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. While the main stage focuses on everyday frugality, secondary breakout workshops will cover backend blog management, exploring lucrative affiliate partnerships with travel agencies, meal kit delivery services, and mainstream betting sites to help publishers diversify their income streams.
Won't you join me?
