Bristol County Daily News

Poor people do not want to be poor. Nor do they want to be on welfare. OK there may be some people who don't mind but I will say that the majority of the people who are on welfare are actually hard working families that can not make ends met. They don't want people to know that they are getting food stamps or WIC or calling Project Bread or food pantry all of which are great programs. But there are limits to what these programs can do they cant pay the mortgage, car payments or buy clothes to put on your childrens back. But if they can help you use there services. The money you save can be used to pay for other things. There are so many things we can do to save money and it may sound like cheating but the IRS will tell you to manage your money well so that you dont have to pay taxes. So manage your money well so that you don't have to go without food. Here are some things that I do and I will tell you it pays for my gas every week....If you find a coupon that you could have used last week ...bring your receipt to the store and the coupon and they will refund your money. I collect Shaws reciepts to give to my school system they get 1% of any receipt turned in but before I turn them in I check to see if I have coupons for anything that was purchased and I bring the receipt and coupon in and get the money. I return all my bottles and any bottles I find as I go for a walk during the day. I buy when its on sale not so much when I have to have it that way I pay less. I bring my reciept home and check on line for any coupons that are being offered that match what I have already bought and I again bring them in the next shopping day and get my money back. If something is bad or doesnt work as it should I call and complain and I expect my money refunded and a little something more for the inconvience. I always ask if the store price matches that way I can get all the best deals at one place and dont have to drive around and waste gas(yet another savings) I swap clothes my children have out grown with others and on-line at Kizoodle.com I buy on line when I can it saves me money, time and gas and when I use a search engine I use www.goodsearch.com and it donates to the charity of my choice it may be just one cent a search but hey if everyone donated a penny a day to there favorite charity imagine $3.65 for each and every adult every year there are a few million people in the USA it adds up. I am tired of being over charged and under paid and scraping for every cent but it is what we have to do to get by. So I am telling everyone to start doing the same we need to buy what we need and not what is on every commercial that flashes in front of us. And I am making a hugh effort to only buy american made products. Food, clothes, shoes, toys blankets and I have to say its hard because so much of our products are made everywhere but here. So maybe if we all start buying only american made then some of us would get jobs or better jobs companies think with there wallets and if they are not filled they will work to figure out how to fill them and realize its that people want american made. Alright I think I have ranted enough for now. Let me know what you do to save money.