I went to PBWC (Professional Business Women's Conference) a couple of days ago. It's a great event for women, great key note speakers, multiple sessions, etc. My company hosted few tables for us, free seminar, free food : ) (Actually, I go to these events for free food LOL)

Anyway, one of sessions was about personal finance and the speaker was Sharon Kedar, the co-author of "On my own two feet."

Well, it was o.k. Yes, just ok. She didn't talk about anything I didn't know. Save for EF, retirement, save XX% of your income, blah, blah, blah. Also, she only referred the page number for her book to answer a couple of questions from audience. I know she wants to sell her book, but I thought she should have answered the question, not just telling us, "Oh, that's a great question. Actually, you can find your answer in the page 103 of my book!"

I would much prefer to go to a seminar about "How to find the greatest deal and coupons."

Sometimes I wonder about the life without couponing and how lucky I am to find the website about couponing a couple of years ago. It changed the way I shop completely. I used to think $1 store was a good deal, or getting a cleaner for $1.99 was a good deal. Now, I look around my house, and there are so many things I got for free or really cheap with coupons. Dish soap, dishwasher detergent, laundry soap, cake mix, flour, tooth paste, tooth brush, shampoo, conditioner, body soap, salad dressing, deodorant, razors, hair spray, hair color, make up, bathroom cleaner, furniture cleaner, cereals, oatmeal, crackers, butter, soup.... the list goes on and on and on and on. It sure made a huge difference in our grocery bill.

Funny thing is, many people are not willing to take advantage of it. I don't understand why. It takes less than 30 minutes to go through inserts and find the coupons I use and cut them up and put them in my coupon folder. I am not a hard core couponer, so I don't hunt deals like some ladies do. And I know I am missing out a lot of good deals, simply because I don't have time to do it. I still save a ton of money. I hope more people realize how much money they can save by using coupons and paying attention to deals.