Frugal
My Mom is very frugal. She is probably the most thrifty person that I have ever known, because of the economy right now, so people have to be smart with their money. For example, my mom uses coupons for everything from cereal to kitchen appliances. She saves almost $40 every time she goes shopping, so that saves us a lot of money just from that. That way we can buy more stuff that we would enjoy, but like I said, my mom is very frugal and she likes to save as much money as possible. I understand why she does it though, it’s because she loves my family very much. She want’s us to get through these tough times together. I know now why I can’t get something like some money to go to the mall or to get a new video game. My mom finds coupons everywhere from in fliers in the mail, the internet or at the stores themselves. With all of the stuff that my mom buy’s weekly adds up into what my mom calls a “Stockpile”. We have stuff in there from disinfectant wiped to canned goods like Chicken Noodle Soup and Baked Beans. She also gets stuff to put in the freezer like Pizza’s and pot pie’s. This all started when my mom started watching a show called “Extreme Couponing”. The show is about how people use coupons and save around $600 and only have to pay around 50 cents to a dollar for half a grand’s worth of food. My mom want’s to save that much money on that much food someday and I do too, because that’s a lot of food. This is what I decided to write about on the word frugal, because I thought of my mom right away because that is just the way she is.
