Hi Everyone,

I am sorry that I haven’t been around much the last few weeks.  There’ve been a lot of health issues I’ve been dealing with, and they haven’t left me with the energy to do much.  The depression gets the rest of me.  I just got through with an outpatient procedure that shouldn’t have happened, and it has taken a bigger toll on me than I thought it would.  I’ve done nothing but sleep since Saturday until today.  I felt better on the way home Friday at midnight than I have the rest of the week.  Anyway, I just wanted you to know I’m not brushing the site off for nothing.  Starting this blog was the most fun thing I have done in a long time, and has given me something to look forward to for a long time.  I haven’t made money off of it, but I made friends that mean more than money can buy!!  You know who you are.

I am contemplating closing down this site.  I’m just unhappy with a lot of things about it, and I’m so far behind with what I wanted to do with it that I will never be able to “fix” things.  Basically I need a fresh start, which is what I’m contemplating as well.  I have a site I let a lot of you know about before called Couponing for Christmas, although there’s nothing there just yet.  I will do a lot of the same things as here, but I will be starting it the right way, with things that will let a beginner come here and know how to use a coupon. 

I have to contact my affiliates to see how it will affect my relationships with them.  If I have to start from scratch with those as well, I may still do it although that’s not appealing.  But since I’ve had this site for over a year I have learned so much about what I want my site to be and this isn’t cutting it.  The new site will have a link to this blog, and you’ll be able to go here and read past posts if you want to.  I’ll even be re-directing people who come here to the new site for awhile if I decide to shut this site down.  Eventually Making Cents Out of Life will go away.

I have a lot of reasons for Couponing for Christmas, but my main mission is to try to make money to donate to organizations who provide children with Christmas, and Christmas for the elderly.  One of my missions is to spend money on items for nursing home residents so that they may have something to open on Christmas morning.  So many of them do no thave families who can do this, and I cannot imagine being alone on Christmas day.  I’m not creating the site for profit.

I may keep Making Cents Out of Life going, and do different things on both sites.  If I can get organized, which would mean taking a week off from blogging and NOT being sick, I could easily do that and it would make things much more smooth. 

I have lots of options.  Right now I’m just upset that I let something I was so proud of and was trying so hard to do well go from getting successful to doing poorly and helping nobody. 

So what I’m going to tell you is this.  I’m going to be doing a lot of different things to the blog, but not really posting much, until next week when I let you know what’s going on.  I have a lot of doctor’s appointments between now and then, so I have to do this in my “spare” time.   I’m trying to get my life back, little by little, so please bare with me.  I have piles of coupons, uncut and unsorted, from about 6 months, and I have piles of magazines and haven’t shopped in months…..all things I never thought would happen.  It’s time I get started, huh?

Thank you for reading my soap box sob story, and I hope that you will please subscribe to my new site when the time comes because it would mean a lot to have your support.  I’m excited about whatever the future brings, if I can just get a tiny bit of my life back.  Having you all around as the support system you’ve been helps soooooooooooo much.  Again, you know who you are   and I owe you all a big virtual hug.

I’m gonna let you go do something else now that I’ve bored you to tears!!

Thanks again, and have a great rest of your week!

KT