I Am Thankful For…

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OK, so I admit this is a little cheesy and something that I used to dread as a teenager, but I feel that it is necessary and so appropriate to share what I am thankful for this year. And what better day to share this with you than on Thanksgiving.

I am thankful for….

My beautiful, hilarious, innocent, precious kids…

My supportive, honest, hard-working, dependable, handsome, lifts-me-up-when-I-am-down husband…

My amazing extended family (my 2 sisters, my mom, my dad, step-parents, nieces, nephews, grandparents)…they are some of my biggest cheerleaders.

Thank you!




My health and happiness…

The fact that I am able to spend Thanksgiving with my whole family in Idaho surrounded by the mountains covered with over 2 feet of snow…

And last, but certainly not least, the success of Hip2Save thanks to all my amazing readers!

In the spirit of the holiday, what are YOU thankful for?

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  1. jenny

    I am thankful for my friends, family, and opportunities!

    Collin, WE are also thankful of YOU and all of YOUR HARD WORK!

    Have an awesome Thanksgiving and bless your family! 🙂

  2. Tiffany m

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING AND GOD BLESS COLLIN! your family is beautiful ♥ WE LOVE YOU!

  3. Kalyn

    SO sweet Colin! 🙂 your family is gorgeous! and we all are thankful for YOU in our quest be hip and save 🙂

  4. apatrie

    I am thankful for an amazing, dependable, honest, loving husband and a precious, precocious 7 month old daughter! I am thankful for a supportive, loving extended family who I get to spend Thanksgiving with. I am thankful for our health. I am truly blessed.
    Happy Thanksgiving!

  5. bfam

    I am thankful for my wonderful family and our health!

  6. Kelly McDonald

    Thanks for all your hard work! This is a wonderful sight that has given me hours of pleasure! I am so Thankful for Hip2Save! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

  7. jkiss75

    What beautiful family!!! And thank you for this site, I just discovered it and am already saving my family money!!! Have a great Holiday!

  8. Latasha

    You have a beautiful family (and those pictures look so professional!)

    I am thankful for my husband who decided to become a stay at home dad so that I could return to work at a job I love.

    I am thankful for my son who reminds me everyday that life is about enjoying the small things and that its pointless to stress over the things I can’t control.

    I am extremely thankful to have a job right now that allows our family to not have to worry day to day about what bills can and can’t get paid. So many families are in the opposite situation and it breaks my heart.

    I am thankful for you, Colin. You are an amazing, wonderful, kind person who takes time out of your life to help all of us- complete strangers! You have helped my family save so much money and there is really no way to ever thank you. The words “thank you” are simply not enough.

    I hope you, and everyone else, have a wonderful holiday and enjoy those things and people that you are thankful for.
    Happy Thanksgiving!

  9. Jennifer

    What a beautiful post & a beautiful family. And it’s not cheesy at all, I’ve been telling my facebook friends all week what I am thankful for. Enjoy your day with the ones you love most!

  10. Darla

    Thankful for God, my hubby, my household, our jobs and also for you COLLIN! Have a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving and thanks for giving!

  11. Heather A.

    What a beautiful family! You are very photogenic! Thank you for being so open and helpful to so many of us!

  12. kimi

    Breathtakingly beautiful pictures of you and your family! Wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving ~ I am truly thankful for life, love, and an eight week old puppy who sleeps seven hours through the night. :0)

  13. Heather

    Happy Thanksgiving to you and your beautiful family! Thanks so much for sharing! Have a wonderful celebration! 🙂

  14. Lisa

    I am thankful for my family, friends, and my 2 healthy step-children who my whole life revolves around. And my loving, caring, AMAZING husband. Who works so hard for our family everyday!

  15. Crimson

    God Bless! Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for all the hard work you do to help the rest of us save money! That is something I AM thankful for this year, is you!

  16. Angela

    Happy Thanksgiving!

