I have been honored to be a Savings.com DealPro since October of 2009. This week,I am attending the Save Up 2011 Conference with a bunch of bloggers- we are learning from each other a variety of ways to make our websites more useful and a better experience for you.
This Summer, Savings.com announced their goal to save America $1 Billion in 1 year. To that end, they have already helped people to save over $21 Million. You can join the challenge and pledge to save money right on the Moms Need To Know Facebook Fan page!
I have shared my story so many times, but for those of you who are new to Moms Need To Know, let me give you a short idea of how I started saving so much money.
I grew up in the 1980s - the Decade of Excess. As a teenager, it was wonderful because my parents would just hand me a credit card and let me go shopping. Money was never an issue and it was never something that I real thought about.
Then I got moved out, got married and had to learn how to live on my OWN income, which was significantly less than what my parents made. For a while, this was not that big of an issue because Brad and I lived in a small condo, both had jobs and we didn't have children.
In May of 2001, my son Thomas was born and I didn't know much about being a mom, but I knew that I wanted to stay home to do it. If that was going to happen, we had to cut our costs significantly!
I had always used coupons when I was doing the grocery shopping, but now I "stepped it up" quite a bit. It was also around this time that coupon codes for online shopping became more widely available. I got intense about saving money and by living a very simple life combined with saving money at the grocery store and online, we were able to make it through.
These days, saving money is not as big of a need as it used to be, but I have been doing it so long, I can't imagine ever going back to paying retail (or even just ""merely wholesale"). It's just not something that I have any desire to do!
Today, if you RSVP HERE, you can have the chance to win an iPad 2!
At 3:15PM ET on Thursday, October 13th, Savings.com’s DealPros will be leading live streaming sessions from Save Up ’11 in NYC! Jenny Martin from SouthernSavers.com will be leading a grocery couponing session at 3:15PM ET, and three DealPro presenters will be sharing their Savings Stories (how and why they came to live a frugal lifestyle) at 4:15PM ET. The presenters will be Donna Freedman from Surviving and Thriving, Andrea Deckard from SavingsLifestyle.com and Paul & Tiffany Ivanovsky from IHeartTheMart.com and MyLitter.com.
Won't you join me?