It’s Time For A Very Exciting Announcement

Before we make this special announcement, we wanted to give you a personal message – we started our site over two years ago to provide hope to you and your family.  You see, many of you already know that we haven’t always been The Thrifty Couple.  In fact, we were so far from it that we were financially near the end at any given moment.  You can read our story as it is being told and unfolded so far.

But the part of the story that we will be starting to share next is how we worked ourselves out of the demise we created.  How we found contentment with what we had, learned how to save in every area of life and to generate more income on top of our jobs already.  This part of the story will be just as difficult to tell as the parts describing how we got in the financial mess we were in in the first place.

You see, when we were figuring all of these things out, we didn’t know money-saving sites existed.  We had heard couponing and money-saving concepts, we had tried some methods that we had heard, but nothing was actually REALISTIC nor WORKING! We struggled to make ends meet and pay off any debts we could for the first 3.5 years of digging our way out.   That first 3.5 years, we paid down only $15K of our total $100K of consumer debt.

We had many things enlighten us the last 3.5 years of our seven year debt pay-off that allowed us to finish paying the last $85K!  We discovered things that worked for us, that would lead to paying off our debts and then allow for us to be self-employed (because we had no debt and a savings a whole new world was opened up to us).  Plus we are now working towards our next financial goal – all of this to be detailed in the future as we continue our story!

We were self-taught in the school of hard knocks to figure all of these things out! We started our site to document the everyday frugal living tips, advice, money making ideas and changes you can make to make help your family avoid many of the same struggles we experienced.  The other aspect to our site is the many daily deals and coupons we feature everyday in addition to our Grocery Store savings section in hopes that some of these will have a positive impact on your budget everyday.

So with that – Here’s the EXCITING Announcement

We are very excited to have teamed up with Savings.com as first phase DealPro Teachers to actually bring the things we have learned right to you in person through the Savings Nation! Check out this fun video:

We have taught many, many classes in the past and have even begun speaking engagements at conferences across the country dealing with everything including couponing, budgeting, finances and more! We will still continue to participate as speakers and teachers in different settings (conferences, classes, events, etc.) dealing with the topics of family finances, budgeting, healthy family economies and all things frugal as this is something we love and is a very vital part of meeting your financial goals and being wise stewards of your family’s finances!

BUT we are adding new venues and teaming up with Savings.com to maximize our teaching opportunities through the new  SavingsNation nation-wide program.  Our grocery coupon classes will continue to be a super-savvy way to learn how to quickly, easily and realistically drop your grocery budget by 50% or more – but with even more reach so we can ultimately teach and help more families!

This is very exciting for us because the whole reason we started this site was to help as many families as possible to learn from our mistakes, to learn from our successes and so this opportunity takes it to the next level so that you can personally reach the next level in your own life too!

Here are some key things that are important to note about our style of couponing and our Grocery Savings Classes:

• We make it real, accessible and doable for every family – we also come from the unique perspective of a couple who has worked out the kinks in this area (remember, we struggled with this for 3.5 years until we finally figured out how to make it work!)!
• We do not encourage you to change your eating habits, but rather buy the things you have always bought, just for much less – even if your goal is to be healthier for much less (we can offer tips there :))
• We will teach you how to build your own family’s stock-pile and pantry with a several month supply while dropping your budget dramatically at the same time.
• There are many methods and ways to coupons and save money at the grocery store and we have tried them all – so in our classes we will share with you different ways that will work for different families and ultimately what we do (we each have a different methodology and so we have a unique system that works for us!)
• We are not Extreme Couponers BUT we are a Real Family of Seven that lives healthier and for less as a family of seven than we did when it was just the two of us! The key to this is based upon “secrets of the trade” that we have discovered, followed and applied and will share these simple tricks of the trade with you so they are no longer a secret 🙂 
• Plus, being in person also allows us to answer your questions, address your concerns and help you and your family in a real way more than ever!

With that being said, we will start teaching these classes in the the Northern Utah and South Idaho areas.  If you are interested in attending or even being an organizer, then we encourage you to fill out this form.  We do not have dates set yet, but we will be starting in May, 2012.

But there will be four classes available taught by other DealPros to attend in four different parts of the country as the kick-off to this network of Grocery Store savings classes network that we are a part of!  You can register for any of these classes now to reserve your spots!

Savings Nation Workshop Details…

Atlanta/Dallas, GA
March 22, 2012
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
REGISTER here for this class

San Antonio, TX
March 30, 2012
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
REGISTER here for this class

Orlando, FL
April 12, 2012
7 pm – 9 pm
REGISTER here for this class

Cincinnati, OH
April 18, 2012
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
REGISTER here for this class

Fill out the form below to be one of the first to be informed of one of these classes in your area and to receive personal invite to the upcoming Northern Utah or South Idaho classes that we will be personally teaching.

So now we want to hear from you! Are you excited about this?