As my family grew, grocery shopping became a dreaded chore. I would go do my 2 week shopping and easily spend $300. And of course, I’d always have to go out again through out the two weeks to pick up a few things I forgot, needed, or ran out of. Then I started noticing grocery prices increasing – not to mention the cost of fuel! We were running out of money every month, and I couldn’t figure out what to cut. We had already cut out satellite TV, land line, and were limiting our date night spending. Then in the spring of 2008, I fell into the world of blogging. Oh yes, that was a whole new world to me. So many great ideas and tips I was finding! As I was blog jogging, I started running into these money saving/frugal living/coupon blogs. I. Was. Amazed. People were REALLY saving a LOT of money using coupons! Prior to this, I felt that coupons were nothing but clutter and if you used them, you may save $.35 here, or $.50 there. Big whoop, right? Not any more. When I realized what it meant to STACK coupons, and that you could actually have a coupon for every item in my cart, I was floored! And to top it all off, there were blogs and websites that would tell me WHAT coupons to use, and WHEN to use them! ALL FOR FREE!!! So I started collecting coupons and printing them. My first shopping trip, I got about 20 boxes of cereal for .87 each and I was hooked. I learned to fill my pantry, and then plan my meals from what was in there, because the items in my pantry were things I got at a great price! I still have some Cream of Chicken soup that I purchased in the fall of 2008 at a great price. I won’t purchase it again, until I see that great price again!

Now here I am. Couponing and stock piling has become a way of life for me. I can confidently say I’ve cut my grocery budget in half (if not more). I’m so grateful for this blessing, because in April of 2009, thanks to these economic times, my husband lost his job. Needless to say, it was such a blessing to have the the nice stockpile of food storage AND I am grateful that I had learned the art of couponing and had incorporated it into my shopping habits.

I’ve enjoyed sharing what I’ve learned with other people. There’s nothing quite like “sharing the couponing love”! I know it can bless the lives of others too!

Hi, my name is Monica. I am a mother of two little boys. I am also a dental hygienist and work 2 days a week. My husband and I manage our own rental properties. We are a busy family, and have always made it a priority to be careful with the way we spend our money. I like photography, good food, digital scrapbooking, love volleyball, like to play out doors, ride dirt bikes, white water raft. Although I don’t get to do those things as much since I had children.

Here is my coupon story: Two summers ago we attended a family reunion and my uncle from Texas was there telling me all about his new “hobbie” couponing. I was amazed and confused. You get paid to buy things? You have a ton of razors that you got for free? You clip coupons from multiple papers and organized them in baseball card holders? You can stack coupons? You get free stuff in the mail for Mr. Cou Pon? Companies just send you free stuff? I was very interested, but very overwhelmed. I went home and tried to print coupons, it wanted me to download a coupon printer and I was scared of getting a virus or something. My mom came over and downloaded the coupon printer and told me it would not give me a virus. Then I printed some coupons and either forgot to use them, forgot to take them and one time tried to use them at Winco and they would not take them. I picked up the Walgreens easy saver booklet and the ad and tried to see what I could get for free. I couldn’t figure out what was so great about it. I searched for web sites that could help me and had no luck. I gave up.

In the spring of 2008, we started getting the paper everyday, I guess as a free trial or something because I had not ordered it. On Sunday I would look through the ads and the coupons. I would clip out coupons I thought I might use, but when I looked through them I thought: whoopie, I can save $1/3 boxes of sugar cereal, and it will still be more than the kind I normally buy. I can get all these personal care items at Costco and save a lot more than .50 a product. Needless to say the coupons sat in a drawer and I don’t think I ever used a single one.

Now my pantry is full and so is the spare bedroom closet. We have a food storage of things we actually use and I can easily cook from my pantry. My husbands hours have been cut way back since the fall of 2008, but we are making up for it with the money I am not spending on groceries. His company has laid off more than 3/4 of the employee’s. If he is next we will now be more prepared. And that really puts my mind at ease.

