Boost Your Budget Pantry Challenge - Giveaways EACH Week! ~ TheItMom.com: Coupon and Freebie Deals

I’m very excited to announce the new Boost Your Budget Pantry Challenge seriesthat I’ll be participating in and posting about throughout the month of January! The Challenge is being co-hosted by TheItMom.com, Pary Moppins, Going Crazy Wanna Go?,The Frugalista Chick, Matter of Cents, Coupon Pals, Thrifty Divas, Frugal Mom of Two, How About Free, All The World Is Art, Sweeping The USA,Mommies Point of View, Mama’s Money Tree, Crunchy Frugalista, Fab Find Foodie,Making Time For Mommy, Adventures in Coupons, Full Price? NEVER!, The Frugal Navy Wife, Generations of Savings and A Savings WOW! and we’d love it if you’d join us as well.

So here’s the deal – this January we plan to challenge ourselves to eat from our pantries – to use up all that excess food sitting in the back of the cupboards, hiding in the refrigerator door, in the stockpile and from out of the freezer – and limit our shopping to as little as possible.

This is not a “no spend” month, this is a “make do with what you have on hand and spend as little as possible” month. Everybody’s personal goals will be different and we can each set our own rules – the point is merely to challenge ourselves and start off the new year with a boost to our budgets! We’re also giving away a $25 Coupon Clutch gift certificate each week to one participant who either leaves a link to a challenge post or a comment about their challenge goals. Won’t you join us?

Each Monday during January we’re going to post an update of our goals and how we’re doing at meeting those goals through the linky below. So figure out what your goals are – is it to save money? to have more room in your pantry? to stop wasting food and thus help the environment? Figure out why you want to participate in the challenge – I look forward to hearing what your goals are! I’ll be spending tomorrow (thank goodness the kids are going back to school!) doing an inventory of my pantry, stockpile and freezer so that I’ll have an accurate idea of what all I’ve got on hand and can get started on planning some menus!

(Bloggers: if you wish to join us, we’ll have a linky each week where you can link to your challenge posts. The linky will appear on the blogs of all of the co-hosts so your post will get quite a bit of exposure!)