at doing these things cause I hardly even blog, but here we go...

1. Go to your documents.
2. Go to the 6th folder (if you have one).
3. Find the 6th picture
4. Blog about it.
5. Tag 6 others.

Here's our 6th photo:



This was our first pic taken on our pink Sony laptop. We were enjoying one of our lazy moments (I love lazy moments) watching tv in our pjs and me learning how to blog and facebook. Lauvale just so happened to be there. Lol. Although my sister Teahi wouldn't approve of the lighting or angle, it's done and it's been posted for the world to see. Now it's your turn...

You've been tagged!
1. Dawn
2. Chelle
3. Johna
4. Teahi
5. Savannah
6. Sally A

Pay It Forward

I had so much fun assisting people today! We're staying at the Carvalho's AGAIN (we offered to pay rent), I haven't even seen Leina and we've been here for 2 nights! Anyway, we started our day helping Hana with her couponing. We visited Smiths and Albertsons. Her total was $157 and she only paid $48! She was so excited!

Next, we assisted Tala with Primerica and helped her earn a whopping 4600 points on her scoreboard, plus, at the end of this weekend she'll have almost 15000 points! These points are important cause she'll be able to earn a 20% bonus once she's licensed! I love Primerica! We help so many families with their total money makeovers and we help people become leaders. It's awesome to be part of a crusade to help families change their lives and generations to come.

We had an appointment with Giordan to help a young couple, 18 yrs old. I can't get specific, but we showed them that if they saved $100 a month, at age 65 they'd have aprox $4 mill saved tax free for retirement!! How's that?! If I told you that when you were 18 would you listen? Hopefully you're doing what it takes to get ahead for your family, if not you better call me. The governement's social security isn't going to get you that luxurious retirement you want, and you will NOT win the lotto either.

After that we came home and I was hurting. My back is acting up again since I rode 'wicked' at Lagoon this past summer. I'll visit my chiro again.

My last visit was with Hine. Her family is awesome and they remind me of her when she was little. It's so nice to get in touch with hanabatta friends. Anyway, I taught her the coupon thing too and we went on a field trip to Smiths. She got $65.62 worth of groceries and she paid $22.86! Check her blog if ya don't believe me. LOL. She was so funny and shy about couponing, but now that's she's seen the "miracle", I'm sure she'll share it with everyone. That's what we did. The young couple behind us (who waited patiently as we did 5 separate transactions) was impressed with our savings, I got their number!

So tomorrow I plan on calling this couple and helping them too. My career is to help families get out of debt, become properly protected, and financially free. Isn't that what everyone wants? I would hope so, but not everyone is ready for a total money makeover. IF you are call me. I feel like I'm paying it forward if I can help one person who in turn helps another.

Whew, that was an incredible day and tomorrow looks even better! I didn't even mention the great calls from friends today! I'm learning to step out of my comfy zone to help others and in return I am blessed.

Masters at Saving and Buying

W-O-W! Yurika and I went shopping at Walgreens yesterday and man, can I tell you that it was one of our best coupon shopping experiences ever!! Here's what we bought:
4 Crest White Strips and Paste ($10.99 x 4 = $43.96)
Clearanced price was $2.97
$5.00 coupon from PG 3/01 (I think that's the date) used 4 coupons
Final price= FREE plus $8.12 credited to other items bought
4 Huggies Gentle Care Diaper Wipes ($2.59 x 4= $10.36)
$5.00 printable coupon, used two printables
Final Price= .36
2 Starbucks Chocolates ($5.00 x 2= $10)
$6.00 off 2 from EasySaver
$1.00 coupon from peelies or in the box, used 2
Final Price: 2.00
4 Listerines ($3 x 4= $12.00)
4 Reach Floss ($3 x 4= $12.00)
4 Reach Toothbrushes 2 in each pack ($3x12= $12)
$3 coupon from 3/15, used 4
Received $24 in register rewards! You have to do 4 separate transactions.
1 Clip for my keys .39

Total: 100.71 + 17 taxes = $117.71
Out-of-pocket= $23.03
Register Rewards = $24
We got paid $.97 to shop at Walgreens!!

For all of you wondering if this coupon thing is worth it, YES it is!

My friend Tiare and I plan to make kits for beginners. They'll include all the things you need to be organized and save money. We'll be offering these kits for around $95, which is a bargin! The kits will include a file container, hanging files, baseball card holders, zipper binder, pens, scissors, manilla folders, and lables, plus 2 newspapers. I'm OCD so these kits will be made to keep you organized and help you maximize your coupons = Money Saved. My system works! Contact me if you're interested.

