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People vastly underestimate the savings a woman clipping coupons and cooking meals from scratch can bring.

• rayiner 2mo ago
  My wife comes from a lower middle class family so she’s a big deal finder and coupon clipper and cooks at home. We spend $1,100 a month on groceries, for 2 adults and 3 kids. Lunch for me most days is some bread and cheese, or a hot dog, or rice with an egg over it. She goes to three different discount grocery stores and if we eat beef it’s from Grocery Outlet. Sometimes a packaged item from ALDI (like their pulled pork).
  • pronghorn 2mo ago
    That's heroic. I hope you tell her so (though you sound like you would).
    • rayiner 2mo ago
      I try to! But my family is the opposite, so at first I was offended, like "do I need to make more money?" LOL.
• evilduck 2mo ago
  I don't underestimate it, I know pretty clearly what it's not worth because it's all my SIL-SAHM does in life. It's possibly the difference between them being homeless or hungry, but the last few years of inflation have obviously offset whatever it had been worth before. They'll never penny pinch themselves out of poverty. It's the behavior of a household not thriving.
  • znpy 2mo ago
    How naïve