frugal rina

yes, the title said it, i've become frugal for quite awhile now. the thing I still dont understand is that why does ny still think im so high maintenance? i dont know, I take the bus to school, I use coupons to shop, and I even pack cup noodle for lunch! I have to admit, I do often chose quality over quantity. I dont like to settle for low quality products; I'd rather not have anything.

anyway, so far I've only use the coupons I've been collecting once at target. I really dont need that much stuff to be shopping everyday (even though you would find me at target almost everyday). I try to buy only the stuff I need, and when I do shop I would pull my coupon booklet out. I think I only saved about 25% the last time I shop, doesnt matter though, since Im a beginner I think it's a pretty good start.

it's interesting the whole coupon thing. I was amazed with this for awhile, not that Im amazed with how much you can save, but amazed how all those coupons just came to me effortlessly. for example, I was only thinking of using coupons but didnt do anything about it, and the next day I got sunday newspaper delivered to my house when I never subscribe any! and couple days later I got a coupon booklet from target! weird right? we never get coupons sent to our house before! just so weird, but in a good way. now I love going to target.com and print their online coupons out. all the coupons I have below were mostly sent to me, I seriously did not make any effort to get it. on a side note, I will subscribe to sunday paper starting next month. I had no idea how many coupons accumulated in the sunday paper insert, Im truly amazed.

just got another coupon from coach in the mail. $100 of $300 or more. I actually get this coupon once in awhile, i.e on holidays. all you have to do is sign up for their mailing list, same for dooney and burke. but $100 off is definitely a good deal! now if only louis vuitton does that haha

my coupon collection. I organized them by category, i.e beauty, food, misc. etc. and place in the a white envelope.

and tada! all my coupons are stored in this blue folder

peter and Abby's visit

last week was a pretty busy week. ny and I had to babysit our nieces <3 and then we had to hang out with Peter and Abby because they were visiting from Texas. It's not like we had to, but we wanted to. peter is a close friend of ny, so close that they call each other cousins when theyre not. nonetheless theyre good company.

I love being with my nieces, but sometimes they can be a handful. seems like they always have energy, I dont know how but they do.

originally Ny and I were suppose to hang out just the two of us because Ny took the day off from work to spend time with me, but then Peter called so we all hung out together. I wanted to go to china town so yea, we took them there too haha. but instead of the crowded china town like everyone familiar with, we took them to the "old china town" where it is more secluded and easy on the eyes.

next was little tokyo. I love this little place because they got stuff that you cant really find anywhere else. on top of it all? they got this cosmetic store which I LOVE! almost love it more than Takashimaya in san gabriel

I was wondering why everyone gather around this tree, but then found out that it was a wishing tree. some of the wishes that they wrote are hilarious lol

santa monica promenade. I've always loved that place, but the best thing there that day was the giant smurf lol

salsa dancing at the pier

santa monica pier always have weird stuff to look at, but this man kinda creep me out