Do it till it's done

I'm missing being home. We've been driving back and forth to Salt Lake city (a 4 hour drive from Saint George) every week! We're crashing at friends homes (thank you so much Carvalho's and Olevao's!). I miss my bed. I miss my kitties and puppy. I miss my little community of friends. I miss home. But it's worth it.
We're helping one family at a time to change their lives for the better. The current economic downturn has made people realize that their jobs and their financial positions are not as strong as they'd thought. I love educating families about how money works and how doing things as simple as getting out of debt, protecting their families with life insurance, and saving for retirement and other goals will pay off. I think that this saturday night live video clip is hilarious but so true for Americans. Hope you laugh, but take this seriously.
Sometimes, life changing events come from the simplest things. Here's what I'm preaching & probably what your grandma taught ya too: get out of debt, protect your family, save money.
If you want to live the life others don't, do the things others won't. We know that we're exchanging/sacrificing little things now so that we can have a lifestyle that most people don't have. We're evolving and having a wonderful time doing this together. We find that those who mocked us a year ago are now congratulating us on opening a northern Utah office. I think that with the more success you have the more critics you'll have as well. I admire all of you who are successful. Who broke free from the "normal" pack and made the decision to change.
We have a friend who signed a 100 million dollar contract with 41 million dollars to be guaranteed. For the average normal (broke) person, that'd be like hitting the lottery five times and accomplishing their dreams. For him it was an amazing accomplishment to reach his goal, but now he's re-evaluated and set his new goals to be even higher in achievement, not just finances.
Set your goals high. Do what it takes to win. Do what others are not willing to do. Winners do it until its done, and then they do it again. Be educated. Consider the risks, and then act quickly. Do you want the next five years to be like the last five years? If not, change. We'll support you. We know it's scary, but its way more exciting to worry about the little obstacles along the way. No one ever makes a difference or becomes successful from not saying anything or doing anything. God created us to make a positive difference in our lives and the lives of others. I look forward to seeing you at our first business overview in Lehi and hearing your success stories. What did you do or what are you doing to reach your goals and dreams?
Here's that funny Saturday Night Video Clip:

Busy Bee

I've been busy building our business and helping families. I got good news for a client today...saved them $900 a month and into a new restructed mortgage of 21 yrs! Talk about savings!! I'm so excited for them.
We'll be partnering with a teammate to open up the Lehi, UT office and I need your help to get our name out there. If you like what we do (help families get protected, out of debt, and financailly free) then spread the good news that we'll be opening an office in Lehi!
Thanks everyone.

Attention Shoppers!

Even though I've only been doing this for less than two months, I have found that coupons can be fun and definetly saves you a ton of money. Albertson's is having an awesome sale. Check out GrocerySmarts.com enter coupon code g84ckv and select Albertsons.

They have a special that when you purchase $30 of selected products, you receive $15 back. Making it essentially a half-off sale! Some items are even free!!

Here's what I got on my first trip:
4 Always Infinity Pads
5 Pillsbury Studel Pastry
3 Bounty Towels (large 8 roll packs)
4 Honey Nut Cheerios
2 8lb bag of Iams Dog food
6 Fiber One Honey Cereal
3 Heart Smart Bisquick
1 Cascadian Cereal
3 Dawn Dish Soap
3 Crest Toothpaste
2 Minute Made OJ cartons
6 GM Cereals (Trix, Coco Puffs, Golden Ghrams)
2 Fiber One Toaster Pastry
2 Cheerios Snack Mix
1 Gain Detergent
2 Progresso Soup Microwaveable
2 Progresso Soup
1 Fiber One Pancake Mix
4 Green Giant Frozen Box

Total before sale and coupons : $305.42
After coupons: $153.03 (includes taxes)
$15/30 rewards: $90
Like paying: $63.03

I have 3 more $30 transactions to do this week. With all the rewards, I'll buy meat, fruits and veggies, milk, eggs, and anything else we need.

Check back here for an update.

Sofie

Please welcome Sofie to our family! She is a matlese-poodle. She loves Lauvale and follows him all over the house. When he leaves she whimpers. She's so cute. Here's a pic of our cat Saul (not very happy here) and Sofie in her new outfit. So fashionista!