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Couponing gives me the freedom to provide for my family AND help others. You see, before I learned how to coupon, it seemed like I was doing one, or the other. We give 10 percent of our earnings to our Parish, and I donate anything I can to a local charity, TARC. This organization is near to my heart, as my oldest daughter is 18 and has Autisum. Her weekly therapy, medication, and social therapy come out of pocket, and cost quite a bit of money, and TARC has been there for me when I could not make ends meet, so I donate time, food, clothing ect. whenever I can. Coupons have allowed me to give so much more to them, and my family than I ever have before. This website, along with so many others, have helped me to do that. Thank you so much – Amy, Katie, and Paige.
Couponing gives me the freedom to try new things. For years I have been buying the Betty Crocker brand of scalloped potatoes, but I had some coupons for Hungry Jack brand instead. So I tried them and my family loves them more than Betty Crocker and they are cheaper on a regular basis…score 1 for mom! I also love the fact that if I am too busy to go shopping one week, I still have plenty of food in food storage to feed my family. What a blessing!
Couponing gave and continues to give me the freedom to… quit my second job and be home with my family. A while back my husband and I sat down and looked at the budget – like so many others, there was more going out than coming in. After cutting out everything we could we still weren’t making it so I took a 2nd job and started couponing. I worked for 3 months before I decided enough was enough – I was tired of sacrificing my family for the sake of my family! Since then we have continued to cut where we can and build our stockpile. Amazingly we are not only able to pay back creditors but we are eating better and most of all finally enjoying being a family again!!
Couponing Gives me the freedom to provide for my family of 4 and those in my immediate family. The ecomony has not been kind to my family with my mother, father and brother out of work. Couponing allows me to not only provide the supplies that my family needs, but also allows me to supply for my immediate family.
In addition to taking care of the family, it allows us extra money to do things that we like to do such as going to movies and dinner every now and then.
I have been using coupons off and on since the 70?s. There were times I just did it casually, other times with a vengeance. I also traded coupons but I always used at least some for the brands I always used. With the economy the way it is and being on a fixed income now I am back to using coupons with a vengeance. We are a large extended family and every penny counts.
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