The Consumer Queen | 03/10/2009 10:45 am
Consumer Queen Melissa Garcia Shares Frugal Shopping Tips Online (Video)
The Consumer Queen
In the latest trend of women empowering women through these tough times, a 33-year-old recession-conscious mother has taken to the Web to share her money-saving advice. Melissa Garcia, of Edmond, OK, calls herself the "The Consumer Queen" and founded a website, consumerqueen.com, where she posts the best sales, frugal tips, special promotions and more.
The bargain hunter also hosts her own YouTube broadcast.
According to her website, Garcia saved more than $10,000 in 2007 by using coupons and tracking product reviews, sales and special promotions. For her on-air program, Garcia shares her shopping secrets — including how to score $300 worth of groceries for only $20. Watch her do this incredible feat below:
Garcia isn’t the only smart female spreading good ideas. Just recently, we met a 93-year-old great-grandmother who’s hosting a cooking show, "Great Depression Cooking With Clara," that uses inexpensive ingredients.
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I found this blog today from the NYTimes and would love to share it with you all: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/the-new-frugality-no-passing-fad/?8ty&emc=ty
The times, they are a’changin’, and we will be changing too. This is the real world; we just enjoyed a wonderful fantasy time in our nation’s history. And, I will still argue that we have to reach into our deeper selves and have a conversation about the American Conscience and how it will be affected by all of this as the days pass. Perhaps, we will rediscover Compassion.
You Go Girl!