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Mom's thoughts on food storage and money!

I found a new website called frugalisfab.blogspot. It's a great site that offers tips and hints and actually does a lot of your work if you like to redeem coupons. I'm not and never have been a big coupon person but a couple of tv shows have highlighted how people can buy $900.00 worth of stuff for less than $200.00. So I got really excited and started to look up a lot of other coupon websites and filling out forms and all that. Then I remembered something that Amy Dacyszan wrote in her Tightwad Gazette book. She says to look not at the amount they saved but the amount they paid! And I realized that I had set a goal to spend only $100.00 a month on groceries, including food storage. (We're trying to save money for Brady to go to San Francisco with the band this Spring) So buying $200.00 worth of stuff would actually set me back. Plus I also realized that buying stuff is not what I'm all about. I'm about rice and wheat and canning and saving and family. So I have decided that unless the coupon gets me the item free or pretty darn close to free, I'm not interested. So there you have my pearls of wisdom.