Once upon a time, I was a single woman. Then I met the man of my dreams. We had one or two big fights and even broke up for a few years. We reconciled in the year 2013 and got married. The day that I got married is the day that I became a step-mother. The first 2 years of our marriage went well. We really started struggling in 2016. We got hit with the “Perfect Storm”. My husband became unemployed, I started drowning in credit bills and it started becoming almost impossible to keep food in the house. I made too much money to get food stamps, but not enough to keep from running out of food in between paychecks. I grew tired of putting myself in debt just to buy groceries in between pay checks. I started doing some research because there had to be a better way to live. I discovered the wonderful world of gigs, couponing and rebates. I learned how to earn Walmart gift cards from mystery shopping at Walmart. I have learned that I could get paid in gift cards to take surveys about products that I buy at Walmart. I have learned that I could then combine those gift cards with coupons. When I combine coupons with a gift card, I pay next to nothing. I can get vital foods and supplies for next to nothing. I could get cereal and toilet paper for almost free doing this. Then I would use a rebate app to take a picture of the receipt. I would generate more gift cards and even cash from buying things that are on rebate. I would repeat this process repeatedly until my family had everything that they needed. We never ran out of toilet paper or milk again. I blossomed into an extreme “couponer” and now I teach other mothers how to do the same. God gives us all that we need to survive. We just have to figure out how to use what he gives us.

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