America's Cheapest Family

Question: You mention using a price book to help you establish a “buy price.” Can you describe how you set up a price book?  I am good at clipping and using coupons, but I have a horrible memory when it comes to remembering prices on everyday items.

This is really cool! We sent several advanced copies of our new book to a bunch of our frugal friends to see what they thought.

Usually when frugal people read a new book on frugality, they'll say something like, "This book is a good beginner manual, but I didn't really learn anything new."

But, that's not what we heard.

We asked these people to be gut level honest with us. Take a look and see what two of them said. (we'll share a more comments in the next few weeks)

In addition to about 30 citrus trees, we have nine large pine trees on our property.  The pine trees provide great shade, but they also drop a lot of pine needles. For years we used to spend hours raking them up and almost as long stuffing them into 40-gallon trash bags to be thrown away. It wasn’t a fun job trying to bag pine needles, they poke you and scratch you and get stuck in places that really hurt—even if you wear gloves.

We're hosting a dinner party tonight for our daughter Becky's birthday. Annette ran to the store to pick up a few loaves of french bread (for garlic bread) to accompany the huge pan of lasagna she made. Whenever we go to the store we always walk past the meat case and look for marked down meat. Today she stumbled on a great deal.

What do you do if you're the butcher and someone higher up ordered too many cases of chicken breasts and they're about to go out of code (today is June 5 and they go out of code on June 6)? What would you do?