Video: Feed 6 People for $50 A Week

Feed 6 People for $50. Week! by familyfrugalfun Feed your family of 6people for $50.00 per week. www.FamilyFrugalFun.com

Here are some tips and tricks to saving money on food.  Buy things when they are on sale.  Stack your coupons.  Stack a store coupon on top of a manufacturer's coupon.

Video: Mom Feeds Family On $4 Dollars a Week

Mom Feeds Family On $4 Dollars a Week by greatkeysavings Kathy Spencer of Massachusetts, shares cost cutting tips on how to shop for free. She feeds her family of six on $4 dollars a month. Please visit http://www.greatkeysavings.com for more info on "How to shop for free."

Use multiples of coupons, double coupons, and store rewards to get food for free.  Combine manufacturers coupons with store coupons to get bonus savings.  This originally aired on ABC News.

Online Shopping Strategies

You probably already know some of these things. If you really want to save money, shop for things online.  And if you want to save money online, compare prices with different retailers.  However, you might not know that there are different strategies for getting the best price from your online retailer.

Did you know that some online retailers will send you a digital coupon if you close your browser window with items in your cart?  The strategy is to try and get you to buy an item before you change your mind. They hope that the coupon will help nudge you in that direction.

Several online retailers will quote different prices to different
consumers based on spending habits, digital cookies in your browser, your logged in status, and other things. The quoted price differences can be significant. If you see a deal on line, send an instant message to a friend or family member and ask them to price the same item on the same website. The one who is quoted the lowest price should order the item. For big-ticket items, the savings can be significant.

Other strategies for buying online include using a shopping website to compare prices for products. This works especially  tell when you are buying something that has a clearly defined product number. You can compare prices for these items by Googling them or going to major online retailers like Amazon.

As always, if you want to live a frugal life, only buy things you really need.  Analyze those needs versus your wants and prioritize.  That's the best way to become free financially.

Video: Extreme Couponing Season 1 Episode 7

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One extreme couponer has a Masters Degree in Business (MBA). The other is a mother of four children. 

Facts: Did you know that Americans only redeem 3% of coupons?  That means most of them end up in the landfill. A quarter of all coupons require you to buy at least two of an item to get the discount.

To be an extreme couponer, you must have a ridiculously organized pantry.  Toothpaste is an item that comes for free all the time.  Amber started couponing when her husband lost her job (something fairly common in the past few years).  Tammilee uses excel spreadsheets to manage her coupons.  Her coupon obsession began years ago when she lost her management job.

Grocery stores have seasons just like the people who shop there.  Coupons tend to follow the seasons.  Amber keeps a couponing box to hold all of her coupons.  Since couponing takes concentration, it pays to shop without the kids.

Send letters to manufacturers to tell them how much you like their products and they will send you coupons.  Write the product expiration date on your items when stocking your shelves.  Tammilee uses binders to organize her coupons.

Sunday 12-16-2012 Coupon Preview

If you are looking for tomorrow's coupon inserts for the Sunday paper, then head on over to Sunday Coupon Preview to get a view of the upcoming coupons in the Sunday morning newspaper.  According to the schedule, this would include SmartSource inserts for the week.

Video: Extreme Couponing Season 2 Episode 1

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Extreme couponing shows the ultimate way to be frugal by saving money on groceries.  Food, cleaning supplies, and home products can be purchased at extreme discounts using coupons and pricing strategies.

Video: Extreme Couponing Season 1 Episode 2

This show originally aired on TLC.  Extreme couponing is a documentary-style program that focuses on people that coupon.            Extreme Couponing Season 1 Episode 2 by realititygameshowfan

This show is the Super Bowl of couponing and being frugal.  These people show you the extreme lengths they take to find coupons and get stuff free or super cheap.  As a casual observer, you might find it is a really interesting study of human behavior. As a coupon maven, you might enjoy the strategies employed and general coupon mayhem.

Video: Extreme Couponing Season 1 Episode 1 Jaime and Tiffany

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What is a stockpile?  A stockpile is defined as a large accumulated stock of goods or materials. These items may be held in reserve for use at a time of shortage or other emergency.  In the case of extreme couponing, a stockpile is used as part of an ordinary lifestyle of accumulation and consumption of food, cleaning products, and household grocery items.

