Feeding Your Family for Less Money

" It's costing you more every time he over the guard -- you know why doesn't yes. Well William answer listen closely our next guests -- have a solution now she does have the solution. She's -- Nelson. Otherwise known as the coupon mom and she's been teaching people for years how to feed their families and their families for less money we'll talk about both of these things she's the author of the greatest secrets of the coupon mom. Which actually kind of hard to find I think you can get them -- Dave Ramsey dot com. And they're all over the place the used version that kind of stuff because it's technically a prince of the got one of these it's a big deal. Are worth having its collector's item at this point. But with Stephanie is definitely a collector's item or honored to have her with us this evening welcome -- that -- video tapes have hit some estimates one per cent last YouTube last -- you -- here is a big deal we got emails the website lit up everybody's talking about. Day that's information and you obviously have no clues as good that you brought on an expert. And now thanks for common because really folks do need this information and you know with the economy bad and all that there's a lot of things really have changed our business is up a little bit helping people counseling in. Really more than any of telling them that the the the other day I am numbers don't have as much as just the intensity of the pain. But the people are facing in the counseling settings but on something it had as straightforward as just clipping coupons to save money when things are slow when income might be down when there might have been a job -- or where there's just the worry of that I'll bet. The coupon mom dot com or coupon mom dot com has been slammed as --"

" We really have grown and it's that good news bad news got to think and it says that summoning people need to seek out assistance but that businesses. The whole idea cooked by mom -- comments to make it easy for people to save money on groceries and so we've had. A lot of awareness about that. And we people preclude us from our website so just for comparison. We used to have a 100000 coupons printed a month but not we have like one and a half million coupons -- of the month. -- so people really are looking for ways to save and we're glad the coming because we hope that we can help people. Make it easy to save money at the grocery -- given coupons and hopefully -- some success stories. So translation not what you're saying is people and go to coupon mom dot com and their coupons there -- they can run off at -- that's right people on Franken -- What we really try to do as we try to take your grocery store. We do this for 41 grocery stores across the country. And we take everything that's on failure store and we -- those sale items up with coupons that are available from your city's newspaper or from these credible coupon sites and we figure out all the deals for you. And then you just go and select your shopping list that July can print that and you can go to the store and save money. Without spending an hour your kitchen table trying to match up the sales that your store with a coupon. On trying to buy stuff really that you need not that you just get hooked into because there was a group on exactly and though few can -- at the grocery list. Exactly etiquette the -- to coupons is to use the coupon when the items on sale. Don't use the -- and they got better buy it today when it's all prized because if you wait for the items on sale you may get the item free. I call that strategic shopping. Done."

" Those -- catch it as it goes down and then hit the coupon would come lots of people coupon but. This is really doing it very clear when my wife has coupon for a gazillion years and we were broke -- one thing we learned of Lucas on the sale closed who bombing. -- kind of stuff lots of people going through financial patient -- coupon. I've got I got an email -- today from a guy going through the the news griping about expecting don't that they grocery store checkout line. And the grocery store clerk in her late sixties early seventies. Makes fun of them. Because he's going through pulling out its coupons and she's like we'll coupons really don't matter. And he said you know I -- other 41 dollars off mine bought. But he's full of stuff and she's the one working as a check out from the grocery stores sixty years also opens up. Obviously somebody's not got this figured out what is the typical family able to save on broad -- of that what what they're doing."

" Well -- your goal should be to cut your pressure villain but I'm talking about combining sales and coupons so if the average family in this country family of 45 spends 200 dollars a week on groceries. That means if you can be strategic and learn how to do this quickly because -- hundred dollars a week. But thousand dollars a year that's -- money. And it probably comes -- not surprised if someone asked me today you know. What the demographics of the average coupon user. It's more highly educated people at higher income levels news OK so I think that's interesting so you're saving 5000 dollars a year I started using coupons. When I first quit working fifteen years -- to be home with my kids. And what I found was that I could make make more money. Using -- strategic shot. 5000 dollars a year then up highway and got a part time job because you know you have to make separate thousand dollars and an income to net out 5000 dollars the savings so I'm always viewed it. As a very professional credible part time job that takes a lot less time than going to work and it's not performance review."

