How to Save Money on Cereal AND Decorate Your Home

You save money if you buy in quantity. But unless you bought your house in quantity, that is, you bought a big house with lots of closets, you may struggle with where to put that case of toilet paper, 300 plastic spoons and other bargains.

I spend a fortune on groceries, so when I saw that Amazon was running a special promotion on cereal products ($20 off your order of $50 or more), I jumped at the chance to stock up. It arrived today by second-day air in a great big box I could hardly carry. I don't have anywhere to put this stockpile of cereal. So I thought now would be a good time to exercise my creativity in interior design. (Click on photos to enlarge.)

First I added some romance to the bedroom by  supplementing our  over-abundance of pillows with Smart Start. Gives it a cozy-but-healthy, up-and-at-'em look, don't you think?

Then I decided to add some color to my neutral toned living room with some Product 19. The red's a nice touch and helps balance out the room's toss-pillow deficiencies.

And when you just don't think you can climb those stairs one more time, how about some Frosted Mini-Wheats to keep you going? Besides, the repetition makes a fine design element and is sure to get me a place in "The Anals of Home Design Magazine."

Comments

[Yvonne]

Anne,

I follwed you from Angry Buttons :)

You can come decorate my house anytime. With 2 hungry adults and 2 hungrier kids on the prowl.... your decorating would be a smash hit.

Pity I have no idea what most of the cereals actually are, but hey, I'll try anything once :)

Yvonne

[Angry]

Hey Von, fancy meeting you here.

Anne, I see some great possibilities using cereal boxes around the house.
A complete dialogue can take place just through cereals and the characters
associated with them.

Just take the bedroom for instance;

(Being placed on whose pillow by whom, would influence what the message actually was)

Frosties
Frosties Nuts
Yummy Mummy
Fruit Brute
Lucky Charms
Chocolate Lucky Charms
Double Shooting Stars Chocolate Lucky Charms
Stick Figure Boy
Dandy, Handy 'N Candy
Freakies
Donkey Kong
Russian Trumpeter
Straight Arrow
Happy Balloons
Bozo the Clown
Turbo Man
Woody
Banana Raisin Honey

And it’s not restricted to the bedroom. Just think, Anne, you could sit in the lounge room with a pile of grocery items, of which the list is endless, and communicate without saying a word.

(Oh, and I’d like to point out that all of these cereals/characters are real and originated in the US, but necessarily for the US market. I can’t have you thinking that we Aussies are weird when in fact it’s you in the US that are weird. (Who’d a thought?))