I feel very alone on the savings blogs sometimes. I am a married woman now, but we are childless, by choice and circumstance. We lived off very little for the year and a half after I left school, but now, we *could* spend more, if we wanted to. But with the Dear Husband job hunting and my debt monster roaming the house after I fall asleep, it's best to stay frugal.
It's all Popou's fault. Now, you have to understand, my grandfather, while not wealthy, lived well below his means. As a railroad employee, he had a pension and insurance. He got a second pension from Centro. He died, after ten years of battling Emphysema, with 60 grand in investments, another 30 grand in the bank, life insurance, a paid off house and car. He shopped at three different grocery stores to get the best bang for his buck and kept a stack of coupons about the thickness of a phone book. I did his shopping from age 9, I was the youngest person to ever ask for my own Wegman's card. Now, back home they double coupons. Here, they don't, so I don't do as well as he did, but his training served me well. Not only do my husband and I eat pretty damn well for two people eating off $50 a week, but I also got a 5 on an AP Geography test because I knew grapes came from Chile in the winter. He was a miserable bastard, but I miss him.
I'll be blogging about my couponing adventures in addition to personal finance.
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