Friday, 08 January 2010
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Crazy Coupon Savings, Feed a Family of 6 on $4 a week!
Saving money is always a great idea! If you could feed a family of 6 on just $4 a week, why wouldn't you?!?! One woman from Massachusetts has figured out how to do just that and is saving a ton! In the video below she shares her money saving tips so check it out and start saving today! She even breaks her own record and receives $267 worth of groceries for 1 penny, unbelievable!
Do you have any money saving tricks to share? What is the most you have saved by using coupons?
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thats crazy but i wonder how much time she spends looking for coupons?
I'm ALL for coupons, but my question is what kinds of food items does she get? I saw the seafood... but i mean, I use a lot of different things to cook with.
I had to watch it on my iPhone because streaming video on my laptop eats up internet usage... so the items were a little blurry.
I'm speechless really. But I am definitely going to start paying more attention to coupons!
I think this lady just turned me into a coupon clipper. Hahaha. I don't expect to pay a penny...but hey less than what I do pay is better than paying the full amount!
i wanna be able to pay that little for food
It's great that she can do this... but I don't typically eat your average store-bought, processed and packaged food. Wish there was a cheap way to eat well!
This computer won't let me see the video you included, can you email a link to that video at nicolesmith05@live.com ?
That's the most amazing thing i've ever seen.
God damn I have to get on the coupons!!
That has got to be a lot of work. She not only has to find and clip coupons, but she has to figure out which coupons will allow her to get things for free, do a lot of calculating and mental math, and visit various stores. Looks like that sometimes involves combining coupons, so she's gotta scope out different places to find coupons she can combine, keep those coupons together, then while shopping she has to REMEMBER what her coupons cover, like that whole trick with only buying a dollar's worth of each salmon product. I'm guessing she puts in hours upon hours of work a week with those coupons. I mean she had a whole closet dedicated to them. That's fine if she enjoys the process but I'd personally rather find a part time job and work the same amount of hours to be able to pay for my food. It might be ideal for a stay at home mom who isn't able to or doesn't want to find a parttime job, yet still wants to cut costs. Because it looks like clipping coupons is a job all in itself.
It is a lot of work to clip all those coupons and do the research but she is basically doing a job that pays her in groceries. Once you have a system in place it isn't that much work, it just takes some time each day.
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
she did her research real well, but my question is how does she get all those manufacturer coupons? i get some mailed once a week, and i know some are in the sunday newspaper, but how do you get more mailed to you?
My mom would love this, saving is big in my house!
@aidensmommy - At about 0:35, it says that she spends a couple of hours a week scanning for coupons. ;P
What are the savings, long-term, if the contents of the food she buys leads to ailments caused by too much fat, sugar and salt? Coupons for veggies and fruits are scarce. I invite you to read an article about David A. Kessler, M.D. that was in the Washington Post last year:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042602711.html
I used to coupon and found it very tedious. However, I lived in an area where there weren't that many stores that 1)carried the items, 2) it was a 50-mile round trip to get to such stores, and 3) we grew so much of our own produce, it was cheaper to cook from scratch, something I still prefer to do.
Well it depends on who you are. I'm allergic to gluten,so purchasing regular food is usually not a choice.
I have been spending more money on food and forgoing the cheap eats since the hidden costs are just not worth it. Call me a California Hippie snob but I don't want to sacrifice my family's health later on in life by not eating planet-friendly, organic, fresh local foods. Typically this type of value-based shopping does not lend itself to couponing.
That's great, but I can't imagine that the items that she's buying are very HEALTHY. They don't usually have coupons in the paper for things like fresh produce and meat, etc. It's usually the processed food that has the most coupons.
But that is pretty amazing. If I was very much strapped for cash, I would probably be doing something similar - better some food than no food, right? But we are well enough off at the moment to not have to worry about that, though I do clip coupons that come in the paper, and utilize the ones that are posted at the commissary.
wow...she takes the cake! I use coupons but not to her extent. I know that a lot of times I buy things b/c I have a coupon, not b/c I need the item.
Lots and lots of processed food in that pantry. I seriously hope this is not all they are eating. I love to coupon and I manage to keep our monthly food budget below $400/month for our family of 7 (when I add back in our bulk meat purchases twice/year) but there has to be a balance between food that is good for you and the planet and food that is cheap. I'm betting this woman has never watched Food, Inc.
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