Extend your cash, Clip Coupons

Research shows that the grocery store prices will rise on an average of 9%  each year for the next four years.  While consumers are struggling with gas prices and groceries, two natural sisters have taught thousands how to clip away their budget one coupon at a time.  They say their coupon cutting system will help families cut the grocery bills more than 50% .

You probably have seen or heard Cheryl Jackson and Lynette Shofner, also known as the Sisters of Savings. They conduct a workshop that educates the consumer how to make coupons extend their cash. Their methods are tried and true.  Their website proudly posts videos of the dynamic duo being challenged by the media to strut their stuff and these sisters accept the challenge with a smile.

"Who makes $200.00 in one hour? Jackson asked.  That's how long it takes to cut, sort and file the coupons from your Sunday newspaper.  You can make more than that if your store doubles or triples the coupon value.  A perfect example is when a food item goes on sale 10 for $10.00, the coupon value is $.35 but the store triples that coupons which makes the product FREE!  Or an item that goes on  $10 for 10 which is $1.00 each and the coupon value is .50 the coupon is doubled which makes the item FREE. 

The Sisters of Savings do the legwork for the participants by composing the shopping buddy which  for .33 per day they will provde you with the rock bottom prices at your local grocery store, CVS, and Walgreens for the week. Nothing under 50% savings hits thebudy list.

There is only one catch, when you shop their way, you have such a surplus in groceries that the Sisters ask you to find a ocal charity to donate to.  Next month the Sisters of Savings will be releasing their how-to tell all ebook so consumers can read apply their savings strategy at their stores.

The Sisters of Savings are so popluar now that ABC has given Cheryl Jackson a segment on Good Morning Texas called Steals and Deals.  The Sisters also have binder products to help you store all those coupons, the envelopes won't do when you shop like the Sisters of Savings. Growing up as pastor's kids, Cheryl Jackson and Lynette Shofner say their home often resembled a grocery store.

Seminars cost $45, $5 of which goes to charity, and the shopping buddy program costs $10 a month. Devotees say the program pays for itself.  "You get your money back 10 times over," said Shelley Brandt, a Mansfield mother of 4-year-old twins. "I love the fact that everything they do is based on integrity and self-worth."

Kasie Lopez of Waxahachie says that using the program has saved her up to 80 percent on groceries for her family of five. "I used to be on welfare and was paycheck to paycheck," she said. "I didn't know how I was going to get my next meal, but after I joined the Sisters of Savings, I was able to provide food for my family for free or for cheap."

Ms. Jackson says the seminars draw participants from a wide demographic, from families struggling to make ends meet to people who would rather spend money on luxuries than groceries.

Tad Palmer of Plano said his wife made fun of him when he told her he was going to a coupon-clipping seminar. Now she's a believer – and leaves most of the shopping to him.

"I think if I put my mind to it, I probably could have figured it out, but they've put it together and made it easy to learn. ... It's really just dummy-proof. And even if you have questions, they're there to help you." 

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