  17. Karen

    It is so nice to see all the faces behind Hip2Save. Thank you so much for sharing. You have a beautiful family. I am thankful for my 2 wonderful sons, my husband, my family and my friends, and all the military and their families for sacrificing today and every day to allow us to enjoy it. Thank you to your husband and to you Colin and your family. I am also thankful for all the savings I have gotten this year from this site!! I am thankful for Barefoot Books. They allow me to stay home with my kids, meet new, fantastically friendly people that have a passion for books like my family. I am thankful for my health and the health of my family. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

  18. Amy

    Colin, those pictures are amazing – there must be a true photo “bug” with you in Idaho because they look like a professional took them. They brought a tear to my eye – so precious.

  19. Felicia

    What a beautiful family! Happy Thanksgiving to you!

  20. Jessica

    And Happy Thanksgiving to you and your beautiful family!! Thank you for all of your hard work you do for us!! I absolutely LOVE your site and keep it up daily!!

    I am thankful for the most wonderful husband I could ask for, happiness, spending the holiday w/ my parents in NY and for the NY State Police Officer that let me off w/ a fine for not using my hazards while sitting on the side of the road yesterday afte he pulled me over for going 19 mph over the speed limit as I crossed the NY state line!!

    Here’s to everyone having a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

  21. Alicia

    Totally sweet! And I am thankful for you and your blog. It’s saved me countless hours and tons of money and has enriched my family’s life!

  22. toph

    I am thankful for having found hip2save last year.. it has dramatically changed our lives.. Happy Thanksgiving Collin family 🙂

  23. Christina

    You! For helping us save! Idaho really? Wondered where you were. Lol

  24. Robin

    I am thankful for my family and friends, my son, my health, and a roof over our heads, clothes on our backs, and food to eat.

  25. melissa

    I am also thankful for my family, my 2 beautiful children. I am thankful to have a job. I am also thankful to you for all you do on this site to help us save. It has been a God send in this economy. Thank you Collin

  26. Lisa

    I am thankful for my wonderful husband and son, my husband of 30 years has been through a lot with me these past few years with my depression, and now skin cancer, but he is so loving and understanding i truly married my soul mate……..

  27. Katlyn

    I’m thankful for my amazing family for all the support they have given me over the last couple of years when my husband has lost his job. And for you and other bloggers. For all the hard work you all do to help us finds awesome deals and savings!

  28. Dusteen

    I am thankful for my husband why loves me so amazingly and sits in Iraq this Thanksgiving without complaint, my gorgeous, funny, amazing daughter, my devoted mom and dad who show me everyday what a relationship should be, my crazy supportive friends who would do anything for each other and God that gives me the opportunities to live this amazing life! And thank you, too, Collin for choosing this path that helps us all improve the quality of life for our friends and family without have to struggle quite so much!

    • Lynn P.

      Dusteen,
      I am thankful for the sacrifices your family has made for the rest of us. Because of your husband, and other men and women like him, we are ALL able to enjoy being free. Free to worship how you choose, free to listen to the music you choose, and simply the freedom to walk out your front door and go where you choose. I am a Veteran who has been deployed during the holidays too. I know your husband misses you and your daughter dearly and wishes he could be with you. Today I am SO thankful for my freedom, thanks to your husband and all of the other men and women serving our country. May God bless you all!

      • Dusteen

        Oh, wow! Thankyou very much for this! This is my husbands seventh trip to Iraq in 8 years and that does not count his other trips… So we miss him often. The holidays can seem a little overwhelming when you are in charge of it ALL…it’s people like you that help remind me what it is all for and give me strength to keep on another day! Thankyou.

    • Jennifer L.

      I too am thankful for you and your husband and your family. Happy Thanksgiving. Sending you a big hug!

  29. Paola

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

  30. JessicaB

    Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Your family is absolutely beautiful! Thank you for all you do for all of us! 🙂

  31. Linda

    Awww! I loved seeing the pictures of your family. What beautiful genes you guys have! Like all the other readers, I am thankful for you. May you have a wonderful thanksgiving!

  32. Janet

    Your beautiful family is LUCKY to have someone as sweet as you.
    Happy Thanksgiving Collin & thanks so much for all that you do!

  33. Joyce

    What a lovely family! Thank you for all your hard work in helping the rest of us get great deals! I am thankful for you!

  34. Kimmy

    You are truly blessed! My the Lord continue to bless you and your family abundantly! Thank you for all you do for us, Colin!!!!
    Happy Thanksgiving!