As my family grew, grocery shopping became a dreaded chore. I would go do my 2 week shopping and easily spend $300. And of course, I’d always have to go out again through out the two weeks to pick up a few things I forgot, needed, or ran out of. Then I started noticing grocery prices increasing – not to mention the cost of fuel! We were running out of money every month, and I couldn’t figure out what to cut. We had already cut out satellite TV, land line, and were limiting our date night spending. Then in the spring of 2008, I fell into the world of blogging. Oh yes, that was a whole new world to me. So many great ideas and tips I was finding! As I was blog jogging, I started running into these money saving/frugal living/coupon blogs. I. Was. Amazed. People were REALLY saving a LOT of money using coupons! Prior to this, I felt that coupons were nothing but clutter and if you used them, you may save $.35 here, or $.50 there. Big whoop, right? Not any more. When I realized what it meant to STACK coupons, and that you could actually have a coupon for every item in my cart, I was floored! And to top it all off, there were blogs and websites that would tell me WHAT coupons to use, and WHEN to use them!   ALL FOR FREE!!! So I started collecting coupons and printing them. My first shopping trip, I got about 20 boxes of cereal for .87 each and I was hooked.  I learned to fill my pantry, and then plan my meals from what was in there, because the items in my pantry were things I got at a great price!   I still have some Cream of Chicken soup that I purchased in the fall of 2008 at a great price.  I won’t purchase it again, until I see that great price again!

Now here I am. Couponing and stock piling has become a way of life for me. I can confidently say I’ve cut my grocery budget in half (if not more). I’m so grateful for this blessing, because in April of 2009, thanks to these economic times, my husband lost his job. Needless to say, it was such a blessing to have the the nice stockpile of food storage AND I am grateful that I had learned the art of couponing and had incorporated it into my  shopping habits.

I’ve enjoyed sharing what I’ve learned with other people. There’s nothing quite like “sharing the couponing love”! I know it can bless the lives of others too!

Hi, my name is Monica. I am a mother of two little boys. I am also a dental hygienist and work 2 days a week. My husband and I manage our own rental properties. We are a busy family, and have always made it a priority to be careful with the way we spend our money. I like photography, good food, digital scrapbooking, love volleyball, like to play out doors, ride dirt bikes, white water raft. Although I don’t get to do those things as much since I had children.

Here is my coupon story: Two summers ago we attended a family reunion and my uncle from Texas was there telling me all about his new “hobbie” couponing. I was amazed and confused. You get paid to buy things? You have a ton of razors that you got for free? You clip coupons from multiple papers and organized them in baseball card holders? You can stack coupons? You get free stuff in the mail for Mr. Cou Pon? Companies just send you free stuff? I was very interested, but very overwhelmed. I went home and tried to print coupons, it wanted me to download a coupon printer and I was scared of getting a virus or something. My mom came over and downloaded the coupon printer and told me it would not give me a virus. Then I printed some coupons and either forgot to use them, forgot to take them and one time tried to use them at Winco and they would not take them. I picked up the Walgreens easy saver booklet and the ad and tried to see what I could get for free. I couldn’t figure out what was so great about it. I searched for web sites that could help me and had no luck. I gave up.

In the spring of 2008, we started getting the paper everyday, I guess as a free trial or something because I had not ordered it. On Sunday I would look through the ads and the coupons. I would clip out coupons I thought I might use, but when I looked through them I thought: whoopie, I can save $1/3 boxes of sugar cereal, and it will still be more than the kind I normally buy. I can get all these personal care items at Costco and save a lot more than .50 a product. Needless to say the coupons sat in a drawer and I don’t think I ever used a single one.

Now my pantry is full and so is the spare bedroom closet. We have a food storage of things we actually use and I can easily cook from my pantry. My husbands hours have been cut way back since the fall of 2008, but we are making up for it with the money I am not spending on groceries. His company has laid off more than 3/4 of the employee’s.  If he is next we will now be more prepared.  And that really puts my mind at ease.

