About Me

My name is AnnMarie Wallace-Trudeau, I live in Spring Hill, Florida. Hernando County.  I am a stay at home mom of two young children. I have a background in Sales and Marketing but have spent the last few years as a Stay At Home Mom to two amazing children.

Like so many who have been hit by this economical crisis that we are in today, my family had to find ways to to cut our exspences. I wanted to do something more to help I tried to go back to work but with the daycare cost and time and effort well it was a bit overwhelming and not worth it by the end of the week when I got my check. We are a family of five with two dogs and spending more then $150.00 a week on groceries.

So my husband gave me the idea of couponing after seeing a show on television. I spoke with someone who knew some of the sites and I started getting myself familiar with the terms and how coupons work. I started with a bunch of coupons and spent hours clipping and sorting and soon I became organized and started seeing major savings. I kept reading and learning and since I was already in the stores all the time finding the best deals on what I had I got to learn about the prices for items. I started to save and stock pile and soon enough I did not have to spend nearly as much as I did and the more I did it the more I bought the less I spent.

Now I am at this daily over a year and a half I have enough stock pile of items to last awhile. My household expense for personal items, medicine, pet supplies, food, and so forth is less then $100.00 a month. I am saving though roughly about $1000.00. I am now stocked with enough medicine, household cleaners, storage-able foods, and such to last my family and I months if not longer.

I not only did this for me. I used what I had learned and taught a few people to do this. Now they are saving their family money each day. I started to hear about other couponers in the area charging people and I felt that I wanted to do it but without all the fees and for more then you would get out of a 20 minute class. I also felt that the people just starting out would learn so much more from seeing peoples transactions seeing what coupons they used and knowing it is possible. I started a group on Facebook called the Spring Hill Coupon Club. I offer local people all the information needed so that they can do what I do do and with no cost. All I ask is that when you learn you help someone else. 

After the Facebookpage took off with over 600 members in less then 4 months I decided to start this blog in order to take those simple findings to a whole new level offering my advise to hundreds and thousands of viewers. 

This is not just about couponing it is about bringing hope to people that they can feed their families, and that they can save money, and that there is a bit of self confidence that comes with all of this. How would you feel knowing you just bought over $200 worth of groceries for pennies on the dollars. That this month you can eat good (maybe even better then you have ever ate) and still pay the bills. Still be able to afford things on line that you never even thought possible.