Money Saving Shopping Tip

Ok, today's the beginning of something great! If you're a frequent visitor (more than once :o) to my blog, you'll notice that I've changed the template and on the right there you'll notice a "Money Quote" and a great list of freebies that will be changed daily-compliments of savingadvice.com!

Now, here's the best part. I'm going to search the net every business day and add the best money saving tip I can find to this blog! With all of this money saved, you can apply it to the credit card bills and get out of debt.

Here's the first of the daily money saving tips:

To truly reap the benefit of using coupons, have the cashier total your bill before subtracting out your coupons. Write a check for the pre-coupon total. The cash you receive back, or your coupon savings, can then be placed in your saving account. (or applied to your credit card balance)