COUPONING seemed like a waste of time for me when we were first married. It just seemed cheaper and easier to buy store brands. When I ended up working for a good friend in her couponing business, I learned a lot of things. The real tricks of the trade… combine those coupons with sales! Here in Florida we don’t have the benefit of double and triple coupons, but it is advantageous to combine the coupons with the sales IF YOU make sure that you are sticking to buying items that you need and use… not buying just because it’s cheap. We have the Sunday paper delivered, I check out the coupons and the sale ads, then go to The Coupon Clippers and, for a reasonable handling fee, stock up on the coupons that I know I will use. After you have done this for a while, you will see what types of brands and products the grocery stores put on sale most often, and you’ll know better what types of brands and products the grocery stores put on sale most often (there is a cycle), and you’ll know better what coupons to get.

The more time you have to invest in researching sales and going to different stores to take advantage of these sales, the more money you will save. Rachael, on her site (thecouponclippers.com) posts a lot of the “deals” that are out there on that week. I am pretty busy so I don’t go to that particular store unless it is really worth my while. It is possible to save a lot of money using these techniques! The key is to stock up on the products you use when there’s a good deal.

If you have a Costco or a Sam’s around, these are the best places to get a lot of things. Especially items like toilet paper, paper towels, foil, napkins, paper plates, pet food, etc.. Costco seems to me to be a more health conscious store, they have a lot of organic and natural products. Costco offers an annual rebate on your purchases also.

I have learned a lot about health and nutrition at our Maximized Living office here in West Palm Beach. I love the positive atmosphere, and I love that our Dr. Matt Symons is a man that loves the Lord and desires to please Him. I have learned WHY it is that the Spirit of the Lord firmly planted in my heart a screaming NO to medicating my child into a zombie so he could sit still in class and not disrupt. THANK GOD! Just go to Generation Rx and watch the movie and you’ll see what I mean! My husband, myself and our children get spinal adjustments regularly. I know that the Lord sent me there particularly because I was suffering a lot with headaches, backaches, neck pain, sinus problems, hormonal problems, premature aging, among other things. I had gone to the Dr. and came out with three medications that I needed to take basically forever, which would not fix anything, only put a bandaid on a wound that would have taken my life eventually. I was in phase two degeneration, I had a reverse curve in my spinal column and probably would have been dead in another 10 years just like countless patients just like myself. I was 36! Dr. Matt said that my neck had been this way for 20 years.. I had a wreck when I was 16 years old that should have killed me and from that time on my neck had been messed up and I never knew it! I had even had Xrays done by a chiropractor in those 20 years but he didn’t say one word. Not all chiropractors are the same people, trust me on this fact. Just like not all preachers are the same or all lawyers, etc.. etc..

I urge you to go to this site: Maximized Living and find an office near you. A lot of times the initial consult is free. You will learn so much about so many things that are VITALLY important. Eating the proper foods, loosing weight, getting off medications, getting rid of pain, among a few. It WILL change your life and the lives of your loved ones, I promise you it will.

You will learn there about toxicity. Do you think it’s amazing that America is such a sick country? We use toxic products everyday and we subject our babies and our children to them. One change that I quickly made after learning this was my cleaning products. Several years back I used Melaleuca’s natural cleaning products but I used them for economics sake, they come concentrated so one bottle of window cleaner, for example, makes 5 spray bottles. So it lasted a long time! And I loved the products, they didn’t make me sick to smell them, yet the house smelled nice and clean after I used them. I wasn’t committed then though to using non-toxic products so I just reverted back to buying Windex at the store because it was more convenient. But when I made a commitment to using natural products, I was calling 411 to get melaleuca’s phone number and getting signed up again. I finagled $100 a month to my Melaleuca order and I get all my cleaning products and laundry products from them every month. They have great programs going, like for example for the first 5 months you are a customer you get $20 worth of products for free when you order a 35 product point order. Which is equivalent to about $80 including tax and shipping. They have all types of products from the great cleaning and laundry stuff to beauty items and soaps, body washes and lotions, deodorant and toothpaste and supplements. I enjoy sitting down and looking at their monthly specials and placing my order. They are a great company too. The couple times I had a problem and had to call them, they’ve been polite, haven’t asked me 20 questions (like my mother’s maiden name and my first dogs name-UGHHH) and have exceeded my expectations concerning the issue I was contacting them. They are like Mary Kay or Home Interiors also, you can make good money selling fantastic, NATURAL products from home on your time schedule! What could be better than that?! So, if you’re interested go to Melaleuca and learn more.