UNDERSTANDING MONEY
Holiday $avings Ideas By Stephanie Nelson, CouponMom.com
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ince 2004 Stephanie has appeared frequently on television and radio teaching savings tips, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Early Show, NBC Nightly News, Fox Business, The Doctors, and CNN. Over 2.5 million members belong to her free grocery deals website www.couponmom. com. In 1995 she retired from the corporate world to stay home with her sons. In 2001 she founded her free website www.couponmom. com committed to helping consumers save money and feed the hungry by increasing food donations to hunger organizations with the Cut Out Hunger program. The Coupon Mom’s Guide to Cutting Your Grocery Bill in Half, released in January 2010, became a New York Times Best Seller in its first month of publication. Websites, newspapers, and magazines across the country have featured Stephanie’s savings advice including USA Today, MSN. com, AARP, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Family Circle, Reader’s Digest, Guideposts, Parenting, Woman’s World, Quick & Simple, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Tribune, the Orange County-Register, the Seattle Times and the Denver Post. Stephanie lives with her husband and two teenage sons in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo by MissMessie | Creative Commons
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