[Kathryn_V]

Ok... So now that I am a housewife... I have to learn all of the housewife duties... one of them being finding ways to save the family money... (so I can secretly spend it on the Girls!)

I learned today that by saving cans I can rack up some quick cash! Did you guys know that the price of cans has gone way up! It was like 2 and a half cents last time I checked... now its way more than that, my step son is trying to tell me its like 7 or 8 cents! if thats true, do you know how much cash I have thrown away! My husband is a diet coke junkie! Half of my trash is cans! lol I am so saving cans from now on! Even if its half that much... I should save them...

I was wondering if any of you clip coupons...

What advice can you give me... Do you have a system? Any tips?

How do you organize these darn things! by type? by expiration date?

I saw once somewhere that there was a website that told you about all of the best deals, but I never wrote it down...

There must be some trick to it that my mom never taught me.



Also... if any of you savvy wives have any amazing words of wisdom for me... I'm all ears! I can use all the help I can get! Would you believe that I had to ask the butcher to walk me down the meat isle and actually point to the cuts of meat that I could use to make a pot roast with. (the recipe did not say exactly what cut!) I'm 31.... he looked at me like I was kidding... and then felt like a big dope when he realized I was serious...