DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT A TUTORIAL ABOUT COUPONING. I HAVE ANOTHER POST FOR THAT ;)
Most people know this about me but I love to save money!
I got into couponing about a million years ago. Okay well maybe not a million years but a really long time ago.
I think I didn't really start thinking about it until my son and I lived on our own and it became harder and harder for me to make it on the salary I was making. I got into it a little bit by just learning how to bounce from one store to the next and check out prices. I didn't really have a reliable computer, nor a reliable cell phone, so I did it the old-fashioned way. When my now-husband and I moved in together it became obvious that I needed to really start doing something to save money. So right around the time Jordan was born, I started shopping in different stores and using coupons even more. Then my best friend Amy taught me how to double coupon, even triple coupon. It was awesome. Now at this point, I was on food stamps but every "dollar" counts when you have a baby. And I was able to stretch those food stamps really far. It was great.
After Jordan was born it became more of an obsession--how to get the most for spending the least. And it was mostly just grocery store shopping but soon I learned the beauty of online shopping and coupon codes. Oh how I love the coupon codes. Just enter a series of random numbers or letters and boom! Free shipping or 10 bucks off or something!
I don't think I need to go too much deeper into all of that. Look at my Facebook and you'll see how I love couponing.
But--one of the most valuable things to me is the fact that I know how to share my knowledge. Some couponers can be pretty secretive about how they save their money. Me? I love to share what I know. I want other people to be able to put away for that Disney trip, or that special gift, or just survive through the month. No matter what you're going through, every dollar counts!
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