Yes. I'll admit it. I'm a little bit hooked on that new TLC show. Have you seen it??!! It's really quite fascinating!!! Hundred$ and thou$and$ of dollar$ worth of groceries for next to nothing. WOW. Most of these ladies are working moms, trying to make ends meet by just taking the time to find what's there for the taking and make a better life for their families. Yep, I could totally relate!!
I decided that, hey, I can do this. Maybe not to such an extreme as on the show, but on a smaller scale that doesn't require 60 hours a week of scissor-work and dumpster diving for Sunday papers.
So I did a little research, and snagged a few coupons from the papers at work. It's a little tricky actually to find good manufacturer coupons that coincide with store sales! Especially around here - NO ONE does double coupons!!! Oh well.
I adventured to Safeway this morning after work and managed to get $150 worth of groceries for only $73 and change!! 53% savings - not bad for my first try!! The ladies at the checkout chuckled along with me as I explained my quest for the "massive haul" - truly I was just happy to save anything!!
Yep, I'm hooked. It's very liberating and empowering somehow! But more than that, it's the realization that even in these small ways of saving God provides an even bigger blessing. He's provided for us in a very real and tangible and practical way but also has shown us how to be disciplined, how to save and invest for our future, how to be an even better steward of all He's blessed us with, and how then to be blessing to others.
Yes, all that from COUPONING!!!
No, I don't have a "stock-pile" - yet. And no, I didn't crash the cash registers in a single check out.
But I'm eager learn. I'm excited to teach my children how to save money. I'm content to adjust my life-style a little NOW in order to have a better future LATER.
Good Stuff.
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