NOT JUST CHEAP - FREE

submitted by: Pamela Hayes-Bohanan

When my husband and I were first married we were both in graduate school. Our combined salaries came to just under $1000 a month. Even going to the video store was a financial consideration. One Friday night we remembered that we had two free coupons for some candy bars. We decided to walk to the grocery store and redeem them, but before we left we went through the rest of our coupons and found coupons for some free hand cream and travel size shampoo. We went to the store with our purchases and got them all for free.

The best part of the date was the sarcastic "thanks a lot" that we got from the cashier. She acted as if the money we saved came from her pocket. We got a good laugh in addition to our chocolate.