This is my trip to Kroger last week. Before coupons $324.37. After coupons $106.47 Not as good as her, but not hard to do! http://bit.ly/23pV2E
Posted on 11/08/2009 2:46:52 PM PST by Daisyjane69
Since we're all going to be tightening our belts to pay for Pelosi/Obamacare, we're going to need to start now, don't you think?
Like you, I avoid the MSM like it's radioactive. I'd have missed this if someone hadn't emailed it to me.
LOL
Now, let's not be so hasty to toss out those Sunday circulars!
Granted some of the bargains are good, but from the looks of her purchases and pantry, she’s getting mainly processed food and nearly-useless general merchandise. Besides, do you really have 15+ hours per week to spend on coupons and shopping?
I’m throwing the B.S. flag on this story.
Wow! I don’t know a thing about her husband but he married well.
She stated she spends a couple hours a week. I figure she means 2-4 hours. I note she uses her computer for organization, which probably helps. I’m not organized enough for that myself.
The implication of this, of course, is that we would all be better off if we would JUST learn to do with less. Thus, Obama, and the associated poverty that is underway, is really good for us.
Of course food manufacturers should be giving us food for almost nothing, right?
7 days x 3 meals/day x 6 people = 126 meals
$4.00 / 126 = $0.03/meal
BS meter is pegged.
I thought it said a couple hours a day. Might have misheard.
It can be done, but it takes a trememdous amount of tedious tasks that I’m not willing to do. I’d rather spend my time outside in the garden and in the woods hunting. Enough of that and you eat much better than this family for even less.
What the hell do you do with 1/4 pound of perch besides use it for bait?
Anyhow good story, and definitely not guilty!
I thought so too, until I was clearing off my coffee table. Noticed that I had all kinds of coupons that I let expire, including those “take $3 off your next order.” Also those coupons that now come on grocery store receipts. All expired. Doesn’t say much for my housekeeping. LOL
That said, with so many out of work or with their hours cut, this seems like a good way to use your time.
Only thing is, here in S. Utah, I have yet to find a single store that doubles coupons, as there were in Ohio.
I feed my family of 8 ( 2 adults and 6 kids) on $125 a week. That includes all of our toiletries also. I usually only spend around $100. I use coupons and teach classes on how to use them. I price match all my meat and produce. We eat very well and we hate processed food. It takes me about 2-3 hours a week.
I started a blog to help other be frugal, mylitter.com
Costco is having a sale on Gravy Train and Alpo
MY BS meter just exploded!
With the perch, she was buying each bag small on purpose so that the total of each bag was under $2. By doing that, with the coupons she had she got each bag free. If you watch closely she gets 7 bags at 1/4 lb. So almost 2 lbs. total of free fish.
Thanks..great site..Im going to share it with my work friends.
clip coupons. my wife and i make a decent living but save alot of money at the grocrey store
Ummm - let's rethink. She spends an average of 2 hours a week clipping coupons.
With her family of 6, she just got over $300 worth (grocery and vitamin store) for that 2 hours. That's a pretty good hourly wage, doncha think?
My mother had this old cookbook (still in existence but tattered). At the back of it, there is an article entitled “How to Feed a Family of Four for $15 a Week.” Many of the principles discussed in that article still apply today.
When I became disabled last year, of course, I had to live on a lot less money. So I dragged out that cookbook and read that article. I don’t know if I could live on $4 a week, but the object is that you can live on less if you do some belt tightening.
What I gett are people who cry that they don’t have enough money for food, clothing, mortgage or rent, but then they go out and play bingo 7 days a week. If you are struggling, you have to give up certain things. You can’t look to others to take care of you and your family. They can help if you are truly struggling, but you should not expect to spend, spend, spend while others are footing the bill. That is not the American way.
I found that coupons enticed me to buy things I wouldn’t ordinarily buy. So I don’t use them.
This is my trip to Kroger last week. Before coupons $324.37. After coupons $106.47 Not as good as her, but not hard to do! http://bit.ly/23pV2E
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