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As my family grew, grocery shopping became a dreaded chore. I would go do my 2 week shopping and easily spend $300. And of course, I’d always have to go out again through out the two weeks to pick up a few things I forgot, needed, or ran out of. Then I started noticing grocery prices increasing – not to mention the cost of fuel! We were running out of money every month, and I couldn’t figure out what to cut. We had already cut out satellite TV, land line, and were limiting our date night spending. Then in the spring of 2008, I fell into the world of blogging. Oh yes, that was a whole new world to me. So many great ideas and tips I was finding! As I was blog jogging, I started running into these money saving/frugal living/coupon blogs. I. Was. Amazed. People were REALLY saving a LOT of money using coupons! Prior to this, I felt that coupons were nothing but clutter and if you used them, you may save .35 here, or .50 there. Big whoop, right? Not any more. When I realized what it meant to STACK coupons, and that you could actually have a coupon for every item in your cart, I was floored! And to top it all off, there were blogs and websites that would tell me WHAT coupons to use, and WHEN to use them! ALL FOR FREE!!! So I started collecting coupons and printing them. My first shopping trip, I got about 20 boxes of cereal for .87 each and I was hooked. I learned to fill my pantry, and then plan my meals from what was in there, because the items in my pantry were things I got at a great price! I still have some Cream of Chicken soup that I purchased in the fall of 2008 at a great price. I won’t purchase it again, until I see that great price again!

Now here I am. Couponing and stock piling has become a way of life for me. I can confidently say I’ve cut my grocery budget in half (if not more). I’m so grateful for this blessing, because in April of 2009, thanks to these economic times, my husband lost his job. Needless to say, it was such a blessing to have the the nice stockpile of food storage AND I am grateful that I had learned the art of couponing and had incorporated it into my weekly shopping.

I’ve enjoyed sharing what I’ve learned with other people. There’s nothing quite like “sharing the couponing love”! I know it can bless the lives of others too!

Hi, my name is Monica. I am a mother of two little boys. I am also a dental hygienist and work 2 days a week. My husband and I manage our own rental properties. We are a busy family, and have always made it a priority to be careful with the way we spend our money. I like photography, good food, digital scrapbooking, love volleyball, like to play out doors, ride dirt bikes, white water raft. Although I don’t get to do those things as much since I had children.

Here is my coupon story: Two summers ago we attended a family reunion and my uncle from Texas was there telling me all about his new “hobbie” couponing. I was amazed and confused. You get paid to buy things? You have a ton of razors that you got for free? You clip coupons from multiple papers and organized them in baseball card holders? You can stack coupons? You get free stuff in the mail for Mr. Cou Pon? Companies just send you free stuff? I was very interested, but very overwhelmed. I went home and tried to print coupons, it wanted me to download a coupon printer and I was scared of getting a virus or something. My mom came over and downloaded the coupon printer and told me it would not give me a virus. Then I printed some coupons and either forgot to use them, forgot to take them and one time tried to use them at Winco and they would not take them. I picked up the Walgreens easy saver booklet and the ad and tried to see what I could get for free. I couldn’t figure out what was so great about it. I searched for web sites that could help me and had no luck. I gave up.

In the spring of 2008, we started getting the paper everyday, I guess as a free trial or something because I had not ordered it. On Sunday I would look through the ads and the coupons. I would clip out coupons I thought I might use, but when I looked through them I thought: whoopie, I can save $1/3 boxes of sugar cereal, and it will still be more than the kind I normally buy. I can get all these personal care items at Costco and save a lot more than .50 a product. Needless to say the coupons sat in a drawer and I don’t think I ever used a single one.

Now my pantry is full and so is the spare bedroom closet. We have a food storage of things we actually use and I can easily cook from my pantry. My husbands hours have been cut way back since the fall of 2008, but we are making up for it with the money I am not spending on groceries. His company has laid off more than 3/4 of the employee’s if he is next we will now be more prepared.