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The way I see it, you have a few options to remembering what the best deals are.  You can:
1.  Develop a great memory for numbers (even though you may not remember what you ate for lunch yesterday).
2.  Start your own blog and write about grocery prices 7 days per week (believe me - you’ll never [...]

My name is Mindi and I am a Reformed Spoiled Brat. (HI Mindi!)
I grew up during the Reagan Years.  By the time I was 10 and realized that there was a whole world out there beyond my metal skates, it was 1980 and living to excess was all the rage.  At the same time, my mother and [...]

TJo commented on this post, asking how one could build a stockpile when they are on a limited budget.  It’s a great question and one that deserves a post of its own!
The first thing that I need to mention is that I did not build my stockpile on my current grocery budget of $50 per [...]

As mentioned before, we converted our household to our own little cash-based economy this Summer.  While the system may not be for everyone, it is working remakably well for us and I cannot encourage you enough to give it a try!  Believe me when I tell you - NOTHING that I have done in the last two [...]

One thing I have heard and read quite often lately is that people want to become better at using coupons, but they just don’t know how.  They look at websites like this and others and they get confused…
“OYNO”?  “Catalina”? ”WYB”?  “Blinkies”?  What in the world are those and why do I seem to be the only [...]

I’ve seen women who woke up one morning and decided to be what they call “radically frugal”.  They were going to ban credit and debit cards from their life, no longer buy shoes or expensive makeup.  They were going to get all their clothes at thrift shops!  Live on rice and beans! Today was the [...]

It’s Sunday and were it not Father’s Day I would typically spend the day clipping my coupons and matching them up with sales and planning my shopping trip(s) for the week.  While my not doing that had nothing to do with seeing my father (I saw him yesterday) or husband (who had to work), the [...]