  35. Mo

    Happy Thanksgiving Collin and Hip2Savers!!

    This year I am thankful for just about everything. It has been so challenging, to say the least, for so many here in the US and abroad, and even though life always presents challenges and tough times, my family is truly blessed every day to have everything we do – a roof over our heads, food in our bellies AND our pantry, clothes on our back, shoes on our feet, money to pay the bills AND set aside for savings, and all the luxuries we take for granted like electricity, heat, running water, doctors and medicines available when we need them, computers and vehicles for us, toys and books for our kiddo. We are thankful for our health, our family, and our friends, and of course we are thankful for Collin and her family and all she does that help me stretch that dollar my husband works so hard for! Without Collin, Hip2Save – both the site – and the community I have found here – we would not be as secure as we are this year and I have been trying diligently to pay it forward as much as possible.

    Blessings to all!!

  36. Jo

    Happy Thanksgiving to all. Thanks to Collin especially for all the great deals and savings she shares with us throughout the year!!

  37. Kathryn

    Great post!! I too am thankful for my amazing family – my four little blessings and my amazing husband!

  38. Heather

    Thanks for sharing the pictures – a beautiful family and gorgeous pictures. So thankful for all that you do. We are able to have Christmas this year because of the deals you have given us this year that has allowed me to save $ therefore enabling us to use that saved $ for Christmas!!! THank you!

  39. Kirsten

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Now stop posting Collin and go spend time with your family! We will be ok! =) Thank YOU for all that you do for this community though. We appreciate all of it!

  40. rana.a

    I am thankful for my friends, family and all of you who share your secrets for saving time and money. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

  41. Micha B

    I post on this every year – a tradition I stole from another blogger 🙂
    50 things I’m thankful for v.2010

    I really like seeing what other people are thankful for. It’s spreads the love!

  42. Liz W

    Have a great day with your family! Happy Bargain Hunting everyone!

  43. Stephanie Fitch

    Thank you so much Collin – you have been a wonderful blessing for our family…and extended family! Thanks to you we have been able to travel to visit my sister and brought an entire trunkful of groceries to fill their cabinets! Have a wonderful time with your family – we sure will!

    • Dusteen

      What an amazing thing to do!! Not many houseguests actually leave the pantrys with more food in them. I am sure she was so touched by you gesture.

  44. Namfon

    Thank you.

  45. KIZ ZOLIN

    I would like to say HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all the hip2save readers and all tour familes. Collin THANK-YOU for all you do for us. I wish you and your family HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!! Lets all remember what the season is really about,being greatful,and giving and shareing!!!
    I wish great blessings for everyone. Kiz

  46. nic

    I am Thankful for my whole family, my health, there is so much to be thankful for big and small..also for .My nephew who just turned a year We lost my sister (23 yrs old)in child birth but my nephew made it through…God has truly blessed us… I hope everyone has a blessed day be safe as you spend time with friends and family…..MUCH LUV!!!!!

  47. kari fisher

    happy thanksgiving hope u and your family have a great day

  48. Courtney

    Collin you are sooo sweet. I love your gray sweater outfit. Super cute.

    I am thankful that my son is here with us 2 1/2 years after he was born and we were told he wouldn’t live. I am thankful I have the most amazing husband that would do anything for us. He is extremely hard and I am thankful he came home safely from Iraq for the holidays.

    & you lol without you this Christmas wouldn’t be able to happen. 🙂 Saving money has helped us pay off $10,000 in debt in one year. It’s a hard thing to do when we have a one-income household but you made that possible for us so THANK YOU!!

  49. allie

    Great kids and great health! Today I am especially grateful for the cool weather! Finally, a cold front in Texas.

    Collin, you really serve so many in such a down to earth way. I feel like I know you. I am thankful for your VERY funny videos! (thrift store clothing and Walgreens phone calls) Wish you had been around when my boys were smaller. You make being a good steward with money easy.

  50. Jennifer L.

    I’m thankful that I get to spend two Thanksgivings one with family and the second with friends. Also, to Hip2Save because I get to bring my friend bags of groceries and non-food items and even some clothes. Something I would have never been able to do but I can because of Hip2Save and a little sweepstaking on the side.

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