Checking out the online news today and ran across this article. There is a link to website in the article. Since the website this woman created says not to post it to boards like this, I'm posting the article and letting you all decide for yourselves. I'm going to give it a try and have joined the site.

Mom Feeds Family For Under $10 A Week - Money News Story - WCVB Boston

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Sheila
Wife since 1987
Mom to:
Cody 10/89, Ricky 2/91
Proudly serving in the USAF since 1987

It cost me $1 to join for the year. Yes, some of this stuff, I can find here or elsewhere for free, but I have discovered other things I just would never have known. I guess my excitement of the moment is finding coupons for notebooks that I can use at Walmart that will make them free. Good deal for my son for next semester. Still learning about the whole coupon thing and better ways to save much more. Gotta a ways to go but off to bed for me!

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Sheila
Wife since 1987
Mom to:
Cody 10/89, Ricky 2/91
Proudly serving in the USAF since 1987

I hope that no one takes offense to this, but it seems like in cases like this, the person grocery shopping has made couponing a full time job. I just don't have the time or energy to do it.

That was my reaction too. She spends an hour a week clipping coupons, and 4 hours at the grocery store. I'm not going to spend half my day off just buying groceries.

Also, a big part of her strategy is stock-piling. There was a photo of a closet literally filled with packages of toilet paper on her Yahoo page. I don't have that kind of storage space. My bedroom closets are filled with Himself's and my clothes, and my linen closet is filled with sheets, blankets, and towels. I don't have a chest freezer, and don't have the space for one, even if I could afford to buy one. I freeze as much as I can fit into the little freezer on my fridge. My shed is filled with the bicycles, lawnmower, wheelbarrow, and other gardening supplies. Unless I want to turn my guest room into a warehouse (and I don't), stock-piling isn't an option.

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4 hours shopping OMG! Couldn't do it! I've also found that the wonderful coupons things that that you guys do in the US we aren't ablet o do here! Double coupon day>>what's that LOL!

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Rosie
Single mom of 2 boys~ DS#1 (18) & DS#2 (7)

I was reading comments that people left under the article and so many people are hating on her. I don't understand why. Well, some of it was criticism that you have to pay to join her website but still.

Yeah, I think there are some really jealous people on that TV website (just making fun of her and putting her down for no reason).

I look at couponing like a game of sorts, I enjoy it, but I don't spend 5 hours a week on it. But, I also don't get the kinds of deals that she does. I think if I was a SAHM I would try to do it more hard-core. A penny saved is a penny earned, so if she is saving $100 a week by doing it that way, that is like her making $20 an hour. So, I can say that I don't have time, but in reality I just have different priorities for my time.

I get so frustrated when I read articles like this. There just aren't many coupons where I live and there are even less rebates for stuff. I agree that if she saves $100 bucks and it takes 4 hours, it's like earning $25 per hour. I just wish I could do the same where I live.

I save on average of $20 to $30, on my grocery bill.

And I thought that was good, till I read about this woman.

I don't have the time to spend clipping and shopping that she does, but I admire her for saving that much money.

I have, at times, spent more time than that clipping and shopping. I consider it part of my job as a mother/wife, at least I get "paid" for this part of the job. The more I save, the more my family has for other things that come up.

BTW, Kathy, the gal in the story, will be on Good Morning America tomorrow.

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