The Frugal Lifestyle

Leigh · 03-23-2010, 03:09 PM

Wow Atlast, thats truly amazing!

Gemme · 03-23-2010, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by AtLastHome

The other night, I caught some TV show with a woman that was one hell of a coupon expert! She went grocery shopping and bought $130 worth of stuff and by the time she used her store discount card and all of the coupons she had... she paid 89 cents!!! Guess it was a shopping channel- I had insomnia and just turned the TV on....

Freaking AMAZING!!! I am working on my coupon strategy right now!!!

Did they call her the Coupon Mom? If so, that woman is AMAZING! She does that ALL THE TIME.

AtLast · 03-23-2010, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemme

Did they call her the Coupon Mom? If so, that woman is AMAZING! She does that ALL THE TIME.

OMG! Kewl, I am going to find her on TV again!!!
WOW!!!! My new hero is The Coupon Mom!!!

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Originally Posted by Braedon

Wow Atlast, thats truly amazing!

I was awestruck!!! Obviously she has to do some planning, but think of the $ you could save! Here, I thought I used coupons well. No way!

CHA-CHING!!!

moxie · 03-23-2010, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by AtLastHome

OMG! Kewl, I am going to find her on TV again!!!
WOW!!!! My new hero is The Coupon Mom!!!

I was awestruck!!! Obviously she has to do some planning, but think of the $ you could save! Here, I thought I used coupons well. No way!

CHA-CHING!!!

I don't think this is her, but you should try http://www.moneysavingmom.com

TONS of coupons and deals at stores. She also talks about how she shops with coupons and spends I think it is $40/week to feed a family of five. And she ALWAYS has money left and how she used the extra money to pay 100% down on a house.

Site is awesome.

AtLast · 03-24-2010, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by puregrrl

I don't think this is her, but you should try http://www.moneysavingmom.com

TONS of coupons and deals at stores. She also talks about how she shops with coupons and spends I think it is $40/week to feed a family of five. And she ALWAYS has money left and how she used the extra money to pay 100% down on a house.

Site is awesome.

Totally AWESOME!!! Thanks! I love saving money!!!

Linus · 03-27-2010, 11:39 AM

Welp. I get to update this. I may be able to wipe out another debt. I went to H&R Block, got my taxes done and found out I only need to pay about $200 to NYC for taxes (my company didn't realize that Queens is part of NYC until April 09). But my federal return will equal around $3K. On top of that, after talk with my rep (and will verify with my g/f father who's a tax accountant) I apparently set aside too much from the stocks I sold towards taxes I believed I would have to pay on selling them (since I won't have to pay taxes on those until next year and I'll be doing a cross-country move along with getting my 401K going even more, I set aside an amount for it in a high-interest account that I never access other than to put my Emergency Funds in). Between the tax return and the excess tax funds I had set aside, it will pay off another credit card (about another 10%) leaving me with one credit card and the line of credit to pay off.

w00t!

Diva · 04-26-2010, 07:59 PM

I found this really neat website......stumbled onto it, actually!

Lots of good information! Hope You find it useful as well!

http://www.stretcher.com/index.cfm

Medusa · 05-10-2010, 10:31 AM

Anyone bring their lunches to work?

I once added up the cost of a Starbucks every morning and an out-lunch every day and it was pretty embarrassing to spend that amount of money on food and beverage.

Jack and I went to the store last week and got all kinds of fancy lunchmeat, lettuce, fancy bread and cheese, and good sandwich spread so we can have lunches at work that we actually look forward to.
Yanno, it kinda sucks to eat a crappy peanut butter and jelly on cheap-ass bread.

Today, I found a Marie Callendar pot pie in the back of the freezer. Its a parmesean chicken one and so far is pretty good

Tell me your ideas on saving money on food and drink at work!

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