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.
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.
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 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
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.
ping
In 1969 my Mom made some meal for X amount per person.
I’m still giving her crap about it.
Some years ago, I did a project based on maximizing the value of food stamps by creating a six months timetable for purchasing. It was not particularly hard, mostly sticking to some basic principles. At the end of the six months, food was in such surplus that it was being given away.
1) “Shop” the grocery stores in your area. A clipboard with an itemized list of products your regularly need. Prices vary dramatically between stores. The only extra work involved in the long run is keeping several shopping lists, instead of just one.
2) Unprocessed food is a LOT cheaper than processed food. Bulk food is often a LOT cheaper than smaller portions, because you pay for packaging (there are some exceptions to this rule.) Store brands are usually cheaper than name brands.
3) If you’re going to pay for packaging, select reusable packaging like jars, that can be used to store other things. Canning with melted paraffin and store jars is cheaper than buying canning jars. Every square inch of your freezer should have your processed food in it as well, be it stew, mashed potatoes, spaghetti sauce, etc.
4) Buy staples first. In the first month if you buy too much staple foods, there is excess for the next month, which means you can buy other things. Month to month overlap is “money in your pocket”.
If anyone needs help getting started with coupons and understanding how they work, feel free to email me and I can try and help you.
Great post, Daisyjane! Thank you so very much. Satindoll