Sunday 12-9-2012 Coupon Preview

Looking for a list of coupons in tomorrow's paper?  Head on over to Sunday Coupon Preview to get a view of the upcoming coupons in the Sunday morning newspaper.  According to the schedule, this would include SmartSource, Redplum, and store inserts for the week.  

Video: Couponing Quick tips #5 - Stock up Pricing! What is your stock up prices?

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A Few Simple Tips for Couponing

1. You don't need a newspaper subscription. It's true that newspapers run the SmartSource and Redplum coupon advertisements almost every Sunday.  Without a subscription, you may not be able to receive these coupons. However, lots of local papers distribute free Sunday circulars and deliver them to your front steps or driveway at no cost.  If this is the case, you don't need a subscription.

2. Use Online services and websites to collect coupons. Ebay is a great resource for collecting mounds of coupons at low cost.

Use A Smartphone App

Do you want to live a frugal lifestyle? Are you the type of person that combs every purchase with a fine tooth comb before spending the money and searches to the ends of the earth looking for coupons to save money on that next shopping trip? I have a tip for to make any frugal shoppers day. Living in the technological world of today, almost everyone has a smart phone. These smart phones have applications such as "Coupon Sherpa" and "SavingsStar". Download the application, search the coupons and present your phone to the cashier at the store. The cashier will scan your coupon and the savings instantly come off the total! Just go into your phones App store, down load these apps for free and start saving money.

Coupon Sherpa App
The Coupon Sherpa app is completely free. As you shop, it allows you to search locally for deals that may be available in your location. With a coupon in hand, the cashier simply scans the barcode off of your phone, rather than handling a printed coupon.  So, the double bonus is that it saves you time, paper, and ink.

SavingStar App
The SavingStar app is also completely free.  After setting up an account, you add your grocery rewards cards to your account.  Select coupons you would like to redeem from major brands like Pillsbury and Zyploc.  When you buy these items at the grocery store, the savings are automatically added to your SavingStar account.  When you reach $5, you can elect to have the money sent to you through a service like Paypal.

Extreme Couponing With Foreclosured Homes

The past few Sundays, the local newspaper has graciously sent out free coupons to the suburban areas in town.  The Redplum and SmartSource inserts contain a wealth of coupons. Last week, we got great deals on soy milk, which is wonderful for families that have milk allergies.  The only problem is that these coupons usually come in singles.

So, facing the dilemma of a coupon shortage, we ventured out and found a way to stockpile coupons for free without stealing them.  There are hundreds of free grocery coupons within a few miles of your home.  They sit in the vacant driveways of foreclosed homes.  Since nobody is living there, you are probably doing the neighborhood a service by collecting unwanted newspapers from the driveways of these homes. It could be many months before anyone comes to clean-up the papers. So, don't feel bad.

How do you spot a foreclosure?

There are some obvious signs that a home is abandoned or foreclosed. Here are a few of them.

1. Overgrown grass and shrubs.  If nobody is caring for the home, the lawn is the easiest place to find this.  When the grass hasn't been mowed all summer and it is now November, this is a sign that the house is empty.

2. No cars parked in the driveway.  This isn't always fool-proof.  In some urban areas, where parking is scant, neighbors will use the empty driveway space to park their extra vehicles.

3. Sticker in the window or on the door.  When the bank takes possession of the home, they will prepare it for months of vacancy.  This involves cutting all the utilities, such as electricity, gas, and water.  Because there is no heat, there is a risk that the pipes or toilet bowls could freeze with a winter chill. So, they do things like pour antifreeze in the toilet tank.  The note on the front door should say something like "this home has been winterized."  It could also be a notice of eviction, depending on the circumstances.  Nevertheless, they won't need their coupons.

4. Word of Mouth.  People love to gossip.  So, at the next neighborhood gathering, just bring up the housing market and the conversation is bound to turn to the abandoned homes on your street or nearby.

5. General Disrepair.  Abandoned properties tend to have a lot of disrepair too. You'll notice rotten wood on the mailbox, missing shingles, broken windows, and even loose gutters.