" I got. Well it it is truly part of being -- home economist at -- cooking from scratch is not only healthy it's cheaper coupon in you know because some of so close. Everybody's healthier things are you know the whole process there there's a lot of savings. When mom chooses to come home. And be with the kids say and that's her calling and and does that my wife has done the same thing -- I think it's made huge difference so this sounds kind of -- it may take a lot of time and it's really complicated."

" Well I think SK can't -- We have to make it easier for people use our secure. And we've we've got so far as to create databases where we take all the information for those newspaper coupon circular. Dump it into an online database so I called the Google grocery coupons if you want to end up your newspaper has a troop the toothpaste. You just put out a little box and find out we haven't AC system. Where if you want to spend ten minutes to wait ten to fifteen minutes a week to plan your shopping. You take the grocery coupon circular you get from the Sunday paper -- right that Sunday's date on it. And you save the entire circular. So you put him at a boxer file and then when you used the website that got your grocery deals reflect your list. If there's a deal you like toothpaste to spray with a coupon and I'll tell you the date -- came out. So you sit down with your list and your coupons and in ten minutes you only cut out the -- need for your shopping trip. You're not spending an hour cutting out a hundred coupons every week and filing imminent organizer forgetting where you put are putting him and as the plot that. You'll never say 5000 dollars a year you're -- press. So we developed -- system actually for children. Years ago because the other important pieces. Many weeks there's going to be an item that sprayed with a coupon and your family might not need it. But it's an item that your local food pantry are homeless shelter would love to have. And we started this program eight years ago we call to cut out hunger. And we were simply trying to show people -- be an easy system to cut your pressure -- happened we are going to charge you for at this as a pre service. All we ask this that you would consider donating one item a week to charity it now costs. And what's happened date is that 48% of my members tell me they're donating food to charity as a result of using the system when that didn't done it before. And you've got -- remembers one point three million. And so we're about makes it pretty happy. Talking about 650 fouls on people giving food items a way that weren't before. Every month. And they neat thing says is that you not only that -- yet. It's that what we do what I recommend that you do is that you have a box in your garage just our charity box and when you buy that Canada Chile of the can -- soup. You put it in the box some of the box fills up to take it to the charity. Well guess what you have to seek your -- go to the Google apart in the name of your suburb and the word food pantry and you're gonna find let everyone have found within five miles. But taking that -- to the charity you personally delivering it. It's gonna make this whole thing real. So number one and the volunteers going to appreciate it and treat you like here. Correct it's -- another you know. Yeah feel unbelievably blessed because you gave Paul the second one do it again and I will tell you that that's addictive. But it's right -- community it's going to help people and with the economy might look -- fixed interest about the manslaughter last week. The number of clients they have coming for food has doubled as compared to a year ago so they need it. -- I was look."

" Christmas party over the holidays and I want to got running one of our local food pantries as irony is saying they were slammed -- and work out there the of the those shelves are bare and their lineup for the Tories that he says -- never seen it like this in forty years."

" And you know. I look at that thing you know we just can't get up you just have to keep buying your items and I do know I hear from people -- that they are unemployed and their suffering financially they're using the systems -- saving money themselves. And how it feels for them that they're also giving to charity. And it's it means even more at that point. So I asked people to consider that not for me for you. And to help others and it seems to be working. But I will say it's not an easy system I mean it is once you learn it I do have this book that you can buy used on Amazon but. I have a free electronic book on the website and the big Green Bay and you can't -- ten pages but if you -- that you don't even have to sign up for. You just -- the ten page document every that you look at going immediately but at some -- to --"

" And -- coupon mom dot com we'll get you there you can learn about cut out hunger. You can learn about the coupon on the greatest secrets of the coupon mom about her ten page downloadable books. All of that is free to register on the web site is free is that right that's right and you get the services hook up the sales with the coupons and the local stores the whole thing is although. It's all free to our listeners gosh what a great service. And all to promote cut out hunger. And all this effort is going for that reason that make -- superstar Tom I'm honored to have you think -- come nice to me it's very very unless you -- thanks a bunch."